Sri Lanka General Tips |  | Cinnamon by Maxus
Spice has played an important part in the modern history of Sri Lanka it was spice that first attracted the Europeans here and control of the spice trade led to hundreds of years of fighting, chiefly between Portugal and Holland for control of the Island. By far the most important of these spices is cinnamon and most of the worlds cinnamon still originates in Sri Lanka, in fact so synonymous is cinnamon with Sri Lanka that the botanical name for... [read more] | Albania General Tips |  | Pigs by JLBG
We are so used to see either pigs fed in an industrial pig house and never going out but for final slaughter that it is always a surprise to see flocks of pigs roaming almost freely in the country. Actually, in 1988, we saw that only once, along the road between Tiranė and Shkodėr. On the first photo, the group of women in the background are obviously surprised to see a bus stopping and half a dozen citizens taking photos of the pigs! Are pigs... [read more] | Albania General Tips |  | Sheeps by JLBG
Sheeps are everywhere, on the road as well as grazing on the land. When driving, beware of sheeps! The first photo, taken in 1988, shows a sight that few of us have ever seen at home, a shephardess spinning while keeping the sheeps. The second and the third photo show that in 1988, you could find very often flocks of sheeps on the road. In 2005, we have not driven enough in Albania to know what is the situation. I guess that with the increase... [read more] |
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