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23.6.15
We took photos in the town and were adopted and shown around by
some pi dogs. There was much barking. |
From the hotel balcony |
Morning mist |
Hotel Filoxenia |
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Street lamp |
Alley |
Ready for holiday makers |
Rail pattern in the street |
Interesting doors |
Shops |
Electrical knitting |
We looked at the station and a road with railway lines
paved into the road surface. Photographed shops and
plants, not much directional light so no great shots. |
Railway station |
Points |
At the end of the line |
Station door |
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Platform |
Sunlight through the chairs |
Local hero or notable |
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Picturesque dereliction |
Magnificent pelargoniums |
Decorative ironwork |
The Church |
Rosa 'Peace' in a garden |
Church |
Gun |
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Mini Church opposite the main one |
Church |
Saint on the front of the church |
Church tower |
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Shop window |
Cakes |
Objects of desire |
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Pasta in jars |
End of the railway lines |
Night Club? |
Trachelospermum jasminoides at the door |
The bell |
Old pump |
In a window |
Anchusa officionalis |
Our guide |
Bus Station |
White mulberry |
Our taverna |
Fastened |
Drove up Mt Chelmos stopping at a water trough where butterflies congregate.
We hoped to find a lattice brown in a wood. |
Cricket |
Dark wood |
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Lattice Brown |
Southern White Admiral |
The monastery garden |
Pods on Cercis siliquastrum |
Hop tree |
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Silver-washed fritillary |
Grasses |
We stopped at the Aghia Lavra Monastery; tried out an Arab style loo
and spoke to a cat who had hidden under the mini-van. |
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Multi-headed thistle |
Alcea pallida, though flower is more like a. setosa |
Hollyhocks |
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Small tortoishell |
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Blue |
The beetle at the top has a froggy posture |
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Stopped at natural rock gardens and photographed lots
of mini plants. Area of low growing plants on chalk |
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Dianthus armeria |
Daphne sericea |
Fumana paphlagonica |
Thyme close-up |
Linum austriacum subsp. collinum |
Thymus capitatus in many different shades
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Linum austriacum subsp. collinum |
Adonis Blue |
Aethionema saxatile |
Helianthemum |
Daphne sericea |
Daphne oleoides |
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Fumana paphlagonica |
Acinos alpinus |
Silver-studded blues |
Sedum |
Mountain small white |
Orchis pyramidalis |
Sedums |
Viola kitaibeliana |
Lamium garganicum |
White plume moth |
Anthemis |
Campanula |
Tragopogon dubius |
Brimstone |
Cleopatra flapping... |
Drypis spinosa |
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Tragopogon pratensis |
Stock |
Hypericum |
Campanula spatulata |
Centaurea raphanina |
The gang looking around before lunch - a panorama
somewhere between 180 and 360 degrees
H fell over on the steep bit looking for an odd spot
blue. A few prickles which needed digging
out, but camera and owner unhurt…
Fortunately nobody snapped it. |
alkana? |
Astragalus angustifolius |
Local flora |
Astragalus |
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Verbascums and the view down the valley |
Trifolium fragiferum |
Alyssoides utriculata/graeca |
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Blue remembered hills |
Ornithogalum umbellatum |
Pile up of burnets |
Acantholimon echinus |
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Centaurea and Transparent burnet moth |
Hypericum olympicum |
Thapsia garganica |
Horehound |
Achillea |
Fibigia clypeata |
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Crupina crupinastrum |
Alkanna lehmanii/tinctoria |
Clouded Yellow on crupina |
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Waiting for the butterfly |
Umbilicus |
Cerastrium tomentosum |
Odd spot blue |
More burnets |
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Salvia |
Potentilla pedata and hoverfly |
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The horses thought we might have something of interest |
Astragalus angustifolius |
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The War Memorial |
Our balcony afternoon |
A crow-like cowl present on most of the
chimneys although we found a bird of prey on a house
later in the holiday.
A good day with more locations and trip up
rough path new to Phil. Lists drinks and the taverna for supper. P - veal and chips
and H – veal and rice.
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