Taking A Holiday in Cold War Albania (115) - a podcast by Ian Sanders

In early 1989 attention being paid to Albania in England by the English media because the England football team had recently travelled to Tirana for a World Cup qualifying game. Looking for somewhere unusual to holiday Mike Innes went on 10 day tour to Albania. Arriving by air he travelled by coach, staying in the hotels which catered to foreigners and favoured party members. 
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 We welcome Mike to our Cold War conversation…** Correction Albania was a founder member of the Warsaw Pact and left in 1968.
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