This year’s big adventure was a true step into the unknown. Whilst I normally over-plan my trips, for this one I wouldn’t know where I was sleeping each night – not just the hotel, but the country! The Albanian Connection is the second trans-European race organised by Lupine Travel, tasking participants with getting from London to Tirana in a week. Most closely resembling the BBC’s Race Across the World, it wouldn’t be quite as simple as hopping on a plane… only buses, trains and ferries would be permitted for long-distance travel, and a series of intermediate checkpoints would only be revealed at the start line!
Not only did I attempt this challenge solo, I also tried to live-blog my progress. Whilst I couldn’t always quite keep up, thanks to those efforts I do already have a trip report on Flyertalk and an annotated map of my route on polarsteps. Hopefully I can distil those down to some more focused posts here in the near future…
