by Toplica | Aug 18, 2022 | English, Featured, News
Albania’s natural beauty, diverse cuisine, and captivating Ottoman heritage (the region was a firm fixture of the vast, Islamic empire for over 500 years) is being discovered by more and more UK travellers. Visitors are looking past the troubled history of the 20th...
by Toplica | Aug 14, 2022 | Culture, English, Events, Featured, News
In a forested park high above the city of Pristina, the annual Sunny Hill Festival is a major cultural event of the Kosovo summer season. Organized by Dua Lipa and her father, Dukagjin Lipa, Sunny Hill featured four days of major international artists along with the...
by Toplica | Aug 14, 2022 | English, Featured, News
Crystal clear waters, Unesco world heritage sites and only the very occasional British voice in earshot. Albania is shaking off its reputation for organised crime and taking on Greece and Croatia as tourism bounces back from the pandemic. Such is the demand, airlines...
by Toplica | Aug 9, 2022 | Community, English, Featured, News
The owner of a small boutique says she is “over the moon” after winning a trademark battle with High Street fashion giant Zara. Amber Kotrri, who runs Darlington-based House of Zana, had been told by the retailer her business was “conceptually...
by Toplica | Aug 9, 2022 | Culture, English, Featured, News
A week after headlining Lollapalooza, Dua Lipa was atop the lineup again this weekend at her own Sunny Hill Festival in Kosovo, where the singer was also named an honorary ambassador of the European nation. Lipa, the daughter of Kosovo Albanian parents, was given the...
by Toplica | Jul 14, 2022 | English, News, Sport
Aberdeen boss Jim Goodwin praised his players for their application and effort in Wednesday’s League Cup win over Dumbarton. Goodwin was also keen to single out midfielder Ylber Ramadani for his impressive debut. “[Ramadani’] is a class act. He’s a...
