The enchanting Accursed mountains of Albania
Albania had always been this enigmatic place for me – offering a tiny opening into the bygone Soviet era, and a slice of Mediterranean paradise. A place I never quite understood – but I was eager to find out. Albania had been pretty much cut-off from the rest of the world until the end of Enver Hoxha’s communist regime in the late 80’s. The isolationist policies under his regime had made Albania one of the least accessible countries in Europe….