The Cover Story

One longer read a month on a place to go, an experience to have or something worth doing when you are out of office, reported properly and costed honestly.

BLESSING AT THE BAR is Out of Office: A Weekend in Albania. Cover artwork over the infinity pool at Port Side, Durrës, looking out to the sea.
The Cover StoryIssue 0021 October 2026
The Mediterranean empties in the third week of September, and Albania is where that fortnight stretches furthest. Four days in Durrës, two hotels, three dinners, and what the whole weekend came to for two.
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