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the far end, looking along the ‘Grand Canyon’ towards the craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18nisyros063w0115.jpg18Nisyros063w0115https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18nisyros062w0114.jpg18Nisyros062w0114https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18nisyros061w0112.jpg18Nisyros061w0112https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18nisyros060w0111.jpg18Nisyros060w0111https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18nisyros059w0109.jpg18Nisyros059w0109https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18nisyros058w0105.jpg18Nisyros058w0105Looking along the length of the larger of the two Polyvotis craters.  Note especially the narrow cleft centre right in the far distancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18nisyros057w0100.jpg18Nisyros057w0100The narrow ridge between the two Polyvotis craters, colour added to the basic barren white by red and yellow sulphur deposits.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18nisyros056w0099.jpg18Nisyros056w0099The colourful flank of the Alexandros craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18nisyros055w0097.jpg18Nisyros055w0097…..and on the crocodile of people on the path down2018-10-31T21:50:34+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/10/28/remembering-the-brightness/2018-10-31T20:55:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/09/20/nisyros-back-to-the-fun/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/18nisyros042wdsc0224.jpg18Nisyros042wDSC0224Looking up from the hochlakos mosaic to the church tower.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/18nisyros041w0065.jpg18Nisyros041w0065Marble base of a c olumn brought to the island from elsewhere, now helping to prop up an earth bank alongside the kalderimihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/18nisyros040w0064.jpg18Nisyros040w0064Ancient olive press re-used in stone wall of a 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rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/18nisyros034w0052.jpg18Nisyros034w0052The branch of a dead tree follows the line of the mountain tops of Nikia and beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/18nisyros033w0048.jpg18Nisyros033w0048Looking back along the path to Nikia perched at a high point on the caldera rim2018-09-21T08:54:17+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/08/21/from-symi-to-my-back-garden/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/18home08w0021.jpg18Home08w0021Close up of the nest, still with three eggs in it.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/18home07w0024.jpg18Home07w0024… which emerged in a small fork when they had been clearedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/18home06w0023.jpg18Home06w0023Dense dead leaves covering the trunk and the nesthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/18home05w0018.jpg18Home05w0018The only coin I had to hand to show the size was a euro.  Note the blue tail-spur which differentiates it from other hawk-mothshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/18home05bw0018.jpg18Home05Bw0018Zooming in on the head showing the yellow shield-shaped markinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/18home04w0014.jpg18Home04w0014Zooming in on one end shows the brilliance of the colourshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/18home03w0013.jpg18Home03w0013https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/18home02w0010.jpg18Home02w0010The fainter double outside ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/18home01w0011.jpg18Home01w0011The extent of the bow2018-09-01T14:47:15+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/07/18/greece-symi-and-now-for-something-a-little-different/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/18symi050wdsc0188jpg.jpg18Symi050wDSC0188JPGThe central plain on the island probably has more flat, carefully farmed land than the whole of Symihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/18symi049wdsc0193.jpg18Symi049wDSC0193Looking along the wall facing the farm building below.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/18symi048wdsc0190.jpg18Symi048wDSC0190As in other ancient constructions on Symi, there seems to be one large, carefully cut block with a channel in ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/18symi047wdsc0191.jpg18Symi047wDSC0191This style of construction, with smaller stones and terracotta levelling out large blocks, is more common elsewhere than on Symihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/18symi046wdsc0198.jpg18Symi046wDSC0198Getting closer and the size of dressed stones as an outer defence become clear.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/18symi045wdsc0199.jpg18Symi045wDSC0199Looking up to the vestiges of the castle walls2018-07-22T18:27:35+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/06/13/greece-symi-the-smell-of-herbs-and-the-flood/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/front-cover.jpgFront Coverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/18symi044w2272.jpg18Symi044w2272Sage, curling leaves combat the heat and aridity and intensify the flavour.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/18symi043w2247.jpg18Symi043w2247In places the thyme is dense and close-packed, crowding the path.  Too risky to stop in such places because of the zillions of bees.  Here they are further apart.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/18symi042w2250.jpg18Symi042w2250…. with new growth sprouting on some plantshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/18symi041w2246.jpg18Symi041w2246Massed white flowers turned to seed heads2018-06-22T16:03:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/05/13/greece-nisyros-spring/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/18nisyros026w2142.jpg18Nisyros026w2142https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/18nisyros025w2140.jpg18Nisyros025w2140https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/18nisyros024w2136.jpg18Nisyros024w2136https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/18nisyros023w2133.jpg18Nisyros023w2133https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/18nisyros022w2111.jpg18Nisyros022w2111https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/18nisyros021w2101.jpg18Nisyros021w2101https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/18nisyros020w2096.jpg18Nisyros020w2096https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/18nisyros019w2092.jpg18Nisyros019w2092https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/18nisyros018w2064.jpg18Nisyros018w2064https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/18nisyros017w2061.jpg18Nisyros017w20612018-07-01T14:15:07+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/04/27/greece-symi-spring/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18symi040w1955.jpg18Symi040w1955https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18symi039w1951.jpg18Symi039w1951https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18symi037w1941.jpg18Symi037w1941https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18symi036w1940.jpg18Symi036w1940https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18symi035w1938.jpg18Symi035w1938https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18symi034w1930.jpg18Symi034w1930https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18symi033w1923.jpg18Symi033w1923https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18symi032w1927.jpg18Symi032w1927https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18symi031w1922.jpg18Symi031w1922https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18symi030w1918.jpg18Symi030w19182018-04-27T11:54:42+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/04/06/wales-brecon-beacons-national-park-spring-into-winter/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18torfaen31w1788.jpg18Torfaen31w1788https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18torfaen30w1785.jpg18Torfaen30w1785https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18torfaen29w1784.jpg18Torfaen29w1784https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18torfaen28w1780.jpg18Torfaen28w1780https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18torfaen27w1771.jpg18Torfaen27w1771https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18torfaen26w1768.jpg18Torfaen26w1768https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18torfaen25w1762.jpg18Torfaen25w1762https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18torfaen24w1760.jpg18Torfaen24w1760https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18torfaen23w1755.jpg18Torfaen23w1755https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/18torfaen22w1749.jpg18Torfaen22w17492018-04-06T16:05:23+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/03/23/greece-unpackaged-travels-in-a-foreign-language/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/front-cover.jpgFront Cover2018-06-03T17:18:08+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/03/07/pontypool-south-wales-the-beast-from-the-east-meets-storm-emma/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/18torfaen20w1727.jpg18Torfaen20w1727I take to the field again by climbing up the snow-filled hedge and dropping down the other side., When I eventually slide down the bank and look back up the path, the footprints are in 4 feet of snow.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/18torfaen19w1722.jpg18Torfaen19w1722Then the path is completely blocked again.  This time there is no choice, it’s the beginning of a ‘sunken-way’, a 5-foot earth bank with 5-foot hedge on top – all buried.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/18torfaen18w1724.jpg18Torfaen18w1724 …. and cave-like structures. https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/18torfaen17w1718.jpg18Torfaen17w1718Back on the path, drifts  form  canopieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/18torfaen16w1715.jpg18Torfaen16w1715… topped by weird sculptured shapes.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/18torfaen15w1712.jpg18Torfaen15w1712On the down-wind side, the snow in the field is shallow, the drifts on the left 8 feet high, in places completely burying the hedge.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/18torfaen14w1707.jpg18Torfaen14w1707I force a way through a drift into a field on the west side of the hedge-lined path, the drifts still being sculpted by the horizontal snow in the blizzard.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/18torfaen13w1708.jpg18Torfaen13w1708…. but not for long.  These hedges are over 6 feet high and the path between them is blocked completely.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/18torfaen11w1698.jpg18Torfaen11w1698Then relief, the drifts become shallower at one side of the path.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/18torfaen09w1691.jpg18Torfaen09w1691Heading back along the ridge path and the problem of negotiating the gate becomes obvious.2018-03-07T10:48:12+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/02/28/banff-canada-walking-on-water/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff45w1604.jpg18Banff45w1604….. and creates intricate shapes at the water’s edgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff44w1422.jpg18Banff44w1422Coming out of the forest and looking across the flat expanse of marshland towards the serrated ridge of Mount Rundle.  https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff43w1418.jpg18Banff43w1418By the time it reaches here, the hot water has cooled.  Now only a few degrees above zero it freezes on twigs and branches.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff42w1416.jpg18Banff42w1416….. on the downstream side of the bridge the open channel is narrower but still flowing.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff41w1420.jpg18Banff41w1420Walking back downriver on the Marsh Loop Trail, a footbridge crosses the always-flowing stream coming down from the hot spring at the Cave and Basin, the reason why Banff grew here.  Slightly ponded on the upstream side …..https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff40w1409.jpg18Banff40w1409Clear ice shaped into smooth curves as it froze swirling around a tree stump, acting like a prism and refracting the light into rainbow colours.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff37w1407.jpg18Banff37w1407Looking more closely at the frozen bubbleshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff36w1398.jpg18Banff36w1398Further on, eddying wind has blown snow off the smooth ice showing bubbles of gas frozen like white mushrooms as they try to unsuccessfully to reach the frozen surface, the effect split by a crack-line.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff21w1402.jpg18Banff21w1402…. until I come across fresh prints crossing the river.  Obviously a big cat as evidenced by the lack of claw marks, running cat-fashion back paws-to front paws, and very fresh with no sign of the fine powdery snow blown by the wind into the depressions. https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff20w1401.jpg18Banff20w1401Thankfully the size of the tracks indicated they were made by a lynx or bobcat and not the much larger and potentially much more dangerous cougar, seen in town only a few days earlier.2018-03-01T00:02:21+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/02/04/banff-canada-snow-art/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff34wdsc0362.jpg18Banff34wDSC0362https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff33wdsc0364.jpg18Banff33wDSC0364https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff32wdsc0366.jpg18Banff32wDSC0366https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff31w1502.jpg18Banff31w1502https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff30w1496.jpg18Banff30w1496https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff29w1493.jpg18Banff29w1493https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff28w1488.jpg18Banff28w1488https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff27w1487.jpg18Banff27w1487https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff26w1438.jpg18Banff26w1438https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18banff25w1434.jpg18Banff25w14342018-02-05T00:11:24+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/01/21/banff-canada-the-hoodoos-trail/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff19w1379.jpg18Banff19w1379https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff18w1365.jpg18Banff18w1365A view of some of the pinnacles of rock which are the Hoodoos.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff17w1354.jpg18Banff17w1354Dry summer grasses survive deep snow and strong windshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff16w1353.jpg18Banff16w1353Parks Canada has put pairs of red chairs at key viewpoints throughout the Banff National Park.  These are where the Hoodoos Trail reaches the road and a car park, others are more inaccessible.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff15w1346.jpg18Banff15w1346Rising up a short cliff, the view shows the sweep of clear ice delineating  the main flow-channel of the river.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff14w1344.jpg18Banff14w1344A lone deciduous tree stands starkly pale against the ubiquitous lodgepole pine.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff13w1341.jpg18Banff13w1341Looking across the snow covered frozen river to Mount Rundle, mid-morning sun just peeking over the side.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff12w1336.jpg18Banff12w1336The trail narrows, deep snow to the right, short crags rising to the left, potential cougar ambush site.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff11w1335.jpg18Banff11w1335The Bow River forks, the outside bend slower flowing towards the foot of the 1,690 metre (5,544 ft) Tunnel Mountain, frozen solid showing tracks where it was crossed by a herd of elk.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff10w1332.jpg18Banff10w1332 ….. and on the snow sculpted by wind across the three-dimensional ice2018-01-21T17:45:10+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2018/01/14/banff-canada-sunshine-coast/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff07w1327.jpg18Banff07w1327For us intermediates on Sunshine Coast there is the steady glide down the ‘cat-track’ to the lift base and back up for another run.  Build up enough speed on the steep section and no need to ‘pole’.  Used to take me 20 minutes per lift/ski cycle, now 15 minutes and knackered legs … and shoulders when you stop to take photos.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff06w1323.jpg18Banff06w1323Looking back up towards the top of Goat’s Eyehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff05w1319.jpg18Banff05w1319…. and across to Eagle Mountain outside the ski boundary limit.  The only slightly less intimidating ridge to the right is a ‘Freeride Zone’ subject to special restrictions where only 'experts' ( a step up on Advanced') drop of the cliffed edge into Delirium Dive.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff04w1317.jpg18Banff04w1317Maintain momentum to get to the top of the fun bit on Sunshine Coast but ‘snow good, can’t help stopping to take in the beauty.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff03w1313.jpg18Banff03w1313Pausing to look at what is just off the side of the run.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff02w1309.jpg18Banff02w1309At the beginning of the long, easy run down from the top of Goat’s Eye, myriad other high peaks in view.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18banff01w1303.jpg18Banff01w1303Self-portrait on the level section at the top of the ‘steep’ drop on Banff Avenue, the easy ‘Green’ run introduction to a new season’s skiing, newly groomed fresh snow creating a corduroy surface.  Fabulous!2018-01-16T10:59:01+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/12/31/happy-new-year/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2018-new-year-w1.jpg2018 New Year w2018-01-31T23:48:45+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/12/24/happy-christmas/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2018-new-year-w.jpg2018 New Year whttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-christmas-w.jpg2017 Christmas w2017-12-29T06:15:45+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/11/08/nisyros-beach-art/2018-04-11T13:28:14+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/10/28/the-sunshine-has-gone/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17garnwen02w11801.jpg17GarnWen02w1180....but today that's not the focushttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17garnwen01w1181.jpg17GarnWen01w1181Pale crepuscular rays filter down through thick cloud driven by strong winds2017-10-29T11:30:02+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/10/16/nisyros-castles-in-the-air/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17nisyros052w1132.jpg17Nisyros052w1132Guarding the site, a huge lava dragon, Emborios in the backgroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17nisyros051w1134.jpg17Nisyros051w1134…….. and a bowl carved out of lava.  I found part of a similar bowl in a limestone-built fortification on Symihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17nisyros050w1144.jpg17Nisyros050w1144Establishing beyond doubt the fact that this was an occupied site, the remains of what may be an old altarhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17nisyros049w1140.jpg17Nisyros049w1140Remains of dressed stone wall on one of the platforms at the top of the fortresshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17nisyros048w1137.jpg17Nisyros048w1137Remains of one of the short sections of wall, not built to retain soil in a terraced field but for defensive purposes  https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17nisyros047w1123.jpg17Nisyros047w1123Old dwelling built under a large overhanging lava slab just below the highest pointhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17nisyros046w1113.jpg17Nisyros046w1113The top of the fortification is reached by climbing the rocks and wallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17nisyros045w1110.jpg17Nisyros045w1110Approaching Parletia on the path from Nikia, short sections of stone walls on the flankhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17nisyros053w0540.jpg17Nisyros053w0540Looking from the floor of the caldera up to the volcanic plug which is Parletiahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17nisyros003w0069.jpg17Nisyros003w0069Enetikon, the Crusader castle set on a rocky crag dominating the main town, Mandraki, now partly occupied by the white-painted monastery.2017-11-02T21:39:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/09/09/symi-castles-in-the-air/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/17symi058bw0890.jpg17Symi058bw0890And running to meet it, another culminating in a large jumble of rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/17symi057bw0888.jpg17Symi057bw0888The thin red line shows the single course of large-cut blocks above current ground levelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/17symi054w0372.jpg17Symi054w0372The threshing circle inside the fortification seems unusually well built.  Most are just a circle of narrow stones set on edge.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/17symi053w0368.jpg17Symi053w0368Getting closer shows the lower courses of stone are well-cut but above that the stone is random.  A few but not many large cut-blocks lie nearby.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/17symi052w0364.jpg17Symi052w0364Looking across to the fortification from the track.  Stone walls below it may have served the dual purpose of providing agricultural terraces and slowing down attack.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/17symi051w0356.jpg17Symi051w0356Random-stone walls on top of the cliff behind the church of Archangelos Michail Kokkimidis2019-04-01T15:38:21+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/08/03/nisyros-scratching-the-surface/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17nisyros028w0679.jpg17Nisyros028w0679Selfie.  Reflection in the water at the bottom of a sternahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17nisyros024w0103.jpg17Nisyros024w0103In July the spectacular flowers of capers are much in evidencehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17nisyros004w0511.jpg17Nisyros004w0511In the middle of summer the sun sets into the western end of Koshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17nisyros017w0098.jpg17Nisyros017w0098A grass snake (Natrix natrix persa) at the bottom of a dry sterna, next to the shadow of my head.  The following day another, about 2 feet long, shot between my sandalled feet as I walked up a narrow rocky path below Emborios.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17nisyros007w0089.jpg17Nisyros007w0089Scarce Swallowtails (Iphiclides podalirius) flit everywhere, occasionally settling long enough to photographhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17nisyros006w0521.jpg17Nisyros006w0521At the side of an ancient sunken pathway between terraced walls, an ancient oak has grown around a boulder next to a stepped entrance to a building and enclosure with a piece of imported dressed stone incorporated into the wall.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17nisyros037w0748.jpg17Nisyros037w0748One of the many small settlements on the caldera rim below Nikia, remains of a windmill abovehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17nisyros016w0594.jpg17Nisyros016w0594Looking back at one of the two caldera leading from Siones, traversed by a now tortuous but once walled and paved footpathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17nisyros015w0580.jpg17Nisyros015w0580Part of the fresco-covered interior of the church at Siones https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17nisyros005w0075.jpg17Nisyros005w0075Terracotta storage containers in one of the caves below the Armas compound2018-02-11T20:50:27+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/07/06/symi-spring-and-early-summer-landscapes/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/17symi030w0287.jpg17Symi030w0287Looking across the Nimborio Bay from the cool of the Agios Giorgos Drakounda monastery in its West side, another monastery nestled at the tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/17symi029w0275.jpg17Symi029w0275Reaching the monastery after a long, hot pullhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/17symi027w0270.jpg17Symi027w0270 …. and then a peaceful swim back down at base.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/17symi050w0335.jpg17Symi050w0335I prefer to use markers with a stone standing on edge – that makes it clear that it hasn’t happened by accident and is easy to spot.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/17symi041w0317.jpg17Symi041w0317A drop down to Pedi for a swim and then gentle amble back up the valley footpath with rapidly ripened cereal in tiny fields hand-reaped ready for collection.  After the Alpha-male cockerel has had his fill.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/17symi037w0300a.jpg17Symi037w0300aHaving passed this way many times I hadn’t previously spotted this water hole, collecting rainwater run-off and presumably with a short lifespan unlike the pond hundreds of feet below at Gria.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/17symi034w0298a.jpg17Symi034w0298aRight on the ridge-top, a still well-formed threshing circle.  Nothing to thresh now!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/17symi055w0380.jpg17Symi055w0380Elsewhere ponds are surrounded by Spring growth.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/17symi025w0249.jpg17Symi025w0249The pond at the deserted village of Gria is remarkable because it is usually completely surrounded by barren rock and parched soilhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/17symi046w0322.jpg17Symi046w0322No sign of the deserted village on the mountain, just rocky crags2017-07-06T19:57:51+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/06/08/symi-a-bit-of-colour/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/17symi049w0002.jpg17Symi049w0002In a monastery garden on a mountain top, backlit by the sun, blown wildly in strong windshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/17symi048w0329.jpg17Symi048w0329.... or is dominant in a field of mixed flowershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/17symi024w0245.jpg17Symi024w0245A single poppy grabs the attention in a sea of green barleyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/17symi043w0320.jpg17Symi043w0320Huge areas are covered in oregano, in full flower in Mayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/17symi032w0295a.jpg17Symi032w0295aAnother favourite, if only because of its dramatic size and deep purple spathe and spadix, is the dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris).  Shame it smells like rotting flesh.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/17symi028w0274.jpg17Symi028w0274Normally different mountainsides are covered in one of three herbs – oregano, sage or thyme.  Rarely do they occur together but here oregano and thyme are not only together but in flower at the same time.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/17symi019w0254.jpg17Symi019w0254Considerably smaller, the poppy is eye catching and this year flowers seemed to continue to open later than usual.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/17symi040w0319.jpg17Symi040w0319One of the hundreds of allium (garlic, onions) species, this one I think is Allium ampeloprasum or elephant garlichttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/17symi036w0306.jpg17Symi036w0306They also attract butterflies though they seem to prefer the tiny cornflowers on the end of long nodding stalks.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/17symi031w0293.jpg17Symi031w0293On a similarly Biblical theme and found nearby, Star of Bethlehem (species Ornithogalum, though I don’t know which) looks very different, striking in its simplicity2017-06-12T16:34:33+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/05/07/symi-its-good-to-be-back/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/17symi013w0224.jpg17Symi013w0224Snails gather in high rise tenement blocks before they disappear in the summer heat.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/17symi012w0216.jpg17Symi012w0216But they manage to look very statuesquehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/17symi010w0236.jpg17Symi010w0236Thistles, better able to withstand the blistering heat of summer, are starting to come into flowerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/17symi008w0214.jpg17Symi008w0214Probably the most dramatic are the great spathes of the Dragon Arum.  Shame they smell like rotting flesh.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/17symi009w0239.jpg17Symi009w0239At this height there are not many daisies but a few are still in flower, these known by many names including ‘edible chrysanthemum’https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/17symi007w0206.jpg17Symi007w0206A few eye-catching splashes of colour as poppies survive though most are now looking a little worse for wearhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/17symi006w0203.jpg17Symi006w0203… while convolvulus creeps everywherehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/17symi005w0055.jpg17Symi005w0055In places a few dog roses are still in flowerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/17symi004w0050.jpg17Symi004w0050… opening their wings if the wind isn’t too stronghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/17symi003w0047.jpg17Symi003w0047Butterflies take advantage as the oregano comes into flower2017-05-09T08:07:49+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/03/26/symi-greece-looking-back-and-looking-forward/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/16symi080w0978.jpg16Symi080w0978In October 2016, my last day on Symi, I visited the ‘permanent’ pond at the deserted village of Gria .... only to find for the first time since I went there originally in the year 2000 that it was completely dry.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/16symi031w2233.jpg16Symi031w2233Dressed marble in the middle of it shows a degree of sophistication prior to its constructionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/16symi027w9198.jpg16Symi027w9198 Initially identified from satellite imagery and then located on the ground, one of the fortified structures way off the beaten path. I hope to map this and other similar fortifications.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/15symi133w0885.jpg15Symi133w0885Dramatic seed-heads 3-4 inches in diameter.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/15symi131w0865.jpg15Symi131w0865Many times taller than the orchids are the wild hollyhockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/15symi128w0749.jpg15Symi128w0749Colourful in early May, in just a couple of week’s time this will be crisped and brownhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/15symi126w0742.jpg15Symi126w0742Oertzeni lizards (Lacerta oeertzeni) locked in a passionate embracehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/15symi125w0740.jpg15Symi125w0740Scarce Swallowtail  (Iphiclides podalirius) draws nectar from a lone cornflower swaying on a long stemhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/15symi124w0772.jpg15Symi124w0772Hidden among twigs, a mantis is generally only spotted if it moves.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/15symi121w0760.jpg15Symi121w0760Much of the landscape on Symi is limestone, this a small artistic cairn marking a path through it2017-03-26T19:23:50+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/02/26/banff-canada-after-the-fire/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16banff12w0095.jpg16banff12w0095.... which also lights up ice crystals inside the double glazinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16banff10w0089.jpg16banff10w0089Back at the hotel and cloud behind Mount Rundle is set on fire by the setting sunhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16banff09w0056.jpg16banff09w0056The new interpretation centre and restaurants seen from Sanson’s Peakhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16banff08w0060.jpg16banff08w0060Some of nearby peaks are dramatically craggyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16banff07w0037.jpg16banff07w0037Looking along the boardwalk to the old weather observatory on Sanson’s Peakhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16banff06w0046.jpg16banff06w0046Deep snow at the top of Sulphur Mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16banff05w0035.jpg16banff05w0035Looking down the frozen river to Mount Rundle from the Town Bridge over the Bowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16banff04w0029.jpg16banff04w0029At the top of the other Banff Avenue, an easy groomed run at Sunshine Village.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16banff03w0016.jpg16banff03w0016The burnt-out top floor of the hotel from Banff Avenue,  blue sky showing through the smoke and water stained windows.  My room is on the left.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16banff02w0006.jpg16banff02w0006Looking along the length of ‘Downtown’ Banff Avenue from my new room in the sister hotel.  That’s not smoke but air venting into intense cold even in the mid-afternoon sunshine. The road covered in compacted snow from frequent fresh falls.2017-02-26T18:12:30+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2017/01/09/banff-canada-and-then-the-hotel-burnt-down/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/img_0014.jpgimg_0014... and that was my room, blus sky showing through the smoke and water smeared windowshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/img_0013.jpgimg_0013Part of the front of the hotel after the fire2017-01-09T23:10:56+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/12/26/banff-canada-a-rocky-white-christmas/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/16canadanewyear1054.jpg16canadanewyear1054https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/16canadachristmas1054.jpg16canadachristmas10542016-12-26T00:49:53+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/11/30/symi-focus-and-losing-it/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/16symi077w9194.jpg16symi077w9194The onward route from the olive press is more trodden and therefore much clearerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/16symi076w9193.jpg16symi076w9193Reaching the large stone slab of the ancient olive presshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/16symi075w9192.jpg16symi075w9192Follow the wall around to the right.  Note: there is a way to this point by following the road, shown coming in from the left.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/16symi074w9189.jpg16symi074w9189The next target to aim for is the gap in the fence way below (indicated).  Initially the mule track goes off to the left and is clear but soon deteriorates.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/16symi068w91821.jpg16symi068w9182Aiming for the wall in the distance marked by a triangle, at first the remains of the old track are fairly obvious https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/16symi073w9188.jpg16symi073w9188.... confirmed by paint spots as the edge of the drop is approached.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/16symi072w9187.jpg16symi072w9187Reaching the wall the onward path is once again clear from trodden groundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/16symi069w9183.jpg16symi069w9183.... but soon there is no alternative to reading the groundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/16symi067w9181.jpg16symi067w9181The path follows the fence downhill until striking off to the righthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/16symi066w9178.jpg16symi066w9178.... to reach the start of the mule track marked by paint spots on a telegraph post2016-11-30T22:47:55+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/10/28/seven-years-missed-no-less/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16garnwen02w1020.jpg16garnwen02w1020..... but that's not the focus todayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16garnwen01w1024.jpg16garnwen01w1024Blue sky in the distance2016-10-28T21:27:30+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/10/09/nisyros-rock-around-the-volcano/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16nisyros068w0861.jpg16nisyros068w0861The caldera floor near the main crater, true deserthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16nisyros067w0856.jpg16nisyros067w0856The fissure in the caldera floor opened by seismic activity in 2003 shows the nature of the ‘rock’https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16nisyros060w0601.jpg16nisyros060w0601Looking down the gully to the main caldera floor, finer material forming a stream bedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16nisyros059w0598.jpg16nisyros059w0598But don’t put your hand closer than about 30 cms – the gas is near boiling pointhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16nisyros058w0594.jpg16nisyros058w0594Some are like yawning holes reaching up from the centre of the earthhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16nisyros057w0591.jpg16nisyros057w0591Approaching with some circumspection shows delicate and colourful crystal formations https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16nisyros070w0694.jpg16nisyros070w0694Sulphurous gas from a cluster of fumaroles emerging from rock blackened by the heathttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16nisyros069w0568.jpg16nisyros069w0568The gases from a hotspot near the head of a large gullyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16nisyros063w0707.jpg16nisyros063w0707Heading towards a hotspothttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16nisyros062w0691.jpg16nisyros062w0691Looking up one of the small sulphur encrusted gullys2016-10-15T08:47:38+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/09/03/nisyros-all-in-a-days-trek/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/16nisyros040w0389.jpg16Nisyros040w0389Closer look at the cracked bed of the sulphur-covered floorhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/16nisyros039w0374.jpg16Nisyros039w0374... and the lower section, maybe 80-100 feet deephttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/16nisyros038w0376.jpg16Nisyros038w0376Looking down the upper section of the seismic fissure canyonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/16nisyros037w0370.jpg16Nisyros037w0370Looking along the length of the main Polyvotis craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/16nisyros036w0382.jpg16Nisyros036w0382... doing what fumaroles do - fumehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/16nisyros035w0365.jpg16Nisyros035w0365One of the groups of sulphur encrusted fumaroleshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/16nisyros034w0360.jpg16Nisyros034w0360The narrow neck between the two Polyvotis cratershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/16nisyros033w0149.jpg16Nisyros033w0149Standing in the bottom of one of the accessible ones.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/16nisyros032w0147.jpg16Nisyros032w0147.... and widerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/16nisyros031w0141.jpg16Nisyros031w0141At first shallow, the seismic fissures soon become deeper2016-09-16T19:45:09+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/08/04/symi-rambling-around-the-past/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16symi052w2318.jpg16Symi052w2318.... and from another angle.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16symi051w2320.jpg16Symi051w2320The dolmen-like structure seen from the direction of the platformhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/15symi212w1104.jpg15Symi212w1104On top of the platformhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16symi050w2330.jpg16Symi050w2330The construction built into the top of the craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16symi049w2324.jpg16Symi049w2324Zooming in on the oldest part of the settlement ... and the photovoltaic panelshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16symi048w2326.jpg16Symi048w2326Looking down from the limestone crags to the settlement in the colhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16symi047w2325.jpg16Symi047w2325From the top of the crag forming the ridge-top and then zooming in, what appeared to be another wall of large blocks ... but is just a rock outcrophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16symi046w2408.jpg16Symi046w2408Dressed stones indicate there may have been more sophisticated architecture.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16symi045w2406.jpg16Symi045w2406The rough stone walls in the foreground is probably simply supporting the terrace behind but the wall in the background may well have been a defensive rampart.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16symi044w2400.jpg16Symi044w2400The small spring-fed pond hidden in the oleander2016-08-04T14:35:31+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/06/25/symi-going-wild-again/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/16symi031w8999.jpg16Symi031w8999Elsewhere requiring a a practiced eye to see it.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/16symi034w9009.jpg16Symi034w9009Sometimes just trodden earth but clearhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/16symi030w8988.jpg16Symi030w8988In other places contained between stone wallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/16symi029w8995.jpg16Symi029w8995The old kalderimi breaking apart but still edged in places by large slabshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/16symi028w8991.jpg16Symi028w8991Out on the mountain the views from the path are spectacular https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/16symi023w8981.jpg16Symi023w8981.... and over Horio, a tight mass of derelict and restored houses with a scatter of churcheshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/16symi022w8979.jpg16Symi022w8979Looking over the main harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/16symi021w8976.jpg16Symi021w8976 The Viewpointhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/16symi020w8974.jpg16Symi020w8974Out of the village and rough steps rise steeply to ...https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/16symi027w9133.jpg16Symi027w9133an alley crosses the stream bed of the Cataractis, a torrent in heavy rain but dry most of the time2016-06-25T18:23:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/05/29/symi-going-wild/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/16symi020w2044.jpg16Symi020w2044Blue sea and a peaceful mooring in Nimborio Bayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/15symi211w1009.jpg15Symi211w1009Ancient olive presshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/16symi019w2042.jpg16Symi019w2042.... and a closer look at the main harbour, few boats this early in the yearhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/16symi018w2040.jpg16Symi018w2040Looking from the slabs at the head of the valley down to Yialoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/14symi203w4851.jpg14Symi203w4851Shade at Agia Paraskevihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/14symi202w4849.jpg14Symi202w4849A rough stone paved section of the kalderimi overhung by a stunted tree finally killed by increasing drought2016-05-29T22:37:48+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/05/12/symi-the-15-minute-walk-that-took-6-days-or-notes-on-how-to-use-a-bedpan/2016-05-30T22:20:43+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/04/27/symi-not-so-wild-walks/2016-04-27T16:40:52+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/04/07/wales-and-greece-life-on-the-wild-side/2016-05-08T17:26:12+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/03/20/canadian-rockies-and-greek-islands-twittering-and-tweeting/2016-03-20T21:26:15+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/03/09/canadian-rockies-and-greek-islands-looking-back-looking-forward/2016-03-12T09:14:09+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/02/19/banff-canadian-rockies-last-trek-early-bath/2016-02-20T19:23:28+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/02/08/banff-canadian-rockies-snow-fabulous-snow-fool-like-an-old-fool/2016-02-08T15:38:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/01/28/banff-canadian-rockies-snow-good-ive-got-to-go-back/2016-01-29T05:10:41+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/01/14/banff-canadian-rockies-a-walk-on-the-lake/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada033w1973.jpg15Canada033w1973https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada040w8726.jpg15Canada040w8726https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada041w8724.jpg15Canada041w8724https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada028w1966.jpg15Canada028w1966https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada032w1968.jpg15Canada032w1968https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada031w1968.jpg15Canada031w1968https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada030w1971.jpg15Canada030w1971https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada039w8723.jpg15Canada039w8723https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada025w1953.jpg15Canada025w1953https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada024w1940.jpg15Canada024w19402016-01-14T22:25:58+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2016/01/03/banff-canadian-rockies-climate-contrast/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada020w8678.jpg15Canada020w8678https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada017w8671.jpg15Canada017w8671https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada018w8674.jpg15Canada018w8674https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada019w8675.jpg15Canada019w8675https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada016w8670.jpg15Canada016w8670https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada015w8658.jpg15Canada015w8658https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada009w8629.jpg15Canada009w8629https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada014w8656.jpg15Canada014w8656https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada010w8636.jpg15Canada010w8636https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15canada012w8647.jpg15Canada012w86472016-01-03T14:26:22+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/12/25/canadian-rockies-a-white-christmas/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15canada001wxmas8662.jpg15Canada001wXmas8662https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15canada002w8669.jpg15Canada002w8669Christmas Eve was a Sun Dog Day high in the mountains, billions of microscopic ice crystals acting like a prism forming a circle with a spear of light striking down through the snow cloud 2015-12-25T08:51:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/12/14/kalymnos-peace-and-tranquillity-at-the-end-of-summer/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15kalymnos05w8470.jpg15Kalymnos05w8470Castle wall on top of vertical cliffshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15kalymnos07w8492.jpg15Kalymnos07w8492Two of the crusader escutcheons set in the wallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15kalymnos06w8472.jpg15Kalymnos06w8472.... looking at the insidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15kalymnos11w8516.jpg15Kalymnos11w8516And when like me you get bored, get creative with the pebbles.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15kalymnos09w8500.jpg15Kalymnos09w8500Small-flowered autumn crocus in the thin soil, not as large , luxuriant or numerous as those on Symihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15kalymnos08w8497.jpg15Kalymnos08w8497Blue sky, clear water, fine gravel.  Perfecthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15kalymnos12w8519.jpg15Kalymnos12w8519Looking the other wayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15kalymnos13w8524.jpg15Kalymnos13w8524Looking from the coast path to the secluded beach, the most northerly on the west coasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15kalymnos14w8526.jpg15Kalymnos14w8526Ancient olive press with a hint of double entendrhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/15kalymnos01w8439.jpg15Kalymnos01w8439From a short way up the crag, part of the inner fortification of the Kastri in the foreground, Telendos Sound in the distance2015-12-14T12:05:02+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/11/26/greece-by-bus-3/2015-11-26T17:44:24+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/10/31/nisyros-pirates-of-the-aegean-and-soft-rock/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros124w8209.jpg15Nisyros124w8209.... used for church serviceshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros123w8206.jpg15Nisyros123w8206Down the steps and inside, the tiny church built into the rock under the remains of a terracotta domed roof , the spring in the cave behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros122w8204.jpg15Nisyros122w8204Set back slightly from the road, the entrance to the underground church and thermal springhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros135w1792.jpg15Nisyros135w1792Delicate, exquisite!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros125w8368.jpg15Nisyros125w8368Clumps of Sea Daffodils line the edge of the sandy foreshorehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros028w1795.jpg15Nisyros028w1795Sometimes just one or twohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros134w1786.jpg15Nisyros134w1786.... doesn't like being watched.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros133w1785.jpg15Nisyros133w1785A Mediterranean shag on red lava close to the seahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros121w8199.jpg15Nisyros121w8199Looking back down the line of the  cliff with the shallow caves rising up to follow one layer of deposited pumice.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros120w8198.jpg15Nisyros120w8198Finally reaching solid ground on the lava extrusion, a huge scallop shape opening out towards the sea2015-11-13T08:44:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/10/28/remembered/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15bbnp022w8570.jpg15BBNP022w8570https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15bbnp021w8564.jpg15BBNP021w85642015-11-02T19:53:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/10/23/nisyros-heritage-island/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros103w1745.jpg15Nisyros103w1745“Is this a banana I see before me?”https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros080w7726.jpg15Nisyros080w7726.... and view through the entrancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros079w7726.jpg15Nisyros079w7726Full frontalhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros022w7721.jpg15Nisyros022w7721Approaching the windmill on the hill overlooking Mandrakihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros111w8215.jpg15Nisyros111w8215The underground church with the remnant of the arched terracotta roof and the cave with the thermal spring in the backgroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros041w8210.jpg15Nisyros041w8210The thermal springhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros093w1575.jpg15Nisyros093w1575The large bowl of black volcanic rock, the top of the cistern alongside and a prized shard of marble bowl.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros092w1574.jpg15Nisyros092w1574Looking from the houses over the3 broad, level terraces of the caldera floor with a threshing circle in the foreground and a large stone bowl beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros091w1571.jpg15Nisyros091w1571Semi-detached under-terrace houses.  The stonework on the front of the one on the left has partly collapse showing the depth of the soil above which is part of the agricultural terrace.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros084w7776.jpg15Nisyros084w7776The slots cut for hefty roof timbers in the crag opposite2016-04-15T13:45:17+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/10/05/nisyros-rocking-round-the-rim/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/round-the-rim.jpgRound the RimThe route, tracked with the GPS on my phone, superimposed on Google Earth.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros070w1860.jpg15Nisyros070w1860.... and anotherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros069w1859.jpg15Nisyros069w1859Detail of one of themhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros068w1857.jpg15Nisyros068w1857And nearby others, shallower but a similar heighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros067w1854.jpg15Nisyros067w1854Contortions and sculpting even at a small scale, this about 30 centimetreshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros066w1852.jpg15Nisyros066w1852But go off the path and there are many more smaller ones, this about 8 metres highhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros065w8298.jpg15Nisyros065w8298Ancient lava-built church on the shoulder before Emborioshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros042w7886.jpg15Nisyros042w7886Arches in the centre of Emborios  which help brace the houses against seismic tremorshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros006w7624.jpg15Nisyros006w7624The largest of the lava bubbles about 20 metres highhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15nisyros004w7613.jpg15Nisyros004w7613The monastery above the village2015-10-06T08:03:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/09/14/nisyros-waiting-for-it-to-blow/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros041w8210.jpg15Nisyros041w8210The thermal spring in a cave at Palloi, used since ancient times for healinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros040w8088.jpg15Nisyros040w8088More sophisticated monitoring equipment in the middle of the calderahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros039w1670.jpg15Nisyros039w1670Part of the near-vertical wall of the Stephanos craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros038w1666.jpg15Nisyros038w1666Looking across the crater floor of Stephanos with the red-painted matrix of marker stoneshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros037w1766.jpg15Nisyros037w1766Waiting for the volcano to blowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros036w1701.jpg15Nisyros036w1701Difficult to see but tiny drops of boiling water shoot up out of the ground where the thin crust has been broken.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros035w1691.jpg15Nisyros035w1691Boiling mudhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros034w1685.jpg15Nisyros034w1685Some of the fumarole openings are large and disappear into the depths of the groundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros029w1512.jpg15Nisyros029w1512Sulphur crystals around a large fumarole looking across the caldera to the Polyvotis craters and the highest point of the caldera rim, Oros Diavatishttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros033w1532.jpg15Nisyros033w1532Close up of one of the fumaroles emitting the vapour2015-10-29T22:02:17+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/09/04/nisyros-giving-in-to-addiction/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros023w7745.jpg15Nisyros023w7745A plug of lava rises high above the floor of the Kat Laki calderahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros022w7721.jpg15Nisyros022w7721Peaceful above Mandraki, the mill on the hillhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros021w7732.jpg15Nisyros021w7732At 170 metres ASL, the lowest point of the Kato Laki crater, internal draining and rising on all sides with narrow stone built terraces each between 2 and 3 metres high all the way  to the rimhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros020w1488.jpg15Nisyros020w1488Higher to the left is the massive Paleocastro.  Each block is about two feet high.   Count them.