Europe Tour
At the museum with a friend: a small moment from Vienna
A museum in Vienna. Armour and shields behind glass. Your friend beside the display.
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Life between cultures
Home can be more than one place. I write about returning to Kosovo, finding a familiar community abroad and the people we meet between countries.
Follow the Europe Tour for the journey through Vienna, Bratislava, Prague, Berlin and Hamburg. A good place to begin is coffee and Albanian encounters in Prague.
Europe Tour
Seeing Skanderbeg’s helmet in Vienna: a personal visit
An emotional stop on my Europe trip: the original Skanderbeg helmet video, the museum record and the questions the visit raised.
Europe Tour
Skanderbeg’s helmet inscription: the letters and my interpretation
What is written on Skanderbeg’s helmet, what my Latin caption added, and why a transcription is different from an interpretation.
Europe Tour
On the way to Skanderbeg’s helmet and sword
On our way to Skanderbeg’s helmet and sword in Vienna. That was the destination.
Europe Tour
Ernst Fuchs Museum, part III: details at the entrance
Pale columns. Gold details. A light blue ceiling. At the Ernst Fuchs Museum, even the entrance gives you a reason to stop looking straight ahead.
Europe Tour
Ernst Fuchs Museum, part II: colour and light inside
Inside the Ernst Fuchs Museum, a tall stained-glass window changes the view. Pale walls, gold lines, paintings on stands. There is more to look at than…
Europe Tour
Ernst Fuchs Museum, part I: a villa that made me curious
The villa made me curious before I went inside. Grand from the outside, a different atmosphere within. At the Ernst Fuchs Museum in Vienna, the building…
Life between cultures
Returning to Kosovo: settling in took me more than two years
It took me more than two years to get used to life in Kosovo. My personal experience, and three questions to consider before returning.
Life between cultures
Make Albanian businesses easier to discover
Which Albanian business should more people know about? I asked people to share theirs because being good at your work and being easy to find are…
Life between cultures
Which decade would you choose to experience?
I was born in 1988. When I asked which era people would like to experience, I chose the 1930s. Now I want the more interesting part…