The house

an old stone house

The hostel’s own listing text calls it “an old (but newly restored) family stone house”. The photographs bear that out: bare limestone walls left exposed inside, cobalt window frames, a timber roof over the kitchen, and a hall floor that is older than any of it.

Whitewashed hall at Himara Hostel with a leaning mirror, a white chair and a patterned encaustic cement tile floor — The hall, and the encaustic cement floor everything on this site is drawn from.

the floor

Encaustic cement tiles: pigment pressed into the surface rather than glazed on top of it, laid across Albania and the whole eastern Mediterranean from the late nineteenth century until concrete screed took over. Each tile carries a quarter of the pattern; laid four-square they close into a medallion ringed with scrollwork, and the ochre left in the gap between four medallions makes a lozenge.

The tile below is a vector redrawing of the one in that photograph, at its proportions. It is the ground of every page on this site, and — with one hand added — the marker at the head of every hour of the day on the home page.

Left: the tile. Right: the same tile at 13:00. Neither is a photograph and neither is presented as one.

every colour on this site, and the pixel it came from

Sampled from the shipped files at the coordinates given. Two tones are not on this list, and neither was chosen by eye: the paper these panels sit on, which is the bone lightened towards white by a fixed proportion, and the faint tile underneath this page, which is each colour above moved the same fixed fraction towards the bone.

Oxide
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the scrollwork of the tile
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Ochre
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the lozenge between four medallions
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Disc
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the pale centre of a medallion
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Bone
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the grout between the flagstones
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Stone
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the sunlit face of the wall
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Sage
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the leg of a bar stool
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Lemon
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the folding table top
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Cobalt
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the painted window frame
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what there are photographs of

Ten frames ship. Every one was opened before it was placed, and three of them arrived filed under a room type they do not show, so they are captioned as what they are.

Flagstone courtyard at Himara Hostel with green bar stools, a yellow folding table, a hammock and a reed sun-shade against the stone house — The courtyard, the bar counter, the painted information board and the hammock

The shared kitchen at Himara Hostel: open timber shelves of glasses and plates hung on chains under a pitched wooden roof — The shared kitchen

Dormitory room at Himara Hostel with metal bunk beds against a bare stone wall, blue-framed windows and green velvet armchairs — A dormitory room — which one of the two dormitory types is not recorded anywhere

A bunk bed beside an open blue-framed window at Himara Hostel, with garden greenery outside — One bunk beside a window — no type is recorded for it

Shower room at Himara Hostel with a glass screen against an exposed stone wall and a basin under a framed mirror — A bathroom — filed by the source as “bed-in-6-bed-dormitory-room”.

Landing at Himara Hostel seen through a blue-painted stone doorway, with a table built on a Singer sewing-machine base and a shared bathroom beyond — A landing and, through the doorway, a shared bathroom — filed by the source as “standard-double-room-with-shared-bathroom”.

An old vine trained over the external stone staircase of Himara Hostel against a clear sky — The outside of the house — a vine over the external stair — filed by the source as “single-bed-in-10-bed-dormitory-room”.

Bedroom of the apartment at Himara Hostel with a king bed, a ceiling fan under a timber ceiling and an arched window — A bedroom with one king bed, a ceiling fan and an air-conditioning unit

Breakfast laid out on the long wooden table at Himara Hostel: milk, jam, cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers and bread — Breakfast on the kitchen table

Not shipped

A file named bed-in-6-bed-dormitory-room that is a byte-for-byte match of the bathroom above. One copy ships; the duplicate does not.
A beach seen from a clifftop, filed in the source under this hostel. Nothing in the frame identifies which beach it is or ties it to this house, so it is not published.

No stock photography, no surroundings library, no generated image and no gradient stands in for a missing photograph anywhere on this site. Five of the six bookable types therefore have no photograph.