Potam · Himarë · Albania
Finding the house
Koks’ Guesthouse is on Rruga Vangjel Zoto at Potam, the southern quarter of Himarë, about 1.4 kilometres from the centre of town in a straight line and about two by road. It has no number on the door, so the address that actually works is its plus code.
What the code narrows down to
A plus code is a grid reference, and each pair of characters shrinks the square it describes by a factor of twenty. Typed into Google Maps or Organic Maps with the town beside it, the seven characters above land on the building and its parking apron.
- 8F
- narrows to about 2226 km by 1703 km
- GX
- narrows to about 111 km by 85.2 km
- 3Q
- narrows to about 5.6 km by 4.3 km
- V5
- narrows to about 278 m by 213 m
- FJ
- narrows to about 14 m by 11 m
- 9
- narrows to about 2.8 m by 2.7 m
The final square is taller than it is wide because a degree of longitude shortens this far north of the equator. The mark above is that last step drawn: the filled cell is where the house sits inside the printed square.
Getting to Potam
By road
Potam sits on the SH8 at the southern end of Himarë, and the SH8 carries the name Rruga Vangjel Zoto right through it — the coast road and the address are the same road. Coming from the town centre it is about two kilometres by road; coming up the coast it is the first quarter of Himarë you reach. The house stands back from the road on the inland side and above it, and the parking is the olive-shaded apron in front of it.
Parking is free, private and on site, and no reservation is needed for it.
Arriving
Check-in runs from 14:00 until midnight and check-out from 08:00 until 11:00, and both can be done privately or express. Luggage can be left at the house on either side of a stay. The house takes cash rather than cards.
If anything goes wrong on the way, the number to call is +30 697 437 6174 — a Greek mobile, and the right one to dial from anywhere.