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How to Put a Stop to Catastrophic Thinking
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For the past few months, I have been travelling around Eastern Europe by car. A few friends and I are doing a road trip around Europe. It’s been an incredible trip, but there are always a few testing moments on such journeys.
One of such moments occurred when we crossed the border from Kosovo into Albania. The actual crossing was easy enough. We got our passports back in no time and we were in the country in less than five minutes.
However, travelling by car adds more complications than flying into a country. As Albania isn’t a part of the European Union (EU), our car wasn’t insured.
This isn’t an issue as we found out from previous border crossings. If you’re not insured to drive in the country, you can buy insurance when you cross the border.
That day though, things proved to be more challenging than we had become accustomed to. When we passed through Montenegro and Kosovo buying insurance had been easy.
It would have been in Albania too if it wasn’t for a few extenuating circumstances. We didn’t have enough money to pay for insurance, and the agent selling it to us didn’t speak much English.
