Twelve photographs

Photos

Every picture here was opened and looked at before it was captioned. Where a file arrived from an aggregator wearing the wrong label, the caption says so rather than quietly reusing it.

the house

Benches and long tables under a reed pergola beside the apricot-painted wall of Oasis Hostel in Himarë — The terrace under the reed pergola.

The concrete yard at Oasis Hostel lined with wooden benches and potted plants, mountains behind — The yard between the buildings.

A lit corridor at Oasis Hostel with wooden doors, terracotta floor tiles and framed paintings — The corridor to the dorms.

A tiled bathroom at Oasis Hostel with a bath, shower, basin and an orange patterned curtain — A bathroom — this file arrived labelled as an eight-bed dorm. It is not one.

A green canopied swing seat with striped cushions on a tiled balcony at Oasis Hostel — A balcony swing seat — this one arrived labelled as a seven-bed dorm.

the dorms

A mixed dormitory at Oasis Hostel with pine bunk beds, tiled floor, a wall of lockers and an air-conditioning unit — The one dormitory photograph there is. It carries no room size, so none is claimed.

what it runs

Guests of Oasis Hostel crowded on the deck of a boat at sunset off the Himarë coast — The hostel's own photograph of one of its sunset boat parties.

White limestone cliff falling into turquoise water at Gjipe beach on the Albanian Riviera — Gjipe — where the bus tour goes.

around

Aerial view of Himarë town, its pier and the curve of Spile bay under the Ceraunian mountains — Himarë and Spile bay, 1.1 km from the door.

Livadhi Beach and its bay seen from the hillside above, the Ionian Sea calm below the coastal mountains — Livadhi, 2.5 km south — bike distance.

A stone arch and dry-laid walls inside the ruined old village of Himarë Castle — The old walled village on the hill above town.

The sun setting into the Ionian seen over the bow of a boat off the Himarë coastline — West-facing the whole way down this coast.