Hurtling down the freeway from Tirana along the snaking Albanian coastline, it feels hard to believe that this country was closed off from the world around it just three decades ago. Benny, the name ...

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Manuel scoops up our son and enfolds him in a hug before delighting him with a chase through the restaurant. Finley’s squeals of laughter echo through the family-run hotel in the tiny village of ...

In the ninth installment of Metro Travel Hot Takes, Travel Editor Alice Murphy recalls her visit to Albania’s TikTok-famous Riviera, where a construction boom threatens to ruin the natural landscape.