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AGS Greece 2006

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Andrew:
Thank you.

That may seem a funny way to start a thread but its for all the comments on the old forum.

I'll repost the pictures from the old forum (I did not get very far before the problem) so they are all in one place and then continue with the new.

Andrew:
You cannot see Greece without the history, so the first stop was Delpi and this was the transport from the hotel to the site.

After a few steps, this was the view,

and not too far away was my first bulb,

Sternbergia lutea.
At the top of the site is the stadium.

About two-thirds of the way down is the VIP seat, so I had a wander and when I got there noticed this,

all over the ground,

Colchicum cupanii.
The view from the top.

A little drive and we were in the Mount Parnassos area,

what the above photo does not show is the amount of houses that have been built on the plain.
Then my first crocus, :) :)

Crocus cancellatus mazziaricus looking a bit white.

Then a bluer looking one, same crocus with and without sun.

Andrew:
A few more C. cancellatus,

a dark one and a marked one.

You cannot be on Parnassos without seeing this (when in flower!).

Crocus hadriaticus parnassicus.
I did have a shot of the houses,

all built in the National Park. :(
On the way up to the summit are the forests of Greek Fir,

with Cyclamen hederifolium,

and a couple of Colchicums,

with no leaves, which made diagnosis very hard, possibly lingulatum and/or parlotoris.
In the sun,

a lizard and at the summit.

Andrew:
An insect,

a beetle,

and back in the hotel a moth.

Today we were looking for a particular Crocus, but found this,

Tony, Thomas ?

Just after taking the pictures, there was a massive explosion,

the locals were quarrying !!

But we did find C. niveus.

A view of the area

and past a reservor to the next site.

Paddy Tobin:
Andrew,

Loved the photographs; just fabulous. Many thanks.

Paddy

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