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros019w1486.jpg15Nisyros019w1486Looking down across Mandraki, the island’s main town, to the dilapidated Norman castle and the Pangia Spiliani monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros018w7706.jpg15Nisyros018w7706Part of the fissure which opened up in the tremor of 2003https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros017w7696.jpg15Nisyros017w7696..... close up of the crystal structurehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros016w7699.jpg15Nisyros016w7699Fumaroles breathe out sulphur gas at many points even outside the cratershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros015w7691.jpg15Nisyros015w7691 ..... the low point of the floor of the crater apparently used to be a lake, lost during a recent eruption/tremor, now dried and cracked sulphur-coated mudhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15nisyros014w7693.jpg15Nisyros014w7693The Megalos Polyvotis crater, to my mind the most dramatic, looking towards the steeply canyoned western end.2015-09-04T05:44:20+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/08/23/symi-and-the-glamorgan-coast-compare-and-contrast/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15glamorgan04w7526.jpg15Glamorgan04w7526Giant Jenga .... just don’t be there when it collapseshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15glamorgan01w7508.jpg15Glamorgan01w7508Large rectangular blocks on the foreshore, an indication of the instability of the cliffs at the beginning of the walk near Macrosshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15glamorgan15w7542.jpg15Glamorgan15w7542In places where water draining from pools joins with spring water from the cliffs semi-permanent streams are formed, scouring channels in the freshly deposited sand after every high tidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15glamorgan11w7558.jpg15Glamorgan11w7558Pools are formed in depressions in the sand as water flowing around rocks scour a hollowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15glamorgan08w7548.jpg15Glamorgan08w7548Patterns in the water draining back to the seahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15glamorgan06w7530.jpg15Glamorgan06w7530....others are rock-flooredhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15glamorgan05w7534.jpg15Glamorgan05w7534Some of the rock-pools are formed against an edge of rock with a sandy bottomhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15glamorgan18w7582.jpg15Glamorgan18w7582Looking back towards the Macross headland, all of the sand and much of the wave-cut platform now underwater.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15glamorgan19w7574.jpg15Glamorgan19w7574Approaching the Monksnash headlandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15glamorgan17w7578.jpg15Glamorgan17w7578Though not known as a shipwreck coast, ships still come to grief here2015-09-04T20:29:20+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/08/09/symi-old-ways-and-a-long-walk-back/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15symi251w7411.jpg15Symi251w7411The sweeping curve of a section of exceptionally well preserved kalderimihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15symi250w7398.jpg15Symi250w7398The pathway through the woodlandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15symi249w7397.jpg15Symi249w7397The permanent pond alongside the old pathwayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15symi247w7399.jpg15Symi247w7399.... emerging at the top of the hairpin bends in The Tarmac, Panormitis  about 1,300 feet belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/14symi453w1382.jpg14Symi453w1382 ... detail of one of themhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/14symi452w1368.jpg14Symi452w1368Looking down on two of the othershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15symi252w7401.jpg15Symi252w7401The first of the restored wine presses alongside the pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15symi248w7402.jpg15Symi248w7402The path towards the Byzantine stone wine presseshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/14symi458w1387.jpg14Symi458w1387Zooming in on the Stavros Polemou Monastery from the cliff top behind Megalos Sotiroshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/14symi455w1375.jpg14Symi455w1375..... and looking the other way to zoom in on Panormitis bay and the monastery complex2015-08-10T09:43:03+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/07/25/symi-high-spots/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi227wdsc0326.jpg15Symi227wDSC0326The strange light across Horio and the Pedi Valleyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi226wdsc0323.jpg15Symi226wDSC0323An evening stroll to The Viewpoint was rewarded with dramatic light instead of the usual blue sky as heavy cloud came briefly across but thankfully no rainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi231w1413.jpg15Symi231w1413Getting closer and the size of the dressed stone blocks becomes evidenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi230w1244.jpg15Symi230w1244I found this tortoise trapped inside a 45-gallon oil drum close to the castle.  It must have climbed up the fence and dropped in for some reason.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi228w1241.jpg15Symi228w1241Approaching the castle on its small knollhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi166w1198.jpg15Symi166w1198A pair of Turtle Doves were flying around the nearby crag. I managed to focus on one with maximum zoomhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi232w1439.jpg15Symi232w1439On the way up I spotted, settled on the thyme, one of the largest Scarce Swallowtails I’ve ever seen,https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi224w1324.jpg15Symi224w1324Zooming in on Agios Elianos and Skoumisa Bayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi223w1323.jpg15Symi223w1323Taking it easy on the rock slabs below the castle looking down to Agios Vasilios Bayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi239w1205.jpg15Symi239w1205Looking across the rocky ridge-top to the Archangel Mihail Kokkimidis monastery2015-07-26T16:10:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/07/08/symi-i-lost-my-shirt/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi207w7328.jpg15Symi207w7328Looking back up the gulley from the bed of the gorge.  Easy reallyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi199w1386.jpg15Symi199w1386The drop, a long smooth limestone slabhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi198w1384.jpg15Symi198w1384Standing in the gap before another long drop (note: the earth tilted on its axis just before the remote control triggered the camera)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi206w7327.jpg15Symi206w7327Photographer scratching his head wondering how to get down the edge of the strata in this chutehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi205w7326.jpg15Symi205w7326I wouldn’t like to be down here when that lot fallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi204w7324.jpg15Symi204w7324The face of the bedding planes, a rich purple in contrast with the pale grey elsewherehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi203w7322.jpg15Symi203w7322Tilted bedding planes force the water to make a sharp right turnhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi202w7314.jpg15Symi202w7314A warning – getting it wrong can be terminal, even for professionalshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi200w7319.jpg15Symi200w7319The height of the drop can be judged by the width of bed of the gulley belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15symi197w7273.jpg15Symi197w7273Looking back up the first of the longer falls2015-07-08T07:07:11+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/06/30/symi-the-day-i-shrank-and-other-adventures/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi174w1306.jpg15Symi174w1306Fine balancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi168w1310.jpg15Symi168w1310Disappearing down a hole at the threshold to a derelict mansionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi167w1309.jpg15Symi167w1309Chasing along the side of the Kali Strata, image blurredhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi172w1302.jpg15Symi172w1302From the lower edge of the enclosure looking down to the flat area at the lowest point of the valley, an area cleared of stones and which floods and collects sedimenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi171w1296.jpg15Symi171w1296The upper edge of the enclosure, less clear but still obviously a tumble-down wallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi170w1293.jpg15Symi170w1293The lower edge of the curved enclosurehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi169w1290.jpg15Symi169w1290Reading the ground, this is a very clear way from the low point on the valley floor up to the enclosure with a very definite stone-on-a-rock markehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi181w12891.jpg15Symi181w1289Zooming in on the harbour from the ridge tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi181w1289.jpg15Symi181w1289https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi180w1286.jpg15Symi180w1286A shrunken me in the ridge-top threshing circle2015-06-30T07:37:54+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/06/20/symi-into-a-hidden-valley-the-past-and-beyond/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi162w0591.jpg15Symi162w0591One of the ‘stone-on-a-rock’ trail markers I left last yearhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi157w1060.jpg15Symi157w1060White mulberrieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi161w0578.jpg15Symi161w0578Two olive trees: one obviously very ancient and very dead.  An indication of long-ago settlement?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi155w1055.jpg15Symi155w1055“That’s it!  I’m off”https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi154w1054.jpg15Symi154w1054“I can see you creeping up again”https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi153w1049.jpg15Symi153w1049“think I’ll move away a little”https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi152w1048.jpg15Symi152w1048“I’m watching you!”https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi151w1045.jpg15Symi151w1045Spot the owlhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/satelite.jpgsatelitethe enclosure is just above the blue track on the satellite image between the two areas of distinctly flat ground.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi160w0908.jpg15Symi160w0908Looking across the fissure back the way I came2015-06-20T07:23:13+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/06/08/symi-the-end-of-spring/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi140w0985.jpg15Symi140w0985Ground hugging in rocky terrainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi133w0885.jpg15Symi133w0885Seed head of Viper’s Grass (I think), the same diameter as the young tortoise nearby, symbolises the purpose behind all the colour of the last two months, ensuring the continuation of the species.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi131w0865.jpg15Symi131w0865Wild hollyhock backlit by late afternoon sunhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi130w0876.jpg15Symi130w0876Holy Orchid in deep shade coming into flower as its neighbours in sunny positions are going to seedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi129w0861.jpg15Symi129w0861Flowers about 3-4 mm across on stems 3-4 cms highhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi128w0749.jpg15Symi128w0749Crumbling neo-classical pediment hosts house leeks and wall hyacinthhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi135w0920.jpg15Symi135w0920 .... and a blue one close byhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi134w0928.jpg15Symi134w0928Red Darter disporting himself on the rocks slabs by the pond at Griahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi137w0957.jpg15Symi137w0957 ..... until it becomes torrential, requiring a change of orientation, pointing into the downpourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15symi136w0950.jpg15Symi136w0950On the back of one of the chairs in the courtyard putting up with the heavy spring shower2015-06-09T14:18:49+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/05/27/symi-coast-to-coast/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi120w7191.jpg15Symi120w7191The cliff towering vertically up at the back of the beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi116w7177.jpg15Symi116w7177At the base of the cliff and close to the pond, one large Dragon Arumhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi115w7189.jpg15Symi115w7189Diminutive but brightly colouredhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi114w7184.jpg15Symi114w7184... and oreganohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi113w7185.jpg15Symi113w7185A few dwarfed sage https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi109w0419.jpg15Symi109w04192 cms high Sedum in full flowerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi108w0414.jpg15Symi108w0414massed seed heads ready to continue the life cyclehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi107w0412.jpg15Symi107w0412A poppy dwarfed by the arid conditionshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi106w0410.jpg15Symi106w0410.... going up to 3 cmshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi105w0407.jpg15Symi105w0407Barely 2 cms high2015-05-28T10:33:42+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/05/17/symi-the-island-in-colour/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi104w0731.jpg15Symi104w0731Finally, on the edge ..... contemplating Life, The Universe and Everythinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi103w0700.jpg15Symi103w0700Delicate stems and flowers of Quaking Grass (Briza maxima)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi102w0646.jpg15Symi102w0646 .... close uphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi101w0635.jpg15Symi101w0635Campanula growing out of a craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi100w0629.jpg15Symi100w0629I think this is Goat’s Beard (Tragopogon pratensis) but it may be Viper’s Grass (Scorzonera humilis)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi099w0616.jpg15Symi099w0616Elegant flowers of one of the hundreds of species of wild Allium - the family which includes  onions and garlichttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi098w0608.jpg15Symi098w0608Inside the walls of a monastery and protected from the goats, tall grasses and Tassel Hyacinthshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi097w0595.jpg15Symi097w0595This one I’m pretty sure is a Squirting Cucumberhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi096w0567.jpg15Symi096w0567Scarce Swallowtail settles fleetingly on cornflowerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi094w0516.jpg15Symi094w0516“What do you mean I’ve got my intestines hanging around my neck .... ?” 2015-05-18T22:52:20+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/05/05/symi-a-trek-beyond-the-economic-fringe/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi026w0345.jpg15Symi026w0345Tongue Rorchidhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi072w0817.jpg15Symi072w0817Close up of the flowershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi071w0813.jpg15Symi071w0813.... another spider spins its web over the flowers and hides insidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi070w0814.jpg15Symi070w0814.... used by a spider as an anchor for chaotic webhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi069w0827.jpg15Symi069w0827.... variations of colour and shadinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi068w0817.jpg15Symi068w0817Orchis Sancta, the Holy Orchidhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi067w0803.jpg15Symi067w0803Colourful, attractive .... but no less sharphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi057w0338.jpg15Symi057w0338Crown of cyclamen and poppies lights up the top of the Drakos Fortificationshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi050w0310.jpg15Symi050w0310The sun behind old poppies on a wallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/15symi049w0292.jpg15Symi049w0292Pyramid Orchid2023-10-01T17:38:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/04/24/symi-a-trek-to-the-ridge-at-the-end-of-europe/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi038w7040.jpg15Symi038w7040Turkey, Asia, another continent, another world, just across the narrow water, individual houses and wind turbines clear in good visibilityhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi042w0276.jpg15Symi042w02766 cm tortoise stuck in thymehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi041w0271.jpg15Symi041w027130 cm tortoise munching on flower headhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi040w0360.jpg15Symi040w0360 Adolescent Painted Dragon lizard, wary of me but not bothered by the sharp rockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi036w0255.jpg15Symi036w0255..... and the Crown Daisieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi035w0444.jpg15Symi035w0444Butterflies are attracted to the cornflowershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi027w0225.jpg15Symi027w0225Oertzeni lizards – fight or foreplay?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi039w7063.jpg15Symi039w7063..... but the magnificently deep velvety purple Dragon Arums are just coming into their own (shame about the smell)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi037w7027.jpg15Symi037w7027Probably the last of the white Arums still in flower on the islandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi034w0249.jpg15Symi034w0249 Cornflower against the deep shade of a gorge2015-04-27T04:33:31+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/04/16/symi-a-floriferous-walk-down-the-valley/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi020w6998.jpg15Symi020w6998In places varieties of clover and other flowers just mass together like a rich shag-pile carpethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi019w6982.jpg15Symi019w6982Blue Periwinklehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi026w0345.jpg15Symi026w0345... closer look at the flowerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi025w0344.jpg15Symi025w0344 Leaf Orchidhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi024w0281.jpg15Symi024w0281Looks like an orchid but is in fact Broom Rape, parasitic on the roots of other plants including Bermuda Buttercuphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi017w6960.jpg15Symi017w6960Spears of pale blue flowers – another form of Broom Rapehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi021w7002.jpg15Symi021w7002..... opens out elsewherehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi016w6958.jpg15Symi016w6958.... a double variety of the same misnomerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi015w6957.jpg15Symi015w6957Bermuda Buttercup, neither from Bermuda nor a buttercuphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15symi013w6951.jpg15Symi013w6951Tassel Hyacinth2015-04-16T18:00:34+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/04/08/greece-kos-i-was-there/2015-04-13T12:56:28+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/greek-island-walks/2023-06-20T14:17:02+00:00weekly0.6https://barrysramblings.com/2015/03/30/from-wales-to-greece-greek-island-walks/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15bbnp020w6875.jpg15BBNP020w6875Narrow blue slot being overtaken by rain cloudhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15bbnp019w6879.jpg15BBNP019w6879The Folly Tower on top of the ridge above Pontypool2015-03-31T08:31:25+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/03/20/from-wales-to-greece-preparations-eclipsed/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15cherryhinton12w0118.jpg15CherryHinton12w0118Thin patch of high cloud acts as a filterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15cherryhinton11w0111.jpg15CherryHinton11w0111Starts to move away againhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15cherryhinton10w0104.jpg15CherryHinton10w0104The maximum coverage at 09.30https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15cherryhinton09w0103.jpg15CherryHinton09w0103.... half an hour laterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15cherryhinton08w0093.jpg15CherryHinton08w0093Eclipse begins, moon moving from right to left2015-03-20T19:35:21+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/03/15/from-grey-britain-to-greek-sunshine-looking-forward/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15cherryhinton01w0005.jpg15CherryHinton01w0005Large Tortoiseshell still sheltering in the househttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15cherryhinton07w0070.jpg15CherryHinton07w0070Daffodils open for St David's Dayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15cherryhinton06w0032.jpg15CherryHinton06w0032..... and a closr lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15cherryhinton05w0026.jpg15CherryHinton05w0026A couple of days later the flowers openhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15cherryhinton04w0016.jpg15CherryHinton04w0016.... and Deep Purplehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15cherryhinton03w0019.jpg15CherryHinton03w0019.... closer lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/15cherryhinton02w0022.jpg15CherryHinton02w0022Crocuses in bud in the Acer Glade2015-03-17T23:03:22+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/02/25/brecon-beacons-an-hours-trek-to-a-frozen-world/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp018w6857.jpg15BBNP018w6857On the way down from the summit to the col, cloud thickeninghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp017w6854.jpg15BBNP017w6854Fine snow being swirled off the top by strong windhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp016w6853.jpg15BBNP016w6853The 'new' stonebuilt cone topped by a National Trust plaquehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp015w6856.jpg15BBNP015w6856The last section up to the summit of Pen-y-Fan, completely frozen and icedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp014w6860.jpg15BBNP014w6860....... disappearing as cloud rolls acrosshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp013w6867.jpg15BBNP013w6867Corn Du sharply in view at the top of the pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp012w6851.jpg15BBNP012w6851Ice ans drifted snow across the pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp011w6869.jpg15BBNP011w6869The ford and the 'new' footbridge at the start of the path from the car parkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp005w19361.jpg15BBNP005w1936The core area of the Brecon Beacons seen from the ridge behind the house, Corn Du and Pen-y-Fan on the left2015-02-25T21:56:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/02/15/brecon-beacons-a-frozen-ridge-top-walk/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp009w6824.jpg15BBNP009w6824The north face of the Blorenge sees no sunshine at all in winter, very steep and icy, on the day difficult to negotiate safelyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp008w6822.jpg15BBNP008w6822Black cloud coming over promising but not delivering more snow, dissipating in less than an hourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp006w6818.jpg15BBNP006w6818Solitary rock https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp010w6811.jpg15BBNP010w6811Snow ablated by sun and wind, small cumulus cloud marking the curving edge of the ridge https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp007w6810.jpg15BBNP007w6810Remnant of snow on northeast facing slopehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp005w1936.jpg15BBNP005w1936Zooming in on the core of the Brecon Beacons, enticing but miles awayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp004w6806.jpg15BBNP004w6806Remnant of snowdrift in the lee of a stone wallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp003w6804.jpg15BBNP003w6804On the ridge top, carved up by illegal off-roading the ground is frozen hard, puddles crusted in ice.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp002w6798.jpg15BBNP002w6798On way up to the top of the ridge a beech tree still clings onto its autumn leaves despite the windhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/15bbnp001w6797.jpg15BBNP001w6797Starting out under blue sky, deceptive but not yet Spring2015-02-17T00:21:52+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/02/05/canadian-rockies-fiery-peaks-and-blue-sky-farewell/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/14canada208w6778.jpg14Canada208w6778Long shadows on the frozen Bow River a couple of hours later, the fire gone out leaving crisp white and bluehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/14canada207w1933.jpg14Canada207w1933Fire gone from the cloud and now on the peaks of the Massive Rangehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/14canada206w1932.jpg14Canada206w1932More and more peaks lit uphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/14canada205w1931.jpg14Canada205w1931Strong winds blow the fine powder-snow off the peaks https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/14canada204w1928.jpg14Canada204w1928..... zooming in on the peakhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/14canada203w1922.jpg14Canada203w1922Cascade Mountain at the end of Banff Avenuehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/14canada209w1921.jpg14Canada209w1921Looking across the rooftops of the town to the sun flaming the thin cloud strata2015-02-07T10:06:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/01/29/canadian-rockies-walking-slightly-nervously-on-the-wild-side/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada196w6776.jpg14Canada196w6776Young stag looking fr a rumblehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada195w6770.jpg14Canada195w6770The elk herd moves gently off further into the woodlandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada202w1914.jpg14Canada202w1914Zooming inhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada201w1910.jpg14Canada201w1910A broader perspectivehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada200w1906.jpg14Canada200w1906These Hoodoos lack the cap typical of the formationhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada194w6763.jpg14Canada194w6763Across the narrow open channel towards the Fairholme Rangehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada193w6761.jpg14Canada193w6761Mount Rundle reflected in green meltwater nicehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada192w6760.jpg14Canada192w6760Ice originally having formed when the river was in floodhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada191w6759.jpg14Canada191w6759Wide river iced over except for a very narrow channel close to the far bankhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada190w6757.jpg14Canada190w6757... leaving a flying saucer like-formation 2015-02-01T07:13:00+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/01/21/canadian-rockies-snow-mountains-and-blue-sky-reflections/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada188w6691.jpg14Canada188w6691 Zooming in on the reflection of Cascade Mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada182w1882.jpg14Canada182w1882... the edge of Mount Norquay and beyond that Cascade Mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada181w1881.jpg14Canada181w1881As I moved on from the last shot around the icy edge of the open water an organised ‘photographic trip’ arrive at exactly the same spot, dumped large bags of gear and set up tripods.  They had been dropped off by minibus close to the location.  No sense of adventure !!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada185w1893.jpg14Canada185w1893The pond drains into the lake creating a broad open channel in the ice, the flat-calm water reflecting Mount Rundle and the diminutive Tunnel Mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada184w1886.jpg14Canada184w1886..... because it is fed by a thermal springhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada183w1884.jpg14Canada183w1884Moving further around the edge of Second Vermillion Lake is a pond at a slightly higher level which I have not yet seen frozenhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada186w1897.jpg14Canada186w1897From the other side of the pool, a reflection of the Fairholme Range which turns the Bow River sharply south-eastwards past the Hoodoos (more about which another time)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada180w1875.jpg14Canada180w1875An almost insignificant trickle from a warm spring keeps a small pool open in the ice of the lake reflecting the Massive Range to the west and beyond that cloud over British Columbia.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada187w6683.jpg14Canada187w6683A footbridge crossing 40 Mile Creek at the top end of the Fenland Loop with open water reflecting gracefully bending Lodgepole Pine.  This is stretch is normally frozen over at this time of year.2015-01-21T06:24:44+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/01/16/canadian-rockies-blue-sky-skiing/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada179w6705.jpg14Canada179w6705A combination of sun and cloud makes jagged peaks more dramatichttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada178w6699.jpg14Canada178w6699In the middle of the run down Sunshine Coasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada177w6698.jpg14Canada177w6698Early morning freezing cloud lifts leaving a fairyland https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada176w6656.jpg14Canada176w6656..... billions of themhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada175w6652.jpg14Canada175w6652At the top of the ridge above the cloud bands, tiny ice crystals visible against the blue, a shaft of light like a laser beam lit by the sun shafting down through the cloud which is made up of the ice crystals. https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada174w6650.jpg14Canada174w6650At Lake Louise thin bands of cloud across the valleyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada173w6648.jpg14Canada173w6648Coasting back to base after the steep sectionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada172w6642.jpg14Canada172w6642Even though it’s midday, as I drop down the run the sun drops behind the ridge with strong wind blowing loose snow off ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada171w6639.jpg14Canada171w6639Zooming in on the cliff-edge just to the right of the runhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada170w6637.jpg14Canada170w6637The easy part of a run close to the top of Goat’s Eye Mountain, 2806 metres (9,200 feet), looking across neighbouring and distant peaks2015-01-23T10:27:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/01/10/canadian-rockies-snowshoes-and-maple-taffy/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada169w6624.jpg14Canada169w6624New snowshoes, off to look for deep snowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada165w6611.jpg14Canada165w6611A closer look at the molten panhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada164w6609.jpg14Canada164w6609Dylan in the snow hole boiling maple syruphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada168w6618.jpg14Canada168w6618Reaching upwardshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada167w6617.jpg14Canada167w6617https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada166w6613.jpg14Canada166w6613Standing charcoalhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada163w6607.jpg14Canada163w6607Fascinating shapeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada160w6600.jpg14Canada160w6600Looking up towards the col through the burnt-out foresthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada162w6603.jpg14Canada162w6603Another rock spur capped by snowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada161w6601.jpg14Canada161w6601Looking down from one of the bridges to the partly frozen creek far below2015-01-10T22:30:23+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2015/01/07/canadian-rockies-a-very-different-walk/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada155w6581.jpg14Canada155w6581Drilling through the ice with hand auger to monitor the waterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada154w6580.jpg14Canada154w6580A week after the derailment, temporary bridge in place, river frozen solid enough for work to be carried out from its surface, wagon frozen in place, spillage removedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada153w6529.jpg14Canada153w6529https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada152w6528.jpg14Canada152w6528https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada151w6526.jpg14Canada151w6526Bridge gone, derailed wagon left across the creek to dam ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada150w6515.jpg14Canada150w6515Standing on the stone dam looking upstream to the straw bales and the crash sitehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada149w6516.jpg14Canada149w6516Looking upstream to teh mayhemhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada055w3955.jpg14Canada055w3955January 2014, double-decked wagons crossing the bridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14canada051w3942.jpg14Canada051w3942January 2014, looking from the level crossing towards Banff station, at the end of December a marshaling yard for the repair and recovery operation2015-01-07T07:17:16+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/12/30/canadian-rockies-climate-change/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14canada147w6569.jpg14Canada147w6569The ice rink alongside the Spray Riverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14canada146w6565.jpg14Canada146w6565Like a painting by LS Lowry or Breugelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14canada145w6560.jpg14Canada145w6560On thin ice - looking upstream to the footbridge over the Spray Riverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14canada144w6551.jpg14Canada144w6551Rapids on the Spray, usually frozen by nowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14canada139w6465.jpg14Canada139w6465Rapids on the Spray, usually frozen by nowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14canada136w6485.jpg14Canada136w6485Looking across the Spray on a slow flowing section https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14canada135w6475.jpg14Canada135w6475https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14canada148w6572.jpg14Canada148w6572Gnarly roots at the confluence of the Bow and the Spray Rivershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14canada143w6548.jpg14Canada143w6548The confluence of the Bow and the Sprayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14canada142w6547.jpg14Canada142w6547Lying on my stomach on the ice looking towards the Bow Falls through a gap under ice laid down when the river level was higher earlier in the winter .... just as the Earth tilted on its axis2014-12-31T02:18:12+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/12/25/canadian-rockies-christmas-on-the-piste/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14canada141w6509.jpg14Canada141w6509Cruising in to the Ptarmigan lifthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14canada140w6513.jpg14Canada140w6513Lake ouise, from the the Top of the World looking down towards the base2014-12-30T00:26:02+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/12/15/i-was-attacked-by-an-airport-an-unexpectedly-wild-walk/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool37w6438.jpg14Pontypool37w6438Golden horizon, blood red could overheadhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool36w6441.jpg14Pontypool36w6441A gash in the skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool35w6435.jpg14Pontypool35w6435Shell Grotto and blood-red skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool34w6432.jpg14Pontypool34w6432Golden sky sinks behind the ridges to the westhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool33w6426.jpg14Pontypool33w6426Gold on the ridge-top2014-12-16T06:59:11+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/12/01/autumn-gold-in-old-south-wales/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool32w6405.jpg14Pontypool32w6405Leaving Scarlet Hood mushrooms in the grass, edible but too attractive to pickhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool31w6402.jpg14Pontypool31w6402...... gone!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool30w6395.jpg14Pontypool30w6395Going, going .......https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool29w6389.jpg14Pontypool29w6389.... closer viewhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool28w6386.jpg14Pontypool28w6386Silhouette against the gold https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool27w6385.jpg14Pontypool27w6385Folly Towerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool26w6381.jpg14Pontypool26w6381Looking west from the ridge-top pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool25w6379.jpg14Pontypool25w6379Burnished by setting sun. holly tree on the ridge, the Folly coming into sighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/14pontypool24w6376.jpg14Pontypool24w6376Autumn gold reflecting in the Abergavenny-Brecon Canal, the south east boundary of the National Park2014-12-02T22:58:02+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/11/23/symi-imagining-the-past/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/lappatoniou-theologos-2.jpgLappatoniou-Theologos 2The route plotted on Google Earthhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi524w6213.jpg14Symi524w6213Stunning views on one of the most dramatic kalderimi on the island, and indeed in the whole Aegean,on the way back to Horiohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi507w1770.jpg14Symi507w1770More and more flowers open as Autumn gets underwayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi506w1767.jpg14Symi506w1767Even in October the vividly coloured male Red Veined Skimmers still disport themselves on the top of stalkshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/lappatoniou-theologos.jpgLappatoniou-TheologosSatellite image from Google Earth with the walls of the settlement enclosure bottom centre, the monastery top right and terraced fields visible to the left of thathttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi523w6197.jpg14Symi523w6197Looking north-east to the monastery of Agios Ioannis Theologos, white among the treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi522w6205.jpg14Symi522w6205The second threshing circle just below the enclosurehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi521w6199.jpg14Symi521w6199.... and another view of the threshing circlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi520w6198.jpg14Symi520w6198From the ridge above the house looking towards the island monastery of Agios Emilianoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi519w6192.jpg14Symi519w6192.... and looking back towards the entrance2014-11-23T00:49:30+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/11/10/symi-back-to-a-waterhole-in-the-desert/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi481w1444.jpg14Symi481w1444When I landed here I was right at the waters' edge. Someone has pulled the plug out!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi130w0658.jpg14Symi130w0658Green toads doing what comes naturally on a rock in May 2014, high above water level in Octoberhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi476w1442.jpg14Symi476w1442Male and female Red-veined Darters fly in tandem to allow the female to lay eggs in the water. The haphazard movement means I failed to focus properly,the result is an impressionistic scene https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi483w1467.jpg14Symi483w1467Disporting himself on a stick, a male showing the yellow at the base of the wings which helps distinguish it from other red dragonflieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi479w1462.jpg14Symi479w1462Red-veined Darter on a rock now away from the waterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi478w1452.jpg14Symi478w1452Showing then red-veins in the wings which give the dragonfly its namehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi092w0115.jpg14Symi092w0115..... and so was the rock slabhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi091w0112.jpg14Symi091w0112Female dragonflies lay their eggs from a rusty fence, well above water-level by Septemberhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi387w1513.jpg14Symi387w1513Inside Skordalos cave, water drips very slowly from a calcite strawhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14symi477w1447.jpg14Symi477w1447Down at water level September 20142014-11-10T17:40:19+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/10/30/symi-to-the-past-and-on-the-edge/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi466w5926.jpg14Symi466w5926Combined retaining wall and enclosure on near-vertical slopehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi465w5939.jpg14Symi465w5939.... which soon comes into sighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi464w5937.jpg14Symi464w5937The narrow path on the way back to the monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi463w5932.jpg14Symi463w5932Cupboards built into the cliff-wall: these don't come in flat packs with an allan-keyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi462w5931.jpg14Symi462w5931Single-room house built into the cliffhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi472w5948.jpg14Symi472w5948Looking back towards Megalos Sotiroshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi458w1387.jpg14Symi458w1387Looking towards the mountain-top monastery of Agios Stavros Polemouhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi457w5944.jpg14Symi457w5944At the top of the razor limestone craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi456w1385.jpg14Symi456w1385Photographer on the edge, with a new pair of sandalshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi471w5909.jpg14Symi471w5909One of the panels in the iconastis, this one depicting the Archangel Michael, edged by fine wood carving 2014-10-31T09:34:23+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/10/28/remembering-5/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14pontypool22w1838.jpg14Pontypool22w1838https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14pontypool21w6355.jpg14Pontypool21w6355https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14pontypool20w1835.jpg14Pontypool20w18352014-10-29T11:59:38+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/10/18/symi-wildlife-safari/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi430w1805.jpg14Symi430w1805looking for a bolt-hole as I followed it with the camerahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi429w1803.jpg14Symi429w1803I thought this was an Ottoman Viper but checked and it was identified as a Coin-marked snake.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi447w6166.jpg14Symi447w6166Not everything survives. I don't know how this bird of prey met its end but it was spread out like a feather cloak not savaged by a predator https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi448w6311.jpg14Symi448w6311This little guy was unwilling to come out of his shell once he spotted mehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi437w1782.jpg14Symi437w1782When you get old the wrinkles in your neck give you awayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi436w1777.jpg14Symi436w1777I nearly trod on this big fella, over a foot long, almost black, covered in dust and wandering along the mountainsidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi435w1798.jpg14Symi435w1798... and then landing next to my pliershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi433w1812.jpg14Symi433w1812Rearing up on 4 of its 6 legshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi432w1807.jpg14Symi432w1807. alittle easier to see against the dark wood of the railinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi434w1793.jpg14Symi434w1793... but I found this one when dismantling the hessian shade cover on the roof terrace2014-10-19T00:59:43+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/10/04/symi-a-taste-of-honey-and-dalliance-with-a-painted-lady/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi429w1610.jpg14Symi429w1610Oertzeni lizard gets a taste of honeyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi411w1634.jpg14Symi411w1634Painted lady opens her wingshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi410w1628.jpg14Symi410w1628Painted lady settles on squillhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi425w1627.jpg14Symi425w1627Thistledown soft seed headhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi424w1675.jpg14Symi424w1675Vivid purple among the dead leaveshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi423w1668.jpg14Symi423w1668A bee shows the size of the diminutive cup-shaped flowershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi422w1666.jpg14Symi422w1666Two clumps close togetherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi421w1657.jpg14Symi421w1657Some are pure creamy whitehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi420w1649.jpg14Symi420w1649Some are suffused with delicate pinkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14symi419w6134.jpg14Symi419w6134Compacted path through an avenue of squill2014-10-07T18:32:57+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/09/24/symi-another-trek-in-the-mountains-in-search-of-the-past/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi408w6108.jpg14Symi408w6108Dropping down towards Nimboriohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi390w1562.jpg14Symi390w1562more detailhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi389w1555.jpg14Symi389w1555Getting a little closerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi388w1550.jpg14Symi388w1550Familiar top-of-stick poistion, unfamiliar colouringhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi397w1541jpg.jpg14Symi397w1541jpgLarge dressed-stone block marking an entrance to the sitehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi396w1520.jpg14Symi396w1520One of the internal wallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi395w1521.jpg14Symi395w1521Long wall along seaward edgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi394w1536.jpg14Symi394w1536Wide entrance through the walls on landward sidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi404w6063.jpg14Symi404w6063Old agricultural terraces marching up the mountiansidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi403w6058.jpg14Symi403w6058Photographer on the edge at the ruins2014-09-25T08:10:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/09/14/symi-wandering-the-mountains-in-a-search-for-the-past/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi381wdsc0204.jpg14Symi381wDSC0204Squill bursting from the groundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi365w1425.jpg14Symi365w1425Rather more refined than the average random stone blockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi364w1423.jpg14Symi364w1423Dressed marble blocks at the seaward entrance to the enclosurehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi377w5981.jpg14Symi377w5981Tile to drain the roof cemented in placehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi370w5969.jpg14Symi370w5969Finely cut timber jointinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi369w5987.jpg14Symi369w5987Surprisingly ornate hinge on shutterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi368w1437.jpg14Symi368w1437Simple iron latchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi366w1439.jpg14Symi366w1439The built-in cupboardhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi376w5971.jpg14Symi376w5971Looking towards the window and collapsed wallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14symi371w1417.jpg14Symi371w1417Random stone in the corner wall2014-09-24T01:29:28+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/09/04/symi-a-walk-to-the-beach-via-the-underworld-and-pre-history/2014-09-04T09:35:50+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/08/21/symi-a-trek-to-a-time-before-greece/2014-08-21T10:13:29+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/08/14/symi-a-jaunt-down-a-mini-gorge/2014-08-17T11:50:44+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/08/06/symi-a-trek-into-the-past/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14symi300w5027.jpg14Symi300w5027Looking across the pond to the crag behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14symi299w0817.jpg14Symi299w0817.... and looking down from the top of the craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14symi297w0815.jpg14Symi297w0815The extent of the enclosureshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14symi296bw0813.jpg14Symi296bw0813The red line shows the water level in 200, about 8 feet below present dayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14symi319w1308.jpg14Symi319w1308......... sunlight glinting on its wingshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14symi318w1317.jpg14Symi318w1317Red dragonfly balancing on stickhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14symi314w1202.jpg14Symi314w1202The onward path through the settlement towards the pondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14symi313w1191.jpg14Symi313w1191The house within the enclosure is larger with remains of internal lathe and plaster walls, not just a single roomhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14symi306w5565.jpg14Symi306w5565More fertile fields at the lowest level in the settlement.2014-08-10T09:04:52+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/07/28/symi-to-the-castle-with-a-lot-of-distractions/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14symi294w5776.jpg14Symi294w5776Looking up to the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14symi292w5775.jpg14Symi292w5775Wavy rock, red soilhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14symi291w5770.jpg14Symi291w5770One day this will fall offhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14symi284wdsc0175.jpg14Symi284wDSC0175From the far edge of the castle, a great lookout pointhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14symi283wdsc0173.jpg14Symi283wDSC0173The castlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14symi281w1276.jpg14Symi281w1276Castle walls on top of the crag, Agios Emilianos island monastery in the distancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14symi279w1257.jpg14Symi279w1257.... stariahgt from science fictionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14symi278w1255.jpg14Symi278w1255Alien specieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14symi287w1301.jpg14Symi287w1301this is the biplane lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14symi286w1286.jpg14Symi286w1286 contemplating what to do2014-07-28T07:29:08+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/07/18/symi-tilos-the-mani-rock-with-an-edge/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14symi261w1154.jpg14Symi261w1154..... and now for something completely differenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14symi258w1135.jpg14Symi258w1135A large serrated-edged hole in the rock2014-07-18T07:45:56+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/07/11/tilos-a-walk-to-the-beach-the-day-after-the-mountain-destroyed-my-sandals/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos046w1008.jpg14Tilos046w1008Agriosikia Castle seen from my balconyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos060wdsc0149.jpg14Tilos060wDSC0149.... and looking back along the beach of 'Green Tholos' to the cliff and its fissurehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos053w5413.jpg14Tilos053w5413Looking through the fissure in the cliff to 'Green Tholos'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos059w5420.jpg14Tilos059w5420Gnarly rock of the small waterfallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos058w5404.jpg14Tilos058w5404Impressively very gnarly crag as the path drops into the stream bedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos057w5402.jpg14Tilos057w5402The path to Tholos from the col passes through a threshing circlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos056w5400.jpg14Tilos056w5400Looking down to where the paths from Livadia and to Tholos intersect the tarmac in the colhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos044w1005.jpg14Tilos044w1005Behind the castle and way below is the tiny harbour of Agios Stephanoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos041wdsc0146.jpg14Tilos041wDSC0146Panorama from the crag behind the castlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos043w1002.jpg14Tilos043w1002closer view of the castle2014-07-12T09:22:55+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/07/06/5063/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos039w5490.jpg14Tilos039w5490A relief to be approaching shade at Agios Ioannis https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos038w5448.jpg14Tilos038w5448Looking back across from the cliff path to Koutsoubashttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos037w1017.jpg14Tilos037w1017Photographer on the edge: 500 metres straight down to cool blue seahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos036w1015.jpg14Tilos036w1015Zooming in on the beach at Despoti To Nero, my original destination and now a very tempting prospecthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos035w1012.jpg14Tilos035w1012The telecom mast is still in placehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos034w5440.jpg14Tilos034w5440.... getting closerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos033w5435.jpg14Tilos033w5435First sight of he deserted telecom station https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos032w5434.jpg14Tilos032w5434A snake used the rough edges of the rock in the path to help slough its skinhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos031w5433.jpg14Tilos031w5433The mountain path crosses the top of the zawnhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos030w5429.jpg14Tilos030w5429Looking across the deserted village of Ghera, the end of the good path2014-07-13T15:00:07+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/07/01/tilos-the-kamikaze-trail/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos025w5223.jpg14Tilos025w5223Reaching the final col and the long descent to Eristos Beach in the distancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos024w5220.jpg14Tilos024w5220Reaching the flat slabs of The Terracehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos023w5212.jpg14Tilos023w5212.... sometimes leading straight up rock crags: note the cairn on tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos022w5216.jpg14Tilos022w5216Need to look out for small cairns ot judge the direction of travelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos021w5208.jpg14Tilos021w5208The long-abandoned chapel of 'Panagia' in the middle of nowherehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos020w0927.jpg14Tilos020w0927Rough path leads towards a short section on top of stone terracing below cragshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos019w0923.jpg14Tilos019w0923Lurking under a plant, spotted when it furled its wingshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos018w5193.jpg14Tilos018w5193The eye-catching bodyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos017w5195.jpg14Tilos017w5195..... and looking down on the long descent to the springhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14tilos016w5192.jpg14Tilos016w5192Looking back up the red shale path to the slabs in the col2014-07-02T10:43:22+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/06/23/symi-a-gorge-walk/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi242w5146.jpg14Symi242w5146But then the bed narrows again and more falls to climbhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi241w0881.jpg14Symi241w0881Getting towards the top the sides open out for a while and oregano takes overhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi240w5131.jpg14Symi240w5131Looking down the same fallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi239w5130.jpg14Symi239w5130.... then it gets pinched by rock walls barely shoulder-width aparthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi238w5127.jpg14Symi238w5127In places the riverbed is like a broad pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi237w5124.jpg14Symi237w5124There was plenty of friction chimneying up against this wallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi235w5117.jpg14Symi235w5117Bonzai cypress trees survive in tiniest of fissureshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi234w5107.jpg14Symi234w5107... and almost immediately straight onto anotherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi233w0877.jpg14Symi233w0877Looking down from the top of one of the drywaterfallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi232w0872.jpg14Symi232w0872stalactites part way up the wall2014-08-11T12:55:51+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/06/17/symi-the-month-of-the-thyme/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi223w0838.jpg14Symi223w0838.... a closer lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi222w0836.jpg14Symi222w0836Multicoloured hives in the middle of thyme going all the way down to the seahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi221w0834.jpg14Symi221w0834Increasingly farmers are turning to honey production in the vicinity of areas of thymehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi220w0799.jpg14Symi220w0799In places there is no discernible way through the thymehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi219w0797.jpg14Symi219w0797... but in places the 'path' has to be picked through densely growing clumpshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi218w0806.jpg14Symi218w0806... and in places the thyme is more widespreadhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi195w0760.jpg14Symi195w0760A pleasure to walk along some sections of pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi215w49071.jpg14Symi215w4907... or alongside a broad pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi194w0755.jpg14Symi194w0755A few more clumps in a barren landscapehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi224w0780.jpg14Symi224w0780Single cushions of thyme on the slope down to the sea2014-06-17T08:22:57+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/06/13/symi-change-of-season-change-of-focus/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi198w0774.jpg14Symi198w0774... while another looks onhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi197w0766.jpg14Symi197w0766.... being fed by parfenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi196w0764.jpg14Symi196w0764Young swallows in nest on top of light fittinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi193wdsc0095.jpg14Symi193wDSC0095The panorama along the Pedi Bay with thunder clouds over Turkey beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi215w4907.jpg14Symi215w4907Final drop down off the ridge to the colhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi214w4896.jpg14Symi214w4896view down to Nimboriohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi213w4893.jpg14Symi213w4893The thin path through contorted and folded limestonehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi212w4889.jpg14Symi212w4889Old olive press indicative of the agricultural pasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi211w4883.jpg14Symi211w4883Sharp, eroded rock and gnarled tree struggling for life in a clefthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi210w4876.jpg14Symi210w4876... and on the inside2014-06-13T16:38:08+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/06/08/symi-a-last-look-back-to-spring/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi188w0426.jpg14Symi188w0426Most certainly the inspiration for another SciFi alienhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi187w0368.jpg14Symi187w0368.... and a head which seems to emulate a large ladybirdhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi186w0366.jpg14Symi186w0366Black and yellow warning markings with a body length the diameter of the wild hollyhock flowers it pollinateshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi185w0401.jpg14Symi185w0401Some butterflies are significantly larger with very different eyeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi184w0405.jpg14Symi184w0405Some with delicate and intricate markingshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi183w0352.jpg14Symi183w0352Oregano attracts many butterflies late into Mayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi191w0315.jpg14Symi191w0315The markings on its tiny head are from a SciFi imaginationhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi182w0353.jpg14Symi182w0353A small moth on a cornflowerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi181w0317.jpg14Symi181w0317looked at from the sidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi180w0315.jpg14Symi180w0315small dragonfly with a body about 2cms long 2014-06-09T21:21:45+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/06/04/symi-an-eye-catching-trek/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi175w4800.jpg14Symi175w4800Zooming in - photographer in lizard's eye (as with all photos, click to get full-screen view)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi174w4800.jpg14Symi174w4800Painted Dragon lizard gone to ground in a limestone crevicehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi172w4788.jpg14Symi172w4788Very pregnant and hesitating before going to groundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi171w0718.jpg14Symi171w0718Indication of teh size of the smaller tortoiseshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi170w4783.jpg14Symi170w4783This little guy was climbing a rockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi169w47631.jpg14Symi169w4763https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi168w0723.jpg14Symi168w0723well camouflaged under dried foliagehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi167w0714.jpg14Symi167w0714One of the larger tortoises seen on the walkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi169w4763.jpg14Symi169w4763These Dragon Arums were nearly a 3 feet tall with stems nearly 2 inches in diameterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14symi166w0713.jpg14Symi166w0713.... viwed from above2014-06-06T20:52:31+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/05/30/symi-hidden-from-view/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/symicave1.jpgSymiCave1The routehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi157w4735.jpg14Symi157w4735The carved iconastis inside the chapelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi156w0579.jpg14Symi156w0579Sun dial over the doorwayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi158w0573.jpg14Symi158w0573The Hochlakos mosaic courtyardhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi155w4730.jpg14Symi155w4730The imposing entrance to the inner compound of Roukouniotis monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi144w0571.jpg14Symi144w0571Oertenzi lizard with coloured throathttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi143w0562.jpg14Symi143w0562Blue Painted Dragonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi146w0539.jpg14Symi146w0539small but very brighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi145w4655.jpg14Symi145w4655Gnarled trunk of cypress treehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi142w0559.jpg14Symi142w0559Looking west to a small string of uninhabited islets and Tilos faint in the distance2024-06-07T18:26:11+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/05/25/symi-a-trek-to-a-waterhole-in-a-desert/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/gria3.jpgGria3The track of the outehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi136w0687.jpg14Symi136w0687before sharing a paltformhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi134w0684.jpg14Symi134w0684but then more aerobaticshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi129w0679.jpg14Symi129w0679better side by sidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi128w0670.jpg14Symi128w0670.... what's going on here?