You've heard it on every travel page you've ever seen, so I can't say you heard it here first, but maybe I can say now you've heard it from someone you trust: Albania needs to be on your bucket list.

"If I were you, and I worked remote, I’d never be at home.” This is what my graduate advisor said to me shortly after I graduated in the fall of 2022 while we were on our way to Albania to present research at ICCMS in Tirana. That sentence alone may have permanently altered my brain chemistry.