Downtown

TODAY was the free day at the world senior team championships, so quite a lot of the players took the opportunity to go into the city of Durrës, which is a little over 10k from the venue-hotel.

King Zog's 'palace'

Modern view from the 'palace' - really a swanky villa

Communist-era bunkers on the hillside

Picturesque church

Roman amphitheatre, rediscovered in 1966 after lying buried for centuries

Petrol station

Walking back to the hotel, I called in at a souvenir shop and bought a T-shirt for myself, and a present for a friend, but clearly paid so much over the odds that I was given a free ballpoint, which I will add to my chess collection of such pens