Tirana October 2011	Giergji Skanderbeg Skanderbeg Square		Re-modelling Skanderbeg Square, from the Hotel
	Puppet Theatre	Government building built by King Zog
	The Mosque and a new construction	Hotel Tirana where we stayed	The Mosque of Ethem Bey
The Minbar	The Mihrab (the niche), indicating the direction of Mecca
	The new Orthodox Cathedral		The Cathedral from the hotel
	The National Museum	Chekhov portrait	Socialist Realism with Oliver in action
Enver Hoxha in action	A Partisan	Factory worker	Relegated statues ...
... Lenin ...	...Stalin ...	The River Lana	The Archaeological Museum Greek bust
		Greek Inscription	Tirana University
Mother Theresa	Boulevard of the Martyrs	The Hoxha funeral pyramid
The new tower block from the hotel at dawn		The Parliament Building	The Ottoman Bridge
		The Roman Catholic Cathedral
Appolonia October 2011		Oliver in action	Cold war bunkers on a distant hill
Temple of Artemis (4th Century BC)			Monument to Apollo
Ther Agora (2nd Century AD)		Preying mantis	The Odeon (2nd Century AD)
	along the Stoa (4th Century BC)
currrent excavations		Here for wedding photos Bridesmaid	The bridal couple
The Byzantine Monastery of St Mary	in the church	Chapel in the wall	former fresco
	lunch at Vlora	The Llogara Pass	restaurant on the summit
the coastal road	approaching sunset		Saranda
	Cruise ship stopping to re-provision
October 2011		Venetian Fort
The Greek Town		Entrance to the baths	A fountain
The Theatre		Hypocaust for the baths	Robin
	Tortoise	Ilya and Oliver demonstrating Roman dining postures	The Roman Triconch Palace
The Baptistry			The hidden mosaic
Entrance to the Gymnasium	A fountain	The Basilica	Gateway through the defensive wall
The Lion Gateway	Lion attacking a bull	Cistern	The Fort (lunch)
in the museum
leaving the Fort	Across the river to the ...	... Venetian Triangular Fort	Fort viewed from Butrint
Part of the group Michael, Diana, Judith, Sue, Marjorie, Derek, Catherine , hidden by Anna, Anne, Pamela, Patricia, Jennifer, Bryony, Val, Oliver, Moyna	with Peter	Mark & Patricia	unknown common plant
Storm clouds		Gjirokastra October 2011	The Citadel from the Zekate House
	Partisan	Coffee House Decorations
	Under the Citadel ...	... a cold war nuclear bunker	Within the bunker
Released from the bunker Michael. Pat, Anna, Anne, Derek, Peter, Catherline, Jenny, Bryony, Pat, Mark, Val, Diana, Moyna, Katherine, Oliver	The Citadel Entrance	The entrance hall	The Great Gallery National Museum of Arms
	italian Fiat Tank	A Partisan memorial (Odise Pascali)
Gjirokastra in the rain from the Citadel ramparts	British naval guns background: a captured Lockheed Shooting Star
The Citadel from the town		The Zekate House Ottoman, 1811
Kitchen	Venetian windows	Reception room
Second reception room showing the women's gallery		The fireplace in a further reception room
The complex roof truss, supporting the stone roof	The upper terrace		Partisan martyrs
Mesopotam October 2011		The Monastery Church of St Nicolas
Byllis October 2011	Vjosa river valley with, in the distance, Karaburuni peninsular		Byllis archaeological site; House B
The arsenal	Spider	near the baths
	Basilica C
Vjosa valley from the site	Meadow Brown	The Theatre	The audience
Pamela and Peter	Alison, Katherine, Michael, Marjorie and Sue	Mark and Pat, Moyna, Anna	Val, Maureen, Jenny, Bryony, Pat, Derek, Catherine, Anne, Diana
The Performer: Olive rdemonstrating the accoustics		Through the ...	... perimeter wall
The Cathedral Complex
Remains of storage jars	A restored jar
One of the many oil rigs near Ballashi ,from the bugbitten website	Some of the thousands of defensive bunkers throughout Alabania from the Pixilandwebsite	Berat October 2011	The Kings Mosque
Prayer School	The "motel" - travellers' accomodation at the Mosque
The ceiling	The Women's Gallery	The Mihrab and the Minbar	The Prayer School ceiling
The Bachelor's Mosque		The Mihrab
	The Mangalem Quarter with the Citadel above	St Michael's Church	from above
The Citadel gate			within the Citadel
St Mary's Cathedral (17th century)	The Nave		Mosaic
in the Sanctuary		The pulpit
	St Mary Blachernae (shut)	Another!	Constantine's Head (copy of the Roman monolith)
Holy Trinity Church		Cistern	Mount Partizani
Comma Butterfly	Minaret of the Red Mosque		The University seen from the Citadel
	Footbridge to ...	... Gorica	The University with the hotel (bottom left)
Persimmons		Back at the gate	Visit to an Ottoman house
	our guide	... translated by Ilya	A reception room
	a family room		Statue in the hotel garden
Durres October 2011	A central archaeological site		A late colonnaded piazza
	The Amphitheatre within the modern city
	10th Century Mosaics		a former enormous entrance
	Moyna		Val
A late Roman wall
A monument to the partisans		Kruja October 2011	The bazaar
Up to the castle	from the castle	The Skanderbeg Museum
	from the Museum Roof The Ottoman House	The modern town
		The Ottoman House	the courtyard
beehives			Olive crusher
Press for Olive Oil
A colourful chest			Thanks on behalf of the group to our guides, with Oliver, Anna, Bryony, Michael, Anne
Peter, Sue, Marjorie, Val, Jenny	Derek, Pat, Mark, Catherine, Pamela, Ilya, (Alison: hidden), Maureen

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