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi126w0668.jpg14Symi126w0668On an approach runhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi130w0658.jpg14Symi130w0658Hard at ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi132w0656.jpg14Symi132w0656Looking across the pond from my new perchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi131w0654.jpg14Symi131w0654Quick shot of Black Rat Sankehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi125w0619.jpg14Symi125w0619... sometimes perching momentarily in the edge2024-09-24T20:09:01+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/05/19/symi-wildlife-on-a-moderately-wild-walk-a-micro-view/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi114w4541.jpg14Symi114w4541natural rock gardenhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi107w0491.jpg14Symi107w0491while behind me a pregnant Lacerta oertzeni lizard sneaks pasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi106w0486.jpg14Symi106w0486gives time for the agama to come out and posehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi105w0457.jpg14Symi105w0457attention distracted by spiderhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi104w0457.jpg14Symi104w0457Emerging slowly from the fissure it hid inhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi103w0455.jpg14Symi103w0455Starred agama freezes to avoid detectionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi113w4536.jpg14Symi113w4536Ice crystals of high level strato cirrus cloud act as a prismhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi112w4531.jpg14Symi112w4531Field of barleyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi111w4528.jpg14Symi111w4528In contrast to the shade tree this gnarly specimen struggles to survive, surrounded by seed heads of Dragon Arumshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi115w0507.jpg14Symi115w0507Tortoise with €2 coin for scale2014-07-05T05:30:38+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/05/13/kalymnos-colour-and-signals-in-the-crags/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14kalymnos16w0270.jpg14Kalymnos16w0270At this time of year rain clouds can add dramahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14kalymnos17w0268.jpg14Kalymnos17w0268Spectacular markings on spider on nasturtium petalhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14kalymnos07w0201.jpg14Kalymnos07w0201https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14kalymnos12w0226.jpg14Kalymnos12w0226in small patches of soil between rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14kalymnos11w0218.jpg14Kalymnos11w0218pushing through thorn busheshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14kalymnos10w4438.jpg14Kalymnos10w4438growing at the side of the roadhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14kalymnos09w4436.jpg14Kalymnos09w4436some carpeting the groundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14kalymnos04w0163.jpg14Kalymnos04w0163some on small busheshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14kalymnos03w0151.jpg14Kalymnos03w0151... in a variety of colourshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14kalymnos02w0150.jpg14Kalymnos02w0150Individual flowers2014-05-13T07:09:25+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2014/05/07/symi-more-spring-colour/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi083w0078.jpg14Symi083w0078And no apologies for including an orchid again. Exquisitehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi074w0226.jpg14Symi074w0226No apologies for including cyclamen again, one of my favouriteshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi075w0234.jpg14Symi075w0234Another type of clover, I thinkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi073w0217.jpg14Symi073w0217Often associated with 'English Cottage Gardens' hollyhocks grow wild on Symi .... and don't get blighted by rusthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi072w0216.jpg14Symi072w0216Zooming in , the bees are hard at work ensuring pollination and the continuation of te specieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi070w0209.jpg14Symi070w0209.... setting large pods of seed alreadyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/14symi069w0208.jpg14Symi069w0208A bush 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3wI was climbing a crag to a vantage point with camera slung on my back to take this photo when the phone rang .... a welcome message from Turkey just across the water.2013-12-19T08:30:52+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/12/01/a-sunset-stroll/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/13torfaen07w1361.jpg13Torfaen07w1361.......... and zooming inhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/13torfaen08w3536.jpg13Torfaen08w3536Dark in the valley, last glimmer of sunset beyond the ridge to the Westhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/13torfaen09w3531.jpg13Torfaen09w3531High ISO setting penetrates the near-darkness to show the final stile and the low footbridge through the pale tussocky grasshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/13torfaen07w1359.jpg13Torfaen07w1359.............. zooming inhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/13torfaen06w1355.jpg13Torfaen06w1355Lone tree silhouetted on the ridge as I dropped off the mountain to the Easthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/13torfaen02w1320.jpg13Torfaen02w1320Crystal clear in the cold air, flat topped Pen-y-Fan and Corn Du, the core of the Brecon Beacons, 18 miles to the northwesthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/13torfaen03w1323.jpg13Torfaen03w1323Photography on fiery red grasshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/13torfaen04w1335.jpg13Torfaen04w1335...... zooming inhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/13torfaen05w1346.jpg13Torfaen05w1346https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/13torfaen01w1316.jpg13Torfaen01w1316Ridges receding into the golden glow to the west2013-12-04T00:04:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/11/26/autumn-colour-in-grey-britain/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13stockport05w3494.jpg13Stockport05w3494Leaves shed on the pond as well as the pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13stockport04w3489.jpg13Stockport04w3489 Heaton Mersey Pond in the evening gloomhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13stockport03w3488.jpg13Stockport03w3488Leaden sky towards the very end of the afternoon bleaches but cannot hide the colourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13stockport02w3482.jpg13Stockport02w3482Setting sun gives a golden glow to everything as it sinks lower on the Trans Pennine Trailhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13stockport01w3480.jpg13Stockport01w3480https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13pontypool077w3420.jpg13Pontypool077w3420Bright yellow despite grey skieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13pontypool076w3410.jpg13Pontypool076w3410The bandstand an avenue of ornamental cheery trees in the local parkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13cherryhinton026w1309.jpg13CherryHinton026w1309Surrealistic golden glow at the bottom of the garden as the sun riseshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13cherryhinton025w1312.jpg13CherryHinton025w1312Silver birch turns golden brown, exaggerated by the setting sunhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13cherryhinton024w3428.jpg13CherryHinton024w3428A newly laid carpet in the Acer Glade2013-11-27T23:28:30+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/11/17/a-walk-to-the-pub/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13gwent22w3479.jpg13Gwent22w3479The tunnel underneath the house and the canalhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13gwent21w3473.jpg13Gwent21w3473Stone sleepers which once carried the rails of the tramwayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13gwent19w3471.jpg13Gwent19w3471Standing on the edge of the Blorenge bowl looking northhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13gwent18w3469.jpg13Gwent18w3469At the top, looking north to The Sugar Loaf, The Skirrid just out of sighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13gwent17w3468.jpg13Gwent17w3468The improved path from the car park to the trig point on The Blorengehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13gwent16w3464.jpg13Gwent16w3464Getting closer to the mastshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13gwent15w3459.jpg13Gwent15w3459The level path along the east-west ridge towards the telecom mastshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13gwent14w3456.jpg13Gwent14w3456Over my boots but in places the mire was half way up my calfhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13gwent13w3455.jpg13Gwent13w3455One of the areas where ilegal off-road vehicles have cut though the peat and created mirehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13gwent12w3451.jpg13Gwent12w3451Looking across the sepia-coloured grass on the high acid moorland, the Foxhunter masts just visible, the path zigzagging off to the left and then back right to avoid the valley2013-11-17T18:09:41+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/11/11/writers-in-wales-in-the-sunshine/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13criccieth12w1305.jpg13Criccieth12w1305Back to the househttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13criccieth06w3396.jpg13Criccieth06w3396Closer lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13criccieth05w3402.jpg13Criccieth05w3402Cormorant and Cricciethhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13criccieth04w3386.jpg13Criccieth04w3386Nothing to addhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13criccieth03w3379.jpg13Criccieth03w3379Oh Bouy! (in Englsih Pronounced 'boy', not 'Boo Ee'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13criccieth02w3372.jpg13Criccieth02w3372Tide markhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13criccieth01w3371.jpg13Criccieth01w3371Not the Mediterranean, North Waleshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13criccieth09w1295.jpg13Criccieth09w1295A golden glow promises a good day aheadhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13criccieth08w1290.jpg13Criccieth08w1290Sunrise from my bedroom window2013-11-12T16:42:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/11/07/independence-risk-and-narrow-escapes/2013-11-07T11:25:05+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/11/03/a-really-wild-walk/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13pontypool071w3306.jpg13Pontypool071w3306A lone beech tree rising above the ridge-top hedge is bent and scuplted by the prevailing widehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13pontypool070w3305.jpg13Pontypool070w3305Crouching to the ground in driving rain, a poor attempt to photograph the narrow blue gap on the lee side of the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13pontypool069w3295.jpg13Pontypool069w3295The onward path, temporarily a streamhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13pontypool068w3291.jpg13Pontypool068w3291Looking back across the fording point, normally just two or three flat stepping stoneshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13pontypool067w3289.jpg13Pontypool067w3289Looking upstream on what is usually a very small brook https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/13pontypool066w3287.jpg13Pontypool066w3287Reaching the ridge-top path a brief respite in the horizontal rain coincided with a brief gaps in the clouds to the west.2013-11-03T03:42:25+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/10/31/going-to-extremes/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13waterfalls17w1222.jpg13Waterfalls17w1222https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13waterfalls16w1206.jpg13Waterfalls16w1206https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13waterfalls15w1218.jpg13Waterfalls15w1218https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13waterfalls14w1199.jpg13Waterfalls14w1199https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13waterfalls13w1193.jpg13Waterfalls13w1193https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13waterfalls12w1191.jpg13Waterfalls12w1191Autumn leaves and water coloured by sediment https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13waterfalls11w1201.jpg13waterfalls11w1201https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13pontypool065w1183.jpg13Pontypool065w1183A bonus on the way back, a small crop of Clitocybe geotropa soon made into souphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13pontypool064w3258.jpg13Pontypool064w3258The top of Garn Wen, the next band of cloud and heavy rain scudding across at high speed from the west2013-10-31T12:48:26+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/10/28/remembering-4/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13pontypool061w3265.jpg13Pontypool061w3265https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13pontypool063w3250.jpg13Pontypool063w3250https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13pontypool062w3246.jpg13Pontypool062w32462013-10-29T09:40:36+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/10/24/symi-history-and-the-backbone-of-the-island/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi24w1053.jpg13Symi24w1053The long curve of the stone-embanked kalderimi, the wind turbine on top of Vigla on the righthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi41w3184.jpg13Symi41w3184Tilos in silhouette on the horizonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi31w1126.jpg13Symi31w1126Zooming in on Stavros Polemouhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi32w1132.jpg13Symi32w1132Just part of the expansive view from the edge of the cliff at the side of the Abbeyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi37w3175.jpg13Symi37w3175The Last Supper, one of the many very well preserved frescoeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi34w3173.jpg13Symi34w3173The arched courtyard at the side of the chapelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi33w3171.jpg13Symi33w3171The iron-studded oak door to the inner courtyard stands open, key in the lockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi36w3165.jpg13Symi36w3165Close-up of one of the restored wine presseshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi30w1121.jpg13Symi30w1121Looking across the Byzantine Stone Wine Presses to mountain perch of Stavros Polemou https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi35w3183.jpg13Symi35w3183Funky art2013-10-30T08:50:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/10/16/symi-the-island-experience/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi32w1075.jpg13Symi32w1075The causeway breaking up, guarded by hungry goatshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/11symi055w3703jpg.jpg11Symi055w3703jpgOne of the large Turkish boats moored to the shorehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi28w1063.jpg13Symi28w1063https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi31w3134.jpg13Symi31w3134Dropping down to the fishing quay and the 'dry dock'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi29w1058.jpg13Symi29w1058A great place for piece and quiet.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi27w1086.jpg13Symi27w1086View from the monastery across Skoumisa Bay to Agios Emilianoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi25w3129.jpg13Symi25w3129The entrance to the monastery of Agios Ioannis Theologoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi30w3127.jpg13Symi30w3127A sea of squill in Tortoise Square in the colhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi26w3122.jpg13Symi26w3122Part of the boulderfield which the path picks a way through2013-10-18T17:23:55+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/10/12/symi-a-gorgeous-walk/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi37w3097.jpg13Symi37w3097A last stop under the shade tree at Agia Paraskevi https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/10symi159w2193.jpg10Symi159w2193A little rock climbing on dry waterfalls is necessary to progress up the gorrgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/10symi157w2187.jpg10Symi157w2187Rock pinnacles and bonzai pine trees add drama https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/10symi158w2189.jpg10Symi158w2189The bottom end of the Vasilios Gorgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi36w3085.jpg13Symi36w3085Looking along the beach towards the monastery perched on the cliffhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi20w3092.jpg13Symi20w3092Looking down to the tiny cliff-edge monastery of Agios Vasilios with Lapathos Beach below2013-10-16T09:37:24+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/10/06/symi-below-the-surface/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi12w3238.jpg13Symi12w3238Climbing back out ..... carefullyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi11w3228.jpg13Symi11w3228Silhouetted against the entrancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi17w3225.jpg13Symi17w3225Creamy calcite overheadhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi16w3231.jpg13Symi16w3231Pink calcite deposits on one side of the passagehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi13w3221.jpg13Symi13w3221The cave openinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi15w1173.jpg13Symi15w1173Looking down from the shoulder of the hill to Skoumisa Bay and the island monastery of Agios Emilianos 2016-06-01T17:34:00+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/10/02/symi-going-off-piste/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi08w11561.jpg13Symi08w1156View of Pedi Bay through the squill on the top of the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi14w3153jpg.jpg13Symi14w3153jpg..... which still has water after the severest of summer droughtshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi13w1092jpg.jpg13Symi13w1092jpgPart way down the end of the ridge looking back to the summit and the rib of rock which I followed to the top https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi12w1114jpg.jpg13Symi12w1114jpgLooking down to the stone-lined pondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi11w1102.jpg13Symi11w1102Zooming in on Horio, the old town above the harbour from the ridge tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi10w1103.jpg13Symi10w1103The stone cairn with Pedi Bay far belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi09w1162.jpg13Symi09w1162Part of the now abandoned village clustered close to a prominent craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi07w3202.jpg13Symi07w3202Looking back to the summit from one of the intervening rock otcropshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi06w3199.jpg13Symi06w3199The beginning of the goat pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/13symi05w3193.jpg13Symi05w3193Rock slabs sharply inclined2013-10-02T13:10:42+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/09/28/greece-more-high-speed-island-hopping/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13kos08w3055.jpg13Kos08w3055Framedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13kos07w3051.jpg13Kos07w3051Large arch with some of the remaining columns beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13kos06w3047.jpg13Kos06w3047More extensive floor mosaics herehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13kos05w3044.jpg13Kos05w3044Mini-ret on the way to the Western Excavationhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13kos04w2557.jpg13Kos04w2557Ancient floor mosaic of the now much persecuted rock partridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13kos03w2562.jpg13Kos03w2562Two remaining columnshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13kos02w2560.jpg13Kos02w2560... found in several parts of the sitehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13kos01w2554.jpg13Kos01w2554One of the impressive carved marble figures2013-09-28T19:26:18+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/09/25/nisyros-last-glance-before-moving-on/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros094w0923.jpg13Nisyros094w0923.... close up of the delicate flowershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros093w2969.jpg13Nisyros093w2969Sea daffodils in the sand of the east coast, dign of the end of summerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros131w0943.jpg13Nisyros131w0943https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros130w2693.jpg13Nisyros130w2693https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros129w0822.jpg13Nisyros129w0822https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros102w2585.jpg13Nisyros102w2585... opening into the tiny central 'Avli' or inner courtyardhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros101w2587.jpg13Nisyros101w2587One of the rooms inside the Siones monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros100w2579.jpg13Nisyros100w2579Intact 17th Century frescoes in the long abandoned Siones monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros099w2567.jpg13Nisyros099w2567Just another of the lava pinnacles ringing the calderahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros098w0634.jpg13Nisyros098w0634Lava pillars either side of a kalderimi2013-09-25T10:01:45+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/09/22/nisyros-probably-the-most-dramatic-walk-in-the-aegean/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros128w0893.jpg13Nisyros128w0893Part of the alien hieroglyphics insidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros029w2467.jpg13Nisyros029w246720 metre high lava bubblehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros127w2460.jpg13Nisyros127w2460The Hochlakos patterned courtyard and the spiral stone steps to the bell towerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros126w2402.jpg13Nisyros126w2402The entrance to the sauna at Emborioshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros125w0436.jpg13Nisyros125w0436The unique Balcony Tavernahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros035w05001.jpg13Nisyros035w0500Large basin carved from lava and fragment of imported marble container alongside a sternahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros031w24101.jpg13Nisyros031w2410A cluster of ancient houses underneath the agricultural terraceshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros124w3021.jpg13Nisyros124w3021In the fissure looking up to Parletiahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros123w3020.jpg13Nisyros123w3020Trees collapsed into the fissure but stay alive if any roots remain intacthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros058w26251.jpg13Nisyros058w2625Sulphur encrustations around a large cluster of fumaroles2014-07-05T09:09:57+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/09/18/4164/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros118w2830.jpg13Nisyros118w2830Very definitely of alien originhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros112w2795.jpg13Nisyros112w2795Or just great lumps of raw orehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros111w2792.jpg13Nisyros111w2792Veined with sulphur like gold, over a metre in diameterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros117w2831.jpg13Nisyros117w2831One like a giant fossilised meat pastyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros115w2816.jpg13Nisyros115w2816..... or delicate plantshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros109w2780.jpg13Nisyros109w2780And then some are matt-smooth like stranded sea creatureshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros116w2824.jpg13Nisyros116w2824.... or shooting upwards out of the groundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros114w2815.jpg13Nisyros114w2815.... or a recumbant figurehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros113w2809.jpg13Nisyros113w2809... another like a weird head or helmethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros110w2790.jpg13Nisyros110w2790... one shaped like a coffin with inscriptions2013-09-18T15:03:43+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/09/15/nisyros-wildlife-meet-the-residents/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros015w0431.jpg13Nisyros015w0431... before crossing the road while I stopped the traffichttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros014w0429.jpg13Nisyros014w0429... then doing its kerb drillhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros013w0428.jpg13Nisyros013w0428... leaving four bemused cats in it's wakehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros012w0425.jpg13Nisyros012w0425Strolling down the drive ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros052w05751.jpg13Nisyros052w0575Bat colony: taken without flash so as not to disturb themhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros092w2965.jpg13Nisyros092w2965This one explored my ankle while I was considering exploring a cavehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros082w0704.jpg13Nisyros082w0704Bright red in flight but changing dramatically the moment it landshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros045w0617.jpg13Nisyros045w0617A bit easier to spothttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros044w0549.jpg13Nisyros044w0549'Scarce Swallowtails' seem to be becoming scarcerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros011w0396.jpg13Nisyros011w0396Head-on they look ferocious2024-10-20T07:20:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/09/09/nisyros-dragon-coast/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros073w0751.jpg13Nisyros073w0751.... a head shothttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros072w0752.jpg13Nisyros072w0752... and anotherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros071w0743.jpg13Nisyros071w0743Zooming in on one of the dragonshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros070w0747.jpg13Nisyros070w0747A different anglehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros082w2737.jpg13Nisyros082w2737Lava stacks in the seahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros078w2753.jpg13Nisyros078w2753https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros077w0755.jpg13Nisyros077w0755Zooming in on the colour-contrasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros076w2749.jpg13Nisyros076w2749https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros075w27301.jpg13Nisyros075w2730https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros074w27221.jpg13Nisyros074w27222013-09-10T14:53:52+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/09/07/nisyros-cue-volcano-action/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros054w0649.jpg13Nisyros054w0649.... all shapes and sizeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros050w0595.jpg13Nisyros050w0595... and there are lots of themhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros049w0597.jpg13Nisyros049w0597Sulphur encrustation around individual fumaroles id delicate https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros061w0688.jpg13Nisyros061w0688Some of the sulphur rocks are pink or redhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros048w0604.jpg13Nisyros048w0604Another view towards Polyvotishttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros047w0611.jpg13Nisyros047w0611Another active area on the opposite side of the caldera, looking towards Polyvotis and Oros Diavatis, the highest mountain on the island https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros060w2630.jpg13Nisyros060w2630Close-up of part of one of the clustershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros059w2629.jpg13Nisyros059w2629Lying on my side on the hot rocks looking across a fumarole down the crater floor of Polyvotishttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros058w2625.jpg13Nisyros058w2625Clusters of sulphur-encrusted fumaroles line the rocky sides of Polyvotishttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros068w0805.jpg13Nisyros068w0805Looking across the Polyvotis crater to the mouth of the 'Grand Canyon'2013-09-07T06:37:53+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/09/04/nisyros-the-lost-world-a-trip-into-history/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros045w2653.jpg13Nisyros045w2653..... and taking a look insidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros044w2650.jpg13Nisyros044w2650Built underneath a rock with field overheadhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros043w2646.jpg13Nisyros043w2646Walking up the main street at over 1000 feethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros042w2502.jpg13Nisyros042w2502The chapel at the back of the furthesthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros041w2500.jpg13Nisyros041w2500.... zooming in for a clearer viewhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros040w2499.jpg13Nisyros040w2499.... and hidden in the jumble are 3 openings into houseshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros039w2641.jpg13Nisyros039w2641Walk across the roofs of these houses to the boulders beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros038w2478.jpg13Nisyros038w2478Very close to the active craters this place exudes antiquity, seems to predate hisatoryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros036w0502.jpg13Nisyros036w0502Theshing circle in the middle of the floor of the caldera with the fortress crags of Parletia behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/13nisyros052w0575.jpg13Nisyros052w0575Bat colony: taken without flash so as not to disturb them2013-09-04T16:37:53+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/08/29/nisyros-on-the-lava-trail/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros025w0574.jpg13Nisyros025w0574Looking back it is clear that the large lava bubble is just one of a series rising up the craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros030w2466.jpg13Nisyros030w2466Detail of part of ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros029w2467.jpg13Nisyros029w2467The 20 metre high lava bubblehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros024w0569.jpg13Nisyros024w0569Looking back to the silhouetted pinnacleshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros023w0561.jpg13Nisyros023w0561Relaxing on the edge looking down the length of the calderahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros022w0560.jpg13Nisyros022w0560The whole slabhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros021w0554.jpg13Nisyros021w0554Lava beast about to chomp on the crater-rim village of Emborioshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros020w0540.jpg13Nisyros020w0540Looking down between the pinnacles to the caldera floor 300 metres belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros028w2441.jpg13Nisyros028w2441The pinnacles at the highest pointhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros019w0533.jpg13Nisyros019w0533stone carvings indicate that this was more than just a rough fortress hideout2013-08-29T17:17:50+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/08/23/greece-rhodes-tilos-nisyros-high-speed-island-hopping/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros006w0365.jpg13Nisyros006w0365A bonus, I spotted two snakes on my first day though neither wanted to stick around to be photographedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros004w0360.jpg13Nisyros004w0360And another balcony, swallows like notes on a line of musichttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros003w0356.jpg13Nisyros003w0356Outside my balcony, white and blue, cool start to a hot day.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros002w0349.jpg13Nisyros002w0349.... as the moon rises from behind the ridge and above the mast headshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13nisyros001w2332jpg.jpg13Nisyros001w2332jpgIt doesn't get much more tranquil than Tilos harbour at night2013-08-25T05:12:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/08/16/brecon-beacons-waterfalls-and-pleasures-revisited/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13waterfalls10w2318.jpg13waterfalls10w2318..... closer lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13waterfalls09w2317.jpg13waterfalls09w2317"Alright lads, one after the other, shuffle along and jump"https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13waterfalls08w2314.jpg13waterfalls08w2314The pools and shallow falls are a great place to playhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13waterfalls07w2312.jpg13waterfalls07w2312Sgwd Pannwrhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13waterfalls06w2324.jpg13waterfalls06w2324Sgwd Isaf Clun-Gwynhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13waterfalls05w2301.jpg13waterfalls05w2301Looking along the approach path from the ledge behind the curtainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13waterfalls04w0316.jpg13waterfalls04w0316The constantly falling water is hypnotic, creating a dreamscape https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13waterfalls03w2303.jpg13waterfalls03w2303.... and viewed from the opposite bankhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13waterfalls02w0317.jpg13waterfalls02w0317Casually emerging from behind the fallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13waterfalls01w0320.jpg13waterfalls01w0320Approaching Sgwd yr Eira2013-08-19T19:27:29+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/08/09/tilos-images-looking-back/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos132w2269.jpg13Tilos132w2269Not the Turin Shroud ... just the Tilos Towelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos133w2276.jpg13Tilos133w2276Sweet, cool and very refreshinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos126w2176.jpg13Tilos126w2176View of The highest point on the island from the mountain castle at Megalo Horiohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos124w2149.jpg13Tilos124w2149Not on the beach but close to the top of a mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos129w0250.jpg13Tilos129w0250....... or a little help from the birdshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos128w0237.jpg13Tilos128w0237........... though sometimes given a little arranginghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos127w0167.jpg13Tilos127w0167Art is where you find ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos122w2078.jpg13Tilos122w2078Winter flotsam on secluded beaches is difficult to deal with especially when falling visitor numbers and concentration on umbrella-and-sunbed beaches reduce the incentive.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos131w0289.jpg13Tilos131w0289Waxing creative while drying off in the sunhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos130w0276.jpg13Tilos130w0276The beach really is that red, the sea that clear and that blue 2013-08-17T23:00:59+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/08/05/tilos-a-walk-beyond-the-fringe/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos118w2249.jpg13Tilos118w2249Eristos Beach, the end of the path and a refreshing swim in prospecthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos117w2248.jpg13Tilos117w2248In some mountains this would be worrying, but here it's only a pick left by workmenhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos116w2244.jpg13Tilos116w2244Up rocks and onto a rough path towards the colhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos115w2243.jpg13Tilos115w2243Along a narrowing ledge marked by small cairns (centre)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos114w2239.jpg13Tilos114w2239Approaching the isolated, abandoned chapel of Panagiahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos112w2237.jpg13Tilos112w2237From the shoulder the path begins to drop back downhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos113w2235.jpg13Tilos113w2235Looking across to neighbouring Nisyroshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos111w2229.jpg13Tilos111w2229.... squeezing between rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos110w2226.jpg13Tilos110w2226A thin but clear pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13tilos109w0201.jpg13Tilos109w0201The thin path tracing a meandering line under the crags and across scree slopes2013-08-05T00:38:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/07/30/tilos-sea-to-sky-and-back-again-3/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos054w0060jpg.jpg13Tilos054w0060jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos052w0056jpg.jpg13Tilos052w0056jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos051w0048jpg.jpg13Tilos051w0048jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos050w0046jpg.jpg13Tilos050w0046jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos049w0040jpg.jpg13Tilos049w0040jpgRock sentinel on the final approach to Thollos Beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos102w0034jpg.jpg13Tilos102w0034jpgOne of the dramatic red, gnarly rock crags in the gorgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos101w0026jpg.jpg13Tilos101w0026jpgThe easy start to the path down to Tholloshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos092w0221jpg.jpg13Tilos092w0221jpgZooming in on the beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos091w0220jpg.jpg13Tilos091w0220jpgRelaxing on the top, Thollos Beach at my feethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos090w0218jpg.jpg13Tilos090w0218jpg2013-07-31T07:09:46+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/07/28/tilos-sea-to-sky-and-back-again-2/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos068w0109jpg.jpg13Tilos068w0109jpgLooking straight along Livadia beachfronthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos067w0108jpg.jpg13Tilos067w0108jpgFollowing complaints that all the photos 'on the edge' are of my right foot, I thought fans might like to see bothhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos063w2036jpg.jpg13Tilos063w2036jpgSloughed snake skinhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos072w2124jpg.jpg13Tilos072w2124jpgAgios Pavlos and the large bell, engraved 'Turceman',https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos095w2133jpg.jpg13Tilos095w2133jpgThe deserted settlement above Agios Pavlos with another perspective on Thymadherihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos094w0134jpg.jpg13Tilos094w0134jpgZooming in on Agios Pavlos and its shade tree nestled under the craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos093w0135jpg.jpg13Tilos093w0135jpglooking towards Agios Pavlos and the top of the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos100w0274jpg.jpg13Tilos100w0274jpgCloser view of Vounoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos096w0269jpg1.jpg13Tilos096w0269jpgThe mountains backing Livadia Bay, Vounos on the left2013-07-28T11:22:49+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/07/26/tilos-sea-to-sky-and-back-again/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos085w1963jpg.jpg13Tilos085w1963jpgWistful backward looks to the craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos084w1954jpg.jpg13Tilos084w1954jpgView from the top is pretty goodhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos083w1952jpg.jpg13Tilos083w1952jpgThe crag is vertical overlooking the bayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos099w0242jpg.jpg13Tilos099w0242jpgTime for a little creativity on Despoti Nero beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos098w0228jpg.jpg13Tilos098w0228jpgLocal guy tenderises the squid he has just caught while his missus waits with plastic bag to take it homehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos097w0222jpg.jpg13Tilos097w0222jpgFishing boat returns to Agios Stephanos after early morning fishinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos096w0269jpg.jpg13Tilos096w0269jpgThe curve of mountains bordering Livadia Bay to south and east2013-07-26T06:54:17+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/07/23/tilos-wildlife-at-your-feet/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos069w0115jpg.jpg13Tilos069w0115jpgFlitting around on top of the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos073aw0138jpg.jpg13Tilos073(a)w0138jpgJust enough resolution to zoom in more and see that the lead bird is carrying a lizardhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos073w0138jpg.jpg13Tilos073w0138jpgMaximum 200x zoom with my SLR and cropped around the ravenshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos080w0208jpg.jpg13Tilos080w0208jpgPerched right on the tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos079w0209jpg.jpg13Tilos079w0209jpgWhat do they do with those sticks?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos071w0130jpg.jpg13Tilos071w0130jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos070w0128jpg.jpg13Tilos070w0128jpgAt the highest point on an arid mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos033w0021jpg.jpg13Tilos033w0021jpg.... and then down next to the waterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos032w0017jpg.jpg13Tilos032w0017jpgWhere I would expect to see it, on reeds by a springhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos078w0185jpg.jpg13Tilos078w0185jpg..... and crossed to the other side before darting down and out of sight2013-07-28T17:11:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/07/21/tilos-a-coast-walk-and-making-like-a-commando/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos045w2020jpg.jpg13Tilos045w2020jpgPhotographer in the water https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos044w2017jpg.jpg13Tilos044w2017jpgOne of the standing pools of waterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos043w2013jpg.jpg13Tilos043w2013jpgLooking back down the gorge from a mid point on the top of a large rockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos031w0013jpg.jpg13Tilos031w0013jpg.... and I just played with stoneshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos042w1997jpg.jpg13Tilos042w1997jpgSome creative person wedged this big stone in a dead olive tree at the side of the final section of path to Lethra Beach.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos041w1986jpg.jpg13Tilos041w1986jpgThe even redder beach on the other side of the narrow peninsulahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos040w1979jpg.jpg13Tilos040w1979jpgLooking along the length of Red Beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos039w1977jpg.jpg13Tilos039w1977jpgJust one of the views along the coast pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos038w1973jpg.jpg13Tilos038w1973jpgLooking back at the weak, shaley band and the tiny beaches far belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos037w1972jpg.jpg13Tilos037w1972jpg2013-07-21T21:47:05+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/07/19/tilos-what-is-getting-the-goat-of-the-islands-landscape/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos056w0081jpg.jpg13Tilos056w0081jpgLarge piebald male in pursuit of some actionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos056w0067jpg.jpg13Tilos056w0067jpgyoung kid licks the rock to get water which oozes outhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos055w0070jpg.jpg13Tilos055w0070jpgMother takes one of the kids for an amble up the craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos025w9943jpg.jpg13Tilos025w9943jpgYoung male hovering around, waiting his day.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos024w9949jpg.jpg13Tilos024w9949jpgFirst of all a good tongue-flicking to get her in the moodhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos023w9950jpg.jpg13Tilos023w9950jpgHey, you! I'm Big Billy, aren't I impressive2013-07-19T06:46:46+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/07/17/tilos-sharply-to-the-top/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos062w2069jpg.jpg13Tilos062w2069jpgThe welcome sight of Agios Ioannis, straightforward from herehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos060w0096jpg.jpg13Tilos060w0096jpgLooking from the top to the start of the coast path, Agios Ioannishttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos058w0090jpg.jpg13Tilos058w0090jpgNo messing .... 494 metres straight downhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos059w0093jpg.jpg13Tilos059w0093jpgThe derelict telecom mast on the summit, not without its dramahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos061w2030jpg.jpg13Tilos061w2030jpgLooking across the top of the abandonned village of Gherahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos057w2028jpg.jpg13Tilos057w2028jpgSome of the views to the sea are stunninghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos028w1931jpg.jpg13Tilos028w1931jpgOn the edge. In places the drop from the path is dramatichttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos027w1929jpg.jpg13Tilos027w1929jpgLooking from the pinnacle to the very goodcoast pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos026w1924jpg.jpg13Tilos026w1924jpgThe coast path hits a pinnacle of rock and has to hairpinhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos064w0105jpg.jpg13Tilos064w0105jpgLooking across the bay from teh Upper Terrace of my apartment. The 'Faros' is the furthest building at sea level2013-10-06T12:01:09+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/07/13/tilos-traumatic-changes-and-empty-shells/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos020w9940jpg.jpg13Tilos020w9940jpgApproaching Micro Horio on the footpath from Livadiahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos021w9963jpg.jpg13Tilos021w9963jpgZooming in on the village from the mountain behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos017w1879jpg.jpg13Tilos017w1879jpgLooking from the castle across the main church to the night club area https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos020w1890jpg.jpg13Tilos020w1890jpgThe remains of the castle built by the Venetians on a rocky crag close to the top of the villagehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos019w1884jpg.jpg13Tilos019w1884jpgSome of the houses are modern by European standards this one built in dedicated on 22 August 1912, years after the slum house I was brought up in which was twice the size and had an outside loohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos018w1882jpg.jpg13Tilos018w1882jpgLooking across a series of roofless houses, stone walls survive but wooden roofs decayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos016w1878jpg.jpg13Tilos016w1878jpgA somewhat grander house than many with windows, a front 'yard, and a 'fourno' (oven)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos015w1877jpg.jpg13Tilos015w1877jpgYou are more likely to see goats than people wandering the alleys of Micro Horiohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos014w1874jpg.jpg13Tilos014w1874jpg... and another.