The maldives of europe
You should know by now that I'm a lover of ticking off new countries. If it's somewhere obscure or that not many people have been to then even better. And for ages, at the absolute top of my list has been Albania. Not only is it beautiful, cheap, and on my favourite coastline in the world. But the Albanian Riviera has even been dubbed 'the Maldives of Europe' so I knew a trip was well overdue. Luckily my friend Alice was also dying to go and so the choice of our summer holiday was a bit of a no-brainer! Actually getting to the Albanian Riviera is the tricky part. There's only one airport in the whole of Albania and it's in Tirana - about 4 hours north of the Riviera. There is the option of flying to Corfu and then getting a 30 minute ferry over, but flights to Corfu were about 3 times more expensive than flights to Tirana, and I was quite happy at the thought of the chance to visit the capital anyway. So we decided to start our trip with a night in Tirana before