A “Live” Community of Expats

A “Live” Community of Expats

Our lives have definitely changed gradually but drastically since smartphones made their flashy appearance. Do you remember how beautiful your first iPhone seemed and how pretty all those colorful buttons called apps looked? What the heck is an app? We all had this...
Covid & Expats Living in Albania

Covid & Expats Living in Albania

COVID19 Vaccine GENERAL INFO – Nov 25, 2021 – Update   According to Albanian health authorities, the government is currently administering Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca-Oxford, Gamaleya, and Sinovac vaccines.   Foreign Residents can request to be...
Low Cost Albania – by Robin Holleran

Low Cost Albania – by Robin Holleran

Low Cost Albania Newspapers and television broadcasts might be filled with stories of economic rebounds and dropping unemployment rates, but there is still an undercurrent of uncertainty among many Westerners about the security of their financial future. One option,...
Why Albania – by Robin Holleran

Why Albania – by Robin Holleran

Why Albania? When people talk about wanting to move overseas, Albania isn’t usually the first place you have in mind. And yet here we are, happily living in this often-overlooked Balkan country. I came here as a Peace Corps volunteer—and liked Albania so much, I...
The Expats AMBASSADOR – by Robin Holleran

The Expats AMBASSADOR – by Robin Holleran

The Expats Ambassador Moving to Albania? Here’s Where to Find the Info You Need Moving to Albania is an adventure in so many ways and one that I highly recommend having taken the plunge myself four years ago. I was fortunate to have been a Peace Corps volunteer at the...
Weekend in VALBONE – by Robin Holleran

Weekend in VALBONE – by Robin Holleran

Valbone: The Edge of the World When we turned the corner, and the Valbone Valley came into view, it took our breath away—meadows and forest surrounded by the jagged, awe-inspiring peaks of the Albanian Alps (sometimes ominously referred to as The Accursed Mountains)....