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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Laura Sanders

I went to Europe’s last true wild frontier to find adventure and escape the crowds

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Even a week after I returned from Albania, in my mind I was still in the Accursed Mountains, a fitting name for the dramatic limestone karst and thick beech forests that stood before me.

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