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos013w9957jpg.jpg13Tilos013w9957jpgOlive press complete with grinding stone just left behind2013-07-14T04:44:18+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/07/10/tilos-rocky-ramble-and-vrachophilia/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos010w1841jpg.jpg13Tilos010w1841jpgThe gorge narrows and the path passes close to one of themhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos009w1836jpg.jpg13Tilos009w1836jpgLimestone pinnacles tower above the gorgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos003w1806jpg.jpg13Tilos003w1806jpgJust one of themhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos005w1801jpg.jpg13Tilos005w1801jpgThe cluster of boulders on the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos008w9935jpg.jpg13Tilos008w9935jpgStavros beach with its very welcome shady shelterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos007w1824jpg.jpg13Tilos007w1824jpgOn the edge of one of the steeper dropshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13tilos006w1817jpg.jpg13Tilos006w1817jpgFirst glimpse of the bay at Agios Stavros2013-07-10T16:01:13+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/07/08/greece-art-and-about-in-rhodes/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes29w1797jpg.jpg13Rhodes29w1797jpgReflecting in Mandraki Harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes27w1782jpg.jpg13Rhodes27w1782jpgHeading out of the walled city https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes25w1784jpg.jpg13Rhodes25w1784jpgSea horse fountan in another squarehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes24w1776jpg.jpg13Rhodes24w1776jpgA stone owl keeps watch on the live pigeons in Socrates Squarehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes28w1793jpg.jpg13Rhodes28w1793jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes19w1766jpg.jpg13Rhodes19w1766jpg... which someone had spotted is actually a reindeerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes18w1761jpg.jpg13Rhodes18w1761jpgEyeing a plane treehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes17w1759jpg.jpg13Rhodes17w1759jpgImmediately outside the exhibition. She eased what must have been cramped muscles by bowing deeply whenever anyone dropped coins into her box https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes16w1757jpg.jpg13Rhodes16w1757jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes15w1755jpg.jpg13Rhodes15w1755jpg2015-03-24T09:16:40+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/07/07/greece-to-rhodes/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes12w1742jpg.jpg13Rhodes12w1742jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes11w1746.jpg13Rhodes11w1746https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes06w1725.jpg13Rhodes06w1725Entrance to the Agora from the harbour fronthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes10w1739.jpg13Rhodes10w1739Close to midnight and crowds still eating and shoppinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes09w1735.jpg13Rhodes09w1735Basket of shellshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes08w1731.jpg13Rhodes08w1731One of the boats moored in the harbour selling nothing but shells and associated sea-lifehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/13rhodes07w1730.jpg13Rhodes07w1730A small part of the old town walls2013-07-07T08:00:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/07/04/greece-wild-walks-or-soft-fruit/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/10tilos03w0826.jpg10Tilos03w0826..... and under the stoneshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/10tilos02w0832.jpg10Tilos02w0832Dangerous creatures lurk behind the rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/t07-red-beach-art-14w-6362.jpgT07 red beach art 14w - 6362https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/t07-red-beach-art-08w-6342.jpgT07 red beach art 08w - 6342Being creative on the beach relieves the tedium of just lying in the sunhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/t07-seafront-w-6368.jpgT07 seafront w - 6368Peace and quiet on the seafront, Turkey across the waterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tilos-25-pr-ilias-from-castle-w.jpgTilos 25 Pr Ilias from Castle whttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/livadia-w.jpgLivadia wLooking down to Livadia, the largest settlement on Tiloshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/agios-andonis-w.jpgAgios Andonis w2013-07-04T09:00:20+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/06/24/wales-wild-wet-walks/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13pontypool058w16912.jpg13Pontypool058w1691Seagulls playing in the swirling windhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13pontypool056w1679.jpg13Pontypool056w1679Brief glimpse of blue skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13pontypool057w1689.jpg13Pontypool057w1689Getting lower into the ridge-top fields, and to the west another rain shower chokes a side-valleyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13pontypool055w1675.jpg13Pontypool055w1675Black cloud hanging with rain chasing me down the ridge.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13pontypool054w1674.jpg13Pontypool054w1674Not even the muddy bits put me offhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13pontypool051w1662.jpg13Pontypool051w1662Crossing the Afon Lwydhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13pontypool059w1667.jpg13Pontypool059w1667https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13pontypool053w1666.jpg13Pontypool053w1666The swallow-hole, water disappearing down the jumble of rocks at the backhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13pontypool052w1661.jpg13Pontypool052w1661The top of the path down to the valley floor, heading the ridge-line opposite 2013-06-24T13:19:04+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/06/11/no-wild-walks-in-greece-taking-a-positive-view/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13cherryhinton014w99241-e1370989045544.jpg13CherryHinton014w9924A Welsh Poppy bows its head under the rainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13cherryhinton013w9907.jpg13CherryHinton013w9907https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13cherryhinton012w9906.jpg13CherryHinton012w9906https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13cherryhinton011w9896.jpg13CherryHinton011w9896Even on a gloomy, wet day the iris's are spectacularly colouredhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13cherryhinton015w9921.jpg13CherryHinton015w9921Looking down the iris bed alongside a new gravel pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13cherryhinton010w9893.jpg13CherryHinton010w9893https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13cherryhinton009w9890.jpg13CherryHinton009w9890https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13cherryhinton008w9877.jpg13CherryHinton008w9877Looking towards the acer planting from the balcony2013-06-11T22:19:11+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/06/02/wild-walks-in-greece-on-hold/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/langdale-2w.jpgLangdale 2wLangdale in the Lake District, taken many years ago with a film camera and scanned in to the computer.2013-06-05T10:37:54+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/05/26/a-welsh-spring-and-cliches-of-violence/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13pontypool050w1638.jpg13Pontypool050w1638Leaves on oak trees open later than most and are yellow/green rather than bright 'spring' greenhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13pontypool049w1636.jpg13Pontypool049w1636Bluebells are suddenly rampant and very fragranthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13pontypool048w1630.jpg13Pontypool048w1630Hedges were once properly 'laid' but are now scalped once a year by machine, stock control now achieved by wire fencinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13pontypool047w1617.jpg13Pontypool047w1617I gave the 'White Stone', as Mynydd Garn Wen is known locally, a fresh coat of painthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13pontypool046w1622.jpg13Pontypool046w1622.... and when I got backhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13pontypool043w1247.jpg13Pontypool043w1247The Folly Tower before I went to Greece ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13pontypool045w1626.jpg13Pontypool045w1626... and when I arrived backhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13pontypool042w1256.jpg13Pontypool042w1256The ridge-top path before I went to Greece ...2013-05-26T22:52:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/05/17/kalymnos-last-walk-last-explosion/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/11kalymnos24w3332.jpg11Kalymnos24w3332The Italian Path across the top of the mountain between Pothia and Vathyshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/11kalymnos43w3327.jpg11Kalymnos43w3327From the track looking back up the flank of the mountain to the col (the one on the right was the starting point)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos033w1580jpg.jpg13Kalymnos033w1580jpgAnother Greek Gate at the top of a steep gullyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/11kalymnos41w3324.jpg11Kalymnos41w3324The start of the downhill path. Once through the Greek gate it degenerates to a goat, in places barely discerniblehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/11kalymnos42w3323.jpg11Kalymnos42w3323The top of the colhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos034w1563jpg.jpg13Kalymnos034w1563jpgNarrow but clear section of path in the mid section of the gorgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos032w1566jpg.jpg13Kalymnos032w1566jpgLooking back down the gorgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos031w1576jpg.jpg13Kalymnos031w1576jpg2013-05-17T13:25:57+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/05/11/kalymnos-mountains-and-traditions/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos025w1560pg.jpg13Kalymnos025w1560pgMore colourful and more typical of the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos029w9871pg.jpg13Kalymnos029w9871pgCrickethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos028w9869pg.jpg13Kalymnos028w9869pgSpiderhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos027w1556pg.jpg13Kalymnos027w1556pgSimple white-washed rock of the interiorhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos026w1553pg.jpg13Kalymnos026w1553pgBuilt into the mountain, the tiny chapel of Agios Ioannis Theologoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos024w9853jpg.jpg13Kalymnos024w9853jpgView down the ridge to the Vathys valley and the fjord-like harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos023w9856jpg.jpg13Kalymnos023w9856jpgThe Earth's surface tilted slightly as I reached the monastery on the top of the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos030w9862pg.jpg13Kalymnos030w9862pgLooking down on the small area of pasture around a cluster of wells,https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos022w9863jpg.jpg13Kalymnos022w9863jpgLooking from the wells to the summithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos021w9844jpg.jpg13Kalymnos021w9844jpgClimbing higher and looking back towards the castle crag2013-05-14T16:41:26+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/05/06/kalymnos-easter-with-a-bang-or-two/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos018w1542jpg.jpg13Kalymnos018w1542jpgCarnival time in Pothia, looking up to the Exploding Mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos017w9827jpg.jpg13Kalymnos017w9827jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos016w9743jpg.jpg13Kalymnos016w9743jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos015w9729jpg.jpg13Kalymnos015w9729jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos014w1521jpg.jpg13Kalymnos014w1521jpgPeace and quiet at the Kastri https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos013w1502jpg.jpg13Kalymnos013w1502jpgPothia, a very Greek harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos012w1499jpg.jpg13Kalymnos012w1499jpg... but there is no mistaking this powder mark where a small device exploded feet from crowded restaurantshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos011w1497jpg.jpg13Kalymnos011w1497jpgI couldn't decide if this represents an Easter Egg, a bomb. or a bomb disguised as an Easter Egghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos010w1495jpg.jpg13Kalymnos010w1495jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos009w1492jpg.jpg13Kalymnos009w1492jpgPothia, a very Greek harbour2013-05-06T09:42:51+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/05/03/kalymnos-rock-and-more-rock/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos008w1462jpg.jpg13Kalymnos008w1462jpgHigh among the crags, the local variant of the 'Stink Lily' smells like excrement rather than corpseshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos007w9556jpg.jpg13Kalymnos007w9556jpgAnother angle on the Kastri, ancient olive perss in the foregroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos006w9544jpg.jpg13Kalymnos006w9544jpgThe sun peeping over the top of towering cragshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos005w9517jpg.jpg13Kalymnos005w9517jpgLooking through an 'eye' in the rock along the channel between Telendos Island and Kalymnos https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos004w1473jpg.jpg13Kalymnos004w1473jpgThe 'Kastri' above Emborios, ancient fortress built into the cragshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos003w1450jpg.jpg13Kalymnos003w1450jpgFollowing the 'Italian Path' from the main town, zigzagging steeply up between towering cragshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos002w1456jpg.jpg13Kalymnos002w1456jpg.... climbing the crag on the right of the path for a perch on top to eat a banana2013-05-03T08:11:28+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/05/01/from-symi-to-kalymnos-from-peace-and-quiet-to-tranquility/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13kalymnos001w1447jpg.jpg13Kalymnos001w1447jpgThe bay at Emborios on Kalymnos, about as tranquil as it gets.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13symi015w1433jpg.jpg13Symi015w1433jpgOn the way back to Horio from Agios Vasilios. The view down to the harbour one of the most dramatic in the Aegean.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13symi014w1429jpg.jpg13Symi014w1429jpgFirst glimpse of Lapathos Bay, usually known as Agios Vasilioshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13symi013w1416jpg.jpg13Symi013w1416jpgPeace and quiet on the beach at Lapathos Bayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13symi012w1414.jpg13Symi012w1414Looking down to Lapathos Bay with the monastery of Agios Vasilios built into the rock and perched precipitously on the edge of the cliff https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/13symi011w1405.jpg13Symi011w1405Flat calm sea, peace and quiet in Yialos, the main harbour on Symi, stark contrast with the yachts and gin palaces crammed in during the summer.2013-05-01T08:47:28+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/04/29/from-rhodes-to-symi-new-beginnings-and-a-whiff-of-death/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13symi010w1396.jpg13Symi010w1396Boats dragged up on the foreshore at Pedihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13symi009w1380.jpg13Symi009w1380Agia Marina as I've never seen it beforehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13symi008w9476.jpg13Symi008w9476From another, more personal anglehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13symi007w9479.jpg13Symi007w9479One of the many cricket-like creatures getting ready to ensure the continuation of its specieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13symi006w9483.jpg13Symi006w9483In sight of the seahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13symi005w1372.jpg13Symi005w1372Large enough to make a visual impact even in this dominantly rocky landscapehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13symi004w1364.jpg13Symi004w1364Dramatically deep purplehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13symi003w1362.jpg13Symi003w1362The spadix on this specimen is nearly a metre longhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13symi002w1338.jpg13Symi002w1338https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13symi001w1331.jpg13Symi001w1331Built in the 19th Century, derelict since damage in WW2, today brightened by floral threshold2013-04-29T07:17:00+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/04/27/greece-a-beginning-in-rhodes/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13rhodes05w1316.jpg13Rhodes05w1316One of many old eschucheons from the crusader erahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13rhodes04w1312.jpg13Rhodes04w1312Inside the town walls most shops and restaurants are closedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13rhodes03w1311.jpg13Rhodes03w1311Entrance to the Old Town from the Commercial Harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13rhodes02w1310.jpg13Rhodes02w1310The moon rises above the town walls along the harbourtsidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13rhodes01w1308.jpg13Rhodes01w1308However quiet it may be the gin palaces are still parked up here2013-04-27T20:31:59+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/04/27/greece-on-the-edge/2013-04-27T08:03:17+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/04/17/travels-in-greece-by-bus-planning-a-gorgeous-time/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/peloponnese-2013.jpgPeloponnese 2013The planned route in the Peloponnese2013-04-17T22:54:44+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/04/11/easter-in-greece-the-joys-of-time-travel/2013-04-12T09:11:10+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/04/05/welsh-winter-walking-reflections-on-pioneering/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13gwent009w1298.jpg13Gwent009w1298One of the reasons why this landscape is so dangerous is that there is no shelter and in strong winds exposure can be a major problem. Which is whysome areas are used by the army for traininghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13gwent008w1295.jpg13Gwent008w1295Trying to get into position for a photo I gave up when the snow was up to my thihgs https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13gwent006w1294.jpg13Gwent006w1294The top is completely wind-blasted, snow level almost to the top of a 5-foot high stone wallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13gwent005w1285.jpg13Gwent005w1285Looking along the line of the scarp from close to the tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13gwent004w1289.jpg13Gwent004w1289https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13gwent003w1273.jpg13Gwent003w1273https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13gwent002w1272.jpg13Gwent002w1272Starting to climb up to the ridge, the slightly sunken path filled with drifted snowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13gwent001w1262.jpg13Gwent001w1262Looking across one of the Garn Lakes to the north scarp of Coity Mountain2013-04-05T09:08:26+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/04/01/welsh-winter-walking-effects-of-spring-deferred/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13pontypool043w1247.jpg13Pontypool043w1247Deeps snow drifts reduced in height but will still be around for a while to come.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13pontypool042w1256.jpg13Pontypool042w1256Heading South down the ridge path with clear sky and clear views across the Bristol Channelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13pontypool041w1249.jpg13Pontypool041w1249Looking North to the top of Mynydd Varteg still comprehensively covered in snow2013-04-01T08:55:31+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/03/28/welsh-winter-walking-forward-planning-and-contingencies/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool040w1242.jpg13Pontypool040w1242Back down at road level snow persists on the north side of mole hillshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool038w1231.jpg13Pontypool038w1231.. some are amazingly sculptedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool036w1235.jpg13Pontypool036w1235https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool039w1211.jpg13Pontypool039w1211The highest farm on the ridge: it must be very bleak living up here in winterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool037w1214.jpg13Pontypool037w1214https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool035w1224.jpg13Pontypool035w1224https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool034w1223.jpg13Pontypool034w1223https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool033w1221.jpg13Pontypool033w1221Snow is blown into weird patternshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool032w1205.jpg13Pontypool032w1205https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool031w1207.jpg13Pontypool031w12072013-03-29T18:38:58+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/03/24/spring-surprise/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool028w1165.jpg13Pontypool028w1165https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool027w1170.jpg13Pontypool027w1170https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool026w1168.jpg13Pontypool026w1168https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool025w1164.jpg13Pontypool025w1164https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool024w1155.jpg13Pontypool024w1155https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool023w1154.jpg13Pontypool023w1154https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool022w1146.jpg13Pontypool022w1146Dead oak tree on the flank of the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13cherryhinton006w1139.jpg13CherryHinton006w1139........ zooming inhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13cherryhinton005w1137.jpg13CherryHinton005w1137Flock of Siskins briefly at resthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13cherryhinton004w1128.jpg13CherryHinton004w1128Mignon daffodils on the balcony bowed down under snow2013-03-26T20:25:52+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/03/19/sport-politics-history-when-the-underdog-gets-revenge/2013-03-21T15:08:09+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/03/12/thirty-minutes-on-top-of-a-mountain-a-duvet-day/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool021w1075.jpg13Pontypool021w107517.52, blue sky, the horizontal snow soon becomes a memoryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool020w1071.jpg13Pontypool020w107117.45, the sky starts to open up behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool019w1070.jpg13Pontypool019w107017.40, but it soon passes, drops into the valley and races off to the westhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool018w1069.jpg13Pontypool018w106917.35 the snow is now looking goodhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool017w1065.jpg13Pontypool017w106517.25, and it begins to snowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool016w1063.jpg13Pontypool016w106317.24, the clouds start to come across the sunhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool015w1059.jpg13Pontypool015w105917.22, reaching the trig point on the top with snow clouds to the north2013-03-12T11:16:16+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/05/patras-to-kardamili-full-circle/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili005w5989.jpg12Kardamili005w5989The beginning of the Vykos Gorgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili004w5986.jpg12Kardamili004w5986Inside the Old Villagehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili003w5984.jpg12Kardamili003w5984in Old Kardamili, the Tower home of the Moutzinos. One of the famous Mani towers.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili002w5979.jpg12Kardamili002w5979Agios Spyridon, the family church of the Moutzinos clan which ruled Kardamilihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili001w5974.jpg12Kardamili001w5974The track leading to the church, the church of Agios Spyridon up on the right, The highest Mountain in the Taigetos range in the background .... still with snow on it.2013-05-12T21:49:13+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/03/04/grey-britain-canada-greece-a-philosophy-of-travel/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool011w1041.jpg13Pontypool011w1041The occasional gap in the clouds gives an ethereal light to ridges of the South Wales Coalfieldhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool010w1040.jpg13Pontypool010w1040.... but it's nice to have the sun on your back even for a few minutes at the end of the dayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool014w1046.jpg13Pontypool014w1046https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool013w1050.jpg13Pontypool013w1050https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13pontypool012w9443.jpg13Pontypool012w9443At the end of the garden crows sit huddled in the top of an ash tree and croak their complaints to each other.2013-03-12T21:06:17+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/02/16/3620/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada144w9411.jpg13Canada144w9411Too wet for the cormorants to stretch their wings to dry themhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada146w9416.jpg13Canada146w9416The waters of Vancouver harbour are so well protected that they are flat-calm and reflectivehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada149w9429.jpg13Canada149w9429'Girl in wetsuit' keeping an eye on Lions' Gate Bridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada143w1032.jpg13Canada143w1032Figurehead from 19th Century Japanese merchant ship trading between the Canadian Pacific coast and Japanhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada147w9420.jpg13Canada147w9420Some of the First Nation totem poles in Stanley Parkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada142w1027.jpg13Canada142w1027Detailhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada148w9421.jpg13Canada148w9421Sulphur: a reminder that this is still a working port with a history of mineral extractionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada141w1024.jpg13Canada141w1024If you can afford it, put the boat in a garage.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada140w1023.jpg13Canada140w1023Tower blocks, boats, masts .... and shrink wrapping., https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada139w1021.jpg13Canada139w1021Pale reflection, fabulously tranquil2013-03-01T09:59:55+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/02/24/from-uhtceare-to-lychnobios-deadlines-and-procrastination/2016-02-08T15:41:51+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/02/12/vancouver-on-a-sunny-sunday-in-february/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada135w9480.jpg13Canada135w9480At the west end of English Bay, Tower-top Treehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada134w9406.jpg13Canada134w9406https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada133w9397.jpg13Canada133w9397https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada132w9396.jpg13Canada132w9396https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada131w0988.jpg13Canada131w0988https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada130w9378.jpg13Canada130w9378https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada129w9368.jpg13Canada129w9368https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada128w0979.jpg13Canada128w0979One of the many sculptures around Vancouverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada124w9350.jpg13Canada124w9350Looking across the Yaletownhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada123w9344.jpg13Canada123w9344... another view2013-02-12T20:29:21+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/02/11/whistler-in-brief/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada107w0893.jpg13Canada107w0893First Nation street art at various points onThe Stroll is flood-lithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada106w0892.jpg13Canada106w0892Among the delights on offer along The Stroll are great slabs of fudge, made over a metre long and carved into thick wedgeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada109w0899.jpg13Canada109w0899Detail of one of the sculptures https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada100w0864.jpg13Canada100w0864https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada099w0860.jpg13Canada099w0860https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada098w0858.jpg13Canada098w0858https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada097w0856.jpg13Canada097w0856https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada096w0851.jpg13Canada096w0851https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada095w0850.jpg13Canada095w0850https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada094w0843.jpg13Canada094w0843The children's adventure play area at the bottom of The Stroll2013-02-11T21:27:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/02/09/given-the-bird/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada112w0925.jpg13Canada112w0925... and finally swooping downhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada111w0922.jpg13Canada111w0922Getting closerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada110w0921.jpg13Canada110w0921Perched on the top of a tree waiting its chance2013-02-09T19:33:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/02/06/whistler-blackcomb-snow-and-skiing/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada105w0888.jpg13Canada105w0888and when they see a few crumbs they swoop down and straight off again to hide the food, coated in adhesive spittle, in tree barkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada103w0873.jpg13Canada103w0873They perch, watching ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada102w0872.jpg13Canada102w0872Mountain restaurants are frequented by 'Camp Robbers' , properly known as Canada Jays but also known by a variety of names including Whiskey Jackshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada101w0868.jpg13Canada101w0868Back jup to the top and a look across from Blackcomb Mountain to Whistler Mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada093w0835.jpg13Canada093w0835Looking downhill from the same point into the cloud into which we are just about to skihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada091w0831.jpg13Canada091w0831Looking up the run between trees heavily laden with snow at a critical point on the long descenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada090w0830.jpg13Canada090w0830Pausing to look back up the mountain from which we have comehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada089w0825.jpg13Canada089w0825In places the run narrowshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada088w0823.jpg13Canada088w0823'SLOW' signs are put just before a sharp drophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13canada087w0819.jpg13Canada087w0819Beginning the ski down, aiming for the orange sign just right of centre2013-02-06T16:09:44+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/01/16/calgary-from-the-eddie-the-eagle-to-the-stampede-via-downtown-by-barry-sywalker/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada021w0559.jpg13Canada021w0559Looking across the Saddledome to Downtown high risehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada020w0558.jpg13Canada020w0558At the edge of the Downtown skyscrapers 'heritage' buildings are preservedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada018w0537.jpg13Canada018w0537One of the tropical beds in the Devonian Gardenshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada019w0552.jpg13Canada019w0552One of the wooden carvings by the Salish Indians on dispalyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada017w0519.jpg13Canada017w0519There are also many sculptures outside the buildings ... and none are defaced with graffiti or adorned with traffic cones https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada016w0517.jpg13Canada016w0517Some reflections are a little distortedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada015w0509.jpg13Canada015w0509Open spaces are also provided outside as skyscraper reflects in skyscraperhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada014w0506.jpg13Canada014w0506.... well furnished with comfortable chairshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada013w0505.jpg13Canada013w0505Glass sculpture in one open spacehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada012w0501.jpg13Canada012w0501Looking down from the '+15' walkway to the foyer of one of the skyscrapers2013-02-03T18:02:55+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/02/01/banff-a-canadian-rockies-town-in-winter/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada075w0662.jpg13Canada075w0662https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada074w0661.jpg13Canada074w0661.... must be outputting when you're hanging on by toes and ice-axe tipshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada071w0590.jpg13Canada071w0590.... and againhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada070w0589.jpg13Canada070w0589.... againhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada069w0588.jpg13Canada069w0588.... changing colourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada068w0587.jpg13Canada068w0587Ice climbing wall in the main streethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada057w0741.jpg13Canada057w0741Ice serpenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada056w0737.jpg13Canada056w0737Ice throne will be around for Pretenders until Springhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada067w0586.jpg13Canada067w0586Bicycles half buried in snow are scattered around the town for weeks on endhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada078w9316.jpg13Canada078w9316Ina harsh environment it seems that the only members of the crow family which survive are ravens and magpies2013-02-03T09:03:50+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/01/26/survival-skiing-snowboarding-and-ice-hockey/2013-01-26T07:05:07+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/01/24/more-rockies-rambling-around-banff/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada053w0723.jpg13Canada053w0723.... and even more gold in the cloudshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada052w0721.jpg13Canada052w0721The snow-capped Cascade Mountain turning golden in the setting sunhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada051w0717.jpg13Canada051w0717The beginning of the steep climb up into Sundance Canyon alongside the snow-covered streamhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada050w0711.jpg13Canada050w0711Looking down to the bridge over the waterfallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada049w0715.jpg13Canada049w0715Crossing the timber bridge across the top of a waterfall with a steep climb out to the left on the far sidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada048w0707.jpg13Canada048w0707Approaching the steep drop on the way back down, sunlit cascade Mountain in the backgroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada047w0705.jpg13Canada047w0705Climbing higher into the canyon the way forward gets narrowerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada046w0709.jpg13Canada046w0709The path drops onto the stream itself with holes in the snow where the water can be seen rushing belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada045w0684.jpg13Canada045w0684The warm spring water keeps narrow channels open snaking downstream through the thick ice https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada044w0683.jpg13Canada044w0683A stony beach kept clear of snow by the warm spring emerging into the river2013-01-24T02:28:01+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/01/21/rockies-rambling-around-banff/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada041w9624.jpg13Canada041w9624https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada040w0627.jpg13Canada040w0627https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada039w0627.jpg13Canada039w0627https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada038w9241.jpg13Canada038w9241https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada037w0637.jpg13Canada037w0637https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada036w0636.jpg13Canada036w0636https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada035w0636.jpg13Canada035w0636https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada034w0629.jpg13Canada034w0629https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada033w0615.jpg13Canada033w0615Looking across the Bow River to Cascade Mountain North East of Banffhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada032w0610.jpg13Canada032w06102013-01-21T04:04:07+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/01/20/canadian-rockies-where-wildlife-is-red-in-tooth-and-beak-but-its-all-a-matter-of-perspective/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada028w0628.jpg13Canada028w0628Need to check out the footprints around here!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada030w0650.jpg13Canada030w0650Deer wandering around the gardens and parking places within the Banffhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada029w9235.jpg13Canada029w9235Deer barely concealed in the treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada027pencil9227.jpg13Canada027pencil9227Because of the problems with contrast I did a quick pencil sketch. Well, OK, I used the photo manipulation softwarehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada027w9227.jpg13Canada027w9227Australian diamond miner on the ice below Bow Fallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada024w9263.jpg13Canada024w9263The bright red rib-cage close to the bottom of the iced-up waterfallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada023w9262.jpg13Canada023w9262.... and zooming inhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada025w9282.jpg13Canada025w9282That it is the carcass of a deer becomes clearer from closer to https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada026w9216.jpg13Canada026w9216Problems with the contrast between snow/ice and trees, but the discoloration of the ice is obvious2013-01-20T07:38:44+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/01/18/confessions-of-an-inadequate-skier/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada022w0582.jpg13Canada022w0582Looking up 'Easy Street' at Lake Louise, the pleasant straight glide back to the main lodgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada006w0565.jpg13Canada006w0565Trees were heavy with snowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada005w0569.jpg13Canada005w0569On the way down 'Banff Avenue' at Sunshine, a great run for practicing turns2013-01-18T03:50:16+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/01/13/following-the-sun-from-the-m25-to-the-trans-canada-highway/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada004w0474.jpg13Canada004w0474In temeperatures well below freezing the snowfall of days before stays on the treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada003w0471.jpg13Canada003w0471Pink beyond the treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada002w0467.jpg13Canada002w0467The sun settting, framed by branches bowed by snows over many yearshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13canada001w0461.jpg13Canada001w0461Looking across the frozen creek to the sun setting beyond the Rockies2013-01-14T07:00:46+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/01/09/go-west-young-man-and-do-it-without-a-list/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13pontypool009w0459.jpg13Pontypool009w0459https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13pontypool008w0453.jpg13Pontypool008w0453https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13pontypool007w0442.jpg13Pontypool007w0442https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13pontypool006w0436.jpg13Pontypool006w0436https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13pontypool005w0431.jpg13Pontypool005w0431https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13pontypool004w0426.jpg13Pontypool004w0426Reaching the top of the ridge2013-01-11T21:28:51+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2013/01/05/a-new-year-portents-traditions-and-looking-forward/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13cherryhinton003w9200.jpg13CherryHinton003w9200... and then bands of gold appearedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13cherryhinton002w9194.jpg13CherryHinton002w9194For barely two minutes the clouds went blood-redhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13monmouthshire002w0416.jpg13Monmouthshire002w0416The Goose and Cuckoo, archetypal country pub has eluded many trying to locate it.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13monmouthshire001w0410.jpg13Monmouthshire001w0410High on the windswept moorland ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13pontypool001w0402.jpg13Pontypool001w0402The walk began alongside the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal in reflective modehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/13cherryhinton001w9188.jpg13CherryHinton001w9188New Year's Day and the sun set fire to the cloudless sky as it came up over the ridge2013-01-06T17:17:18+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/12/31/rambling-through-2012-a-year-in-pictures-part-2-greece/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12symi039w8674.jpg12Symi039w8674https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12nisyros098w7623.jpg12Nisyros098w7623Everything on this island is volcanic in origin. Walking along the north-facing shoreline was characterised by rough seas and a huge variety of bits of lava bubble and other volcanic boulders. https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12nisyros266w8191.jpg12Nisyros266w8191Within the hot spots gases hiss and boiling mud rumbles in fumaroles in the thin crust. The gases deposit exquisite sculptures of bright yellow sulphur crystals. Just don’t delay too long over a shot, the soles of your feet will tell you it’s time to move on.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12nisyros269w8207.jpg12Nisyros269w8207A month on the active volcano which is the island of Nisyros for my second visit to Greece towards the end of the summer gave plenty of opportunity to go ‘off-piste’, exploring the ‘backcountry’ on ancient and long- abandoned pathways. This included some of the rarely visited ‘hot-spots’ on the caldera floor giving new perspectives on one of the most dramatic locations in Europe.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12mesamani055w7001jpg.jpg12MesaMani055w7001jpgThe vernacular architecture of the Mani Peninsula is the tower house, not for defending against invading forces but for inter-family blood feuds. Areopoli was the base of Mavromichalis (Black Michael), a key player in the Greek War of Independence, but nowhere was more typical of ‘tower house’ culture than Vatheia, now largely deserted and derelict.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12mesamani002w6710jpg.jpg12MesaMani002w6710jpgHaving moved further south to Areopoli I climbed two of the local mountains both with monasteries on top named after the Prophet Elijah, both with surreal views of the world on the coastal plateau far below and the sea beyond leading to the edge of the flat-earth.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12kardamili142w6675jpg.jpg12Kardamili142w6675jpgSo impressive that I went back again and again was the Viros Gorge with vertical rock crags dropping down more than 1000 feet to the washed-white rock of the dry riverbed. https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12kardamili135w6651jpg.jpg12Kardamili135w6651jpgSome tiny kalderimi-side family churches have well preserved frescoes ... and small colonies of horseshoe bats.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12kardamili042w6176jpg.jpg12Kardamili042w6176jpgThen the long journey south to the Mani Peninsula, the principal objective of the trip and a month of fascinating exploration on well-mapped and marked paths into the mountains and a liberal scattering of ancient villages and Byzantine churches in varying states of preservation and decay, the most neglected perhaps Likaki monastery.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12parga02w5010pg.jpg12Parga02w5010pgThe nest stops were Parga, Paxos and Corfu where between squally thunder showers of early summer the sea was mirror-smooth and Greek-blue.2012-12-31T23:59:35+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/12/30/rambling-through-2012-a-year-in-pictures-part-1-wales/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool071w90661.jpg12Pontypool071w9066Then in early December winter cold returned, briefly, leaving spectacular whispers of hoar frost on trees high on the ridge. Before it warmed up again to give us a Grey Christmas.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton037w90071.jpg12CherryHinton037w9007With the sun low in the sky as winter drew on much of the garden was in shade but towards sunset it lit up features including this construction of limestone pebbles and fossils.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cardiff24w0176.jpg12Cardiff24w0176On grey, claggy days I sometimes went down to Cardiff to meet up with friends but even then autumn colours added a brightness to the gloom in Bute Park around the castle.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool050w8822.jpg12Pontypool050w8822I also took the camera for a walk on the few blue sky days to try to capture some of the autumn colour including the American Gardens above Pontypool Park.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12blaenavon01w9133.jpg12Blaenavon01w9133Emboldened by the course I submitted a proposal for a compendium book describing bus routes in Britain and was commissioned to write one of the chapters. So taking advantage of one of the rare sunny days I set out to photograph some of the key points of interest on the route including Big Pit Mining Museum.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12llyn07w8768.jpg12Llyn07w8768When I got back from Greece in October I went on a week-long course at the National Writers’ Centre in North Wales, learned a lot, and ambled along the coast near Cricieth with the camera.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12waterfalls15w8913.jpg12waterfalls15w8913The rain also meant that the waterfalls in the Brecon Beacons National Park were at their most dramatic as I re-acquainted myself with the area after many years absence.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12newport05w8965.jpg12Newport05w8965True I photographed the greyness of the experience but I also tried to look for colour and usually, though not always, managed to find some.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12waterfalls01w0025.jpg12waterfalls01w0025But summer in the Grey Britain 2012 will be remembered as very wet and very grey with a dire consequence for much-trodden footpaths.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton025w0216.jpg12CherryHinton025w0216And at the end of the day a brisk 30 minute walk up to the Folly Tower was sometimes rewarded with spectacular sunsets.2012-12-31T11:12:10+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/12/27/windows-of-opportunity-and-a-mountain-playground-on-the-doorstep/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool074w0370.jpg12Pontypool074w0370... and soon all that can be seen are the lights of the urban area to the southhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool079w0400.jpg12Pontypool079w0400Dropping off the ridge towards the house as it gets darkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool078w0395.jpg12Pontypool078w0395To the east, just layers of gloomhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool077w0391.jpg12Pontypool077w0391Advancing storm clouds blot out the prospect of a sunsethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool075w0384.jpg12Pontypool075w0384Livestock suffering in the extreme wetness of a Grey Britain winterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool076w0386.jpg12Pontypool076w0386Perhaps this hilltop farm should be called Ararat, but it's just an abandoned boat with storm clouds behind2012-12-27T22:58:27+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/12/23/solstices-looking-back-and-looking-forward/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12monmouthshire041w0369.jpg12Monmouthshire041w0369https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12mesamani028w6865jpg.jpg12MesaMani028w6865jpgIn contrast with the Summer Solstice when I posed for the Shortest Me on top of a mountain in the far south of the Mani Peninsula in Greece https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton045w9186.jpg12CherryHinton045w9186https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton044w9185.jpg12CherryHinton044w918521 December, the sun comes over the ridge on the morning of the Winter Solsticehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton044w0366.jpg12CherryHinton044w0366While I wait I think I'll sit round the Christmas fire and look forward2012-12-23T00:05:07+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/12/20/bah-humbug-debasing-the-language-and-then-a-christmas-greeting/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10eoschristmas12w9262.jpg10EOSChristmas12w9262So what's so great about robins anyway. They don't even have proper red on their front, it's kind of orangey-brown2012-12-20T13:40:02+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/20/nisyros-the-bells-the-dog-and-the-case-of-the-disappearing-snake/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros088w3806.jpg11Nisyros088w3806One of many waiting for somethings to turn up2012-12-18T16:56:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/20/nisyros-the-eagle-and-the-snake/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros087w2247.jpg11Nisyros087w2247Straightening things out a bithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros086w2246.jpg11Nisyros086w2246Head in the wall attitudehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros084w3799.jpg11Nisyros084w3799Against mountainsidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros083w37984.jpg11Nisyros083w3798Against blue skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros083w37983.jpg11Nisyros083w3798Against blue skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros083w37982.jpg11Nisyros083w3798https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros083w37981.jpg11Nisyros083w3798https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros083w3798.jpg11Nisyros083w37982012-12-18T16:53:45+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/20/nisyros-going-to-the-top/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros082w3793.jpg11Nisyros082w3793The village of Nikia on the opposite rim of the calderahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros080w3790.jpg11Nisyros080w3790The church of the Prophet Elijah and thundercloud over Turkeyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros079w2229.jpg11Nisyros079w2229Stone pillar marking the junction of the pathshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros078w22271.jpg11Nisyros078w2227Threshing circle right at the top of the colhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros078w2227.jpg11Nisyros078w2227Threshing circle right at the top of the colhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros076w2220.jpg11Nisyros076w2220Looking across the top of the settlement to Oros Diavatis, my goal for the dayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros075w2217.jpg11Nisyros075w2217Community of houses and church built into the rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros077w2224.jpg11Nisyros077w2224The 'Horns of Consecration' at the entrance to the Minoan settlement2012-12-18T16:50:20+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/19/nisyros-guest-blog-by-ruth/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/pot-of-flowersw.jpgpot of flowersWPot of flowers on church courtyardhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lavenderw.jpglavenderWScarce Swallowtail on lavendarhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/agavesw.jpgagavesWAgaveshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/thymew.jpgthymeWThymehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/little-yellow-flowersw.jpglittle yellow flowersWLittle yellow flowershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/battered-poppiesw.jpgbattered poppiesWbattered poppieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lupinsw.jpglupinsWLupinhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/convolvolousw.jpgconvolvolousWConvolvuloushttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/cornflowerw.jpgCornflowerWCornflowerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/yellow-daisiesw.jpgyellow daisiesWAnother daisy2012-12-18T15:34:44+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/18/nisyros-pushing-along-in-ancient-landscapes/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros073w2210.jpg11Nisyros073w2210Big Liz not quite well hidden enough: scale shown by the leaves of the holly oak which are about 1 cm acrosshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros072w2201.jpg11Nisyros072w2201The 'avli', or inner courtyard, of the ancient Siones monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros071w3771.jpg11Nisyros071w3771.... though sometimes life is harder than you would likehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros070w3764.jpg11Nisyros070w3764Others a re more colourful and just seem to be having fun: these ones a centimtre longhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros069w2179.jpg11Nisyros069w2179Some beetles emm to munch their way through the flower heads: these ones over a centrmetre widehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros068w2193.jpg11Nisyros068w2193Giant thistles on the approach to Siones2012-12-18T15:31:10+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/17/from-hot-rocks-to-old-rocks/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros067w21671.jpg11Nisyros067w2167One part of the ancient agora has been restored, giving an indication of the scale of the place.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros067w2167.jpg11Nisyros067w2167One part of the ancient agora has been restored giving an indication of the scale of the place.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros066w2159.jpg11Nisyros066w2159... and butterflies flitting around everywhere.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros061w2161.jpg11Nisyros061w2161But the carving on some is still very sharphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros060w2164.jpg11Nisyros060w2164Dating back to the second century BC it is not surprising there is some sign of deterioration. https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros059w2157.jpg11Nisyros059w2157Simple but very effective carved faces, to my mind sculpture at its besthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros058w2158.jpg11Nisyros058w2158Ancient columns lying around2012-12-18T15:27:51+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/17/nisyros-even-hotter-rocks/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros057w2151.jpg11Nisyros057w2151The peaceful and picturesque main square in Nikiahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros056w2147.jpg11Nisyros056w2147On the caldera floor looking towards the smaller craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros055w2142.jpg11Nisyros055w2142Looking across the crater to its rim and the rim of the caldera beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros054w2137.jpg11Nisyros054w2137A more complex fissurehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros052w2126.jpg11Nisyros052w2126Close-up of the needle-like sulphur crystals around one of the fissureshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros053w2130.jpg11Nisyros053w2130The crater wall from the floor, more than 20 metres highhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros051w2120.jpg11Nisyros051w2120Sulphur deposits on the way down to the crater floorhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros050w2118.jpg11Nisyros050w2118Looking across the main crater from the rim, the scale shown by the size of the people standing on the crater floorhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros049w2117.jpg11Nisyros049w2117Another sulphur-encrusted, gas-emitting fissure in the smaller craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros048w2111.jpg11Nisyros048w2111Water-eroded landforms in the smaller crater, a bit like the Hoodoos in the Rockies2012-12-18T15:24:04+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/16/nisyros-hopping-hot-rocks/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros044w20931.jpg11Nisyros044w2093https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros044w2093.jpg11Nisyros044w2093https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros046w2090.jpg11Nisyros046w2090Sunset through the 9x6 inch drainage hole in the sea wallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros043w2082.jpg11Nisyros043w2082Sunset through the octopussieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros041w2071.jpg11Nisyros041w2071The target headland from beyond the edge of reasonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros042w2077.jpg11Nisyros042w2077Lava flow, lava bubble, sulphur rock ..... mind blowing and very hothttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros039w2054.jpg11Nisyros039w2054Sulphur Rock: not a new music craze or a town in the USA (as far as I know)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros040w2059.jpg11Nisyros040w2059Rock contrastshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros038w2060.jpg11Nisyros038w2060This is why on rough-sea days I don't swim at Hochlaki beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros037w20473.jpg11Nisyros037w2047Calm water on the beach side of the breakwater2012-12-18T00:54:12+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/14/nisyros-rocks-and-butterflies/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros034w3751.jpg11Nisyros034w3751.... but none more spectacular than the Greek Streamer Tailhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros033w3758.jpg11Nisyros033w3758Oregano flowers attract many types of butterflyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros035w2019.jpg11Nisyros035w2019Looking along the caldera from the castle at Emboriohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros030w1996.jpg11Nisyros030w1996scaling the heightshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros029w1989.jpg11Nisyros029w1989Art for the fun of ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros032w2007.jpg11Nisyros032w2007..... or are they hieroglyphic epitaphs form aliens?