ROB CAMERON

BBC Prague Correspondent

Tirana: Where the streets have no name

BBC News

3 December 2004

Not sure whether Bono has ever been to Tirana but in 2004 it was still in a strange state of semi-awakening from the forty-year fever dream of Communist hardliner Enver Hoxha. The old street signs had been torn down – but Albania’s new authorities couldn’t agree on new ones. This made finding your way round the city a rather surreal experience.