We live right on the Lungomare in Vlorë, and our first Albanian summer came with a few surprises: an AC mistake, a doubled electric bill, and a promenade with zero shade at 2pm. Here's the honest version nobody puts in the brochure.
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We just got comfortable in Albania. In a few weeks we have to leave for three months, not by choice, but because of a rule almost nobody outside the expat world has heard of. Here's what a Schengen Shuffle actually is, and the real route we built around it.
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A year ago, I was running for City Council At-Large in Jacksonville. Today, I'm writing this from Albania. Here's the story I haven't told yet, the one that explains why this move means what it does.
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When we left Jacksonville, I had a quiet little theory I never said out loud: Albania was going to fix everything. Thirty days in, I wasn't completely wrong. Here's the unfiltered version, what it actually costs, what surprised us, and the part I'm still figuring out.
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