Let me start with a confession. I once missed the Corfu ferry from Sarandë. It was 1994. I was living in Tepelenë, a relatively remote backwater of a town in southern Albania. Famous for its prison, one of Ali Pasha’s castles (the very one where Lord Byron stayed and was, somewhat surprisingly given his host’s...Read More

The Flamingo Revolution: Is Albania Safe to Visit Right Now? Way back in the noughties, before Albania was even a dot on the world’s tourism map, I spent a couple of years living in Vlorë with my wife and two (then) young children. There were a couple of other international families that we were working...Read More