Why Albania!

It may have a serious image problem, but Albania has a coastline and a climate to die for.
The country has a balmy southern Mediterranean climate, mile after mile of undeveloped beaches and crystal-clear water.
“If you can imagine Greece in the late 1950s or the 1960s, or simply without the cement, that’s Albania,” says Philip Bay, who heads the southeastern European operations of the property consultant Colliers. “I think Albania is going to be a hybrid of Bulgaria, Croatia and Montenegro, for the simple reason that it is a sort of last frontier in Europe. When Albania is finished, there is nothing left in Europe as far as the second-home market is concerned. When it’s done, those buying second homes will have to go to Morocco, Tunisia and maybe Libya.”
Albania’s real charm lies in its coastline, which stretches more than 200 miles from the Adriatic, in the north, to the Ionian, in the south. Some of it, admittedly, is already far from unspoilt.
The most beautiful stretch of the coast is probably south of Vlore, past Himare and Sarande.