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Saturday 27th April
The pins represent locations over the whole holiday click on the map to enlarge it
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We walked into Monte Saint'Angelo and took some pictures though there was very little light so early in the morning. Buffet breakfast with croissants filled with chocolate or apricot and muesli plus all the usual things. We spent the day on the road to Pulsano stopping to view the hillsides |
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 Salvia argentea |
 Orchis bertolonii |
 Forester moth |
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 Forester moth |
 Ophrys tenthredinifera |
Very attractive buds, the flowers will probably be a disappointment |
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 Ophrys bertolonii |
 Blue |
 Euphorbia spinosa |
 Forester moth again, what a beauty! |
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 Meadow brown |
 Swallowtails pity about the grass intrusions |
 Onobrychis saxatilis |
 Three-toed skink |
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 Swallowtail as fighter plane |
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 Swallowtail through the grasses |
 You looking at me...
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 Female common blue |
 Buthus occitanicus the scorpion |
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 Ophrys tenthredinifera |
 Particularly lovely butterfly orchid |
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 Ophrys bertolonii |
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 Anthyllis vulneraria |
 Swallowtail |
 Orchis papilionacea |
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 Blues mating |
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 Euphorbia with red seeds |
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 Crab spider on an orchis italica |
 Orchis |
 Orchis lactea |
 Orchis lactea |
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 Ophrys tenthredinifera |
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 Aceras anthropophorum |
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 Orchis italica and Mylabris Polymorpha |
 Orchid growing in the rock |
 It rained and some of us improvised headgear |
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 Hybrid orchid |
 Orchid garden |
 Ophrys sicula |
 Orchis quadripunctata |
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 Aethionema saxatile
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 Open gate |
 A flimsy gate |
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 Silene conica |
 Crepis rubra |
 Ophrys sphegodes |
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 Helianthemum nummularium |
 Orchis lactea |
 Green underside blue |
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 Forrester moth on an Orchis Morio |
 Orchis bertolonii |
 Orchis italica |
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 Meadow brown |
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 It poured so we had lunch in the minivan |
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 Euphorbia characias |
 Orchis Ustulata |
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 Abbazia di Santa Maria di Pulsano sul Gargano |
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 Ecballium elatrrium - squirting cucumber |
 Fumaria densiflora |
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 Abbazia di Santa Maria di Pulsano sul Gargano |
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 Cymbalaria muralis |
 Sedum |
 Hyocyamus albus |
 Possibly a model |
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| We visited the Abbazia di Santa Maria di Pulsano sul Gargano |
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 The judas tree was charming even taken with raindrops on the lens.
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We went back to the hotel early as it was so wet and some of us had aches and pains to rest and pictures to chimp after we had enjoyed large rich coffees in the bar area.
Richard and Paul walked the gorge |
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