Himarë · 8 frames

Almost all of them look through something.

6 of the 8 photographs the hotel has of itself were taken through an opening — a balcony door, a doorway, or a mirror on the wall. It is a small building on a narrow road, and what it has to show is mostly what you can see from inside it.

A timber table and a wicker chair on a balcony above the coast road, looking across Himarë bay to a pine-covered headland — The bay from a balcony, with the road and the shingle directly below · through the balcony door

An open balcony door seen from the foot of a bed, a linen curtain drawn back, a wicker chair and the sea beyond the rail — A room's balcony door, curtain drawn back · through the balcony door

A double bed with a grey quilted throw beside an open balcony door with sunlight on the sea outside — Morning on the water side · through the balcony door

A double bed with a pale oak slatted headboard against a sage-grey wall hung with woven jute discs of different sizes — Woven jute discs in a loose constellation over the bed

An oak console table with pampas grass in a ribbed vase, below a framed mirror reflecting the bed and two macramé hangings — The bed, arriving second-hand through the mirror over the console · through the mirror

An open oak wardrobe with a fluted back and a small fridge below it, with a tiled bathroom and round mirror through the doorway beyond — The wardrobe, and the bathroom through the door behind it · through the doorway

A pale oak desk and stool below a wall-mounted flat-screen television, a mirror reflecting a single bed, and a timber ladder hung with towels — Desk, screen, and the leaning towel ladder that stands in four of these eight frames · through the mirror

A table laid with white linen under a scalloped cream awning on the restaurant terrace, bougainvillea over the iron gate and its stone posts, an olive tree beyond the wall and sea in the distance — The terrace, laid — bougainvillea over the gate, the olive tree beyond the wall

Not here

There is no photograph of the front of the building.

Not one of the eight shows Rondo’s from the outside. Rather than dress that up with a picture of somewhere else, the plan on the location page draws what stands around it instead — measured, at true bearing, from the hotel’s own coordinate.