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WHBM
Myself likewise. Having taken a number of them, they all seemed pretty straightforward.
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I can however tell of my first ever arrival there.... Welcome to their world !
There's something about the ex-Warsaw Pact countries that still inspires some people to talk rubbish even now that the Iron Curtain is a memory. From someone who went to Poland in about 2005 and related that they 'weren't allowed to leave the town they were staying in', through to someone who went to a football match in Tirana and 'everyone was walking around with AK47's'. Not just at the match apparently, in the streets of Tirana generally. This was in either 2012 and 2014. I remember because cause I'd been there on holiday a few months earlier and of course had seen no such thing. (Albania was only briefly in the Warsaw Pact but it was resolutely Communist until about 1990.) Some of those places are indeed a bit different from what we're used to here, but some of the bullpoo I've heard is pretty amazing.