We were up
at 3 for the taxi at 4 and reached Heathrow at 4:30 for the check-in at
5. Best timing ever. We boarded at 6:15 for a take off at 7 and landed on schedule at
12:20. We were on the minibus by 13:30, due to delays at Hertz, for the
trip to Kalavrita |
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Heathrow Terminal Five |
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Bag Drops
etc |
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|
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Had she waited
all night? |
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Our Plane
at Heathrow |
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The Olympic Rings at Athens
Airport near where we waited for our mini bus to be found |
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We drove
along the coast of the Gulf of Corinth to Kalavrita passing the Corinth Canal. |
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A house skeleton, one of
many unfinished houses around the countryside |
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Just
before we turned off the E65 inland along twisting roads to Kalavrita,
758m, in the mountains |
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Helen snaps
our hotel room |
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Left out
of the hotel window |
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Right out
of the hotel window |
The Town Square early on the 22nd, a mini church in the foreground |
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A Hero Priest |
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Filoxenia
Hotel, Kalavrita |
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Mount
Chelmos on satellite 2355m |
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First day, Phil took
us on a 7am walk south of Kalavrita but there was not much about, was
it too
cold? |
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Verbascum |
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A neglected
house on the walk south |
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Mallow |
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Early
morning, rough pasture and a wild cherry tree |
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The River
Vordais south of Kalavrita |
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A Black Beetle |
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Beautiful demoiselle |
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White Featherleg on the
rusty iron bridge |
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Beautiful demoiselle |
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Caterpillar |
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Wild Hollyhock |
An untidy Small Holding |
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Verbascum |
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Ready for the off, by minibus, from
outside our
hotel |
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Some of all the
696 males in the town who were executed as a reprisal by the occupying
Germans in 1943 |
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Meadow
Brown |
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War
Memorial to the Kalavrita Massacre |
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Some of
the graves |
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Common
Blue |
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Sedum |
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A Caterpillar |
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Female Blue |
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Southern Small White |
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Overlooking Kalavrita
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Common
Carpet moth? |
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Black veined white |
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Balkan Marbled White |
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Balkan marbled White |
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Wavy Barred Sable |
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Campanula Andrewsii |
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Red Helleborine |
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Rock Roses |
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Beehives were everywhere, honey for sale
is a major industry |
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Chicory and Hawkweeds |
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Pyramid Orchid |
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Large Centipede |
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Crepis Rubra |
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Bee fly: Anthrax anthrax |
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Wasp nest |
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Shield bug |
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Onosma |
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Purple Carpenter Bee |
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Hornet fly |
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Poppy |
We had intended to look high
up on Mount Chelmos but as it was relatively cold with low cloud we stayed lower
down. |
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Grecian Copper |
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Cricket |
C
Consolida hispanica ajacis |
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Iolas Blue |
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Mating common Blues |
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Rose Chafer |
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Ilex Hairstreak |
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The Vouraikos River, not the Styx
which is nearby! |
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Southern Small White |
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Small Skipper |
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Scotch? Burnet |
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Broad Bordered White Underwing |
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Morina Persica |
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Lathyrus Grandiflora |
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Lunch Stop at Souvardhos
village |
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Phil prepares picnic lunch, Brian
and Beth wait |
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Did they walk off barefoot? |
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A small farmhouse |
v
Adonis Blue |
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Seeds |
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Looking over the trees |
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The goats keep the scrub
down |
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White letter Hairstreak |
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Rose banded Wave Moth |
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Campanula Andrewsii |
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Convolvulus Althaeiodes |
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Balkan Clouded Yellow |
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Small Skipper |
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Phyllomorpha lacerata (a
Shield Bug) |
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Black and Orange Spider |
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Potter Wasp Nests |
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Potter Wasp or its parasite |
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Large Tortoiseshell
|
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Wall Lizard peeps out |
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Silky Wave Moth? |
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Slope yellow with flowers |