We have been travelling in Albania for 8 days (not too much of course) and noticed some interesting facts about this country.
Hope you will find them useful:
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UPDATE 21//03/2016: Today I received the letter from Julia Ejli who wrote me:
Hi, I'm a 17 year old girl from America but my parents are from Albania and I've been there many times. I've found some of your questions and some inaccuracies and I wanted to clear them up for you. The reason the policemen are out all the time and stopping people is more of a friendly gesture. The towns are small and everyone knows each other. They stand by the side of the street and talk for long periods of time. In addition, if they ever do stop you, you show them your drivers license from your country and they let you go immediately.
Lek was taken out of the currency systems in the 90s and they now use euro's because it is more convenient.
Also, the "Albanians are poor drivers" idea is based on poor experience. As you probably noticed, the roads are small and mainly one street unless you go to Tirana, the capital. The use of communication is widely used because on the road because of the poor quality of streets and lack of traffic signals. Moving on, many of the younger generous are learning English in school and the older generation speak variations of broken english.
The fruit incident with the vendors are poor people trying to make money anyway they can, so don't complain about prices.