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Viola

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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #75 on: January 06, 2011, 03:00:37 PM »
My friend is 2 m tall Maggi
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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #76 on: January 06, 2011, 03:05:04 PM »
Quote from: Viola on January 06, 2011, 03:00:37 PM
My friend is 2 m tall Maggi
;) ;D Thank goodness for that!  :D



 I must say this looks like a very good holiday.... you are all having a pleasant time together and the flowers are so pretty... and now we are all enjoying the same flowers from your photos.... a real pleasure!
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Viola

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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #77 on: January 06, 2011, 04:05:23 PM »
We drive to Githio and by the inner Mani today.

Githio
Octopus
Spurge Hawk moth Caterpillar
Testudo marginata
Pyrus spinosa
Crocus goulimyi
 
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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #78 on: January 06, 2011, 04:08:42 PM »
 I am pleased Maggi, that you like the pictures.
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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #79 on: January 06, 2011, 04:16:03 PM »

Photos of the return journey of Gitio.

Mani
Vespa crabro
Sternbergia lutea
Crocus goulimyi 2x
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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #80 on: January 06, 2011, 05:04:19 PM »
Karl really enjoyable trip thanks for showing the pictures. You saw some good plants.
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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #81 on: January 06, 2011, 07:39:17 PM »
Day 8.)
My wife has forgotten her passport in Olympia and therefore we return there and drive on to the Mt
Chelmos to Kalavrita again.

Colchicum bivonae
Colchicum psaridis
Galanthus reginae-olgae
Sternbergia sicula
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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #82 on: January 07, 2011, 08:18:28 AM »
On December 13th, 1943, Kalavrita was shooting more than 600 male inhabitants over 13 years above after the Greek partisans had shot 60 German soldiers before.  All houses were then burned down. Rack-railroad in the Voucosravine.
The Diakofto Kalavryta Railway is a historic 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) gauge rack railway in Greece on the Peloponnesos at the Gulf of Corinth 50 km from Patras and 150 km from Athens vis-à-vis Delphi. It runs 22 km from Diakofto through the Vouraikos Gorge and the old "Mega Spileon" Monastery and up to Kalavryta, stopping on route at Zachlorou. 
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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #83 on: January 07, 2011, 08:25:54 AM »
The Mt Chelmos 2338 m is a ski area and destroys very much through pistes. We hardly found blossoming plants in this height.
Climbed here plants still hardly were us in store for the Mt Saitoss anyway, too. We then drove direction Athens. I hereby would like mine travel decide.

Karl

We thought of Crocus cancellatus ssp.mazziaricus.
For Crocus niveus he is much too small.
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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #84 on: January 07, 2011, 09:47:32 AM »
Thank you Karl for those nice pics !

it brings back a lot of nice memories on our trip in this area in fall 2000 .
We used also this railway from Diakofto - to Mega Spileon ....from there we walked back to Diakofto -it was a really interesting trip

Greetings from germany
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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #85 on: January 07, 2011, 11:21:01 AM »
Thank you Hans, it was really a beautiful journey. An until two weeks late one still more ideally lasts.
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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #86 on: January 07, 2011, 11:59:22 AM »
Enjoyed your journey Karl, thanks for posting.
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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #87 on: January 07, 2011, 09:57:59 PM »
Wonderful report Karl !
You definitely hit the right timing to see this magnificent flora !
Thanks a lot for taking us along on your journey !  ;)
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Re: Peloponnese in autumn 2010
« Reply #88 on: January 08, 2011, 05:22:46 AM »
I am pleased that you have liked the pictures. Only ewin is always a small part of the experienced.
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