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southern greece

26.6.15

We had an early breakfast so that we could be at the archaeological site by 08.00 to beat the coach parties.

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Juniper

Cicada

We saw a Tree Grayling on a trunk

Capparis spinosa

Campanula andrewsii

Bull

The cat greeted us then went about his toilette

The cat who walks by himself

Grasshopper

 

Pomegranate flowers

Pomegranate fruit

Phagnalon rupestre

A fuzzy nuthatch

Cotinus coggygria

Papaver rhoeas

Smoke bush

Pinus alopensis

Figure on the frieze

Large Wall Brown

We went on to an area to look for the Grass Jewel

Shrine

Seedhead

Delphinium peregrinum

Grass jewel, the smallest blue

Graves

Grass jewel

Small Copper

on brambles

Bellardia trixago

Grass jewel

Verbascum speciosum

Dead carpenter bee

Nemoptera bipennis

What a wonderful beastie, like an early aeroplane

Painted lady

Shield bugs

Asphodel tenuifolius

Small copper

Linum suffruticosum subsp. salsaloides

Allium amethystinum

Euphorbia myrsinites

Ceterach officinarum

Poterium verrucosum (sanguisorba minor subsp. magnolii)

Centaurea triumfetti

Agrimonia eupatoria

Trifolium

Blues mating

Polygala venulosa

Spotted fritillary

Small copper

Eastern wood white

Teucrium scordium?

Cephalanthera rubra

Cephalanthera rubra

Gladiolus illyricus

Buttercup

Lathyrus nissolia an annual vetchling

Gladiolus illyricus

Helleborus cyclophyllus

Looks like a red deer's head?

Cephalanthera rubra

We returned to the hotel and Peter and I went out round the town.

Oleander

Capparis spinosa

Another good meal at the restaurant this time a vegetable casserole (Briami) with feta on the side.   It contained potatoes, so chips are not the only available form.

http://www.olivetomato.com/briami-the-greek-ratatouille/

 

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