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros031w2005.jpg11Nisyros031w2005One of the vast number of pieces of lava bubble lying on the foreshorehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros028w1983.jpg11Nisyros028w1983Cruise ship calling in and pushing local ferries out of the wayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros027w1977.jpg11Nisyros027w1977The end of the harbour2012-12-18T00:48:54+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/11/back-to-nisyros-cut-off-from-the-rest-if-the-world/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros022w19411.jpg11Nisyros022w1941Taking the plunge: a little whimsy at the hotel poolhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros025w1960.jpg11Nisyros025w1960Amphora: ancient underground storage at Armashttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros024w1951.jpg11Nisyros024w1951Whimsy at Evangelistra: baggy short manhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros023w1948.jpg11Nisyros023w1948Where to from here?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros022w1941.jpg11Nisyros022w1941Taking the plunge: a little whimsy at the hotel poolhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros021w1903.jpg11Nisyros021w1903Tim giving scale to the walls, internal stairway and main gatehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros020w1895.jpg11Nisyros020w1895Part of early public notice carved into the massive stones reading "plebs keep at least a metre and a half away from the wall"https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros019w1884.jpg11Nisyros019w1884Scarce swallowtail on lavendar bush2012-12-18T00:45:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/09/over-the-sea-to-kos/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros018w18831.jpg11Nisyros018w1883ησυχίαhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros018w1883.jpg11Nisyros018w18832012-12-18T00:39:55+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/08/nisyros-ancient-cultures-new-europe/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros015w1871.jpg11Nisyros015w1871Study in white - Evangelistra from the backhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros017w3740.jpg11Nisyros017w3740Hochlakos courtyardhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros014w1828.jpg11Nisyros014w1828On the way up through the villagehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros013w1824.jpg11Nisyros013w1824Main square in Emborio: church on the left, taverna on the righthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros016w3737.jpg11Nisyros016w3737Eagle fly-pasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros012w1814.jpg11Nisyros012w1814Photographer on hot tarmac2012-12-18T00:37:46+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/07/nisyros-it%e2%80%99s-great-but-not-everything-is-working-out/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros011w1800.jpg11Nisyros011w1800Photographer in another wellhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros010w1779.jpg11Nisyros010w1779about 5 inches long excluding antennae2012-12-18T00:34:33+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/06/nisyros/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros009w17152.jpg11Nisyros009w1715Photographer On Black Pebble Beach: £300K to Michael Scratchy if he's still reading the blog (if he ever did)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros009w17151.jpg11Nisyros009w1715https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros009w1715.jpg11Nisyros009w1715https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros008w1718.jpg11Nisyros008w1718Dumping waves on a pebble beach, difficult and painful to get through for a swimhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros007w17102.jpg11Nisyros007w1710Hochlaki beach with cliff-top monastery and castle behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros007w17101.jpg11Nisyros007w1710https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros007w1710.jpg11Nisyros007w1710https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros006w17054.jpg11Nisyros006w1705Photographer in the wellhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros006w17053.jpg11Nisyros006w1705https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros006w17052.jpg11Nisyros006w17052012-12-17T20:53:48+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/30/nisyros-some-things-are-just-weird/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros160w3923.jpg11Nisyros160w3923...and panning a little to the right ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros159w3922.jpg11Nisyros159w3922The first cloud there has been in 3 weeks makes a good sunsethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros158w2515.jpg11Nisyros158w2515Some areas of the caldera floor are almost completely devoid of vegetationhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros157w2510.jpg11Nisyros157w2510Not a commission for the Tate Modern but sulphur in a quarried facehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros156w2507.jpg11Nisyros156w2507Sulphur deposits uotcrop along the side of the trackhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros155w2505.jpg11Nisyros155w2505That steel pipe diving down towards the craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros153w39201.jpg11Nisyros153w3920.... zooming in in case you couldn't see the peoplehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros153w3920.jpg11Nisyros153w3920..... zooming in in case you couldn't see the peoplehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros152w3921.jpg11Nisyros152w3921The scale of the crater is shown by the people walking into ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros154w2501.jpg11Nisyros154w2501... and those cows!?!?2012-12-17T20:49:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/12/15/back-from-the-shops-jinxed-journey-and-verglas/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10-january-25w-9159.jpg10 January 25w - 9159Some shapes are sculpted by the wind: note that in one case the ice has separated from the stem onto which it originally frozehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10-january-17w-9120.jpg10 January 17w - 9120Close uphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10-january-15w-9114.jpg10 January 15w - 9114Rain frozen onto bracken stemshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10-january-10w-9087.jpg10 January 10w - 9087At the top of the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10-january-06w-9081.jpg10 January 06w - 9081Ice formed on individual stems of grasshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10-january-04w-9138.jpg10 January 04w - 9138Horizontal rain in strong wind freezing onto a fence2012-12-17T15:10:53+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/10/greece-2011-the-hidden-symi-and-how-i-became-a-fasolakia-junkie/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi070w3765jpg.jpg11Symi070w3765jpgWhat a great place to cut up beanshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi068w3754jpg.jpg11Symi068w3754jpgStone walls built into the crag to create a high-level platformhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi067w3750jpg.jpg11Symi067w3750jpgMonolith on top of vertical cragshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi069w3764jpg.jpg11Symi069w3764jpgLiving at the margins of Europe: Turkey, and Asia, just across the waterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi065w3742jpg.jpg11Symi065w3742jpgIt is amazing how a few things still push up through this stony, iron-hard soilhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi064w3733jpg.jpg11Symi064w3733jpgLooking back towards an enclosed field for animals and still a few olives produced https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi063w3729jpg.jpg11Symi063w3729jpg..... closer inspection gives an indication of the antiquity of the treehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi062w3727jpg.jpg11Symi062w3727jpgOlive trees show it was once more intensively farmed than it is now.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi061w3725jpg.jpg11Symi061w3725jpgLooking along the length of a high-level valleyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi066w3744jpg.jpg11Symi066w3744jpgPath picking out a route through the rocks, marked by messages from a donkey2012-12-14T16:21:43+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/07/greece-2011-symi-walk-the-old-the-dry-the-colourful/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi038w3593jpg.jpg11Symi038w3593jpg.... and back into Horio, another bit of colourful dilapidationhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi037w3583jpg.jpg11Symi037w3583jpgSharp end of a boat at Pedihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi036w3573jpg.jpg11Symi036w3573jpgPond life bleached white in the sunhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi035w3571jpg.jpg11Symi035w3571jpgAnother of the pond-dwellershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi034w3562jpg.jpg11Symi034w3562jpgSymi is often said to have no water. Paradoxically this permanent pond is at Gria, the village abandoned because of lack of water. This is a Symi Pondwit, though the rest of the world may know it by a different namehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi033w3542jpg.jpg11Symi033w3542jpgAmazing patterns formed by about the most primitive life form. surviving in even the hottest, driest conditionshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi032w3524jpg.jpg11Symi032w3524jpgJust to prove that I got to the top of the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi031w3519jpg.jpg11Symi031w3519jpgThe first squill I have seen in flower this yearhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi030w3511jpg.jpg11Symi030w3511jpgThe top of the long-deserted village of Griahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi029w3504jpg.jpg11Symi029w3504jpgNot hanging around waiting for Christmas: could this be the one I saw escaped on another part of the mountain last year??2012-12-14T16:15:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/12/12/hibernation-time-and-images-of-cold-weather/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool072w9061.jpg12Pontypool072w9061https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool071w9066.jpg12Pontypool071w9066https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool070w9046.jpg12Pontypool070w9046https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool069w9076.jpg12Pontypool069w9076https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool068w0345.jpg12Pontypool068w0345https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool067w0333.jpg12Pontypool067w0333https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12pontypool066w0315.jpg12Pontypool066w0315https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton042w9116.jpg12CherryHinton042w9116https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton041w9028.jpg12CherryHinton041w9028https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton040w9017.jpg12CherryHinton040w90172012-12-12T23:25:04+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/12/08/shafts-of-light-in-the-winter-gloom-and-hibernation/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cardiff32w0304.jpg12Cardiff32w0304Bright lights everywherehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cardiff31w0303.jpg12Cardiff31w0303Play time outside City Hallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cardiff30w0300.jpg12Cardiff30w0300https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cardiff29w0299.jpg12Cardiff29w0299https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cardiff28w0297.jpg12Cardiff28w0297https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cardiff27w0295.jpg12Cardiff27w0295Zooming inhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cardiff26w0294.jpg12Cardiff26w0294Storm clouds in the western sky 2012-12-09T20:21:25+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/12/04/bah-humbug-christmas-and-beyond/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10canada88w0656.jpg10Canada88w0656Not robbing a bank but a neoprene face mask to keep out the biting coldhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10canada9977w1070.jpg10Canada9977w1070Hot springs keep water open even in the depths of winterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10canada9975w1065.jpg10Canada9975w1065Long shadows across the Bow Riverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10canada9957w0954.jpg10Canada9957w0954Looking along the Bow River near Banffhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10canada9906w0744.jpg10Canada9906w0744On the way to Grotto Canyon near Canmorehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10canada58w0559.jpg10Canada58w0559https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10canada57w0555.jpg10Canada57w0555High on the piste at Lake Louise2022-12-08T16:50:42+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/12/01/winter-colour/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton035w8995.jpg12CherryHinton035w8995At the end of the afternoon, the remains of ice on autumn leafhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton034w8999.jpg12CherryHinton034w8999The setting sun to the west lights up the trailing edge of cumulus cloudhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton033w8986.jpg12CherryHinton033w8986...... detailhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton032w8983.jpg12CherryHinton032w8983.... and lighting up deep purple foliagehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12cherryhinton031w8976.jpg12CherryHinton031w8976The sun appearing over the ridge on the opposite side of the valley behind the Douglas Fir I planted 25 years ago2012-12-06T16:18:54+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/30/november-daily-blog-30-looking-back-on-the-month/2012-12-01T10:48:22+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/29/november-daily-blog-29-problem-solving-and-the-subconscious/2012-11-29T23:29:41+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/28/november-daily-blog-28-rough-dug-and-ready-for-winter/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool066w0292.jpg12Pontypool066w0292Small red clouds scudding over the ridge behind the house portend well for tomorrowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton030w0286.jpg12CherryHinton030w0286Whimsical garden art : titled 'Bicycle Fork' https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton029w0283.jpg12CherryHinton029w0283Terraced vegetable beds rough-dug ready for the frost2012-11-29T11:20:12+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/27/november-daily-blog-27-the-rain-came-down-and-the-floods-came-up-but-who-is-to-blame-for-the-damage/2012-11-27T23:47:40+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/26/november-daily-blog-26-a-change-in-the-weather-maybe/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton028w0282.jpg12CherryHinton028w0282Fungi, prolific on an old oak trunkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton027w0279.jpg12CherryHinton027w0279French lavender: not usually in flower in November2012-11-26T20:49:57+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/25/november-daily-blog-25-wet-in-the-wetlands/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12newport07w0276.jpg12Newport07w0276A constant reminder that the Nature Reserve is on the ash-pits of a cola-fired power station.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12newport06w8955.jpg12Newport06w8955Moss and lichen cover bushes in particularly damp and shady locationshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12newport05w8965.jpg12Newport05w8965Detailhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12newport03w8969.jpg12Newport03w8969Rich colour in the reed beds even in the gloom of dusk on a grey dayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12newport04w8966.jpg12Newport04w8966High water marked by substantial tree trunks and channels eroded through the grass-covered sedimenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12newport02w8973.jpg12Newport02w8973Battered and gnarled groins against murky sediment-rich waters https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12newport01w0272.jpg12Newport01w0272The tide starts to cover the grassland on the foreshore2012-11-26T17:12:09+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/24/november-daily-blog-24-footpaths-grey-britain-greece-canadian-rockies/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/10canada9965w0992.jpg10Canada9965w0992On the Hoodoos Trail near Banff, Canada, 10 January 2011https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12mesamani007w6730jpg.jpg12MesaMani007w6730jpgThe old kalderimi near the top of Profitis Ilias above Areopoloi, 19 June 2012https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls01w00251.jpg12waterfalls01w0025On the Sgwd yr Eira Trail 8 November 20122012-11-24T23:07:11+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/23/november-daily-blog-23-exploration-and-discovery-a-new-twist/2012-11-23T20:38:13+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/22/november-daily-blog-22-advertising-pseudo-science-and-manipulation/2012-11-22T23:38:50+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/21/november-daily-blog-21-the-news-informative-depressing-trivial-necessary/2012-11-27T17:07:50+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/20/november-daily-blog-20-knees-frustrations-running-to-stand-still/2012-11-20T23:59:36+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/19/november-daily-blog-19-knees-lifestyle-choices-mental-well-being/2012-11-19T20:42:12+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/18/november-daily-blog-18-broad-views-and-small-details-in-the-brecon-beacons-national-park/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12monmouthshire040w0251.jpg12Monmouthshire040w0251Named by a French mycologist with a sense of humour, the Phallus Impudicus or Common Stinkhornhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12monmouthshire039w0255.jpg12Monmouthshire039w0255While lower down water droplets are still there after two days without rainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12monmouthshire038w0247.jpg12Monmouthshire038w0247In permanent shade, there are pockets of hoar frost on the ancient 'sunken way' from the ridge-top down to the pubhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12monmouthshire037w0243.jpg12Monmouthshire037w0243........ while the weak winter sun can't melt the thin ice even on some larger poolshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12monmouthshire036w0241.jpg12Monmouthshire036w0241In places small pools of water shaded from the sun have a thin layer of icehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12monmouthshire034w0237.jpg12Monmouthshire034w0237 A section of ridge-top path so badly damaged by illegal off-road trial bikes it has now become a permanent pondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12monmouthshire035w0239.jpg12Monmouthshire035w0239Looking north to the Skirrid and Abergavenny far belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool065w02341.jpg12Pontypool065w0234Photographer on top of Mynydd Garn Wen looking northhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool063w02261.jpg12Pontypool063w0226Looking over the Folly Tower to the ridges to the easthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool064w02291.jpg12Pontypool064w0229The beginning of the open common2012-11-19T10:24:16+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/17/november-daily-blog-17-waterfalls-footpaths-and-shepherds/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton025w0216.jpg12CherryHinton025w0216View from the ridge-top, red sky at nighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls19w8934.jpg12waterfalls19w8934Sgwd Dwlihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls18w8925.jpg12waterfalls18w8925Trees washed down in floodhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls17w8920.jpg12waterfalls17w8920Sgwd y Bedolhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls16w8915.jpg12waterfalls16w8915Faster shutter speed freezes the action and shows the soil washing down after heavy rainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls15w8913.jpg12waterfalls15w8913Sgwd Gwladyshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls14w0214.jpg12waterfalls14w0214Detail of one of the minor rapidshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls13w0211.jpg12waterfalls13w0211The sun lights up the mossy trees and rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls12w0195.jpg12waterfalls12w0195One of the side streams tumbling into the river belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls11w0182.jpg12waterfalls11w0182steep drop down to the river2012-11-17T20:46:57+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/16/november-daily-blog-16-feuds-and-buses/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12mesamani065w7050jpg.jpg12MesaMani065w7050jpgLooking back up to its craggy hilltop setting , mountains behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12mesamani055w7001jpg.jpg12MesaMani055w7001jpgVatheia from above2012-11-16T19:33:26+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/15/november-daily-blog-15-grey-in-the-brain-lost-in-the-mists/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton023w8890.jpg12CherryHinton023w8890https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton022w88881.jpg12CherryHinton022w8888Looking south-east: the sun comes up from behind the ridge above the ash tree in Novemeberhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton024w88871.jpg12CherryHinton024w8887Looking east: the highest point of the ridge opposite is usually visible above the alderhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton022w8888.jpg12CherryHinton022w8888https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton024w8887.jpg12CherryHinton024w8887Looking east: the highest point on the ridge opposite is usually visible above the alder.2012-11-15T22:37:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/14/november-daily-blog-14-what-divides-the-nation/2012-11-14T23:37:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/13/november-daily-blog-13-a-day-in-the-city/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cardiff25w0159.jpg12Cardiff25w0159Lurking in the undergrowthhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cardiff24w0176.jpg12Cardiff24w0176Cardiff Castlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cardiff23w0173.jpg12Cardiff23w0173Some trees stand outhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cardiff22w0151.jpg12Cardiff22w0151Across the parkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cardiff21w0149.jpg12Cardiff21w0149City Hall clock towerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cardiff20w0145.jpg12Cardiff20w0145..... and more reflectionshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cardiff19w0139.jpg12Cardiff19w0139Reflectionshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cardiff17w0029.jpg12Cardiff17w0029Characteristic leafhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cardiff18w0031.jpg12Cardiff18w0031.... and in the other direction, Cardiff Castlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cardiff16w0020.jpg12Cardiff16w0020Avenue of Ginkgo Bilboa (Maidenhair) trees2012-11-14T10:11:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/12/november-daily-blog-12-climate-change-and-blue-house-thinking/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12bluehouse02w8880.jpg12BlueHouse02w8880... that now not-so-small agave which has starved out the pelargoniumshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12bluehouse01w8883.jpg12BlueHouse01w8883November 2012, the agave has been cut back severely to let me in, the palm tree is nearing the roof and obscuring ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/07-blue-house-09w-5935.jpg07 Blue House 09w - 5935... and in 2007https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/05-blue-house-01w-2696.jpg05 Blue House 01w 2696... and two years later in 2005https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/03-14-blue-house-03o.jpg03-14 Blue House 03oLooking diagonally across from the lower doorwayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/03-blue-house-07w-111.jpg03 Blue House 07w 111A small agave among the pelargoniumshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/03-blue-house-06w-110.jpg03 Blue House 06w 110Looking across the lower levelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/03-blue-house-05w-104.jpg03 Blue House 05w 104The Blue house just after it opened in 20032012-11-13T00:12:28+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/11/november-daily-blog-11-sky-clouds-mountains/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool060w0114.jpg12Pontypool060w0114Lights coming on and the sky fading to pastel shades as I finally prepare to leave the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool059w0113.jpg12Pontypool059w0113Zooming on the fiery sliverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool058w0109.jpg12Pontypool058w0109A liver of red as the sun sets behind the ridge to the westhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool057w0099.jpg12Pontypool057w0099Jets stream over the Folly Towerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool056w0097.jpg12Pontypool056w0097The sun gone behind the bank of cloud2012-11-11T23:26:27+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/10/november-daily-blog-10-trees-storm-clouds-autumn-colours/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12monmouthshire033w0092.jpg12Monmouthshire033w0092 ...... and the last remnants play between the postshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12monmouthshire032w0086.jpg12Monmouthshire032w0086... while passing rain clouds are set on fire ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12monmouthshire031w0081.jpg12Monmouthshire031w0081.... and gold.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12monmouthshire030w0080.jpg12Monmouthshire030w0080.... yellow....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12monmouthshire029w0078.jpg12Monmouthshire029w0078Leaves, on the trees and on the ground, provide a tapestry of autumn colours2012-11-10T23:01:21+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/09/november-daily-blog-9-reminiscences-of-gorges-waterfalls-and-footpaths/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12kardamili143w6672jpg.jpg12Kardamili143w6672jpgShowing how sharp the limestone rock is.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12kardamili142w6675jpg1.jpg12Kardamili142w6675jpgStandinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12kardamili142w6675jpg.jpg12Kardamili142w6675jpgStanding on the edge, the bed of the gorge again a thousand feet belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12kardamili110w6488jpg.jpg12Kardamili110w6488jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12kardamili084w6369jpg.jpg12Kardamili084w6369jpgSome of the paths are like a rock gardenhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12kardamili077w6336jpg.jpg12Kardamili077w6336jpgSome of the paths are well pavedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12kardamili072w6305jpg.jpg12Kardamili072w6305jpgOne of many small chapels at the side of the path heading up into the mountainshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12kardamili043w6168jpg.jpg12Kardamili043w6168jpgThe waterfalls in the Viros Gorge are dry most of the yearhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12kardamili116w6535jpg.jpg12Kardamili116w6535jpgDramatic coloured cliffs flank the gorgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12kardamili104w6469jpg.jpg12Kardamili104w6469jpgMarking the point where one of the small paths goes up the side of teh gorge2012-11-09T20:46:18+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/08/november-daily-blog-8-waterfalls-and-footpaths/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls09w0073.jpg12waterfalls09w0073Part of the map on the information board in the car park. I walked up the river on the right of the map.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls08w0063.jpg12waterfalls08w0063Sgwd isaf Clun-Gwynhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls07w0056.jpg12waterfalls07w0056Sgwd y Pannwrhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls06w0047.jpg12waterfalls06w0047.... and looking back from the other sidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls05w0044.jpg12waterfalls05w0044Walking behind the fall and looking outhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls04w8874.jpg12waterfalls04w8874..... time stood stillhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls03w8870.jpg12waterfalls03w8870Approaching Sgwd yr Eirahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls01w0025.jpg12waterfalls01w0025Much of the path on the ridge is mud and slurryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12waterfalls02w0021.jpg12waterfalls02w0021Looking up the gorge from the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton021w8864.jpg12CherryHinton021w8864Blue sky and a sliver of red2012-11-09T14:49:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/07/november-daily-blog-7-inactivity-and-verbal-rambling/2012-11-07T23:04:11+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/06/november-daily-blog-6-the-role-of-the-loo-in-creative-writing/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton020w8860.jpg12CherryHinton020w8860The sun pops over the ridge on the other side of the valleyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton019w8853.jpg12CherryHinton019w8853Sunrise Tuesday morning, from the balcony of the house2012-11-09T11:21:21+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/05/november-daily-blog-5-cliches-truth-and-poetic-cobblers/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton018w0003.jpg12CherryHinton018w0003Remnant of colour as they start to decomposehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton017w00091.jpg12CherryHinton017w0009Brightly coloured maple leaves now carpet the ground in my 'acer glade'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton017w0009.jpg12CherryHinton017w0009Brightly coloured maple leaves now carpet the ground in my 'acer glade'2012-11-05T20:00:21+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/04/november-daily-blog-4-back-to-gloomy-grey-and-the-problems-of-weather-forecasting/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/weather-forecast.jpgweather forecast2012-11-04T21:11:10+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/03/november-daily-blog-3-trees-and-autumn/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool053w8851.jpg12Pontypool053w8851Reflections in the pondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool054w8834.jpg12Pontypool054w8834Sun reflecting off the trunkshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool055w8831.jpg12Pontypool055w8831The fairytale styled 'Hansel and Gretel' cottage in the middle of the woodhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool051w8820.jpg12Pontypool051w8820Towering upwardshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool050w8822.jpg12Pontypool050w8822Deciduous conifershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool052w8808.jpg12Pontypool052w8808Looking out of the wood to the mountain beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool049w8826.jpg12Pontypool049w8826Sun shafting through branches of beech and hemlockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12pontypool048w8828.jpg12Pontypool048w8828Ancient beech tree2012-11-09T14:56:42+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/02/3060/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/12cherryhinton016w8800.jpg12CherryHinton016w8800Biarum marmarisense on the kitchen windowsill2012-11-03T10:44:51+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/11/02/new-challenge-a-blog-a-day-during-november/2012-11-02T10:17:14+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/10/31/symi-kardamyli-and-cricieth-a-short-tale-of-literary-connections/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12kardamili026w6080jpg1.jpg12Kardamili026w6080jpgThe Byzantine Church outside which Bruce Chatwin's ashes are buriedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12kardamili042w6176jpg.jpg12Kardamili042w6176jpgThe crumbling Likaki church in the Viros Gorgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12kardamili026w6080jpg.jpg12Kardamili026w6080jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12kardamili066w6288jpg.jpg12Kardamili066w6288jpgLooking towards Kalamitsi beach 2025-02-21T18:41:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/10/28/remembering-3/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12pontypool047w8791.jpg12Pontypool047w8791https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12pontypool046w8794.jpg12Pontypool046w87942012-10-30T16:15:34+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/10/22/symi-looking-back-connections-and-a-bit-of-history/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10symi081w1930.jpg10Symi081w1930Permanent pond at the edge of the deserted village of Gria in the mountains behind Pedi Bayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10symi026w1650.jpg10Symi026w1650Standing close to one of the small permanent ponds at the back of the beach at Nanou, the Turkish coast just across the channel.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10symi220w0355.jpg10Symi220w0355One of the youngsters a few weeks laterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10symi169w2248.jpg10Symi169w2248Turkish Geko on my doorstep in August 2010https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi047w87091.jpg12Symi047w8709Pushing up through the rocks and powder-dry soilhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi046w87041.jpg12Symi046w8704Previously unidentified, now known to be 'Biarum marmarisense'2012-10-22T09:27:07+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/10/15/the-llyn-peninsula-looking-for-variety/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12llyn07w87682.jpg12Llyn07w8768Approaching Cricieth along the beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12llyn08w8770.jpg12Llyn08w8770Getting closer. The groins arrest long-shore drift, a process which adds great variety to the rocks contributing to the pebbles on the beach https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12llyn07w87681.jpg12Llyn07w8768Approaching Cricieth along the beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12llyn07w8768.jpg12Llyn07w8768Approaching Cricieth along the beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12llyn04w8759.jpg12Llyn04w8759A pair of swans live around the mouth of the estuaryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12llyn06w8778.jpg12Llyn06w8778A heron, morose as usualhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12llyn05w8766.jpg12Llyn05w8766A cormorant dries its wings after a fishing triphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12llyn03w8751.jpg12Llyn03w8751Oyster catchers feeding at the edge of the incoming tide take off when disturbedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12llyn02w8752.jpg12Llyn02w8752Life and colour in the intertidal rangehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12llyn01w8755.jpg12Llyn01w8755Towards a watery sunset2012-10-15T12:40:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/10/07/surreal-change-to-autumn-a-backward-look-from-a-cold-climate-to-the-hot-rock/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12rhodes05w0019.jpg12Rhodes05w0019Dazzlingly bright colour in the gardens around the Old Townhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12rhodes04w0017.jpg12Rhodes04w0017Somehow symbolic of Rhodes Old Town: a mix of genuine historical interest and tourist tat ..... under clear blue sunny skieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi049w8719.jpg12Symi049w8719Chain on wall at Pedihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi048w8718.jpg12Symi048w8718Grey at Agia Marina looking towards Turkeyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi047w8709.jpg12Symi047w8709.... just crawling out of the rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi046w8704.jpg12Symi046w8704Unidentified flowershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi045w0014.jpg12Symi045w0014Autumn crocushttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12nisyros293w8314.jpg12Nisyros293w8314Stately squill, just two of millions2012-10-09T09:45:03+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/10/02/symi-perspectives-2/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi037w8665.jpg12Symi037w8665https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi034w8696.jpg12Symi034w8696Why do dragonflies sit on top of sticks?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi033w8700.jpg12Symi033w8700Time to photograph the wildlifehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi041w8688.jpg12Symi041w8688Mosaic set in the craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi042w8698.jpg12Symi042w8698Stone wine presses, restored to what they would have looked likehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi039w8674.jpg12Symi039w8674Group photo on Hochlakos floor at Panaiidihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi040w86851.jpg12Symi040w8685Cool courtyard at Panaiidi, at the bottom of the path to Polemouhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi040w8685.jpg12Symi040w8685https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi038w8668.jpg12Symi038w8668Small chapel close to the tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12symi044w8657.jpg12Symi044w8657View towards Vigla (on the right) the highest point on the island2012-10-02T09:24:07+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/30/symi-perspectives/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi031w8572.jpg12Symi031w8572Blue sky, blue sea, intense colour: it's still summer on Symi2012-09-30T06:57:14+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/29/symi-getting-it-wrong/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi030w8559.jpg12Symi030w8559The island and its monastery at AgiaMarinahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi009w8465.jpg12Symi009w8465Symi's two major inlets, Agia Martina at the tip of the central ridge2024-06-10T12:08:03+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/28/symi-acclimatisation-on-the-hot-rock/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi029w8556.jpg12Symi029w8556Reflectionshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi028w8543.jpg12Symi028w8543Harbour sidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi027w8542.jpg12Symi027w8542One of the other visitors to the courtyardhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi026w8531.jpg12Symi026w8531Shady courtyard overlooking Nimborio Bayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi025w8529.jpg12Symi025w8529Bougainvillea and seahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi024w8525.jpg12Symi024w8525Flat calm sea at Nimboriohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi007w8442.jpg12Symi007w8442Agios Nikolaos Stenou on the rocky ridge top2017-05-24T22:59:38+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/27/symi-to-rhodes-and-back/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi025w1049.jpg12Symi025w1049This may be good as a hairstylehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi024w1042.jpg12Symi024w1042At the entrance to the WiFix garden on Rhodeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12rhodes01w1046.jpg12Rhodes01w1046The iconic entrance to Rhodes old 'Mandraki' harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi023w1026.jpg12Symi023w1026Early morning, Symi harbour from Top Deck2012-09-28T11:37:48+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/26/symi-dead-sandals/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi022w1021.jpg12Symi022w1021One of a number of imaginative and creative planting schemeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi021w8517.jpg12Symi021w8517Ancient stone olive press serves as a good waymarkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi020w8515.jpg12Symi020w8515.... and from the beach at the other side of the bayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi019w8513.jpg12Symi019w8513Looking down to Agios Emilianos from the path 2012-09-26T08:54:30+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/25/symi-straight-to-the-top-of-the-hot-rock/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi018w8507.jpg12Symi018w8507Yet in the middle of the desert, a tiny sign of new life.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi017w1020.jpg12Symi017w1020Dead and nearly dead vegetation everywhere. And this is stuff particularly adapted to survive drought!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi016w8499.jpg12Symi016w8499Spot the goat path. https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi015w8497.jpg12Symi015w8497Curious if cautious onlookerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi014w8488.jpg12Symi014w8488Looking along the ridge, the next part of the routehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi013w8484.jpg12Symi013w8484Zooming in on Horiohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi012w8483.jpg12Symi012w8483Looking down the way I came up and to the coast. The monastery I checked out is just to the right of centre, at the bottom of a long arette https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi011w8475.jpg12Symi011w8475The inner courtyard of the Profitis Ilias monastery at the foot of Vigla2012-09-25T06:51:59+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/24/symi-on-a-hot-rock/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi010w8470.jpg12Symi010w8470Two of the many bell-towershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi008w8461.jpg12Symi008w8461Looking down to the main harbour from the footpathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi006w8435.jpg12Symi006w8435Raven on a Hot Rock, with Turkey behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi005w8434.jpg12Symi005w8434Calm sea on the Hot Rockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12symi001w0992.jpg12Symi001w0992Now THAT'S a bicycle chain!2012-09-24T06:16:35+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/23/from-nisyros-to-symi-via-kos/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12kos10w09881.jpg12Kos10w0988The iconography at the top of the wooden screen is said to date back to 1067https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12kos10w0988.jpg12Kos10w0988The screen and the iconography at the top is said to date back to 1067https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12kos09w8411.jpg12Kos09w8411Many intact mosaics, mostly of blokes fighting beastshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12kos06w8401.jpg12Kos06w8401Marble frame about 20 feet highhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12kos05w8400.jpg12Kos05w8400another site, another framehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12kos04w8391.jpg12Kos04w8391framedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12kos03w8383.jpg12Kos03w8383carved pillars everywherehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12kos02w8380.jpg12Kos02w8380....lots of them!!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12kos01w8374.jpg12Kos01w8374Probably mu favourite image on Kos, carving on one of the marbles lying aroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros316w8372.jpg12Nisyros316w8372Sun coming over the headland2012-09-23T07:21:25+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/22/nisyros-teetering-on-the-brink-an-inside-curve-and-the-unexpected/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros315w0976.jpg12Nisyros315w0976Natural art en route: 'Turkey struggles with Octopus'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros304w0972.jpg12Nisyros304w0972That's where you go if you get it wronghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros303w0969.jpg12Nisyros303w0969Take a closer lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros302w0970.jpg12Nisyros302w0970Spot the pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros301w0962.jpg12Nisyros301w0962One of the places where the path has collapsed completely requiring a rock traverse along the wallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros313w8361.jpg12Nisyros313w8361Blue Rock Thrush on the tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros314w8364.jpg12Nisyros314w8364Probably he most impressive pinnaclehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros312w0965.jpg12Nisyros312w0965The route to the top, straight up the rockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros311w0963.jpg12Nisyros311w0963Approaching the Parleta cragshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros310w8351.jpg12Nisyros310w8351Lava and caldera2012-09-22T07:37:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/21/nisyros-much-loved-places/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros298w8327.jpg12Nisyros298w8327Lava pinnacles either side of the pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/img_0944.jpgIMG_0944Restored section of the kalderimihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros296w0944.jpg12Nisyros296w0944A restored section of the kalderimihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros295w8324.jpg12Nisyros295w8324The Parleta pinnacles seen from the caldera floorhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros294w8317.jpg12Nisyros294w8317.... referring to the seismic fissure. Still getting bigger apparentlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros300w8316.jpg12Nisyros300w8316The floor of the caldera looking towards Emborios on the rim. The sign reads: 'Danger Landslip of the territory' in 3 languages.2012-09-21T06:26:09+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/20/nisyros-stumbling-into-the-past/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros293w8314.jpg12Nisyros293w8314There are now squill everywhere. Millions of themhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros289w82961.jpg12Nisyros289w8296Enthroned with bananahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros289w8296.jpg12Nisyros289w8296Enthroned with bananahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros290w8303.jpg12Nisyros290w8303Random piece of finely carved marblehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros288w8281.jpg12Nisyros288w8281Large carved bowl and threshing circlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros287w8284.jpg12Nisyros287w8284Communal areahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros286w0930.jpg12Nisyros286w0930Tiny hiding-hole insidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros285w0923.jpg12Nisyros285w0923Two large entrances ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros284w8282.jpg12Nisyros284w8282Two of the group of houses. Note the depth of soil over the top of the one on the left where the stonework has slipped away: makes it usable as a field!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros294w0283.jpg12Nisyros294w0283Small group from a much larger colony2012-09-20T06:33:35+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/19/nisyros-a-blast/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros279w8261.jpg12Nisyros279w8261The breakwater behind which swimming is possible in rough seashttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros278w0922.jpg12Nisyros278w0922A common sight on farms in the UK but very, VERY unusual in Greece .... a bath used to water animalshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros277w8248.jpg12Nisyros277w8248A line of very red caveshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros276w0917.jpg12Nisyros276w0917Some of the pinnacleshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros275w8240.jpg12Nisyros275w8240Looking towards the craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros274w8225.jpg12Nisyros274w8225The approach to the Parleta pinnacles: straight up the craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros273w8220.jpg12Nisyros273w8220Stavros monastery with a volcanic dome and crater below2012-09-19T06:19:34+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/18/nisyros-brimstone-and-pigs-under-a-cloud/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros271w8217.jpg12Nisyros271w8217Cluster of dwellings and enclosed area built onto lava boulders at the edge of the active area of the craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros270w8213.jpg12Nisyros270w8213Flank of the craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros268w8203.jpg12Nisyros268w8203The crag of red sulphurhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros267w8196.jpg12Nisyros267w8196Side of the crater with black cloudhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros272w8208.jpg12Nisyros272w8208Scale shown by the size of the people getting off the coaches and heading for the main crater in this zoomed in shothttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros264w8172.jpg12Nisyros264w8172House and walled garden, underfloor heatinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros263w8171.jpg12Nisyros263w8171Huge lava blocks fall down and have been used to make dwellings virtually in the craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros269w8207.jpg12Nisyros269w8207The well known view of the caldera but with the red sulphur cliff in the foregroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros266w8191.jpg12Nisyros266w8191... some in the form of tubeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros265w8185.jpg12Nisyros265w8185More sulphur encrustations around fumaroles2012-09-18T06:36:19+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/17/nisyros-freed-from-the-tyranny-of-targets/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros250w8168.jpg12Nisyros250w8168On the way back from Emborios Enfys first spotted this as a photographic composition but the sun wasn't in the right place. Today it was righthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros262w0910.jpg12Nisyros262w0910The churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros261w0906.jpg12Nisyros261w0906Path up to the old castle and church above Emborioshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros260w0904.jpg12Nisyros260w0904Carved lintel over door of collapsed building in Emborios .... dated 1810https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros259w8164.jpg12Nisyros259w8164Close-up of the carved figure, about half a metre tallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros258w8163.jpg12Nisyros258w8163Carved marble pillar and other artifacts alongside the househttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros257w8160.jpg12Nisyros257w8160One of many houses built under the terraceshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros256w0899.jpg12Nisyros256w0899On top of a rock to photograph the huge boulder overhanging the old pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros255w0898.jpg12Nisyros255w0898Photographer on the edge againhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros254w0893.jpg12Nisyros254w0893One of many lava outcrops2012-09-17T06:00:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/16/nisyros-to-the-top-of-the-world-and-underground-into-the-distant-past/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros249w8157.jpg12Nisyros249w8157Abandoned https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros243w8149.jpg12Nisyros243w8149The main settlement of Nifios set into the rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros248w8159.jpg12Nisyros248w8159Minoan 'Horns of Consecration' at the entrance to the settlementhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros246w0873.jpg12Nisyros246w0873The two alters in the churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros245w0870.jpg12Nisyros245w0870Inside the church with its central pillarhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros244w0861.jpg12Nisyros244w0861Entrance to the underground church: the door is less than a metre high and inside steps drop steeply about 6 feethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros242w0856.jpg12Nisyros242w0856Rock crag with carved holes for wooden beams: maybe Neolithichttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros247w8144.jpg12Nisyros247w8144To the east, terraced fields to the top of the adjacent mountain and the lava bubble bottom righthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros241w8146.jpg12Nisyros241w8146Looking south across Nikia to Tilos https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros240w8142.jpg12Nisyros240w8142Cloud on Kos and a strange light2012-09-16T06:11:08+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/15/nisyros-pinnacles-of-cowardice/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros238w8136.jpg12Nisyros238w81362-metre diameter globe of the Planet Zoghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros237w8140.jpg12Nisyros237w8140Zooming inhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros236w0847.jpg12Nisyros236w0847Cluster of pinnacles seen from the cliff abovehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros231w8118.jpg12Nisyros231w8118Lava sculpture: 'leaning away from each other'?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros232w8098.jpg12Nisyros232w8098Lav sculpture: 'Seahorse'?