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  • JLBG
  • By JLBG on March 4, 2006
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  • Flora ekskursioniste e Shqiperise - Albania
    Flora ekskursioniste e
    Shqiperise
    by JLBG
    During our 1988 trip across Albania, we had an Albanian guide in second who was a forestry ingeneer. He had with him a superb flora 600 pages of Albania “Flora ekskursioniste e Shqiperise”. When we were back to Tiranë, I asked our French speaking Albanian guide to help me get a copy of it. We visited half a dozen bookshops. They all had shelves loaded with the works of Enver Hoxha, of Marx and Engels but the Flora was out of print. We finally found a book shop that had one copy of this marvelous flora that I use each time that in the Balkans, I have a plant that I cannot identify otherwise. Of course, I had to buy Fjalor Frengjisht-Shqip and Fjalor Shqip- Frengjisht (dictionaries) in order to be able to use it.

    Flora ekskursioniste e Shqiperise

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    stalls: Fancy a snack?
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  • AlbaniaLover
  • Updated By AlbaniaLover on August 19, 2006
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  • You will find many stalls near the coast selling things like figs and olives if you want a snack on a long journey. Also in the summer nearly everywhere there will be stalls in towns or on the side of the road selling cooked corn on the cob.

    olives, figs, dried figs and sweetcorn

    cheap!

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    Red T-Shirts
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  • SirRichard
  • By SirRichard on September 7, 2004
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  • The only T-Shirt - Albania
    The only T-Shirt
    by SirRichard
    Not that it was really a nice T-Shirt, but the fact is that this red T-Shirt is the only one you can find in all Sarande! So I bough one as souvenir (there was not much choice). After some bargaining, it costed me 4 euros.

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    Stalls: Olive oil
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  • AlbaniaLover
  • Updated By AlbaniaLover on August 19, 2006
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  • You can buy bottles of olive oil from locals for a very good price. You will mainly find these near the coast of Saranda and Himare and Vlore from what i have seen.

    Olive oil

    not sure but cheap

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    Tirana shopping
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  • AlbaniaLover
  • Updated By AlbaniaLover on August 19, 2006
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  • Tirana street - Albania
    Tirana street
    by AlbaniaLover
    In Tirana you will find some little shops dotted around that sell good quality shoe's....look out for them.

    shoe's shoe's shoe's

    about £35/40 for a good quality pair of italian leather shoe's

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  • Directions: Tirana
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    Local gifts for friends and family
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  • AlbaniaLover
  • Updated By AlbaniaLover on August 19, 2006
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  • Hand made wooden box - Albania
    Hand made wooden box
    by AlbaniaLover,
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    I have come across a couple of shops, one in the Sheraton that sells nice little gifts to take home and one in Tirana near to the cinema, on the other side of the road is a currency exchange and ice cream shop. This was the best one with a friendly owner.

    He had lots of different gifts from jewelry to wooden hand made boxes to copper tea sets.

    Different amounts depending what you buy.

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    the local market.
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  • cachaseiro
  • By cachaseiro on December 23, 2004
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  • down the market. - Albania
    down the market.
    by cachaseiro
    shopping at the local market is always great.
    it's colorful and you can buy food enough to stuff yourself for the rest of the day for very little money.

    food,drink and anything that the locals use in every day life.

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    Qendra Tregtare Univers(QTU): Shopping centre
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  • AlbaniaLover
  • By AlbaniaLover on August 29, 2006
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  • This is a new shopping centre just outside of Tirana with a few big names in there. There are bars, restaurants and a Euromax supermarket and electronics store. Also there are about 30 other shops there including Albtours, Mango, Vodafone and Union (money transfer). The centre is open 09:00 til 21:00. A free shuttle bus runs from the National Museum in Tirana central square to the centre every 20/30 minutes between the times of 08:00 and 22:00.

    All sorts of things to buy!

    depends

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  • Address: Durres Highway
  • Directions: 6 km from Tirana.
  • Website: www.univers-al.com
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    Stalls on side of the road: Honey
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  • AlbaniaLover
  • Updated By AlbaniaLover on August 19, 2006
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  • honey - Albania
    honey
    by AlbaniaLover
    You will find many stalls on the side of the road selling good quality honey, you will also see the bee hives are there too.

    Honey

    I think it was about £5 for a huge jar

  • Theme: Food and Drink
  • Address: We bought ours from his friend near Gjirokaster
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    Napkins
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  • SirRichard
  • By SirRichard on September 7, 2004
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  • Napkins - Albania
    Napkins
    by SirRichard
    These embrioded napkins were the other possible souvenir to find in the few (2) street vendors I saw in Sarande. Didn't buy any, as I didn't like the stuff, so I can't tell you the price...

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