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