That Weekend in Albania: A Road Trip to Intrigue in the Balkans

An Albania emerging from a repressive past is the setting for an expatriate family's road trip to the southern port of Saranda to see the multi-civilization ruin at nearby Butrint. It is two months after 9/11 in the only Muslim country in Europe. Despite its location at the crossroads between Italy and Greece, Albania is still largely avoided by the rest of Europe-a Stalinist past and reputation for money laundering in support of terrorism limits interest, but there are growing investment o...