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros235w8123.jpg12Nisyros235w8123Approaching the lava pinnacles in the seahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros234w8120.jpg12Nisyros234w8120Same rock from the seaward sidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros230w8118.jpg12Nisyros230w8118Detail of the rockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros229w8116.jpg12Nisyros229w8116Close-up of the neck and headhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros228w8095.jpg12Nisyros228w8095From the other side2012-09-15T06:04:44+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/14/nisyros-autumn-came-and-went-again/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros223w8068.jpg12Nisyros223w8068The line of sea-eroded caves seen from the tip of the clam shellhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros224w8069.jpg12Nisyros224w8069In places much erodedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros222w8060.jpg12Nisyros222w8060Layers of pumice and 'paleosoils' laid down by different eruptions of the volcanohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros221w8065.jpg12Nisyros221w8065Small section of the lip of the lavahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros219w8054.jpg12Nisyros219w8054....... and from the otherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros220w8046.jpg12Nisyros220w8046Lava clam shell from one side2012-09-14T06:07:49+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/13/nisyros-volcano-art-and-origami/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros218w8033.jpg12Nisyros218w8033https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros217w8017.jpg12Nisyros217w8017https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros216w8020.jpg12Nisyros216w8020https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros215w7998.jpg12Nisyros215w7998https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros214w7990.jpg12Nisyros214w7990https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros213w7970.jpg12Nisyros213w7970https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros212w8006.jpg12Nisyros212w8006https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros211w8004.jpg12Nisyros211w8004https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros210w7992.jpg12Nisyros210w7992https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros209w7984.jpg12Nisyros209w79842012-09-13T05:36:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/12/2771/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros193w0789.jpg12Nisyros193w0789Caption competition: suggest something appropriatehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros203w7963.jpg12Nisyros203w7963Poignant: dead trees and abandoned stone-carved bowlhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros199w7950.jpg12Nisyros199w7950.... of varying colourshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros204w7946.jpg12Nisyros204w7946Many lava pinnacleshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros201w7955.jpg12Nisyros201w7955Dead tree with birdhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros197w0806.jpg12Nisyros197w0806Many dead trees on the terrceshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros202w7957.jpg12Nisyros202w7957Looking down to the sulphur processing plant at Agia Irinihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros200w7953.jpg12Nisyros200w7953Threshing circle and relatively clear terraced fieldshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros196w0800.jpg12Nisyros196w0800Built in 1930https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros195w0795.jpg12Nisyros195w0795.... and on the inside2012-09-12T06:28:59+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/11/nisyros-risk-assessment-risk-perception-and-thinking-beyond-the-wow-factor/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros1923w79421.jpg12Nisyros1923w7942Visitors to the crater floorhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros1923w7942.jpg12Nisyros1923w7942Visitors to the crater floorhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros191w7934.jpg12Nisyros191w7934More fumes and crater wallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros190w7930.jpg12Nisyros190w7930... and one with the lid offhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros189w7925.jpg12Nisyros189w7925Sound like a kettle boiling vigorouslyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros188w7920.jpg12Nisyros188w7920Fumarolehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros187w79191.jpg12Nisyros187w7919Fuming fumarolehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros187w7919.jpg12Nisyros187w7919https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros186w7900.jpg12Nisyros186w7900Scale: trippers view the crater from its rim, fumarole belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros185w7897.jpg12Nisyros185w7897Sulphur crystals around hissing fumarole2012-09-11T06:32:51+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/08/nisyros-old-ways-new-routes/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros161w7804.jpg12Nisyros161w7804The thermal spring in the cave at the backhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros160w7794.jpg12Nisyros160w7794The entrance to the part-collapsed vaulted roof under which the church and the thermal spring sithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros159w7790.jpg12Nisyros159w7790The underground church with the cave containing the thermal spring to the righthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros158w77871.jpg12Nisyros158w7787I wish I could grow peppers like that in my gardenhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros158w7787.jpg12Nisyros158w7787https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros157w7784.jpg12Nisyros157w7784Sea daffodil https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros156w7774.jpg12Nisyros156w7774The edge of the lava as it dips into the seahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros155w7767.jpg12Nisyros155w7767The lava clam shell with the sun behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros152w7759.jpg12Nisyros152w7759The rising line of caveshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros153w7764.jpg12Nisyros153w7764The 'path' follows the line of darker pumice diagonally up to the secure platform on the lava shell2012-09-10T16:03:31+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/10/nisyros-the-unusual-and-surrealistic/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros175w0769.jpg12Nisyros175w0769One of the volcanic crags in the old part of the Paleocastrohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros177w7863.jpg12Nisyros177w7863View down to Mandrakihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros176w7854.jpg12Nisyros176w7854The Paleocastro fills the entire width of the headland https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros174w0758.jpg12Nisyros174w0758.... and from the top of another rock. The Paleocastro is on the headland in the distancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros173w0763.jpg12Nisyros173w0763The church of Panagia Fanoremeni seen from the top of a rock2012-09-10T06:15:59+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/09/nisyros-old-settlements/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros172w0746.jpg12Nisyros172w0746A brief stop on the way back at the Stavros monastery perched on the caldera rimhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros171w7839.jpg12Nisyros171w7839Zooming in on the Stephanos craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros170w7840.jpg12Nisyros170w7840The craters seen from the millhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros169w7844.jpg12Nisyros169w7844The millhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros168w7841.jpg12Nisyros168w7841The abandoned settlement seen from the top of the millhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros167w7847.jpg12Nisyros167w7847The view towards Nikia and the abandoned settlement from the top of the milhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros166w7822.jpg12Nisyros166w7822Inside the househttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros165w7819.jpg12Nisyros165w7819Entrance to one of the larger houses with a small 'porch'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros164w78131.jpg12Nisyros164w7813Sterna and stone trough outside the settlement wallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros164w7813.jpg12Nisyros164w78132012-09-09T07:08:04+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/07/nisyros-lava-landscapes-and-making-a-living-from-a-volcano/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros145w7742.jpg12Nisyros145w7742The sulphur pipeline climbs out of the calderahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros144w7727.jpg12Nisyros144w7727Above Agia Irinihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros143w7709.jpg12Nisyros143w7709.... close uphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros142w7714.jpg12Nisyros142w7714Lava outcrops in the seahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros141w7685.jpg12Nisyros141w7685.... and anotherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros140w76881.jpg12Nisyros140w7688One of the lava outcrops high on the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros140w7688.jpg12Nisyros140w7688One of the lava outcrops high on the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros139w7694.jpg12Nisyros139w7694Closer to the coast different volcanic rocks used in construction, lava outcrops on the mountains behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros138w7689.jpg12Nisyros138w7689Threshing circle on the roofhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros137w0711.jpg12Nisyros137w0711Inside one of the houses, wooden plough which would have been used on the fields outside2012-09-07T07:08:53+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/06/nisyros-off-the-page-and-into-the-past/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros132w0701.jpg12Nisyros132w0701Just a little local colourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros131w0694.jpg12Nisyros131w0694The lowest part of the caldera floor with the steep climb out through the terraces at the endhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros130w0686.jpg12Nisyros130w0686Photographer on top of a rock looking towards the end of the calderahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros129w0678.jpg12Nisyros129w0678Part of one of the ancient pathways through the terraces with huge rock on the lefthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros128w0674.jpg12Nisyros128w0674Standing at the high point between the two calderas looking down through the steep terraceshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros127w7678.jpg12Nisyros127w7678... and looking the other wayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros126w7675.jpg12Nisyros126w7675The 'avli'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros125w0655.jpg12Nisyros125w0655Inside on e of the dwellings: note the IKEA style storage unit next to the fireplacehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros124w0656.jpg12Nisyros124w0656Part of the frescoeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros123w0660.jpg12Nisyros123w0660The inside of the church2012-09-06T06:28:50+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/05/nisyros-looking-down-on-the-world/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros108w0632.jpg12Nisyros108w0632Simple. Tranquilhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros107w06241.jpg12Nisyros107w0624On the way back down, the Diavatis monastery perched on the edgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros107w0624.jpg12Nisyros107w0624On the way back down to the Diavatis monastery perched on the edgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros117w7646.jpg12Nisyros117w7646.... and enlarging it.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros116w7646.jpg12Nisyros116w7646Zooming in on a section of the caldera with the seismic fissure ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros119w7655.jpg12Nisyros119w7655Looking down to the craters. Last year I climbed this gully to the top.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros115w7637.jpg12Nisyros115w7637.... and enlarging the bubbles. Remember the photos from the footpath and the neck-bending scale. Puts it in context.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros114w7636.jpg12Nisyros114w7636Zooming in on the lava cliff with the bubbles ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros111w76411.jpg12Nisyros111w7641Zooming in on the crater-rim village of Emborioshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros110w7638.jpg12Nisyros110w7638The ancient settlement of Nifios2012-09-05T06:45:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/04/nisyros-rock-hopping-along-the-coast/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros101w7624.jpg12Nisyros101w7624Looking across Hochlakos beach at the end of the walk. Monastery and castle on the headlandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros100w0536.jpg12Nisyros100w0536... and againhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros099w0534.jpg12Nisyros099w0534Great to see art and a sense of humourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros098w7623.jpg12Nisyros098w7623Just to prove that this is all next to the sea and not in the craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros102w0586.jpg12Nisyros102w0586Columns as if cut by a stone masonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros097w0592.jpg12Nisyros097w0592.... and colourshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros096w0559.jpg12Nisyros096w0559... in fact all kinds of contorted shapeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros095w0556.jpg12Nisyros095w0556Stretched like molten toffeehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros094w0593.jpg12Nisyros094w0593Blocks of honeycombed lavahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros093w7612.jpg12Nisyros093w7612And so to the rocks. Dramatic colour variations everywhere.2012-09-04T06:53:08+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/03/nisyros-seismic/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros085w0527.jpg12Nisyros085w0527The altarhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros084w0524.jpg12Nisyros084w0524The rearmost of which is a small churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros083w0522.jpg12Nisyros083w0522Dwellings built into the rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros082w0512.jpg12Nisyros082w0512Inside anotherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros081w0507.jpg12Nisyros081w0507Inside one of the fissures: note the sulphur horizon in the soilhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros080w0502.jpg12Nisyros080w0502"I don't care what you say, I'm not sticking around until Christmas!"https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros079w0498.jpg12Nisyros079w0498Two key landmarks for navigating across the caldera, abandoned church and Parletia pinnacleshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros078w7550.jpg12Nisyros078w7550No! It's not popcorn.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros077w7552.jpg12Nisyros077w7552Close-up of sulphur encrustationhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros076w7564.jpg12Nisyros076w7564Looking up the small crater to the huge stone retaining wall topped by farmland2012-09-03T08:44:04+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/02/nisyros-buses-bubbles-and-toe-holds/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros070w7520.jpg12Nisyros070w7520.... and so to the beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros069w0476.jpg12Nisyros069w0476Hot springs from the volcano come out at Hochlakos as evidenced by the sulphur deposits on the cliff and the pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros067w7495.jpg12Nisyros067w7495..... and in detailhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros068w7514.jpg12Nisyros068w7514Zooming inhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros066w7506.jpg12Nisyros066w7506Looking across the top of the lava bubble with Emborios beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros065w7481.jpg12Nisyros065w7481Zooming in on detailhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros064w7477.jpg12Nisyros064w7477Looking straight up at the 'roof'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros063w7478.jpg12Nisyros063w7478Standing back, the rucksack can be just about seen, bottom righthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros062w7476.jpg12Nisyros062w7476Rucksack for scale at the bottomhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros061w7474.jpg12Nisyros061w7474Approaching the lava bubble from Emborios2012-09-02T07:11:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/09/01/nisyros-inside-the-volcano/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros057w0434.jpg12Nisyros057w0434On the way across the caldera floor, a reminder that people once tried to make money out of the volcano by sinking geothermal wells. The attempt failed.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros058w7461.jpg12Nisyros058w7461Bands of deposits in the sides of the canyonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros053w7457.jpg12Nisyros053w7457Colour everywherehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros052w7460.jpg12Nisyros052w7460Looking the other wayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros051w7455.jpg12Nisyros051w7455The canyon at the western end of the craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros049w7444.jpg12Nisyros049w7444..... and anotherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros048w7443.jpg12Nisyros048w7443Close up of deposits of sulphut crystalshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros050w7453.jpg12Nisyros050w7453Sulphur gas pours from the rocks on the inside of the craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros047w7440.jpg12Nisyros047w7440On the slopes of Achilleashttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12nisyros046w7437.jpg12Nisyros046w7437Inside Achilleas crater2012-09-02T05:36:27+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/08/31/nisyros-on-the-rocks-again/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros043w7416.jpg12Nisyros043w7416... and on the other edge. Stephanos crater in the distancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros037w7394.jpg12Nisyros037w7394Photographer on the edge ..... and part way downhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros042w7403.jpg12Nisyros042w7403Zooming inhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros041w7403.jpg12Nisyros041w7403Lava pinnacles at Parlatiahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros039w7402.jpg12Nisyros039w7402Hole in rockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros038w7397.jpg12Nisyros038w7397Some of the remains of the Parletia castlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros036w7383.jpg12Nisyros036w7383The Parletia lava pinnacleshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros035w7379.jpg12Nisyros035w7379Approaching the Parletia pinnacles with marker stone at the side of the pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros034w7375.jpg12Nisyros034w7375Another lava pinnacle towering over the pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros033w7372.jpg12Nisyros033w7372Photographer in the well2012-08-31T07:15:27+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/08/30/nisyros-nyfios-all-a-matter-of-timescale/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros022w7332.jpg12Nisyros022w7332At the top of the pinnacle: is that cross natural or carved? I climbed the pinnacle a few years ago and it's no place to be wielding a hammer and chiselhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros021w7334.jpg12Nisyros021w7334Pinnacle of rock marking the start of the 'back-path' to Nyfioshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros020w7331.jpg12Nisyros020w7331Looking across Yiali to Kos and Kalymnos beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros019w7311.jpg12Nisyros019w7311Looking down into the cluster of still-active craters in the caldera https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros017w0344.jpg12Nisyros017w0344Another sign that human activity continues: the inside of the underground churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros018w7307.jpg12Nisyros018w7307Looking across the roof-top threshing circle to Oros Diavatishttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros016w7303.jpg12Nisyros016w7303The main settlement at Nyfios built into the rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros015w03391.jpg12Nisyros015w0339On the flank of one of the larger secondary calderas, terraced fields stretch up to the top of the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros014w72931.jpg12Nisyros014w7293Half an hour into the walk at the Evangelistra monastery and just a reminder for those who don't know anything other than Grey Britain that at this time of year the skies here are blue .... or bluer2012-08-30T07:24:02+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/08/29/nisyros-setbacks-things-beyond-our-control-exhilaration/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros013w0331.jpg12Nisyros013w0331The ground has collapsed into the fissure leaving tree roots behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros013w0333.jpg12Nisyros013w0333Part of the long seismic fissure in the caldera floorhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros012w7290.jpg12Nisyros012w7290The newly built Agios Nektarios abobe Nikia.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros011w7289.jpg12Nisyros011w7289From just above Avlaki, looking up to Nikia on the caldera rim: note the retaining wall of multicoloured volcanic rocks.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros010w7285.jpg12Nisyros010w7285Rough sea beating on the breakwater in Mandraki2012-08-29T06:28:07+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/08/28/nisyros-sitting-on-a-volcano/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros008w7260.jpg12Nisyros008w7260.... and great lumps of grey-black lava at Avlakihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros007w7263.jpg12Nisyros007w7263Vividly coloured ash deposits at Avlakihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros006w0299.jpg12Nisyros006w0299The lone hot spring on the southern coast at Avlaki attracted development but now long abandonedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros005w7275.jpg12Nisyros005w7275Looking down into the crater from high abovehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros004w7278.jpg12Nisyros004w7278The essence of Nisyros, the 4km-long caldera seen from the rim at the western end2012-08-28T06:50:45+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/08/27/manchester-kos-nisyros-its-all-greek-to-me/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros003w7255.jpg12Nisyros003w7255Church on the rim of the crater.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros002w0233.jpg12Nisyros002w0233The pumice quarry of Yiali, the island close to Niosyroshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12nisyros001w0227.jpg12Nisyros001w0227Nisyros in the distancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12kos1w02221.jpg12Kos1w0222Seafront at Kardamena, deserted at 09.00https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12kos2w0224.jpg12Kos2w0224Near-empty ferryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12kos1w0222.jpg12Kos1w0222Seafront at Kardamena, deserted at 09.00https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12-greecetrip2w0221.jpg12 Greecetrip2w0221Black cloud and lashing down with rain at Manchester airport2012-08-27T06:19:27+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/08/24/greece-on-the-brink-again/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/map-of-greece-2012.jpgMap of Greece 2012Greece 2012 Part 1 in red, Part 2 in yellow 2012-08-24T08:11:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/08/19/greece-getting-ready/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12monmouthshire028w0218.jpg12Monmouthshire028w0218Historic beech trees lining the ancient sunken way down to Llanover https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12monmouthshire027w0210.jpg12Monmouthshire027w0210Rain shower sweeps across the valleyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12monmouthshire026w0208.jpg12Monmouthshire026w0208Heather is now in flower on the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12pontypool044w0193.jpg12Pontypool044w0193The top of Garn Wen with its newly painted 'white stone' and the rige beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12pontypool045w0199.jpg12Pontypool045w0199Half an hour from the house, the Folly Tower 2012-08-19T13:18:58+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/08/07/looking-back-looking-forward-time-warping/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12metsovo07w4897jpg.jpg12Metsovo07w4897jpgIn the cloud in the Pindus Mountainshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12parga31w5847pg.jpg12Parga31w5847pgAli Pasha's summer place with storm brewinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12parga11w5760pg.jpg12Parga11w5760pgStorm clouds approaching Pargahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12meteora17w5238jpg.jpg12Meteora17w5238jpgBlack clouds looming in Meteorahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12cherryhinton014w0190.jpg12CherryHinton014w0190The wildlife is coming indoors to get away from the wethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/12cherryhinton015w0190.jpg12CherryHinton015w0190Seen from the window, rain coming down like stair-rods2012-08-07T22:02:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/07/30/just-add-sunshine-gardens-cacti-thistles-brecon-beacons-trig-points/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12cherryhinton008w0143.jpg12CherryHinton008w0143Just add sunshine and you get a rainbow on the ceilinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12cherryhinton007w0150.jpg12CherryHinton007w0150Try this at home: photographer's feet and CDshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12pontypool043w0184.jpg12Pontypool043w0184Just add sunshine to rainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12pontypool042w0173.jpg12Pontypool042w0173After: the trig point on Sunday afternoonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12pontypool041w0109.jpg12Pontypool041w0109Before: the Garn Wen trig point on Tuesdayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12abergavenny04w0125.jpg12Abergavenny04w0125Standing on the edge of the Blorenge bowl looking over Abergavennyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12monmouthshire025w0116.jpg12Monmouthshire025w0116View towards The Skirrid with the Malverns in the far distancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12monmouthshire024w0110.jpg12Monmouthshire024w0110Only in High Summer are cattle on the top of the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12pontypool039w0101.jpg12Pontypool039w0101First objective, the Folly Towerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12pontypool038w0098.jpg12Pontypool038w0098Massed thistles2012-07-31T12:21:36+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/07/18/getting-the-grey-out-of-my-brain-kinder-scout-and-a-lot-of-history/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12peaks12w0091.jpg12Peaks12w0091Beware! Grumpy frogs!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12peaks11w0089.jpg12Peaks11w0089Stone Building in Field.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12peaks10w0079.jpg12Peaks10w0079The stream is discoloured by peathttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12peaks09w0078.jpg12Peaks09w0078The edge of the Downfall with the stream far belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12peaks08w0075.jpg12Peaks08w0075Kinder Downfallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12peaks07w0070.jpg12Peaks07w0070Just a couple of the hundreds of weird shaped rocks on the plateauhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12peaks06w0067.jpg12Peaks06w0067Nature-sculpted rocks outlined against the darkening sky as a shower approaches.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12peaks05w0065.jpg12Peaks05w0065Following the steep edge of the plateauhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12peaks04w0061.jpg12Peaks04w0061Looking back down Williams Clough from the colhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12peaks03w0056.jpg12Peaks03w0056The stream is crossed and recrossed as the path winds its way up Williams Clough2012-07-20T14:15:54+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/07/15/getting-the-grey-out-of-my-brain-cadair-idris-on-a-grey-day/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12snowdonia-10w0041jpg.jpg12Snowdonia 10w0041jpgI used to go scree riding on those scree slopeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12snowdonia-09w0039jpg1.jpg12Snowdonia 09w0039jpgLooking across Llyn Cau from just below cloud base to the summit of Penygadair (compare with images on aartworld.com website)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12snowdonia-09w0039jpg.jpg12Snowdonia 09w0039jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12snowdonia-08w0036jpg.jpg12Snowdonia 08w0036jpgOne of the gullies dropping straight down into Llyn Cauhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12snowdonia-06w0030jpg.jpg12Snowdonia 06w0030jpgThe summit of Penygadair, the mountain refuge on the lefthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12snowdonia-07w0031jpg.jpg12Snowdonia 07w0031jpgAt the top of the gully which I climbed up into the col.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12snowdonia-04w0020.jpg12Snowdonia 04w0020Looking down across Lyn Cau just before disappearing up into the cloudhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12snowdonia-03w0015.jpg12Snowdonia 03w0015Looking across Lyn Cau, the summit of Craig Cau lost in the cloud (compare photos on web site)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12snowdonia-02w0014.jpg12Snowdonia 02w0014Famous roche moutonnée on the way up to Llyn Cauhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12snowdonia-01w0011.jpg12Snowdonia 01w0011The start of the climb is steeply up through woodland alongside a rushing stream2012-07-15T21:22:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/07/10/new-habits-dying-hard-greyness-in-the-brain/2012-07-10T10:01:33+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/07/05/down-to-earth-with-a-squelch-naked-garlic-blue-sky-thinking/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/12cherryhinton005w0004.jpg12CherryHinton005w0004Naked garlic spread out to dry2012-07-06T07:13:30+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/07/01/leaving-athens-the-end-of-the-trip/2012-07-01T21:12:41+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/30/areopoli-to-athens-tower-houses-to-tower-blocks/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12athens31w7224.jpg12Athens31w7224Looking across Monastiraki in the late afternoon sunhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12athens32w7218.jpg12Athens32w7218High rise on a hill, vaguely reminiscent of the feud towers of Vatheiahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12athens28w7206.jpg12Athens28w7206Tower blocks spread out for miles in all directionshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12athens30w7220.jpg12Athens30w7220Alien hordes on the Acropolishttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12athens29w7217.jpg12Athens29w7217The Acropolis from the Hill of the Museshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12athens27w7205.jpg12Athens27w7205On the Areopagus with the Acropolis behind2012-06-30T07:56:55+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/27/areopoli-last-day-in-the-mani-a-grumble-about-footpaths-and-a-new-word-for-the-language/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani087w7198jpg.jpg12MesaMani087w7198jpgAnd finally from Areopoli .... Black Michael raises his hand in greeting as increased humidity sees cloud forming on the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani086w7190jpg.jpg12MesaMani086w7190jpgA very colourful corner on the way into Areopolihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani085w7183jpg.jpg12MesaMani085w7183jpgComing into Areopoli, one of the few places round here where the church rises above the feud towershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani083w7176jpg.jpg12MesaMani083w7176jpgLooking back to the beach where I went for swims and the mountain above Pirgos Dirou which I climbed.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani084w7180jpg.jpg12MesaMani084w7180jpgThis olive grove which I passed on the path to/from the beach reminds me of the stunted oak woodland above Cwmystwyth in Mid Wales where red kites took refuge. Here I watched eagles.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani082w7171jpg.jpg12MesaMani082w7171jpgPhotographer in the gullyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani081w7168jpg.jpg12MesaMani081w7168jpgIn case anyone doubts the problem they create, each of those thorns is at least an inch longhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani080w7170jpg.jpg12MesaMani080w7170jpgDensely packed thorn bushes everywherehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani079w7165jpg.jpg12MesaMani079w7165jpgStone bridge carries the old path over a deep gullyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani077w7153jpg.jpg12MesaMani077w7153jpgTypical landscape on the coastal plateau: rocky fields, stone walls, small churches, thorns and olives .... against a mountain backdrop2012-07-06T06:54:58+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/27/gerolimenas-to-areopoli-things-new-things-familiar-and-the-exit-strategy/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani076w7150jpg.jpg12MesaMani076w7150jpgThe rock seems to vary between smooth sea-washed marble and highly eroded razor-sharp limestonehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani075w7148jpg.jpg12MesaMani075w7148jpgStrange kind of conglomerate rock with what seems to be chunks of fossilised woodhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani074w7142jpg.jpg12MesaMani074w7142jpgWhite rock, blue sea and crystal clear water 2012-06-27T20:47:48+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/26/gerolimenas-more-tower-house-villages-and-scree-running/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani069w7080jpg.jpg12MesaMani069w7080jpg..... and the other sidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani073w7103jpg.jpg12MesaMani073w7103jpg.... and zooming in on it.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani072w7102jpg.jpg12MesaMani072w7102jpgFrom the top of the crag looking towards Gerolimenashttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani071w7097jpg.jpg12MesaMani071w7097jpgThe village at the foot of the mountain I was heading forhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani070w7126jpg1.jpg12MesaMani070w7126jpgThe other sidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani070w7126jpg.jpg12MesaMani070w7126jpgThe Byzantine church2012-06-26T06:32:52+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/25/2399/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani068w7069jpg.jpg12MesaMani068w7069jpgLittle owl watching what is going onhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani067w7056jpg.jpg12MesaMani067w7056jpgReflecting againhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani066w7052jpg.jpg12MesaMani066w7052jpgFlat calm in the bayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani065w7050jpg.jpg12MesaMani065w7050jpgLooking back at the hilltop settinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani064w7045jpg.jpg12MesaMani064w7045jpgOccupied house with gardenhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani063w7034jpg.jpg12MesaMani063w7034jpgMore narrow alleys and archways than you can shake a stick athttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani062w7027jpg.jpg12MesaMani062w7027jpgCrumbling roofs, empty houseshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani061w7024jpg.jpg12MesaMani061w7024jpgTightly constricted stairwayshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani060w7020jpg.jpg12MesaMani060w7020jpgInside one of the restored but now unoccupied towershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani059w7017jpg.jpg12MesaMani059w7017jpgThe closed-up tower taverna on the right2016-04-21T19:36:00+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/24/areopoli-to-gerolimenas-blood-feuds-and-getting-close-to-the-edge-of-the-known-world/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani052w6994jpg.jpg12MesaMani052w6994jpg.... and of the harboursidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani051w6993jpg.jpg12MesaMani051w6993jpgView at night from my balcony of the cliffs on the north side of the bay https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani048w6971jpg.jpg12MesaMani048w6971jpgEntrance to the village churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani053w6977jpg.jpg12MesaMani053w6977jpgThe village play areahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani046w6964jpg2.jpg12MesaMani046w6964jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani046w6964jpg1.jpg12MesaMani046w6964jpgThe Ochia village cemetary with the Byzantine Church in scaffolding undergoing renovationhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani049w6972jpg.jpg12MesaMani049w6972jpgTower in the main street, preserved but unoccupiedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani050w6975jpg.jpg12MesaMani050w6975jpgThe main street in Ochiahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani045w6955jpg.jpg12MesaMani045w6955jpgAn isolated tower house on the ridge overlooking Gerolimenas bearing the initials KKE, the Greek Communist Part https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani046w6964jpg.jpg12MesaMani046w6964jpgOne of the small villages seen from the ridge2012-06-24T05:30:03+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/23/areopoli-footpaths-anthropiverous-spiders-and-irritability/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani042w6929jpg.jpg12MesaMani042w6929jpgLook what this one caught!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani041w6928jpg.jpg12MesaMani041w6928jpgAmazement before the terror took overhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani040w6927jpg.jpg12MesaMani040w6927jpgTeetering along the top of the wall, here broad enough to get the camera out but soon to be blocked by treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani039w6920jpg.jpg12MesaMani039w6920jpgThermalling upwardshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani038w6917jpg.jpg12MesaMani038w6917jpgTaking off from the trees close by this eagle turned before I could get a shot of it full profilehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani037w6912jpg.jpg12MesaMani037w6912jpgThis Mani Tower was being used as a chicken couphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani036w6907jpg.jpg12MesaMani036w6907jpgOld stone bridge where the paved path crosses a narrow but deep gullyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani035w6904jpg.jpg12MesaMani035w6904jpgOlive groves with hay under-storey hiding the rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani034w6899jpg.jpg12MesaMani034w6899jpgPath between stone wallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani033w6894jpg.jpg12MesaMani033w6894jpgThe fields are full of rocks2012-06-23T07:04:15+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/22/areopoli-longest-day-longest-walk-highest-mountain-shortest-me/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani031w6880jpg.jpg12MesaMani031w6880jpg... and looking south to Cape Tenaro, the southernmost part of the Greek mainlandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani032w6881jpg.jpg12MesaMani032w6881jpgLooking west, the beach I was heading for next is bottom righthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani030w6876jpg.jpg12MesaMani030w6876jpgLooking north to at least two other Profitis Ilias mountains, the one above Areopoli just to the right of the cross and the highest in the Taygetos in the far backgroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani029w6870jpg.jpg12MesaMani029w6870jpgLooking straight down the mountain to Pyrgos Dirouhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani028w6865jpg.jpg12MesaMani028w6865jpgThe shortest me, 2012https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani027w6864jpg.jpg12MesaMani027w6864jpgThis, however, is a very modern graffitohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani026w6861jpg.jpg12MesaMani026w6861jpgWith a stone above the door saying it was built in 1868, is this a 19th century graffito?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani025w6860jpg.jpg12MesaMani025w6860jpgEn route to the mountain I passed a pink church2012-06-22T06:25:26+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/21/areopoli-from-above-the-clouds-to-below-ground-and-time-warping/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani022w6841jpg.jpg12MesaMani022w6841jpgMuch of the red colour is added by the nature of the lighting usedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani021w6841jpg.jpg12MesaMani021w6841jpgHigh in the wall of a chamber at least 100 feet to the visible ceilinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani020w6837jpg.jpg12MesaMani020w6837jpgSometimes fluted shapeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani019w6825jpg1.jpg12MesaMani019w6825jpgMultiple colours as the water dissolves minerals as it passes through the rockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani018w6819jpg.jpg12MesaMani018w6819jpgShowing the problem of photography in low light from a moving boat in narrow, low-roofed passageshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani019w6825jpg.jpg12MesaMani019w6825jpgMultiple colours as the water passes through mineral depositshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani017w6809jpg.jpg12MesaMani017w6809jpgWhat cavers call 'straws', thousands of long narrow stalactites https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani016w6787jpg.jpg12MesaMani016w6787jpgMany of the formations are reflected in the flat calm water2012-06-25T11:34:02+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/20/areopoli-above-the-clouds-and-with-the-eagles/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani015w6755jpg.jpg12MesaMani015w6755jpgAt the end f the day, Mavromihali's statue and Profitis Ilias mountain towering behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani014w6747jpg.jpg12MesaMani014w6747jpgPhotographer on the edge of modern arthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani013w6746jpg.jpg12MesaMani013w6746jpgThe tiny village of Limeni with Mavromihali's Tower .... and boutique hotelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani012w6742jpg.jpg12MesaMani012w6742jpgAnd so down to the coast for a swimhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani009w6732jpg.jpg12MesaMani009w6732jpgDetail on the side of the bell towerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani011w6737jpg.jpg12MesaMani011w6737jpg.... and so was the bell tower, added over a century laterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani010w6735jpg.jpg12MesaMani010w6735jpgThe body of the church was date-stampedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani008w6733jpg.jpg12MesaMani008w6733jpgThe church in Sotiras, the village I passed through on the way up and down the mountain https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani007w6730jpg.jpg12MesaMani007w6730jpgOne of the better bits of the path close to the tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani006w6729jpg.jpg12MesaMani006w6729jpgThe church, the bell tower and the wall I dozed on at the top of the mountain2012-06-20T07:29:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/19/kardamili-to-areopoli-getting-in-deeper/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12mesamani001w6709jpg.jpg12MesaMani001w6709jpgPetrobey Mavromichalis, Black Michael to his mates.2012-06-19T07:24:08+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/18/kardamili-back-from-the-edge-time-to-move-on/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili148w6696jpg.jpg12Kardamili148w6696jpgLooking back towards Proastia as the path climbs away uphillhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili151w6704jpg.jpg12Kardamili151w6704jpgDetail of one of the carvings, the symbol of the Orthodox church, an eagle looking East and Westhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili150w6703jpg.jpg12Kardamili150w6703jpgThe top part of the towerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili149w6701jpg.jpg12Kardamili149w6701jpgView along the alley from the taverna to Byzantine bell towerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili147w6693jpg.jpg12Kardamili147w6693jpgBut the roof construction is very different, just slabs leaning in on each other .https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili146w6695jpg.jpg12Kardamili146w6695jpgThis brought to mind the stone houses on Nisyroshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili145w6687jpg.jpg12Kardamili145w6687jpgThe locked gate of the semi-derelict house which has that view. https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili144w6686jpg.jpg12Kardamili144w6686jpgStaggering views back down to the coast2012-06-18T06:48:40+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/17/kardamili-bats-belfries-frescoes-gorges-and-on-the-edge/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili139w6658jpg.jpg12Kardamili139w6658jpgOne of many 'investment opportunities' advertised for sale ..... but not just at the momenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili138w6655jpg.jpg12Kardamili138w6655jpgAnother of the small family churcheshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili137w6656jpg.jpg12Kardamili137w6656jpgMain church in Exohorihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili143w6672jpg.jpg12Kardamili143w6672jpg..... and just to show the sharpness of the rockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili142w6675jpg.jpg12Kardamili142w6675jpgOn the edge looking upstreamhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili141w6669jpg.jpg12Kardamili141w6669jpgOn the edge looking downstreamhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili140w6666jpg.jpg12Kardamili140w6666jpgThe rock pinnaclehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili136w6649jpg.jpg12Kardamili136w6649jpgZooming inhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili135w6651jpg.jpg12Kardamili135w6651jpgBats and frescohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili133w6646jpg.jpg12Kardamili133w6646jpgSometimes they stay ready for flight2012-06-17T09:48:00+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/16/kardamili-in-and-around-the-town-and-the-viros-gorge-and-some-villages/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili129w6612jpg.jpg12Kardamili129w6612jpgThe sun finally sets on the dayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili128w6597jpg.jpg12Kardamili128w6597jpgThe evening light on Old Kardamili and Profitis Iliashttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili127w6580jpg.jpg12Kardamili127w6580jpg100 metres from the hotel is a swimming pool called the Aegean Seahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili126w6577jpg.jpg12Kardamili126w6577jpgThe other half of the same building is somewhat more ornatehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili125w6572jpg.jpg12Kardamili125w6572jpgOld building in the centre of Kardamilihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili124w6571jpg.jpg12Kardamili124w6571jpgHay cut back under the olive treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili123w6568jpg.jpg12Kardamili123w6568jpgUnderneath the olive treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili122w6566jpg.jpg12Kardamili122w6566jpgcolourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili121w6562jpg.jpg12Kardamili121w6562jpgRuins of an old old tower house used as the framework for a brilliant rock garden in Proastiahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili120w6553jpg.jpg12Kardamili120w6553jpgClimbing higher still there are views down to the bed of the gorge as it reaches Kardamili and the sea2012-06-16T15:55:03+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/15/kardamili-viros-gorge-likaki-tseria-looking-back-to-the-see-the-future/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili114w6513jpg.jpg12Kardamili114w6513jpgLooking down to Likaki momasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili112w6505jpg.jpg12Kardamili112w6505jpgZooming in on Profitis Ilias: the patches of snow are still therehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili113w6508jpg.jpg12Kardamili113w6508jpgThe church next to the Faraggia Hotel/taverna. The mountain Profitis Ilias in the background.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili111w6497jpg.jpg12Kardamili111w6497jpgI had to hang over the edge of the path to take this photo. Still no idea what the creature is. Some kind of dragonfly?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili110w6488jpg1.jpg12Kardamili110w6488jpgThe stone-paved path zigzags steeply down to the bed of teh gorge hundreds of feet belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili110w6488jpg.jpg12Kardamili110w6488jpgThe stone -aved path zigzags steeply down to the bed of the gorge hundreds of feet belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili109w6483jpg.jpg12Kardamili109w6483jpgGreek dancing?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili108w6482jpg.jpg12Kardamili108w6482jpgThis one dates the current church structurehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili107w6481jpg.jpg12Kardamili107w6481jpgThe symbolism of the carving over the main door is somewhat clearer https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili106w6479jpg.jpg12Kardamili106w6479jpgJust can't fathom the symbolism of some of the carvings. An angel with a gremlin in the belly?2012-06-15T06:39:12+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/14/kardamili-olives-maps-flat-earth-where-will-it-end/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili101w6445jpg.jpg12Kardamili101w6445jpgThe towers above Maltahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili100w6443jpg.jpg12Kardamili100w6443jpgLooking from the col towards Maltahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili103w6454jpg.jpg12Kardamili103w6454jpgFocusing on the Kardamili section of the coasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili099w6436jpg.jpg12Kardamili099w6436jpgNot all the coach is white-pebble beach. Some is jagged rock.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili102w6457jpg.jpg12Kardamili102w6457jpgLooking down the Mani west coasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili097w6464jpg.jpg12Kardamili097w6464jpgSometimes the trunks are painted to protect against insectshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili095w6284jpg.jpg12Kardamili095w6284jpg.... down next to the sea.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili096w6223jpg.jpg12Kardamili096w6223jpgOlive grove high up on the hill (note the footpath marking)2012-06-14T07:24:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/13/kardamili-more-time-perception-and-a-problem-with-drugs/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili094w6424jpg.jpg12Kardamili094w6424jpg... and inside. The roof and floors may have gone but note the number of built-in cupboards.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili093w6422jpg.jpg12Kardamili093w6422jpgGetting up closehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili091w6393jpg.jpg12Kardamili091w6393jpgThe Towerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili092w6412jpg.jpg12Kardamili092w6412jpgThe door of the churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili090w6417jpg.jpg12Kardamili090w6417jpgFrom another anglehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili089w6398jpg.jpg12Kardamili089w6398jpgFrom inside the upper storey of the towerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili088w6395jpg.jpg12Kardamili088w6395jpgThe Mani Tower with the church of belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili087w6384jpg.jpg12Kardamili087w6384jpgOne of those sulphur yellow butterflies againhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili086w6374jpg.jpg12Kardamili086w6374jpgPlants are easier to focus on then eagles2012-06-13T06:35:51+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/12/kardamili-doors-bats-belfries-fish-funky-art-olive-groves-gorge-hopping-all-grist-to-a-rich-memory/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili084w6369jpg.jpg12Kardamili084w6369jpgSome of the paths are like gardens. The scent from the broom is intoxicating.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili083w6355jpg.jpg12Kardamili083w6355jpgWell-tended olive groves round here in contrast with Parga/Paxos/Corfu. The crop of hay underneath has been cut ready to lay netshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili082w6351jpg.jpg12Kardamili082w6351jpgFunky art on the cut ends on the trunk of a palm treehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili078w6340jpg.jpg12Kardamili078w6340jpg.... and just over the fence is a drop to a 10 metre long water tank with at least 100 golden carp. Unexpected!!!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili080w6341jpg.jpg12Kardamili080w6341jpgLaid back, very simple tavernas with shade tree in the mountain villages. This one in Saidona.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili081w6345jpg.jpg12Kardamili081w6345jpgDon't know whether there are any bats in the belfryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili076w6329jpg.jpg12Kardamili076w6329jpgInside some of them are horseshoe batshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili079w6332jpg.jpg12Kardamili079w6332jpgInside many of them are a couple of small frescoeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili077w6336jpg.jpg12Kardamili077w6336jpgOne of the many small, generally very simple, 'family' churches at the side of the path. This one built in 1826.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili085w6325jpg.jpg12Kardamili085w6325jpgThis door at the side of the bridge just appealed to me. What is the story?2012-06-12T07:28:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/11/kardamili-another-day-in-and-around-the-viros-gorge/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili071w6304jpg.jpg12Kardamili071w6304jpgThe view from the taverna terrace: Tseria is on the shoulder of the mountain on the left; in the far distance is Profitis Ilias, highest mountain in the Taigetoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili073w6316jpg.jpg12Kardamili073w6316jpgThere is a huge variety of crickety things, different colours, sizes, shapes https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili067w6290jpg.jpg12Kardamili067w6290jpgThere are small beasties everywhere, this on the doorstep of a churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili068w6293jpg.jpg12Kardamili068w6293jpgNot all are ornately frescoed inside, some are very simple and plain.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili072w6305jpg.jpg12Kardamili072w6305jpgOne of the many small 'family' churches in the mountainshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili070w6298jpg.jpg12Kardamili070w6298jpgKardamili way down in the distancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili069w6297jpg.jpg12Kardamili069w6297jpgThe church in Tseria2012-06-11T06:38:27+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/10/kardamili-musings-on-the-way-ahead/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili058w6242jpg.jpg12Kardamili058w6242jpgMum taking nipper for a walk up an olive treehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili057w6234jpg.jpg12Kardamili057w6234jpgStill watching you!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili056w6230jpg.jpg12Kardamili056w6230jpgWatching the world go by, suspicious but unmovedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili066w6288jpg.jpg12Kardamili066w6288jpgThe beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili065w6271jpg.jpg12Kardamili065w6271jpgAlongside, in urgent need of a roof jobhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili064w6273jpg.jpg12Kardamili064w6273jpg... and from another angle. Note the brickwork.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili063w6264jpg.jpg12Kardamili063w6264jpgThe tiny restored church of Agioi Theodoroi (Saints of the Gifts of God)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili062w6260jpg.jpg12Kardamili062w6260jpgAgios Nikolaos in the centre of Proastia. The central dome is said to date back to the 12th Centuryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili061w6252jpg.jpg12Kardamili061w6252jpg.... and the only one I've seen in black and white rather than rich colours. Perhaps they don't do flesh tones.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili060w6248jpg.jpg12Kardamili060w6248jpgOne of the surviving frescoes in the church of Agios Georgos2012-06-10T06:21:10+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/09/kardamili-another-perspective/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili052w6196jpg.jpg12Kardamili052w6196jpgVery apposite graffito https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili051w6212jpg.jpg12Kardamili051w6212jpgCrumbling brickworkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili053w6214jpg.jpg12Kardamili053w6214jpgInside is a large screw mechanismhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili049w6201jpg.jpg12Kardamili049w6201jpgThey look like boats but .....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili050w6206jpg.jpg12Kardamili050w6206jpgPart of the main 'hall'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili048w6217jpg.jpg12Kardamili048w6217jpgThe olive oil processing plant, Kardamilihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili047w6194jpg.jpg12Kardamili047w6194jpgWash day on the kalderimi. Note the footpath sign on the tree trunk top left.