Paris Hilton to run for President (of Albania)

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Well I just can imagine that!

The presidential website would get more hits than normal I would imagine!

Royal Albanian Airshow ( Comedy Show)

Campaigning for the return of King Zog, the Royal Albanian team perform shows in the USA.

Our Family

For all of you with children...this is the picture that maybe best describes our family.

Blood suckers!

It seems to me that everyone in Albania is a medical expert.

They all seem to know what different medicines treat their particular ailments. They all know the best doctor for YOUR problem, but no-one seems to have any faith in the doctors for their OWN problems!

Most medicines are available over the counter, and some older women take valium to help them sleep!
I had a friend that had a particularly bad cough and he complained to me that the chemist gave him tablets but they were not helping. I took a look, even though I know very little about medicine. I saw that he taking codeine( a pain killer). I gave him a bottle of cough syrup and he was better in a couple of days.

The other day as I was shopping, I noticed these on sale. Leeches!
Not that I would fancy this treatment too much!
I have heard that these have made a comeback in the medical world for wound healing after an operation!
However, I hear that those that use them, do become quite attached to them. ;-)

Reminds me of the joke about the man who was ill and the doctor prescribed to him leeches twice a day. A week later the doctor returned and asked how his health was. The man replied that the first couple of days he had managed to swallow the leeches whole, but after that he had to fry them, and cut them up before he was able to swallow them...

One out of Four is not bad!

Just got my permission to stay in Albania renewed.

Foreigners have to have permission to stay in the country up to 3 months, thereafter they must leave the country or else have permission to stay granted from the government.

I have just had mine renewed again till 2009.

I have permission to stay in the country that says...

Vendlindje: Aberdeen, England (should be Aberdeen, Scotland)

Kombesia: Irish (should be Scottish)

Shtetsia: English (should be British)

Ngjyra e syve: Brown (should be blue)

The Crepes of Wrath

Just in case anyone has not seen it...

The Simpsons are always well worth watching, but this episode is a must.
Bart is sent to France as part of a student-exchange and Homer gets Adil Hoxha, from Albania to live with them. Homer is impressed by Adil...but he does not realise that he is really a spy (a.k.a. the Sparrow!)

How many men does it take to get a mercedes out of a hole?

Our road is horrendous. (This in fact at the entrance to "Foto Marubi")
Anyway, almost every second day a car goes down this hole.
This time the tyre burst, but they still thought they could tow it and push it out.
I thought it was unlikely, so i took the video...

Then I remembered the story of the negro American beaten up by the Police, which was filmed on video by someone watching from a window nearby. I remember someone saying at that time..."Listen if the Police ever beat ME up, and you have your video camera, then PLEASE - put the camera away and come and help me !"

So I put the mobile phone away and gave them a hand and having jacked up the car we managed the get the car out of the hole.

Problem solved - until tomorrow and someone else goes down the hole.

Monty Python Colin 'Bomber' Harris

Having been outposted by the peshku, I will have to post my other humour video quickly!!

This is the live version of Colin Bomber Harris fighting against himself.It is from the Monty Python Show...which transformed British humour on TV in the 1970's.

Unfortunately, the commentator changes the words for the live version, but the original Tv version went like this....

"Here comes Bomber now, circling round, looking for an opening. He's wrestled himself many times in the past, this boy, so he knows practically all his own moves by now. And he's going for the double hand lock. He's got it. Here's the head squeeze. And the ALBANIAN head lock. He's going for the throw."

I remember seeing this on UK TV just after I returned from my first visit to Albania in March 1994. It made me laugh so much!...although I still don't know what an "Albanian Headlock" is?!

Part of the original TV version can be seen here http://www.spike.com/video/2704447/collection/14295 but to be honest the acting does not compare to the live version.

Interestingly, Michael Palin is the host at the beginning. He recently paid a visit to Albania for a travel show for the BBC.

Albania - Cheers

Oh..no!
I have had this clip for ages, but just didn't bother posting it. I choose today, and now go to www.peshkupauje.com and find they posted the very same video YESTERDAY.
AAAAAARRRRGGHHH!
Sorry peshku...I honestly did not copy you!
But I like this so much I am not taking it off my blog!



Long before "Friends" was the hit comedy programme in America, they gave us "Cheers". The life in a local bar in Boston, America.

This is a clip from the 1980's (I guess)of Sam, the bar owner learning geography from "The Coach".

I grew up watching "Cheers", so I find this quite funny...but on its own it doesn't give a true reflection of how good the programme really was.

What it does tell us is that during communism, the Western world knew very little of Albania. I guess the majority still don't.

The words of the song are...
"Albania, Albania,
You border on the Adriatic,
You are mainly mountainous,
And your major export is chrome!"

"You're a communist republic,
You're a red regime..."

New Year in Albania

This was drawn by Medi Belortaja (Albania). I have no idea who he is, but he certainly knows about New Year in Albania!

Who said "a picture speaks a thousand words"?