Gargano

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The pins represent locations over the whole holiday, click on the map to enlarge it. The map of Italy shows The Gargano sticking out into the Adriatic Sea

We got up at 2.30 a.m. and trundled down unlighted streets to the station.	Our plane was a Airbus A319: we landed at Bari and drove on the autostrada past olive groves and vines.	We had lunch of baguettes and juice at a Sarni petrol station.	Ferula communis
We spent the first afternoon above San Nicandro Garganica and Lago Lesina. The GPS was intermittent
Crepis rubra	Tordylium apulum	Tordylium apulum seed pods	Orchis papilionacea
Aristolochia clusii / longa	Italian wall lizard	Asphodelus microcarpus	Anemone hortensis
Paeonia peregrina	Grasshopper	Muscari comosum	Trifolium stellatum seed head
Ophrys fuciflora	Orchis italica	Hillside	Crataegus monogyna
Anacamptis pyramidalis	Orchis papilionacea	Italian wall lizard	Possibly members of the pyrrhocoridae the fire bugs
Ophrys tenthredinifera	Paul amongst the asphodels	Triticum vagans (the ancestor of wheat)	Possibly members of the pyrrhocoridae the fire bugs
Asphodelus microcarpus	Spartium junceum	Another colour variant of Orchis papilionacea - butterfly orchid	Paeonia peregrina
Paeonia peregrina	Micro moth	Mullein caterpillar on verbascum phoeniceum	Countryside with euphorbias
Habitat with Walter	Paeonia peregrina	We settled in to the Hotel Tramonto which was alongside a tramway which ran parallel to the beach. We had a traditional Italian meal at 20.00 and fell into bed early after a 19 hour day. There was no hot water and we were cold in bed. The next day we were given a couple of blankets, but the water never rose above lukewarm until 18.30 when it was just warm enough for a shower. The hotel was geared up for hot weather and we were visiting too early in the year.