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili046w6187jpg.jpg12Kardamili046w6187jpg... and just look at the antennae on this little guyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili045w6182jpg.jpg12Kardamili045w6182jpgYes, I know the church is leaning to the right, but at least I've hidden the electricity pole behind the olive tree2012-06-09T06:47:25+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/08/kardamili-the-viros-gorge-knowing-the-limits/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili043w6168jpg.jpg12Kardamili043w6168jpgClimbable .... but I called a halt to upward progress herehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili044w6147jpg.jpg12Kardamili044w6147jpgAs yet the dome remains intact but the roof is in dangerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili041w6152jpg.jpg12Kardamili041w6152jpgSome hidden on the back side of pillarshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili040w6150jpg.jpg12Kardamili040w6150jpgSome of the frescoes are still very vividhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili039w6146jpg.jpg12Kardamili039w6146jpgThe iconastis, grey and ageing carved wood and frescoes: the stonework behind panels which have been removed on either sidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili038w6143jpg.jpg12Kardamili038w6143jpgRound the other side the severe cracks become evidenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili042w6176jpg.jpg12Kardamili042w6176jpgFirst sight of Lakaki church2012-06-08T06:31:58+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/07/kardamili-a-walk-on-the-south-side/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili036w6138jpg.jpg12Kardamili036w6138jpgEnd of the day, time for reflectionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili035w6133jpg.jpg12Kardamili035w6133jpgA reminder that Kardamili has a harbour, albeit a small onehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili037w6124jpg.jpg12Kardamili037w6124jpgAs the walls of the gorge close in, the canyon sections are in deep shade for much of the dayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili034w6127jpg.jpg12Kardamili034w6127jpgDoes anyone know what these are? High under an overhanging cliff and seemingly attached to broken stalactites. Bees? Bats? Birds?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili033w6117jpg.jpg12Kardamili033w6117jpgZooming in on the pinnaclehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili032w6116jpg1.jpg12Kardamili032w6116jpgLooking back up to the pinnacle from which the last 3 photos were taken (right of centre)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili031w6114jpg1.jpg12Kardamili031w6114jpgZooming in on Agios Sotiros monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili030w6109jpg2.jpg12Kardamili030w6109jpgPhotographer on the edge looking upstreamhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili029w6104jpg1.jpg12Kardamili029w6104jpgFrom the top of the rock pinnacle looking down on the bed of the gorge and Agios Sotiros monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili028w6090jpg1.jpg12Kardamili028w6090jpgThere are many stone/marble tablets set in the wall of the tower, this one of a trireme2012-06-07T07:45:34+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/06/kardamili-up-the-viros-gorge/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili013w6018.jpg12Kardamili013w6018Coming into the gorge-rim villagehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili012w6017.jpg12Kardamili012w6017Wild lily at the side of the pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili007w5999.jpg12Kardamili007w5999Just a rock?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili008w6006.jpg12Kardamili008w6006One of the very many sulphur yellow butterflies. This time I managed to catch some of the colour, only visible on the upper surface of the winghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili006w5998.jpg12Kardamili006w5998Nature has a way of warning us what's not good for us: I wouldn't touch this little fellahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili011w6015.jpg12Kardamili011w6015The monastery complex seen from way up on the path to the gorge rimhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili010w6001.jpg12Kardamili010w6001Another view of Agios Sotiroshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili009w6000.jpg12Kardamili009w6000Agios Sotiros with one of the heavily laden mulberry trees alongsidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili014w6023.jpg12Kardamili014w6023Often just growing head and shoulders above the other treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12kardamili016w59912.jpg12Kardamili016w5991'Pencil' cypresses reach up to the cliff-tops hundreds of feet above2012-06-06T07:57:14+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/03/patras-a-town-on-the-edge/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12patras06w5329.jpg12Patras06w5329Very colourful and artistic children's play area on the seafront. Unfinished and used by the homeless for sleeping in judging by the rolled up mattress https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12patras05w5322.jpg12Patras05w5322Church of Agios Augustus: how complicated does a roof get ???https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12patras10w5971.jpg12Patras10w5971A very grand church with poverty begging and living rough outside its doorshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12patras09w5963.jpg12Patras09w5963With Agios Andreas church rising above its surroundingshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12patras08w5961.jpg12Patras08w5961Looking down from there across the townhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12patras04w5312.jpg12Patras04w5312The highest point of the castlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12patras07w5359.jpg12Patras07w5359Looking straight down Agios Nikolaos Street and into the harbour from the top of the steps to the castlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12patras03w5299.jpg12Patras03w5299The Peloponnese Railway in the centre of town next to the harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12patras02w5296.jpg12Patras02w5296But some is clearly commissioned. Note the reflected trees and photographer in shortshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12patras01w5295.jpg12Patras01w5295Much street art seems to go hand in glove with dilapidated buildings, poverty and artistic protest2012-06-04T14:57:02+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/03/corfu-to-patras-12-hours-on-the-road-and-taxi-driver-wisdom/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu54w5292.jpg12Corfu54w5292Roadside cafhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu53w5290.jpg12Corfu53w5290.... and approaching Igoumenitsahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu51w5280.jpg12Corfu51w5280Passing the old town and its fort on the way out of the harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu52w5951.jpg12Corfu52w5951Working harbour and major ferry porthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu50w5278.jpg12Corfu50w5278Picturesque locations furnished liberally with tavernas and restaurants https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu49w5275.jpg12Corfu49w5275The edge of the old town, very grand old buildings seemingly empty on the upper floors2012-06-03T19:41:42+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/02/corfu-coast-to-coast-different-prespectives/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu41w5270.jpg12Corfu41w5270The main road through Agriades. The step ladders cost €45https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu45w5274.jpg12Corfu45w5274... and a little further on again.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu44w5273.jpg12Corfu44w5273Just a few hundred metres away, a truly amazing entrance to the househttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu43w5272.jpg12Corfu43w5272... and panning back from exactly the same pointhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu42w5271.jpg12Corfu42w5271View over Neohoraki from the roadhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu48w5947.jpg12Corfu48w5947... and looking the other way over the very pleasant Allisos Beach sunbeds and umbrellashttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu47w5944.jpg12Corfu47w5944Looking across the end of the lakehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu46w5943.jpg12Corfu46w5943Looking north along the lake to the mountain from where it was viewed on Thursdayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu40w5267.jpg12Corfu40w5267Then a little further on, a natural, very pleasing compositionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu39w5266.jpg12Corfu39w5266One of the burnt out stumps: a bit of an eyesore2012-06-02T09:59:21+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/06/01/corfu-a-ryan-giggs-moment-lacerated-flesh-and-some-snapshots/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu34w5253.jpg12Corfu34w5253Very many very good examples of street art on retaining walls in this area. This was one small example of dozenshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu36w5938.jpg12Corfu36w5938The rugged west coasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu33w5251.jpg12Corfu33w5251'Path' through maquishttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu35w5929.jpg12Corfu35w5929View of the southern part of the west coast and its 'lake'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu32w5249.jpg12Corfu32w5249Pantokratos minasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu31w5238.jpg12Corfu31w5238Reflection at the WiFix tavernahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu30w5231.jpg12Corfu30w5231Reflection: the village on the hill behind is Chlomos to which I walked on Wednesdayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12corfu29w5229.jpg12Corfu29w5229Looking across the glassy smooth harbour at Boukari2012-06-01T06:52:35+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/31/corfu-path-finding-bird-spotting-and-providence/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu28w5924.jpg12Corfu28w5924Been getting lazy recently and only using the small camera. Put the polarising filter on the SLR camera to bring out the colour in this one.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu24w5901.jpg12Corfu24w5901One guy had whitewashed his plothttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu23w5899.jpg12Corfu23w5899Higher up the hill and further from the village there were dozens of tiny huts set in the olive groveshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu25w5903.jpg12Corfu25w5903Spot the spothttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu22w5898.jpg12Corfu22w5898A new use for olive treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu21w5895.jpg12Corfu21w5895And finally I'll just do a bit of tidying before I go for some more foodhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu20w5888.jpg12Corfu20w5888Posing with the kidshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu19w5887.jpg12Corfu19w5887I just want the food, you don't have to stick your head down my throat!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu18w5886.jpg12Corfu18w5886I told you I was coming , now keep quiet.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu18w5882.jpg12Corfu18w5882We want food .... NOW!!!2012-05-31T07:59:27+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/30/corfu-the-exotic-the-gnarly-and-the-past-it/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu14w5201.jpg12Corfu14w5201The whole atmosphere of this bit of coast is laid back and bucolic https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu13w5207.jpg12Corfu13w5207Another of the tiny fishing harbours, this one at Petritihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu11w5192.jpg12Corfu11w5192Tranquil coast in the evening sunhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu10w5184.jpg12Corfu10w5184The restaurant has its own little 'jetty' where boats bringing customers tie uphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu09w5180.jpg12Corfu09w5180The garden extends into the sea as evidenced by a couple of apposite sculptures https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu08w5178.jpg12Corfu08w5178I used to have one of these in a pot!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu07w5176.jpg12Corfu07w5176... and turning round to look down the garden, including statue and the stuesquehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu06w5174.jpg12Corfu06w5174This was the view as I sipped my freshly squeezed lemon juicehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu12w5204.jpg12Corfu12w5204As are many small boats, this one left lying on it's keel still in the shallowshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12corfu05w5165.jpg12Corfu05w5165So are some of the cars, this one abandoned to the wild flowers2012-05-30T07:10:13+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/29/paxos-to-corfu-biting-the-bullet/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos15w5134.jpg12Paxos15w5134Across to the mainland, still wreathed in cloudhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos14w5135.jpg12Paxos14w5135Looking across the small bay, the medieval windmill just visible above the olive treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos13w5137.jpg12Paxos13w5137Over the entrance, a terracotta young lady who has seen better dayshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos12w5131.jpg12Paxos12w5131Main entrance to the factory on the harboursidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos16w5088.jpg12Paxos16w5088The now disused factory at Logos where waste from olive oil production was reprocessed to produce more olive oil for the manufacture of soap.2012-05-29T06:30:49+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/28/paxos-sunday-a-day-for-rr/2012-05-28T05:52:00+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/27/paxos-a-guided-tour-around-the-island/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos11w51251.jpg12Paxos11w5125Hollyhocks and thunderclouds over the mainlandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos11w5125.jpg12Paxos11w5125Hollyhocks and thunderclouds over the mainlandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos10w5118.jpg12Paxos10w5118Windmill and hollyhockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos08w5115.jpg12Paxos08w5115Looking eastwards from the windmill. Note the line of cloud along the mainlandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos09w5126.jpg12Paxos09w5126Old windmill on the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos07w5108.jpg12Paxos07w5108View down the cliffs on the West coasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos06w5104.jpg12Paxos06w5104Traditional kefenion at Magazia, said to be the only traditional kafenion left on the island.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos05w5102.jpg12Paxos05w5102That Venetian buildinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos04w5101.jpg12Paxos04w5101The old harbour at Gaios with very grand Venetian building dominatinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12paxos03w5095.jpg12Paxos03w5095Bright colours2012-05-27T06:04:15+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/26/parga-to-paxos-from-hustle-and-bustle-to-peace-and-quiet/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12igoumenitsa4w5077.jpg12Igoumenitsa4w5077.... and a wide sea-front eplanade and gardens lined with palm treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12igoumenitsa3w5078.jpg12Igoumenitsa3w5078... with all the usual paraphernalia of a fishing harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12igoumenitsa2w5072.jpg12Igoumenitsa2w5072 ... and it is still a working fishing harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12igoumenitsa1w5071.jpg12Igoumenitsa1w5071Clear, clean water despite Igoumenitsa being an international porthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga32w5065.jpg12Parga32w5065Mountains shrouded in layers of mist2015-02-26T14:31:16+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/24/parga-olive-groves-and-a-change-of-plan/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga27w5058pg1.jpg12Parga27w5058pgVery venerable plane tree: more than 10 feet in diameter with a hollow inside the size of a bell tenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga31w5847pg.jpg12Parga31w5847pgBasking in sunshine at the top of the castle but storm clouds looming largehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga30w5846pg.jpg12Parga30w5846pgRemains of Ali Pasha's bath-house at the top of the castle.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga29w5843pg.jpg12Parga29w5843pgLooking down across the main Parga bay from the castle https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga27w5058pg.jpg12Parga27w5058pgVery venerable plane tree: more than 10 feet in diameter with a hollow inside the size of a bell tenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga28w5037pg.jpg12Parga28w5037pgNetting furled up when not collecting fruit, in this case because trees have been cut back to reinvigorate growthhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga26w5823pg.jpg12Parga26w5823pgNetting stretched taut over the path to avoid avoid wastehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga25w5822pg.jpg12Parga25w5822pgOlives collecting at the lowest level of the nettinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga24w5821pg.jpg12Parga24w5821pgGuy in red cag crawling up the mountainside under the plastic netting, sacks of collected olives in the foregroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga23w5820pg.jpg12Parga23w5820pgOlives on the tree2012-05-25T20:37:30+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/24/parga-water-and-growth/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga19w5800pg.jpg12Parga19w5800pgArt variation of chain link fence. Each lop is about 40 cms in diameter and individually made from 5 mm steel hawser, must have cost a bit. Graffiti a common miss-spelling of a friendly greetinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga22w5817pg.jpg12Parga22w5817pgSky clearing .... but so is the beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga20w5805pg.jpg12Parga20w5805pgLemons by the tree-fullhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga16w5789pg.jpg12Parga16w5789pgI have been chasing these sulphur-yellow butterflies around Greece for years. With eyes that big no wonder they see me coming.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga17w5782pg.jpg12Parga17w5782pgGrasshoppery thinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga15w5777pg.jpg12Parga15w5777pgExcuisitely formed seed headhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga13w5045pg.jpg12Parga13w5045pgMulberries, massive very succulent fruithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga21w5814pg.jpg12Parga21w5814pgThe waterfall, about 60-70 feet vertical drophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga18w5778pg.jpg12Parga18w5778pgWith clearing skies looking across to Paxos from the mountain tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga14w5034pg.jpg12Parga14w5034pgInside Ali Pasha's mountain top retreat2012-05-24T06:29:56+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/23/ioannina-to-igoumenitsa-to-parga-from-grey-skies-to-sunshine/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga01w5008jpg.jpg12Parga01w5008jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga03w5014pg.jpg12Parga03w5014pgColourful buildings growing organically up the hillside behind the bayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga04w5017pg.jpg12Parga04w5017pgLooking along the 'town beach' to one of the craggy headlandshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12parga02w5010pg.jpg12Parga02w5010pgThe iconic island monastery in Pargahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12ioannina10w5004jpg.jpg12Ioannina10w5004jpgWall art in back street courtyard taverna in Ioannina 2012-05-23T06:59:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/21/metsovo-to-ioannina-a-day-of-the-unexpected/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12ioannina06w4998jpg.jpg12Ioannina06w4998jpgMany on steel shutters, maybe encouraged to cover up or to defer graffiti https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12ioannina08w5002jpg.jpg12Ioannina08w5002jpgSome just for the fun of ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12ioannina07w5000jpg.jpg12Ioannina07w5000jpgSome commissioned but also functionalhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12ioannina09w5748jpg.jpg12Ioannina09w5748jpgMany works of public art. Some obviously commissioned.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12ioannina05w4993jpg.jpg12Ioannina05w4993jpgNext to the mosque is the wrought iron cage supposedly covering Ali Pasha's gravehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12ioannina04w5744jpg.jpg12Ioannina04w5744jpgThe mosque in the core of the citadelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12ioannina03w4983jpg.jpg12Ioannina03w4983jpgSome of the firearms on display dating back to that periodhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12ioannina02w4978jpg.jpg12Ioannina02w4978jpgInterior of the mosque built by Ali Pasha's son in 1816https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12ioannina01w4976jpg.jpg12Ioannina01w4976jpgStrong impression when you get off the streets in Ioannina is the vast number of poppies everywhere2012-05-21T21:37:18+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/20/metsovo-down-by-the-riverside-a-really-long-way-down/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo46w5711jpg.jpg12Metsovo46w5711jpg..... and anotherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo43w5691jpg.jpg12Metsovo43w5691jpgDetail of waterfallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo44w5696jpg.jpg12Metsovo44w5696jpgOld watermillhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo40w5718jpg.jpg12Metsovo40w5718jpgAround here some of the churches have old frescoes on the outsidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo45w5700jpg.jpg12Metsovo45w5700jpgOne of the many waterfalls on the riverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo41w5735jpg.jpg12Metsovo41w5735jpgOne of the new viaducts seen from the path down to the riverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo42w5660jpg.jpg12Metsovo42w5660jpgWater features figure largely in the grounds around Agios Nikolaos Monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo39w5728jpg.jpg12Metsovo39w5728jpg..... and in this case the green of the vegetationhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo38w5676jpg.jpg12Metsovo38w5676jpgIn 2006 an art exhibition was staged partly in the vineyards of Agios Nikolaos Monastery. This one remains, the discs reflecting the light according to the angle you look at it, in this case the blue of the sky.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo37w5667jpg.jpg12Metsovo37w5667jpgMonastery of Agios Nikolaos2012-05-20T21:14:53+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/20/1911/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo32w4964jpg.jpg12Metsovo32w4964jpg.... which then explodes 2 feet into the air.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo31w4963jpg.jpg12Metsovo31w4963jpgStrange phenomenon, a spring bubbling out of the ground ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo33w5626jpg.jpg12Metsovo33w5626jpgHigh on top of the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo30w4952jpg.jpg12Metsovo30w4952jpgAaaah! Sweet!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo29w4943jpg.jpg12Metsovo29w4943jpgI pick and eat wild fungi at home but wouldn't touch this with a bargepole. Must look it up in the book.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo26w4955jpg.jpg12Metsovo26w4955jpgThose who have skied will know that this type of lift is a drag.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo28w5622jpg.jpg12Metsovo28w5622jpgSnow on the North Face of the ridge opppositehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo24w5632jpg.jpg12Metsovo24w5632jpgAt the high point on the ridge: a trig point, a weather station, and confirmation that this is path 'P3'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo25w4951jpg.jpg12Metsovo25w4951jpgSelective felling within the forest leaves the forest intact, unlike the clear-felling practiced in the UK which is extremely unsightly and destructive of habitats. Not that there is much habitat in the monoculture larch woodland generally planted in the UK.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo23w4957jpg.jpg12Metsovo23w4957jpgWhy a chunk has been cut out of this dead tree with a chain saw is difficult to imagine, but at least the 'P3' sign is left in place.2012-05-20T06:34:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/19/metsovo-taking-bananas-for-a-walk-in-the-pindus/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo13w4928jpg.jpg12Metsovo13w4928jpgThis could quite easily be on the ridge to Abergavenny in the Brecon Beacons National Park rather than the North Pindus National Parkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo12w4923jpg.jpg12Metsovo12w4923jpgAnotherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo11w4920jpg.jpg12Metsovo11w4920jpgOne of many orchidshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo18w5606jpg.jpg12Metsovo18w5606jpgFlower-covered meadows between the treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo19w4921jpg.jpg12Metsovo19w4921jpgShoes, long trousers and orchidhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo17w5615jpg.jpg12Metsovo17w5615jpgView across to snow covered peaks with the road just visible down in the valley far belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo10w4915jpg.jpg12Metsovo10w4915jpgUp from the valley below .... but not in Summerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo16w5598jpg.jpg12Metsovo16w5598jpgAt the top of the chairlifthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo20w4908jpg.jpg12Metsovo20w4908jpgGreengrocer's https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo15w5593jpg.jpg12Metsovo15w5593jpgOne of those roofs2012-05-19T12:05:54+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/18/meteora-to-metsovo-and-a-touch-of-deja-vue/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo07w4897jpg.jpg12Metsovo07w4897jpgSki lift in the misthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo06w4895jpg1.jpg12Metsovo06w4895jpgMetsovo snow plough station: evidence of the amount of snow they get regularly in winter herehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo06w4895jpg.jpg12Metsovo06w4895jpgMetsovo snow plough station, evidence of the amount of snow they get regularly in winter herehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo05w4894jpg.jpg12Metsovo05w4894jpg.... and of the motorway exit where I was dropped offhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo04w4893jpg.jpg12Metsovo04w4893jpgAmbling up the road from the town gave a view down to one of the viaducts and tunnel entrances of the new motorway far below ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo03w4887jpg.jpg12Metsovo03w4887jpgView from the window of my room when I arrived ... and the rest of the dayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo02w4886jpg.jpg12Metsovo02w4886jpgCowering in the log-built bus shelter, rain lashing down outside and the mountains all but disappeared.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12metsovo01w4881jpg.jpg12Metsovo01w4881jpgBatting along in the bus in the sunshine, cloud low on the mountains ahead2012-05-18T06:27:38+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/16/meteora-a-last-day-and-a-lesson-in-practical-logic/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora84w5589jpg.jpg12Meteora84w5589jpgAnd finally from Meteora .... I just liked the colour combination. https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora79w5562jpg.jpg12Meteora79w5562jpgAnother bird picture. An eagley thing, very large.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora81w5569jpg.jpg12Meteora81w5569jpgAnother shot of a monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora80w5567jpg.jpg12Meteora80w5567jpgAnother photo of rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora76w4874jpg.jpg12Meteora76w4874jpg.... and having scraped the bottom of the barrel for photo opportunities, the inside of it.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora75w4873jpg.jpg12Meteora75w4873jpg... and the original water barrel, more than 2 metres in diameter and I think made of oak. Believe me IT'S MASSIVEhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora82w5574jpg.jpg12Meteora82w5574jpgOne of the church 'towers' at Varlaamhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora77w4875jpg.jpg12Meteora77w4875jpg.... the winch tower still with the original equipmenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora83w5578jpg.jpg12Meteora83w5578jpgLooking down on the entrance way at Varlaam Monasterynow carved out from the rock and provided with a bridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora78w5559jpg.jpg12Meteora78w5559jpgA major water feature in the centre of Kalabaka2012-05-16T20:08:56+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/16/meteora-more-monasteries-more-rocks-more-perspectives/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora64w5511jpg.jpg12Meteora64w5511jpgI guess it's a stork but may be wronghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora63w5510jpg.jpg12Meteora63w5510jpgFlying highhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora70w5540jpg.jpg12Meteora70w5540jpgLooks like something created by the SFX boys for a SciFi film. But it's not, it's real. I think.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora61w5476jpg1.jpg12Meteora61w5476jpgLooking down over Kalabaka and it's flat river valley flowing into the vast Plain of Thessalyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora61w5476jpg.jpg12Meteora61w5476jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora62w5503jpg.jpg12Meteora62w5503jpgClimbing high on the way up from Kalabakahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora71w5544jpg.jpg12Meteora71w5544jpgA new perspective on a rock garden: this is Holy Trinty Monastery gardenhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora72w5546jpg.jpg12Meteora72w5546jpgRoussanou and Varlaam: despite the appearance of the bedding in the rocks they are perched on completely separate pinnacles some distance aparthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora74w5537jpg.jpg12Meteora74w5537jpgGrand Meteora and Varlaam: the path goes up the densely wooded gully between the two rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora69w5536jpg.jpg12Meteora69w5536jpgFrom another perspective, Rouussanou and Agios Nikolaos Monasteries2012-05-16T06:24:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/15/meteora-on-the-rocks/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora60w5454jpg.jpg12Meteora60w5454jpgWith no sun it was too cold and sluggish to move quicklyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora59w4855jpg.jpg12Meteora59w4855jpgOn the pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora56w5431jpg.jpg12Meteora56w5431jpg... and there followed a tender momenthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora57w5433jpg.jpg12Meteora57w5433jpg.... because a male spotted her as well .....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora55w5430jpg.jpg12Meteora55w5430jpgI spotted this bird on the remains of one of the sketes. I guess it's a female ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora50w5402jpg.jpg12Meteora50w5402jpgThen there are more sophisticated structures, on a far grander scale than the 'maison troglodyte' in the Loire Valleyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora52w5424jpg.jpg12Meteora52w5424jpgReached by retractable ladders in sections so you could pull them up behind youhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora51w5419jpg.jpg12Meteora51w5419jpgSome of the 'sketes' still surviving, testimony to the courage and effort of the early monks and to the enduring nature of wood.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora49w5400jpg.jpg12Meteora49w5400jpgAll shapes and sizes but always therehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora47w5296jpg.jpg12Meteora47w5296jpgArranged in mysterious and seried ranks2012-05-26T17:02:20+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/14/meteora-to-the-heights-and-views-from-prison/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora30w5333jpg1.jpg12Meteora30w5333jpgApproaching the Monks' Prisonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora39w5371jpg.jpg12Meteora39w5371jpgJust a reminder that not everything in Meteora is large scalehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora38w5368jpg.jpg12Meteora38w5368jpgLooking down over the monastery from the rocks above ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora37w5302jpg1.jpg12Meteora37w5302jpgApproaching Roussaneau Monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora37w5302jpg.jpg12Meteora37w5302jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora33w5293jpg.jpg12Meteora33w5293jpgAnother view from prisonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora35w5313jpg.jpg12Meteora35w5313jpgThe view out from inside prisonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora32w5304jpg.jpg12Meteora32w5304jpgLooking straight up inside the prison cavehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora31w5335jpg.jpg12Meteora31w5335jpgNote the remains of the wooden platforms cantilevered out in the roof of the cavehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora30w5333jpg.jpg12Meteora30w5333jpg2012-05-14T07:00:01+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/13/meteora-first-days-wonderings/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora18w5249jpg.jpg12Meteora18w5249jpgAnd finally another strange one. This is the cave/hermitage of St George of the Kerchiefs. Every year on 23 April hundreds of youths climb the vertical crag to replace the pieces of cloth which are reputed to gave gained healing properties.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora23w5130jpg.jpg12Meteora23w5130jpgClose-up of the prison. If you click to enlarge you can still see the ropes and platforms in the upper reaches of the cavehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora22w5128jpg.jpg12Meteora22w5128jpgNot so much publicised is the Monks' Prison, set vertically into the cave in the rock named after the Holy Spirithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora15w5198jpg.jpg12Meteora15w5198jpgAgain, it pays to take a break from craning your neck upwards and look at lower level.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora20w5254jpg.jpg12Meteora20w5254jpgThe much photographed Roussanou Monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora21w5262jpg.jpg12Meteora21w5262jpgAnother view of Varlaam in the post-thunderstorm evening lighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora17w5238jpg.jpg12Meteora17w5238jpgThis view of Varlaam from the point the tortoise was hanging out: black thunder cloud approaching rapidlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora14w5185.jpg12Meteora14w5185Adjacent to Grand Meteora is Varlaamhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora10w5158.jpg12Meteora10w5158... and another view. Is he grumpy or aggressive?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora09w5155.jpg12Meteora09w5155It pays to look down as well as up: the size of this fellow is shown by the €1 coin alongside it.2012-05-13T14:07:41+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/11/from-athens-to-kalabaka-a-day-of-firsts/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora04w4824.jpg12Meteora04w4824.... and kin silhoettehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora03w4811.jpg12Meteora03w4811... and anotherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora02w4799.jpg12Meteora02w4799Views like this with a few minutes of the hotelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12meteora01w4790.jpg12Meteora01w4790Kalabaka is dominated by the Meteora cragshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens26w4778.jpg12Athens26w4778Athens station: 20 minutes before the train is due to leave the platform is crowded2012-05-11T20:15:23+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/10/a-day-out-in-athens/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens14w5113.jpg12Athens14w5113Wall art is not just modern, this is the wall of an old churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens09w4766.jpg12Athens09w4766Some is just graffiti .... but very colourfulhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens10w4764.jpg12Athens10w4764Small wall art close to the Acropolishttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens13w5084.jpg12Athens13w5084Small wall art seen from the hotel roof terracehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens11w5080.jpg12Athens11w5080More advertising than arthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens07w4774.jpg12Athens07w4774At the side of one of the entrances to the Monastiraki metro stationhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens12w5081.jpg12Athens12w5081On the opposite side of Iroon Squarehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens08w5089.jpg12Athens08w5089Same art viewed from the Areopagushttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/img_4700.jpgIMG_4700Wall-art towering over Iroon Squarehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens24w4731.jpg12Athens24w4731Reconstruction of 4 metre high sculpture once topping the pediment of the Parthenon2012-05-11T10:22:01+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/10/its-wednesday-9-may-so-this-must-be-athens/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens04w4698.jpg12Athens04w4698In Iroon Square, a taverna specialising in dozens of different types of beerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens03w4696.jpg12Athens03w4696In the centre of Athens reminders of the ancient past are never far away https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens02w4695.jpg12Athens02w4695Looking across Monastiraki Square at nighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12athens01w4693.jpg12Athens01w4693One building facade opposite the hotelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12-greecetrip1w4692.jpg12 Greecetrip1w4692The cold empty wetness of Newport bus station at 06.302012-05-11T08:00:36+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/05/01/pontypool-chepstow-tintern-a-long-weekend-in-grey-britain/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12monmouthshire022w4668.jpg12Monmouthshire022w4668Looking up one of the main columnshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12monmouthshire021w4674.jpg12Monmouthshire021w4674.... and looking the other wayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12monmouthshire019w4666.jpg12Monmouthshire019w4666The apex of the roof is 98 feet above the ground. How did they do that!!!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12monmouthshire020w4679.jpg12Monmouthshire020w4679More door frameshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12monmouthshire018w4657.jpg12Monmouthshire018w4657Doorways framing doorwayshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12monmouthshire017w4650.jpg12Monmouthshire017w4650Multiple doorways on the way into Tintern Abbeyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12monmouthshire016w4595.jpg12Monmouthshire016w4595One hall restored to how it would have looked in Medieval times, very colourfull. https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12monmouthshire015w4596.jpg12Monmouthshire015w4596The castle loo, straight down into the river, flushed once every 12 hours by the outgoing tidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12monmouthshire014w4599.jpg12Monmouthshire014w4599Ancient oak door, preserved but not usedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12monmouthshire013w4584.jpg12Monmouthshire013w4584Amazingly well preserved vaulted roofs2012-05-01T21:18:40+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/04/22/athens-meteora-pindus-mountains-paxos-mani-rambling-around-greece-virtually/2012-04-22T09:09:40+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/04/10/1708/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/12pontypool033w4514.jpg12Pontypool033w4514On the return leg the cloud base has lifted slightly but not a lot: the mountains behind are still lost to view.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/12pontypool032w4513.jpg12Pontypool032w4513Illegal off-road motor bikes are wrecking the mountain: this is the main path along the ridge.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/12pontypool031w4512.jpg12Pontypool031w4512Just a few days ago the ridge-top path was drier than I have seen it for yearshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/12pontypool030w4510.jpg12Pontypool030w4510Looking North along the ridge from the trig point2012-04-13T20:06:45+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/03/27/taking-a-trip-up-to-abergavenny/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12abergavenny03w4493.jpg12Abergavenny03w4493..... and drink teahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12abergavenny02w4492.jpg12Abergavenny02w4492https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12abergavenny01w4490.jpg12Abergavenny01w4490A sunny Sunday outside the Hen and Chicks in Abergavenny ..... very mellow 2012-03-26T23:18:02+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/03/22/the-tyranny-of-buying-presents-but-things-are-brightening-up/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12pontypool027w4482.jpg12Pontypool027w4482The moon on top of a polehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12pontypool029w4486.jpg12Pontypool029w4486Geese and tree in early Springhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12pontypool028w4487.jpg12Pontypool028w4487Looking down across the Folly Tower towards the rim of Wye Valleyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12pontypool026w4481.jpg12Pontypool026w4481The moon rising behind the Folly Towerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12pontypool025w44721.jpg12Pontypool025w4472Looking south across the Bristol Channel from the mountain tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12pontypool025w4472.jpg12Pontypool025w4472Looking south across the Bristol Channel from the mountain top2012-03-22T08:26:29+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/03/13/health-fitness-and-welsh-poo-sticks/2012-03-14T08:33:27+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/03/05/an-extra-day-a-trip-to-cardiff-and-the-big-leap-year-swindle/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12cardiff14w4470.jpg12Cardiff14w4470The Millennium Stadium, immensly popular with fans for rugby internationals and for the FA cup during the Wembley Interludehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12cardiff13w4464.jpg12Cardiff13w4464One face of the clock tower at the entrance to Cardiff Castlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12cardiff12w4455.jpg12Cardiff12w4455One of the many beasts trying to climb over the wall surrounding Bute Parkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12cardiff11w4447.jpg12Cardiff11w4447The City-centre Bute Park basking in end-of-winter sunshinehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12cardiff09w4435.jpg12Cardiff09w4435Portrait of one of our well-connected ancestorshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12cardiff08w4434.jpg12Cardiff08w4434Typical of the standing stones found in many parts of Waleshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12cardiff07w4433.jpg12Cardiff07w4433Pick an ancestor: entrance to the origins of Wales exhibition in the National Museumhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12cardiff06w4429.jpg12Cardiff06w4429Famous portrait of one of Wales' most famous sonshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12cardiff05w4426.jpg12Cardiff05w4426Six Bells, the largest painting done by LS Lowry and housed on the Welsh National Museum Art Galleryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12cardiff04w4422.jpg12Cardiff04w4422On top of the central dome of City Hall2012-03-05T10:28:00+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/02/28/ambitious-plans/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12pontypool024w4406.jpg12Pontypool024w4406On Sunday daffodils in Pontypool Park came into flower to celebrate Wales' victory over Englandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12pontypool023w4400.jpg12Pontypool023w4400Banana on the top of a mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12monmouthshire011w4394.jpg12Monmouthshire011w4394Impressionistic scribble in the skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12monmouthshire010w4392.jpg12Monmouthshire010w4392It seems that the moss on ancient trees is getting more luxuriant as the weather gets warmer and moisterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12monmouthshire009w4379.jpg12Monmouthshire009w4379Low clouds touching the tops of the Skirrid, the Blorenge and the Sugar Loaf2012-02-28T23:52:38+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/02/20/out-of-the-winter-and-out-of-the-freezer/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12pontypool022w4368.jpg12Pontypool022w4368With no freezers to store food in, grey squirrels bury their nuts one at a time rather than in cache's. This one seemed to be viewing the field and scratching its head wondering where to start looking.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12pontypool021w4367.jpg12Pontypool021w4367.... and in case you didn't spot it in the last photo, the boat left high and dry by dropping water levels of long ago.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12pontypool020w4366.jpg12Pontypool020w4366Looking across the canal to Ty Poeth farm on the shoulder of the hillhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12pontypool019w4363.jpg12Pontypool019w4363Looking upstream on the Monmouthshire-Brecon Canal from the Jockey Bridge, with water levels dropping and slabs of ice collapsed on the sides2013-04-15T10:43:01+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/02/12/grey-britain-life-at-the-margins/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12torfaen005w4362.jpg12Torfaen005w4362Close to civilisation the end of the walk, remnants of snow stand out starkly against the black of colliery spoil dumped half a century ago and too acid to revegetate. https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12torfaen003w4353.jpg12Torfaen003w4353Undulations in the ground and shallow gullies collect the snow as it blows across the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12torfaen002w4347.jpg12Torfaen002w4347Snow lying in the sunken path and along the rim of the scarp.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12torfaen001w4345.jpg12Torfaen001w4345Before the Industrial Revolution this was an area of marginal hill farming, marginal because of the altitude being at the foot of a North facing scarp.2012-02-12T10:04:51+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/02/06/grey-britain-a-short-pictorial-history-of-winter-2012/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12pontypool018w4344.jpg12Pontypool018w4344.... but the ridge path from The Folly to The Grotto was wall-to-wall mud.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12pontypool017w4342.jpg12Pontypool017w4342Water flowing over rocks on the Roman Road still frozen hardhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12cherryhinton002w5027.jpg12CherryHinton002w5027This little fellow had come in from the cold and was licking my plate cleanhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12cherryhinton004w4330.jpg12CherryHinton004w4330It doesn't take long to get a good fire goinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12pontypool016w4339.jpg12Pontypool016w4339Nearly dark now and this poor beast and her mates have to spend the night out in the openhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12monmouthshire006w4337.jpg12Monmouthshire006w4337Part of the walk back is up through woodland, the path lined with ancient beech treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12monmouthshire007w4334.jpg12Monmouthshire007w4334There's that puddle againhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12monmouthshire008w4332.jpg12Monmouthshire008w4332The ridge top in driving snow is not a place to be if you aren't properly equipped and don't know what you're doinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12monmouthshire005w4321.jpg12Monmouthshire005w4321Playing on the top of the Blorenge, a group of about 15 primary school kids brought for a day out from Nofe Landan. Fabulous!!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12pontypool015w4311.jpg12Pontypool015w4311Tall man in the snow2012-02-06T12:34:05+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/02/02/grey-britain-an-alternative-view-of-politics/2012-02-04T15:05:30+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/01/27/grey-britain-changed-reading-habits-and-an-alternative-view-of-world-history/2012-01-27T14:10:55+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/01/22/moving-forward/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/12cherryhinton001w4242.jpg12CherryHinton001w4242The damp corner: stripped, filled and sealed.2012-01-25T23:03:54+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/01/13/the-new-year-a-golden-glow-of-optimism/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/12pontypool005w5020.jpg12Pontypool005w5020A golden glow of early morning suffuses the valley2012-01-14T10:17:52+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/01/10/the-new-year-forecasts-and-looking-to-the-future/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/12pontypool004w4231.jpg12Pontypool004w4231On Sunday a brief glimpse of Spring from the top of the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/12pontypool003w5013.jpg12Pontypool003w5013Sometimes the gold is just narrow bands behind bars of black cloudhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/11pontypool25w5012.jpg11Pontypool25w5012The balcony gives a grandstand view of the sun coming up over the opposite side of the valley2012-01-10T11:13:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2012/01/02/new-year-sales-contrasts-and-looking-ahead/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/12pontypool002w4223.jpg12Pontypool002w4223New Year's Day 2012: there is a pair of feet in there somewherehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/12pontypool001w4221.jpg12Pontypool001w4221New Year's Day 2012: on the ridge behind the house, surrounded by low cloud and rainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/10canada95w0693.jpg10Canada95w0693New Year's Day 2011: even when it clouded over the view of Mount Rundle from the top of Tunnel Mountain was dramatichttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/10canada90w0663.jpg10Canada90w0663New Year's Day 2011: view across the frozen Bow River in the Rockieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/10-january-32l-9186.jpg10 January 32L - 9186New Year's Day 2010: the path down from the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/10-january-09l-90631.jpg10 January 09L - 9063New Year's Day 2010: on top of the ridge behind the househttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/10-january-09l-9063.jpg10 January 09L - 9063New Year's Day 2010: on top of the ridge behind the house2012-01-02T12:14:41+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/12/26/christmas-marketing-hints-of-hysteria-and-the-odd-bit-of-tv/2011-12-26T19:28:35+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/12/19/the-lead-up-to-christmas-stresses-strains-and-challenge/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/10canada26chb0448.jpg10Canada26ChB0448Not a star rising in the East but a sun dog as the sun sinks in the West and shines through billions of tiny ice crystals in the super-cold air high in the Rockies, photographed 18 December 2010s2011-12-19T14:40:31+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/12/12/a-bad-time-of-year-dogged-by-failure/2011-12-13T14:50:17+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/12/09/english-as-she-is-ambiguated-please-read-carefully/2011-12-09T21:32:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/12/05/looking-beyond-christmas-dealing-with-boredom/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/11pontypool26w5002.jpg11Pontypool26w5002Just before dawn back clouds sometimes have a fiery lininghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/11pontypool25w5012.jpg11Pontypool25w5012Looking across the valley from the back window, a bright beginning to the day 2011-12-05T18:48:48+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/11/28/coping-with-christmas-a-season-of-neon-lights-and-frustration/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11pontypool24w4182.jpg11Pontypool24w4182Thin clouds making the sun made look like an impressionist paintinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11pontypool23w4183.jpg11Pontypool23w4183Sun setting over the western ridges of South Waleshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11cardiff06w4165jpg.jpg11Cardiff06w4165jpgAn older gentleman looking on in bemusementhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11cardiff05w4160jpg.jpg11Cardiff05w4160jpgAll the glitz of roundabouts and helter-skelterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11cardiff04w4149jpg.jpg11Cardiff04w4149jpgThis years high-rise whirly thinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11cardiff03w4145jpg.jpg11Cardiff03w4145jpgCity Hall all it up.