u/NormasCherryPie

I have been learning languages all my life, l and Albanian is one of the hardest I have tried to learn a little of. Everywhere I have been in my visit, people have been kinder, more patient and more visibly happy and encouraging that someone was trying to speak to them in Albanian than I could ever have expected. More so than in almost every country I have visited.

Any future tourists reading, Albanian is a beautiful language, and it is worth your time and effort to try, to learn some basic phrases, and to respect the people who speak it by doing so.

Faleminderit shumë! Unë flas vetëm pak, por më pëlqen shumë vendi juaj!

hello!

I’m a female traveller who is very comfortable in mostly male spaces back home (sports bars, etc, no problem) and there’s nothing negative about being there as a woman.

I have read that bar cafes in Albania that are small / show sports are typically understood as m en-only spaces. Is this true? would I be disrespectful to drink there or watch a football match? I do not want to intrude or make anyone uncomfortable.

Edit: I’m talking about the unspoken rules of what makes people comfortable, not ‚rules’ or ‚prihibitions’

thank you

we’re flying out of Italy today at 16:30

queues on arrival yesterday were around 90 minutes

anyone had longer lately? hoping 3 hr advance arrival will be enough. :(

Hi guys,

Looking for some rookie advice on a dripping tap (and I’m aware of washers being ‘ thing 1 you look at’ but getting to it is a possible problem!)

We have a pretty subpar mixer tap that has started dripping. We’ve tried to take it apart to find the washer as a first attempt, but the nut under the sink is in a finicky place so we can’t really tighten with a spanner. The tap has also come a tiny bit loose since we managed to turn the nut under the sink to the right (I thought it was lefty loosey) and we can’t really tighten it further!

Darent faff on with it any more, and so any advice before I make this sink unusable would be really welcome. Am I just overcautious and need to get one of those little spanner things that is vertical? I’m really nervous at this and didn’t have a DIY dad to teach me these things

Thank you