The first-ever long weekend holiday to Albania ended badly. open image in gallery Distant dream: the beach at Durres in Albania Religious plurality and tolerance are now a selling point for a nation that is anchored at the foot of Europe’s GDP per capita table. A former nuclear bunker-turned-museum lifts the lid on the extreme hard-line communism that, for decades, …
Q Given the volcanic situation in Iceland, is it going to be another 2010 in aviation? Another Icelandic volcano erupted in 2011, and in that case only 1 per cent of flights in northern Europe were cancelled – rather than 100 per cent on some days in that extraordinary time. open image in gallery The Blue Lagoon, a geothermal bath …
