Location of the Kalavrita Massacre Memorial

Helen and I  went for a walk around Kalavrita before breakfast accompanied by a feral dog who remained outside the hotel door when told. Most of the town seemed prosperous with very few derelict houses

Road pattern to show where the trams once were

A modern shop

An older building

Main street

The Railway Station. The railway is an "Abt System", cogged railway in sections, because of the steepness built by Italians in 1890s

The Platform. It may be busy during the skiing season.

Station Buffet Patio in low dawn sunlight

A hero of the struggle for independence  from the Turks

Main Church in the square

They eat a lot of cheese here!

Road Points

War Memorial

Gift shop

Main street

Purple pots

Shut for good

He showed us round

Long Horn Beetles fighting

For the dogs?

No phone left in here

A "Bus station" (we saw no buses)

The taverna where we took our evening meals.

A Holly Thicket with water trough where butterflies drink nearby

Hawkweed

Great Banded Grayling?

European Locus, poecilimon thessalicus

Wood Brown?

Field Cricket

Chicory

Silver Washed Fritillary

Lattice Brown

Dragonfly

Hop Tree

Judas Tree by the Monastery 

Pods of Cercis siliquastrum

Roadside Hollyhocks

Potentilla

Small Tortoiseshell

Short toed Eagle (the dot)

Linum

Hawkweed

Amanda Blue

Crepis Rubra

Pyramid Orchid

 

Daphne Oleoides

Mullein Bugs

Blues courting

Anchusa

Dingy Skipper

Dianthus Armeria

Snow in Summer

Blue

Painted lady

Green Clouded yellow?

Holly Blue

Gladiolus

Long view Mount Chelmos

Adonis Blue

Moth

Typical rocky ground

Moth

Silver studded Blue

Idas Blue?

Robert stalks a butterfly

Birds foot trefoil

Centauria

Fungus

Pansy

Campanula

Trifolium Fragiferum

Centauria raphanina

Dianthus vicidus

Hypericum Olympicum

Acantholimon ulicinium Feed plant of the Odd Spot Blue

Campanula

Daisies

Seven spot Burnet

Dianthus

Star of Jerusalem, Ornithogalum

Acantholimon echinus

Acantholimon echinus

Odd Spot Blue which feeds on the acantholimon echinus

Horehound

Centauria

Hypericum

Transparent Burnet takes off

Umbilicus

Stipa growing in cracks

Clouded Yellow

Sedum

Goats

Clouded Yellow always closes its wings on landing. This photo reflects my slow reaction as it takes off

Map

The far side of the mountain

View along the range

High level grazing on Chelmos

Hotel Breakfast floor

Our Taverna

Inside, tungsten lighting

Looking out from the taverna

Haircut at 10pm