While I lived in, and have spent copious time, in Italy and have looked at Albania across the Adriatic I never had a chance to visit. The country is shaking off its communist funk, much like its ...

Part bakery, part pizzeria, part European portal — this is the creation of a travel-obsessed mother who grew up with Italian influences in Albania and fell in love with the Arizona desert. Dolce ...

As I stroll the rainbow-painted Soviet blocks of Tirana, Gjergj invites me home for lunch. A pensioner in a tweed cap, with a face as smooth and readable as olive wood, he leaves his game of ...