“If you have not booked your holidays yet, you must go to Albania”, says
Alastair Campbell, former Spokesperson of Tony Blair, on his internet
website.
He says on his website that Albania is not anymore the country where there is a statue of Norman Wisdowm, because he was the only western actor its people saw on their black and white televisions. It is not the fantasy place of the Taken movies with Liam Nelson. Former adviser of British PM Tony Blair says he has never felt unsafe in Albania.
He mentioned what Prime Minister Edi Rama told Boris Johnson when he was expressed against Albania’s EU accession: “If there are criminal Albanians in London, those are your criminals, not mine”,
Campbell brings back the descriptions of Lord Byron, who traveled Albania in the 19th century, who compared Albanians with the Scottish highlanders.
“Of course it can take a long time for historical legacies to be recast. But as we enter August, let me make a suggestion to anyone yet to book a holiday … try Albania. I have recommended it to many people before, several have taken me up on it, none has regretted it. irst, even with Brexit’s plummeting pound, it is cheap, whereas many more popular European destinations will see your sterling go a lot less far than it did before the Johnson/Farage/Dacre/Murdoch lies won the day. Second, the weather and the food are Mediterranean. Today, 32 degrees, with a nice light breeze. Third, though no scenery on earth will beat the Scottish Highlands for me, Byron was right that the more mountainous parts of Albania get very close. Fourth, there are some fantastic unspoilt beaches. Fifth, the people are really nice, and not least because of our role in standing up for the Kosovar Albanians during Serbia’s ethnic cleansing under the Milosevic regime, they tend to like Brits”, Campbell writes.
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