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DAY5: 25 June, Kalavrita to Delphi and Mount Parnassus
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We packed up for the drive to the North of the Gulf of Corinth and Delphi. Then took a short last visit to the "bramble patch" before setting off from the hotel |
On the way we partly followed a good EU funded motorways with periodic tolls of E2.80. Crossing the Rion Antiron Bridge with a coffee and diesel stop on the far side. Then drove on for a mainly seafood lunch at Galaxidi after seeing Freyer's Grayling in the woodland there |
Acanthus spinosum |
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A field of Hollyhocks |
Marbled White |
Dragonfly |
Poppies |
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Empty Developments on the Livahdi Plain, left disserted by the financial crash |
Grecian Copper |
Fritillary |
Poppy |
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The 3Km long Rion-Antiron Bridge across the Gulf of Corinth, this photo taken from our coffee stop |
A picture from the Internet |
Grecian Copper |
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Prickly Pear, an import! |
Freyer's Grayling |
Marbled Skipper |
Pine woods at Galaxidi |
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Mountain Small White |
Spiders mating or eating each other |
Fritillary |
Heliotrope |
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The Quay at Galaxidi |
Panorama of Galaxidi |
Sea Front |
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 Scarce Swallowtail |
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 The Group eat a seafood lunch |
 Our Cafe |
 Looking down at the Site of the Delphic Oracle etc |
 The Archaeological site |
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 Restoration work |
 Cicada |
 A Nonchalant Tourist |
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This "omphalos" was the first
object of veneration, it had fallen from the sky. In my opinion it is
the nose cone of an alien space ship.
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 Detailed stonework |
 The Sacred Spring |
 The Theatre |
 Jigsaw puzzle wall |
 Temple of Apollo envisaged |
 The running track or stadium where the the Panhellenic Pythian Games were held |
 Pomegranate |
 The Sacred Spring now fully controlled |
 Water way |
 A Leaf Blower |
 Temple of Apollo base |
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 The Theatre
One of the Inhabitants |
 The wall above the sacred spring was inhabited by Rock Nut Hatches |
 Roman graves below the main site |
 Balkan Marbled White |
 Lacewing, Nemoptera bipennis |
 Looking for the Grass Jewel which Brian spotted |
 Purple Carpenter Bee |
 Capparis Spinosa |
 We examine a cattle trough |
 Grass Jewel (very small) |
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 Grass Jewel |
 Meadow Brown |
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 Euphorbia |
 White Letter Hairstreak |
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 Small Copper |
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 Small Copper does battle |
 Candelabra Verbascum |
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 Delphinium |
 Moth |
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 Wild Onion |
 Seven Spot Burnet |
 Skipper |
 Fungus |
 Euphorbia |
 Brown backed fern |
 Skipper |
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 White |
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 Looking back at Kalavrita
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 Red Trefoil |
 Skipper |
 Blue Argus |
 Spotted Fritillary |
 Spotted Fritillary |
 A Mountain "Farm". |
 Fedriades Hotel Delfi |
 An old house opposite the hotel. Helen and I walked round the town before dinner |
 Three levels |
 the best one at the top |
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 Down the steps |
 A four storey house |
 Old house for sale |
 Modern Decor |
Cafe |
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 Various roadside Oleanders |
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 Pomegranate |
 Feral cats raid the bins |
 Hermann's Tortoise |
 Modern Houses |
 An Old Terrace |
 Old Style Greek House |
 A Steep Road |
 View out to the Gulf |
 Fire Hydrant |
