The NYT’s Frugal Traveler, Matt Gross, continues his thrifty jaunt through the summer that started a month back in Lisbon. This week’s installment finds him in Albania.

“I can’t say I’d recommend the food, the service, the accommodation or the location, but for a sobering and memorable experience, a night at Liepaja prison is hard to beat.”

Well, not exactly. The two branches of Yotel set to open in Heathrow and Gatwick late this year, and in the city proper in 2007, prefer to call their 10’x10’ rooms “cabins.�

The NYT asks “Is Qatar the Next Dubai?�- they’ve got man-made resort islands too! It seems like mere weeks ago, Dubai was the next Dubai. And the cannibalizing cycle of the “Next Big Thing� spirals on…

In this edition: the SF Chronicle stumbles upon the Holy Grail (just the cup this time) in Valencia, while the Washington Post visits Brangelina’s compound in Namibia, according to Us Weekly, the site of the second coming.

Extreme-travel guru Richard Bangs has parlayed his role as a founding partner of Mountain Travel Sobek into a career as a one-man adventure travel brand.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 4/8/06.

Travel news headlines for 3/30/06

Just when you thought there was no new way to see Europe, comes this piece of news about one filmmaker’s deliberate act of travel anachronism – walking from Spain to Ukraine, call it Slow Travel.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 3/24/06