#RuinedPrioryFriday & its the Monastery of 40 saints above the city of Sarandë, Albania 🇦🇱 likely founded during the reign of Justinian

#AdoorableThursday with the door to the Skanderbeg Mausoleum, Lezhë 🇦🇱 Housed in the ruins of what was the c14 church of st Nicholas with a c20 structure built over & around it

While perilously close to crumbling away, the c16 mosque of Hajji Bendo still retains some of its historic frescoes Partially restored after the destruction of Mosques in Albania in the 20th century

#MedievalMonday Borsh, Albania 🇦🇱 perhaps nowadays best known for its gorgeous beach from the coast you can just see Borsh Castle perched on a peak The site stretches back into antiquity, refortified by the Byzantines, first textual reference from c13 as for the mosque 👇🧵

#RomanSiteSaturday with Hadrianopolis 🇦🇱 a site in Southern Albania with a theatre and the ruins of a bath complex

Out into #Dorset this evening and dinner at Scott Arms with that perfect view from Kingston over Corfe Castle with thunder and Lightning playing over the valley

Always nice to have a site outside the British Isles for #RuinedPrioryFriday This is the C13 Monastery of St Nicholas in Southern Albania 🇦🇱 While the monastery church still stands you can see the ruins of other structures and the boundary wall

#RomanFortThursday & hows this?! Looking out from the eastern side of Lake Ohrid 🇲🇰 the reconstructed Roman auxiliary fort at the Bay of Bones

#adoorablethursday & this one is particularly special: sunset through the famous doorway of the [unfinished] temple of Apollo, Naxos 🇬🇷 This particular shot involves a game of who-can-raise-their-hands-the-highest with all the smartphone users in the area for sunset 🤭🤭

#HillfortsWednesday & the fortified Cycladic Acropolis of Panormos, Naxos 🇬🇷 Occupied between around 2500-2300 BC, around 20 rooms in a fortified enclosure with 5 towers, an amazing example of an Ancient Cycladic settlement (and a mish to get to!)