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11cardiff02w4142jpg.jpg11Cardiff02w4142jpgLights along the castle wallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11cardiff01w4136jpg.jpg11Cardiff01w4136jpgThe folksy market and craft stalls around the city centre church2011-11-29T00:05:49+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/11/22/familiarity-breeds-selective-cognition-trying-to-see-whats-under-your-nose/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11pontypool22w4128.jpg11Pontypool22w4128One of the wood carvings along the path - passed by most with scarcely a glancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11pontypool21w4126.jpg11Pontypool21w4126The crow lands having helped out by measuring the distancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11pontypool20w4119.jpg11Pontypool20w4119Freshened up weather cockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11pontypool19w4117.jpg11Pontypool19w4117The path through the churchyard2011-11-23T01:32:25+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/11/15/laws-of-physics-a-pontypool-garden-and-an-ancient-nisyros-fortress/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11nisyros003w1694.jpg11Nisyros003w1694Steps to give access to the top of the wallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11nisyros002w1677.jpg11Nisyros002w1677Blocks cut to fit precisely togetherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11nisyros001w1674.jpg11Nisyros001w1674The main gate to the Paleocastro on Nisyroshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11garden70w4115.jpg11Garden70w4115One of two standing stones in the garden dating back to about AD1985https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11garden69w4112.jpg11Garden69w4112Second slab positioned ready for concreting to widen the footprint to prevent it sinking again2011-11-15T23:34:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/11/06/failing-to-find-the-answer-and-seeing-red-in-stockport/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11stockport32w41051.jpg11Stockport32w4105No, not the reflection of the sun but a street light on the M60 glinting in gold shards on a small rapid on the riverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11stockport32w4105.jpg11Stockport32w4105No, not the sun's reflection but a street light on the M60 glinting in gold shards on a small rapid on the riverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11stockport33w4106.jpg11Stockport33w4106Blue sky increasingly displacing the red against the black cloudshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11stockport31w4100.jpg11Stockport31w4100Clearing skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11stockport30w4097.jpg11Stockport30w4097Rending the heavenshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11stockport28w4094.jpg11Stockport28w4094Stockport Pyramid, as famous as any in Egypt, at least locally2011-11-07T08:33:04+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/11/03/images-of-autumn-in-the-garden/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11garden65w4944.jpg11Garden65w4944In general the garden is a mass of contrasting colourshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11garden67w4970.jpg11Garden67w4970This campanula is similarly invasive and in places growing up through the patioshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11garden68w4961.jpg11Garden68w4961This geranium is in danger of taking over large parts of the garden and still in flower so I hesitate to cut it backhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11garden60w4982.jpg11Garden60w4982Having survived last winter outside, this fuschia is doing better now than it has in the summerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11garden59w4980.jpg11Garden59w4980I thought this begonia had died in last winter's cold but it survived ans is now in flowerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11garden58w4976.jpg11Garden58w4976Welsh poppies which are springing up even in gloomy cornershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11garden57w4974.jpg11Garden57w4974There are also splashes of colour from plants in flower including cyclamen https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11garden63w4992.jpg11Garden63w4992...... augmented by the equally prolific and colourful Firethornhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11garden61w4986.jpg11Garden61w4986.... and they come in different colours and habitshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11garden62w49831.jpg11Garden62w4983Cotoneaster is smothered in berries this year2011-11-03T08:26:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/10/30/images-of-autumn-and-pontypool/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11autumn13w4093.jpg11Autumn13w4093.... and standing tall at the end of a good Autumn afternoonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11autumn15w4933.jpg11Autumn15w4933... and looking West to the last vestiges of the South Wales Coalfield, once of world-wide importancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11autumn14w4934.jpg11Autumn14w4934Looking North towards Blaenavonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11autumn12w4090.jpg11Autumn12w4090Looking East across the Vale of Usk to the Wye Valley and in the far distance the Malvernshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11autumn11w4085.jpg11Autumn11w4085The views from the ridge are pretty good too, here with the Skirrid in the backgroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11autumn10w4082.jpg11Autumn10w4082In places they form avenues marking old trackways down the flank of the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11autumn06w40461.jpg11Autumn06w4046Beech trees, very widespread in this part of the world, are impressive in Autumnhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11autumn06w4046.jpg11Autumn06w4046Beech trees are very impressive in Autumnhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11autumn09w4064.jpg11Autumn09w4064Gorse in flower, hawthorn in berry and Autumn leaves all add their colour at the same time.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11autumn08w4057.jpg11Autumn08w4057Approaching the Folly Tower2011-11-01T09:54:02+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/10/28/remembering-2/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11garnwen03w4924.jpg11GarnWen03w4924https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11garnwen02w49261.jpg11GarnWen02w4926https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11garnwen01w49291.jpg11GarnWen01w4929https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11garnwen02w4926.jpg11GarnWen02w4926https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11garnwen01w4929.jpg11GarnWen01w49292011-10-28T20:19:57+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/10/24/autumn-a-time-to-get-ready-for-winter/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11pontypool18w4915.jpg11Pontypool18w4915..... and just take a closer lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11pontypool17w4916.jpg11Pontypool17w4916Occasionally the dawn sky is fieryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11pontypool16w3999.jpg11Pontypool16w3999Sometimes the sun tries to break through small gaps in heavy grey cloudshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11pontypool15w3997.jpg11Pontypool15w3997Sometimes the early morning has a cold brightnesshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11garden29w4009.jpg11Garden29w4009Cotoneaster loaded with berrieshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11garden27w4000.jpg11Garden27w4000Cramming aeoniums, prickly pears, 'money plants' and geraniums into the conservatoryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/11garden28w4005.jpg11Garden28w4005..... and todayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/03-14-blue-house-03o.jpg03-14 Blue House 03oThe Blue House agaves in 20032011-10-25T13:17:38+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/10/14/looking-back-looking-forward-problems-in-context/2011-10-14T10:35:23+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/10/03/not-so-grey-britain-unreal-very-pleasant-but-i-did-get-caught-out/2011-10-03T14:59:35+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/25/back-to-reality-finding-ways-to-alleviate-the-boredom/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11pontypool14w3992.jpg11Pontypool14w3992Photographer on trig pointhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11pontypool13w3991.jpg11Pontypool13w3991Mooning about on top of the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11pontypool12w3988.jpg11Pontypool12w3988Reaching the top and coming out into the sunlighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11pontypool11w3987.jpg11Pontypool11w3987I have never know this path to be dry even in the height of a 'long hot summer'. Drainage channels across it have broken up and the stones washed away.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11pontypool10w3984.jpg11Pontypool10w3984Known locally as 'The Roman Road' it seems that this paved path is nothing more than a Folly, like the tower on top of the hill which it leads tohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11pontypool09w3979.jpg11Pontypool09w3979Fiery start to the day2011-09-25T21:39:22+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/18/greece-2011-withdrawal-symptoms-and-readjusting-to-grey-britain/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11pontypool08w3972.jpg11Pontypool08w3972The bonus of rain showers .... rainbowshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11pontypool07w3966.jpg11Pontypool07w3966Watching a rain cloud drifting eastward from the ridgetophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11pontypool06w3961.jpg11Pontypool06w3961White farmhouse, black cloud2011-09-18T19:31:00+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/15/greece-2011-symi-to-rhodes-and-leaving-greece/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi110w3956jpg.jpg11Symi110w3956jpgA last look along the harbour on Symi while waiting for the ferry2011-09-15T22:51:49+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/13/greece-2011-symi-%e2%80%93-%cf%84%ce%bf%cf%85-%cf%87%cf%81%cf%8c%ce%bd%ce%bf%cf%85-%e2%80%93-until-next-year/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi109w3953jpg.jpg11Symi109w3953jpgThe ridge with the windmills in the late-afternoon sunhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi108w3945jpg.jpg11Symi108w3945jpg..... and looking towards the mountain I have just come fromhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi107w3940jpg.jpg11Symi107w3940jpgHow much more peaceful can it get than this!!!!!!!!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi106w3936jpg.jpg11Symi106w3936jpg.... and just to prove I was right when I said I would be taller by the end of the summer (check the archive for 21 June)https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi105w3934jpg.jpg11Symi105w3934jpgJust to prove that I got to the tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi104w3932jpg.jpg11Symi104w3932jpgOne of a few old buildings on the top of the moluntainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi103w3926jpg.jpg11Symi103w3926jpgThe main courtyard of the monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi102w3924jpg.jpg11Symi102w3924jpgThe monastery of The Waters of Life, nestling in a cleft in the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi101w3920jpg.jpg11Symi101w3920jpgLooking across deeply eroded limestone pavement to Pedi bayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi100w3915jpg.jpg11Symi100w3915jpgSome of the windmills on the ridge2011-09-13T20:28:00+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/13/greece-2011-symi-%e2%80%93-much-alone-in-the-open-air/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi097w3907jpg.jpg11Symi097w3907jpghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi096w3904jpg.jpg11Symi096w3904jpg... and back in the main harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi098w3879jpg.jpg11Symi098w3879jpgSheep come out of hiding and rush to the gate presumably hoping for food rather than a date with a slow-cookerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi094w3885jpg.jpg11Symi094w3885jpgWhat do dragonflies do on these twigs????https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi093w3881jpg.jpg11Symi093w3881jpgFluoro-green tailed lizard2011-09-13T06:44:07+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/12/greece-2011-symi-%e2%80%93-straight-for-the-top/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi091w3862jpg.jpg11Symi091w3862jpgOn top of the ridge, trees dwarfed by drought, sculpted by windhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi090w3855jpg.jpg11Symi090w3855jpgYes, this is nothing but a bit of goat pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi089w3852jpg.jpg11Symi089w3852jpgPick a way over this lot then!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi088w3848jpg.jpg11Symi088w3848jpgThe ridge on the way back downhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi087w3847jpg.jpg11Symi087w3847jpgAmazing how much you can zoom in even with a small camerahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi086w3843jpg.jpg11Symi086w3843jpgLooking down to Yialos, Pedi and beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi085w3835jpg.jpg11Symi085w3835jpgOn top of Symihttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi084w3874jpg.jpg11Symi084w3874jpgVigla towering above the top of the Kali Strat2011-09-12T07:41:24+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/11/greece-2011-symi-%e2%80%93-irritation-challenge-relaxation-and-entertainment/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi081w3830jpg.jpg11Symi081w3830jpgSurrealhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi080w3828jpg.jpg11Symi080w3828jpgTied up next to the tavernahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi079w3820jpg.jpg11Symi079w3820jpgI thought I came up with the boot idea!!!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi078w3819jpg.jpg11Symi078w3819jpgThis is still a fishing communityhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi077w3817jpg.jpg11Symi077w3817jpgDon't know if the turkey is following the guy with the food or running away from mehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi076w3811jpg.jpg11Symi076w3811jpgThe island at Agia Marinahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi075w3808jpg.jpg11Symi075w3808jpgAnother bit of sharp mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi074w3805jpg.jpg11Symi074w3805jpgOne bit of sharp mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi073w3783jpg.jpg11Symi073w3783jpgPhotographer's leg on very sharp mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi072w3774jpg.jpg11Symi072w3774jpgIn the col2011-09-11T08:16:17+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/09/greece-2011-changing-my-mind-on-symi/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi058w3716jpg.jpg11Symi058w3716jpgI never tire of this view .... but look at the size of that boat compared to the building alongside. And where has the town clock gone?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi057w3710jpg.jpg11Symi057w3710jpgPhotographer alive and well, in the wellhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi056w3708jpg.jpg11Symi056w3708jpgThe island monastery of Agios Emilianos, linked to the 'mainland' by causeway, now badly breaking uphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi055w3703jpg.jpg11Symi055w3703jpgThose Turkish boats get everywherehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi054w3693jpg.jpg11Symi054w3693jpgMany of the old monasteries have fine examples of wood carvinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi053w3688jpg.jpg11Symi053w3688jpgView down to the island monastery of Agios Emilianos from the en route monastery of Agios Ionnis Theologoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi052w3682jpg.jpg11Symi052w3682jpgBeing watched from the shadowshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi051w3681jpg.jpg11Symi051w3681jpgThe shade tree where I decided to go west instead of east2011-09-09T06:55:38+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/08/greece-2011-filoxenia-is-alive-and-well-on-symi/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi050w3674jpg.jpg11Symi050w3674jpgThat view again, but this time from even higher up the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi049w3653jpg.jpg11Symi049w3653jpgPost-party flags and buntinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi048w3646jpg.jpg11Symi048w3646jpgI love this!!!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi047w3635jpg.jpg11Symi047w3635jpgfresco-lined and hochlakos floored https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi046w3632jpg.jpg11Symi046w3632jpgCool courtyardhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi045w3624jpg.jpg11Symi045w3624jpgAn old church set into the rocks just under the tophttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi044w3621jpg.jpg11Symi044w3621jpgInside the monastery enclosure on top of the world.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi043w3617jpg.jpg11Symi043w3617jpgFrom the monastery enclosure looking straight down the cliffhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi042w3610jpg.jpg11Symi042w3610jpgIn case of any doubt.....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi041w3603jpg.jpg11Symi041w3603jpgOutside the fence but in the shade and very comfortable2011-09-08T06:44:51+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/06/greece-2011-i%e2%80%99ve-got-a-ticket-to-rhodes-and-an-attack-of-the-grumps/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi022w3478jpg.jpg11Symi022w3478jpgSquill pushing out into the arid world.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi024w3490jpg.jpg11Symi024w3490jpgCool, shady courtyardhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi023w3484jpg.jpg11Symi023w3484jpgRidge-top monastery looking towards Turkeyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi021w3477.jpg11Symi021w3477High level hidden valleyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi020w3476.jpg11Symi020w3476Looking back down to the bay from the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi019w3473.jpg11Symi019w3473..... and then there were fourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi018w34711.jpg11Symi018w3471Turkish boats tied up to a rock on the beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi018w3471.jpg11Symi018w3471https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi017w3468.jpg11Symi017w3468Bulldozed track down to Toli Beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi015w3465.jpg11Symi015w3465Olive press high up in the col, sign of well established agriculture in the past2011-09-06T07:01:26+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/05/greece-2011-memories-changes-and-strange-things-happening-on-symi/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi012w3449.jpg11Symi012w3449That view down to the harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi011w3446.jpg11Symi011w3446Washed up on the beach. Half an hour later the spot where the rucksack and towel are in the foreground was submerged by massive waveshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi010w3444.jpg11Symi010w3444Bobbing heads overboardhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi009w3437.jpg11Symi009w3437Must have been a heck of a wave, this is on the top of the ridge, about 300 metres above sea levelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi008w3439.jpg11Symi008w3439Sometimes the colour and attractiveness is in the simplicityhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi007w3436.jpg11Symi007w3436Even small churches can have ornate towershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi006w3435.jpg11Symi006w3435There are bells over many of the entrance gates2011-09-05T06:43:08+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/04/greece-2011-symi-old-friends-old-haunts/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi004w4906.jpg11Symi004w4906Just in case you got distracted by the scrawny old goat .... what a great view!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi003w4904.jpg11Symi003w4904... just in order to pose for the camerahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi002w4893.jpg11Symi002w4893An old goat leaping around the mountains2011-09-04T06:39:01+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/03/greece-2011-and-so-to-symi-by-the-skin-of-my-teeth/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11symi001w3425.jpg11Symi001w3425Must be one of the best views in Europe.2023-07-30T16:34:48+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/09/02/greece-2011-back-to-the-top-of-the-world-on-kalymnos-and-then-to-symi/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11kalymnos40w4885.jpg11Kalymnos40w4885Great end to my stay in Emborioshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11kalymnos39w4871.jpg11Kalymnos39w4871The stone walls of the Kastri lost against the cragshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11kalymnos38w3413.jpg11Kalymnos38w3413Yes, straight down there was part of the route I tookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11kalymnos37w3407.jpg11Kalymnos37w3407Impressive cragshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11kalymnos36w3404.jpg11Kalymnos36w3404Olive tree high under the crags, an indication that this extreme fringe of Europe was once home to lots of peoplehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11kalymnos35w3385.jpg11Kalymnos35w3385Gate in fence right under the cliffhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11kalymnos34w3380.jpg11Kalymnos34w3380Caves in the small small gorge long-time used for animal enclosureshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11kalymnos31w4862.jpg11Kalymnos31w4862Looking across the narrow channel to Leroshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11kalymnos32w3369.jpg11Kalymnos32w3369Carefully constructed earth-dwelling - by ants??https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11kalymnos30w3356.jpg11Kalymnos30w3356Example of the parallel stone-lined path on level sections on the ridge2011-09-02T17:32:24+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/08/29/greece-2011-from-rhodes-to-kalymnos-to-the-top-of-the-world-and-a-couple-of-hours-at-the-palace/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11kalymnos19w4838.jpg11Kalymnos19w4838Tiny bit of beach not fenced in for the goatshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11kalymnos21w4831.jpg11Kalymnos21w4831Peaceful around the headlandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11kalymnos20w4835.jpg11Kalymnos20w4835Emborios and the mountain behind from the top of the headlandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11kalymnos17w4816.jpg11Kalymnos17w4816I'm afraid that I disturbed this 4 inch-long creature when I opened a mountain gatehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11kalymnos18w4828.jpg11Kalymnos18w4828Looking straight down the main street of Emborioshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11kalymnos16w4809.jpg11Kalymnos16w4809View of the channel between Kalymnos and Telendos Island from the top of the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11kalymnos14w3284.jpg11Kalymnos14w3284Descending back to the col with its high-security monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11kalymnos13w4800.jpg11Kalymnos13w4800Rich colouring on the walls of the cliffs and the caveshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11kalymnos12w4794.jpg11Kalymnos12w4794..... and yet another viewhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11kalymnos11w4780.jpg11Kalymnos11w4780View from The Palace, one of the iconic views on Kalymnos 2012-04-27T14:12:44+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/08/25/greece-2011-arrived-to-do-my-bit-for-the-greek-economy/2011-08-25T15:46:20+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/08/24/greece-2011-last-stages-of-preparation/2011-08-25T06:11:54+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/08/16/leaving-grey-britain-and-the-looting-countdown-to-greece-re-visited-2011/2011-08-17T05:32:11+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/08/09/art-and-about-in-grey-britain-pontypool-newport-cardiff/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11cardiff01w3177.jpg11Cardiff01w3177Cardiff .... what a difference the sun makeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11newport07w3158.jpg11Newport07w3158But there's no getting away from the mudhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11newport04w31611.jpg11Newport04w3161A reminder of the long history of the riverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11newport04w3161.jpg11Newport04w3161https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11newport02w3137.jpg11Newport02w3137.... but a modern option looks much brighter even in the gloomhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11newport01w3172.jpg11Newport01w3172A bit of graffiti fails to brighten up the river bridge https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11newport06w3141.jpg11Newport06w3141So could the whole up-river view, but under leaden skies instead it's drabhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11newport03w3140.jpg11Newport03w3140The shapes and colour combination could look good in the sunshine https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11newport05w3142.jpg11Newport05w3142The old river bridge and castle against uninspired architecture .... and grey skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11newport08w3148.jpg11Newport08w3148White becomes grey and colours drab2012-12-04T18:49:09+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/08/04/grey-britain-and-an-oasis-of-colour-newport-wetlands/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11wetlands20w4730.jpg11Wetlands20w4730and a sad reminder that this is Grey Britain and we still need to turn on the light.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11wetlands16w4710.jpg11Wetlands16w4710A reminder of the industrial neighbour which once occupied the site.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11wetlands23w4721.jpg11Wetlands23w4721Who knows what lurking in the undergrowthhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11wetlands22w4722.jpg11Wetlands22w4722Big showy flower headshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11wetlands18w4700.jpg11Wetlands18w4700Tight-packed multiple flower headshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11wetlands11w4671.jpg11Wetlands11w4671Young and bewildered by the onlookershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11wetlands09w4686.jpg11Wetlands09w4686Pollinatinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11wetlands21w4727.jpg11Wetlands21w4727.... but adding colour of their ownhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11wetlands02w4646.jpg11Wetlands02w4646Munching away the colourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11wetlands01w4639.jpg11Wetlands01w4639Colourful grasses2011-08-04T10:10:19+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/30/back-home-and-grumpy/2011-07-30T10:14:12+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/24/greece-2011-random-afterthoughts/2011-07-24T13:13:05+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/21/greece-2011-nisyros-amorgos-kos-time-to-reflect/2011-08-04T10:08:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/20/kos-and-the-last-leg/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos16w4597.jpg11Kos16w4597.... and a closer lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos15w4595.jpg11Kos15w45952011-07-20T07:17:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/18/amorgos-to-kos-round-the-clock/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos13w4568.jpg11Kos13w4568Taking a peek inside the 'Nymphaeum'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos14w4557.jpg11Kos14w4557One of the many pieces of carved marble lying aroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos12w4573.jpg11Kos12w4573Part of one of the mosaicshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos11w45551.jpg11Kos11w4555Part of the 'Western Excavations'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos10w4549.jpg11Kos10w4549Photographer standing on the edge of historyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos11w4555.jpg11Kos11w4555Part of the 'Western Excavations'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11leros1w3092.jpg11Leros1w3092Leros: traffic jamhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11patmos2o4538.jpg11Patmos2o4538Early morning shadowshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11patmos1o3070.jpg11Patmos1o3070Patmos: looking over the harbour to the castle in the Hora on the hilltop overlooking2011-07-18T07:03:37+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/17/amorgos-last-day-lots-of-colour/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos140w4529.jpg11Amorgos140w4529Crazy effecthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos139w4526.jpg11Amorgos139w4526End of another hard day on the beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos138w4523.jpg11Amorgos138w4523.... but what a setting!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos137w4521.jpg11Amorgos137w4521Just another mountain churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos131w3057.jpg11Amorgos131w3057St George slaying the dragonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos130w3056.jpg11Amorgos130w3056Stained glass windows in mountain churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos135o4512.jpg11Amorgos135o4512Blurry eagley thinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos136w4519.jpg11Amorgos136w4519Two falcony thingshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos134o4508.jpg11Amorgos134o4508Falcony thinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos132w4501.jpg11Amorgos132w4501Really cool taverna2011-07-16T23:00:36+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/16/amorgos-from-sea-to-shining-sea/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos128w4493.jpg11Amorgos128w4493Yet another perfect sunsethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos127w4484.jpg11Amorgos127w4484The perfect Greek balcony: loking straight down to the sea, sun in the morning and evening, shade in the heat of the day.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos124w3040.jpg11Amorgos124w3040The path through the wild broomhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos123w3039.jpg11Amorgos123w3039A small area of weird landformshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos126w4488.jpg11Amorgos126w4488A last wistful lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos125w4487.jpg11Amorgos125w4487The view from the top of the mountain: Chora below on the left, the main harbour further below in the centrehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos122w3028.jpg11Amorgos122w3028The path to Chora: the mountain hazy in the far distance2011-07-16T07:42:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/15/amorgos-round-and-about/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos119w4461.jpg11Amorgos119w4461In fact a golden glow infuses everythinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos118w4460.jpg11Amorgos118w4460... and the buildings themselves become mellowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos120w4482.jpg11Amorgos120w4482In the sunset the cliff becomes a golden brownhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos113w3021.jpg11Amorgos113w3021Paved kalderimi leading into Tholariahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos121w4436.jpg11Amorgos121w4436Flower-lined pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos116w4425.jpg11Amorgos116w4425Coming into Stroumbos, a mixture of the restored and the still derelicthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos115w2990.jpg11Amorgos115w2990The top of the upper churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos114w3000.jpg11Amorgos114w3000Approaching the door of the lower of the two churcheshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos122w4398.jpg11Amorgos122w4398View from the path of Agia Triada built into the cliffshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos112w4394.jpg11Amorgos112w4394The early morning boat comes with the view2011-07-15T18:13:05+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/14/amorgos-old-paths-restored-paths-and-psycho-paths/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos110w4381.jpg11Amorgos110w4381Climbing the wallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos109w2983.jpg11Amorgos109w2983Still a feature in the mountain villageshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos106w2966.jpg11Amorgos106w2966The church and old monastery compound of Stavros in the col 2000 feet highhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos105w2972.jpg11Amorgos105w2972Psych photographer on the edge: yes, that scree does go straight down 2000 feet to the sea.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos104w2973.jpg11Amorgos104w2973One short section of this psycho pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos111w2981.jpg11Amorgos111w2981In the middle of nowhere, obligatory notification of public funding.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos108w4361.jpg11Amorgos108w4361Peace and calm inside the enclosurehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos107w4367.jpg11Amorgos107w4367Monastery of St John the Theologian: built in the early Byzantine period, almost like a fotresshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos103w2955.jpg11Amorgos103w2955Fresh evidence that these paths are kept open by donkeys2011-07-14T19:56:58+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/13/amorgos-and-now-for-the-other-end-of-the-island/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos102w4333.jpg11Amorgos102w4333The colour in the sky was amazing even after the sun had disappeared behind Naxoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos101w4325.jpg11Amorgos101w4325If I could only get t in the bottle ......https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos100w4315.jpg11Amorgos100w4315Now how's that for a view from the balcony!2011-08-01T13:17:55+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/12/amorgos-a-few-more-surprises/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos099w4303.jpg11Amorgos099w4303.... before finally making a dash for ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos098w4295.jpg11Amorgos098w4295Climbing the walls to try to escapehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos097w2947.jpg11Amorgos097w2947First glimpse as I walked pasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos095w2945.jpg11Amorgos095w2945I wouldn't like to try to pick those grapeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos096w2943.jpg11Amorgos096w2943The path unusually drops down to sea levelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos092w4287.jpg11Amorgos092w4287A look back at just how impregnable the crag ishttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos093w2924.jpg11Amorgos093w2924The near-vertical steps down from the castle on top of the craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos094w4278.jpg11Amorgos094w4278I think it was after some of my bananahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos091w4271.jpg11Amorgos091w4271Church on the edgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos090w4264.jpg11Amorgos090w42642012-05-26T17:07:09+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/11/amorgos-greek-hospitality/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos088w4241.jpg11Amorgos088w4241Castle Rock silhouetted as the sun sinks behind Naxoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos087w4218.jpg11Amorgos087w4218Going down ...https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos086w4205.jpg11Amorgos086w4205Bathed in mellow evening lighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos079w2922.jpg11Amorgos079w2922Approaching Chora https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos081w2905.jpg11Amorgos081w2905Lurking around the restored 'country house'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos080w2910.jpg11Amorgos080w2910Very much like the Paleocastro on Nisyros but a lot smallerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos085w4196.jpg11Amorgos085w4196Looking backhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos084w4188.jpg11Amorgos084w4188Small courtyard at the front of the monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos083w4183.jpg11Amorgos083w4183Bell and cathttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos078w4154.jpg11Amorgos078w4154But at least this stayed still2011-07-12T11:43:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/10/amorgos-back-to-the-old-way/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos075w2873.jpg11Amorgos075w2873Working donkey, this one saddled for carrying slabs of stone being split nearbyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos076w4153.jpg11Amorgos076w4153Judging by this line of wells a lot of water must collect here.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos077w2852.jpg11Amorgos077w2852Old houses in the tiny settlement behind the church: note the chimneyshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos074w2848.jpg11Amorgos074w2848Last time I was here the backdrop for this church in the col was a bank of cloudhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos073w2843.jpg11Amorgos073w2843Built cairn to mark path over rocky ground2011-07-10T06:24:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/09/amorgos-the-ups-and-downs-continued-%e2%80%93-on-a-high-at-the-top-of-chora/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos072w4152.jpg11Amorgos072w4152Last lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos066w4108.jpg11Amorgos066w4108Cool shadeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos067w4131.jpg11Amorgos067w4131Meanwhile the colour extends right round to Ios in the Wasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos071w4143.jpg11Amorgos071w4143.... until it disappears behind Naxoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos070w4140.jpg11Amorgos070w4140..... and lowerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos069w4133.jpg11Amorgos069w4133Sun sinking lowerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos068w4117.jpg11Amorgos068w4117Golden glow at the top of the castlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos065w4104.jpg11Amorgos065w4104Chora and the ridge behind: for context, the path down to The Monastery starts in the col mid-lefthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos064w4103.jpg11Amorgos064w4103https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos063w4113.jpg11Amorgos063w4113Just in case you didn't get the size of the key - that's a €1 coin next to it2011-07-09T20:13:38+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/09/amorgos-the-ups-and-downs/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos060w4095.jpg11Amorgos060w4095View down to the headland church to which I was headinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos059w4093.jpg11Amorgos059w4093Large threshing circlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos058w4089.jpg11Amorgos058w4089..... lots of themhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos057w4082.jpg11Amorgos057w4082Amazing stones in the wallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos056w2799.jpg11Amorgos056w2799Inside the castlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos054w2791.jpg11Amorgos054w2791Creature on mt rucksackhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos053w2782.jpg11Amorgos053w2782Colourful painting of the Archangel Michaelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos052w2781.jpg11Amorgos052w2781Simple and unadorned insidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos051w2786.jpg11Amorgos051w2786Very simple mountain church2011-07-09T08:01:20+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/08/amorgos-coastal-cliches/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos048w2773.jpg11Amorgos048w2773The top of the path coming into Chorahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos050w4070.jpg11Amorgos050w4070Boats across the bayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos049w4060.jpg11Amorgos049w4060The church on the headland - this one called Profitis Ilias believe it or nothttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos047w2770.jpg11Amorgos047w2770The donkey and the churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos046w2766.jpg11Amorgos046w2766The cat on the doorstep and flowers shothttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos045w2763.jpg11Amorgos045w2763The flaking paint shothttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos044w2753.jpg11Amorgos044w2753The small, peaceful harbour on the opposite side of the bay to the main townhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos043w2738.jpg11Amorgos043w2738One of a number of springs at the side of the path2011-07-08T06:43:17+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/07/amorgos-in-search-of-peace-and-quiet/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos042w4041.jpg11Amorgos042w4041Visitor to my shortshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos041w4023.jpg11Amorgos041w4023The path across the scree slope seen from the top of Profits Ilias 400 metres above it.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos039w2731.jpg11Amorgos039w2731This one either depicts a plant pot with flowers or the fact that there were once reindeer on Amorgoshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos040w2732.jpg11Amorgos040w2732Many buildings have stone carvings set into the wall: this one depicting a windmill of which there are many in Chorahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos038w2715.jpg11Amorgos038w2715One of the many 'alley-side' tavernashttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos035w2708.jpg11Amorgos035w2708Carving in stone lintel of church window dates it to 1681https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos034w2704.jpg11Amorgos034w2704Looking down to the entrance steps from the balconyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos033w2700.jpg11Amorgos033w2700On the balcony outside the churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos037w2712.jpg11Amorgos037w2712This way to the museumhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos036w2711.jpg11Amorgos036w2711The main staircase: wall on the left, cliff-face on the right2011-07-07T07:03:00+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/06/amorgos-high-places/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos032w2693.jpg11Amorgos032w2693Shell creatures, about 1 cm long, clinging to the rocks in their millions on the upper slopes of the mountain: never seen these before anywhere except perhaps on the beach in Pembrokeshirehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos031w4019.jpg11Amorgos031w4019Looking down to the paths and tracks of The Old Way' about 400 metres belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos030w2687.jpg11Amorgos030w2687Simple interior: the larger of the two frescoes is often seen as framed pictures in other churches of the same name. - Elijah being fed by the ravenzhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos029w4018.jpg11Amorgos029w4018The church of Profitis Ilias perched on the edge of vertical drop of several hundred mtreshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos028w2684.jpg11Amorgos028w2684Simple and very low interiorhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos027w4010.jpg11Amorgos027w4010A very snug fithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos026w4004.jpg11Amorgos026w4004The church-under-the-rock comes into viewhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos025w2673.jpg11Amorgos025w2673The clothes on the fence by the monastery entrance2016-11-21T23:50:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/05/amorgos-the-old-way/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos024w4001.jpg11Amorgos024w4001Sunset from my balconyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos023w2671.jpg11Amorgos023w2671Dropping down to the coasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos022w2669.jpg11Amorgos022w2669Whin and claghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos021w2659.jpg11Amorgos021w2659Photographer in well, with grey backgroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos020w2656.jpg11Amorgos020w2656Clag beginning to descendhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos019w2652.jpg11Amorgos019w2652... and soon whole hillsideshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos017w2644.jpg11Amorgos017w2644.... then a few morehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos016w2643.jpg11Amorgos016w2643First, one clump of whinhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos015w2639.jpg11Amorgos015w2639Remaining fragment of ancient frescohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos014w2637.jpg11Amorgos014w2637The chapel in the enclosures of an old monastery complex2011-07-05T20:01:56+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/04/amorgos-a-new-place-apprehension-and-anticipation/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos004w3981.jpg11Amorgos004w3981Looking back at the front entrancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos003w3977.jpg11Amorgos003w3977Craning the neck to look straight up the front of the monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos002w3975.jpg11Amorgos002w3975The Iconic Monasteryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos010w2618.jpg11Amorgos010w2618.... the size of which dwarfs the buildings of the town only a few feet awayhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos009w2616.jpg11Amorgos009w2616.... and twice a week by the giant Blue Star Ferryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos008w2615.jpg11Amorgos008w2615..... visited by the occasional yachty thinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11amorgos006w2611.jpg11Amorgos006w2611Katapola, the main port on Amorgos, is principally a fishing harbour2011-07-04T17:06:08+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/03/kos-to-amorgos-into-the-unknown/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11aegean2w2601.jpg11Aegean2w2601Lifeboats in the sunsethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11aegean1w2610.jpg11Aegean1w2610Sunset from the ferryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos09w2596.jpg11Kos09w2596Old marble carving incorporated into church frontagehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos08w2587.jpg11Kos08w2587The Other Greecehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos07w25841.jpg11Kos07w2584https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos07w2584.jpg11Kos07w2584https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos06w2576.jpg11Kos06w2576'St Ives Corner' complete with fish and chip tavernahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos05w2568.jpg11Kos05w2568Detail of one of the marble columns of the fountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos04w2571.jpg11Kos04w2571Old water fountain o n the opposite sidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11kos03w2563.jpg11Kos03w2563The tree of Hippocrates, a 500 year old oriental plane, supposed descendant of the original under which Hippocrates taught his pupils 2,400 years ago2011-07-03T08:38:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/02/nisyros-to-kos-a-very-different-world/2011-07-02T08:12:55+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/07/01/nisyros-from-the-weird-to-the-wonderful/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11nisyros171w2543.jpg11Nisyros171w2543A last look at the Parliata and the craterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11nisyros170w2542.jpg11Nisyros170w2542Dragon Lizard on stone wallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11nisyros166w3956.jpg11Nisyros166w3956Photographer's rucksack through a hole in the rockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11nisyros173w3965.jpg11Nisyros173w3965Just in case you couldn't see it - the Scarce Swallowtailhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11nisyros172w3964.jpg11Nisyros172w3964More rock formation: note the butterfly on the righthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11nisyros165w3953.jpg11Nisyros165w3953.... and in flies a Blue Rock Thrushhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11nisyros164w3954.jpg11Nisyros164w3954Zooming in on the jaw of the beasthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11nisyros163w3947.jpg11Nisyros163w3947Lava contorted into amazing shapeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11nisyros169w2535.jpg11Nisyros169w2535The only way into Parliata is to climb the fortified craghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11nisyros168w2529.jpg11Nisyros168w2529Marker stone on the path2011-07-01T20:57:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/28/925/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros147w38923.jpg11Nisyros147w3892Looking down from Panagia Fanoremi to the Paleocastro far belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros147w38922.jpg11Nisyros147w3892Looking down from Panagia Fanoremi to the Paleocastro far belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros147w38921.jpg11Nisyros147w3892https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros147w3892.jpg11Nisyros147w3892https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros146w2478.jpg11Nisyros146w2478Sneaky shot of the interior with a Canon S95 held through a gap at the top of the padlocked doorhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros145w2481.jpg11Nisyros145w2481The tiny basilica of Panagia Fanoremi2011-06-28T20:05:53+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/28/nisyros-there%e2%80%99s-a-footpath-here-but-where-does-it-go/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros139w3884.jpg11Nisyros139w3884Dragonfly .... I thinkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros144w2469.jpg11Nisyros144w2469Change the shape of the arch and you've got a churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros143w2465.jpg11Nisyros143w2465An arch is all that remains of somehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros142w2474.jpg11Nisyros142w2474.... and underneath the house, in pretty good nick for its agehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros141w2472.jpg11Nisyros141w2472Threshing circle with covered sterna to the left ......https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros140w2468.jpg11Nisyros140w2468Semi-detached not so suburban. In need of some repairhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros138w2471.jpg11Nisyros138w2471Ancient walled routeway long ago fallen into disrepairhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros136w2455.jpg11Nisyros136w2455Get back, get back !!!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros135w2453.jpg11Nisyros135w2453Trip boat on its way into the harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros134w2439.jpg11Nisyros134w2439The sheltered beach2011-06-28T20:31:23+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/27/nisyros-i-know-there%e2%80%99s-a-footpath-here-somewhere/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros129w2425.jpg11Nisyros129w2425This would brighten up any harbourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros130w3858.jpg11Nisyros130w3858Rough sea masks Palloi just beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros128w2420.jpg11Nisyros128w2420Obviously intended as a central lobby in the unfinished spa hotel: https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros126w2408.jpg11Nisyros126w2408Through the open door of the tiny church, dated 1871https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros132w3873.jpg11Nisyros132w3873The original spa pool in the cave at the backhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros127w2415.jpg11Nisyros127w2415Looking back towards the entrancehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros131w3868.jpg11Nisyros131w3868Entrance to the vaulted Roman spa with 19th Century church on the righthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros133w2403.jpg11Nisyros133w2403A good bit of 'path' just before it gets completely blockedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros125w2399.jpg11Nisyros125w2399Just below the castle, photographer in a well without a lidhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros124w3856.jpg11Nisyros124w3856That church again2011-06-28T20:27:22+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/26/nisyros-avlaki-another-time-warp/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros122w2390.jpg11Nisyros122w2390Cool squarehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros116w2376.jpg11Nisyros116w2376The swimming area at Avlaki: note the black lava bubble and the ladderhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros121w3840.jpg11Nisyros121w3840Thankfully some people just love to add even more colourhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros120w38421.jpg11Nisyros120w3842Volcanic ash deposits in the cliffhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros120w3842.jpg11Nisyros120w3842Ash deposits in the cliffshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros119w3848.jpg11Nisyros119w3848Avlaki: abandoned houses, tiny harbour, weird cliffshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros114w2372.jpg11Nisyros114w2372Some of the terrace walls are amazing colourshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros113w2370.jpg11Nisyros113w2370One of many houses. The number '1880' over the door is more probably the date it was built rather than the postal addresshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros118w2387.jpg11Nisyros118w2387Looking back up towards Nikiahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros117w2383.jpg11Nisyros117w2383Paved kalderimi, becoming overgrown2011-06-26T19:19:42+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/25/nisyros-snakes-and-time-warps/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros110w2350.jpg11Nisyros110w2350Photographer in Neolithic wellhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros111w2362.jpg11Nisyros111w2362Arches in the main settlement complexhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros109w2346.jpg11Nisyros109w2346Semi-underground dwelling, spacious and barre-arched insidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros112w3837.jpg11Nisyros112w3837The Rock-at-the-end-of-the-Universehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros107w2338.jpg11Nisyros107w2338Upwards of 5 feet long snake-in-the-grasshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros108w2336.jpg11Nisyros108w2336Now there's a gardener who knows his onions! 2011-06-25T06:23:05+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/24/tilos-back-to-nisyros-the-dramatic-and-the-familiar/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros105w2328.jpg11Nisyros105w2328The smaller crater known as 'Polyvotis'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros106w2324.jpg11Nisyros106w2324The main crater, named 'Stefanos'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros104w2332.jpg11Nisyros104w2332View along the length of the caldera from 'Red Rock'2011-06-24T06:42:01+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/23/tilos-compare-and-contrast/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11tilos08w3829.jpg11Tilos08w3829Crystal clear water on the Livadia beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11tilos06w3826.jpg11Tilos06w3826Multi-coloured cliffs behind the beachhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11tilos05w2306.jpg11Tilos05w2306Encrusted rockshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11tilos10w2318.jpg11Tilos10w2318Flower opening on pretty comprehensively prickly thistlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11tilos02w2291.jpg11Tilos02w2291Path through herbs and prickleshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11tilos01w2290.jpg11Tilos01w2290Multi-coloured rocky paths2011-06-23T06:35:36+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/22/nisyros-to-tilos/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros103w2289.jpg11Nisyros103w2289The shortest me: 13.00 on 21 June 2011, standing up to my full heighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros100w2253.jpg11Nisyros100w2253What I think is an orchid, alongside the pathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros101w2254.jpg11Nisyros101w2254Close uphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros102w2286.jpg11Nisyros102w2286Seed pods: crop or wild flowers?2013-10-18T10:00:23+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/21/nisyros-still-walking-through-everyday-ancient-life/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros099w2285.jpg11Nisyros099w2285Very good path between steep terraceshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros098w2284.jpg11Nisyros098w2284Walled path between fieldshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros097w2283.jpg11Nisyros097w2283A bit rough, just avoid the stoneshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros096w2276.jpg11Nisyros096w2276Vacant property: house and front garden, many careful ownershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros095w2273.jpg11Nisyros095w2273Stone-arched extension to the original cave dwelling, one reason the ancient houses have survived so longhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros093w2277.jpg11Nisyros093w2277Neolithic settlement: spot 2 houses, a front garden, 3 fields, and a main roadhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros089w2260.jpg11Nisyros089w2260The start of the path to Evangelistra outside the whit- painted approach to the churchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros090w2261.jpg11Nisyros090w2261Little remains of the castle but it is being recently excavatedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros091w2262.jpg11Nisyros091w2262The caldera and crater seen through the entrance to the castlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/11nisyros092w2264.jpg11Nisyros092w2264The main street in Emborio2011-06-21T04:59:33+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/05/deja-vue/2011-06-11T20:30:09+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/06/04/on-my-way/2011-06-04T22:54:55+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/05/30/time-running-away-the-need-to-prioritise/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden25w1669.jpg11Garden25w1669Low growing Acers had been swamped by other vegetation, now clearedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden24w1669.jpg11Garden24w1669.... a closer lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden23w1665.jpg11Garden23w1665Courgettes, leeks, sprouts, red cabbage, purple sprouting broccoli, blue potatoes, fennel and artichokes https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden22w1661.jpg11Garden22w1661Gooseberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants, blueberries .... and a prickly pearhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden27w1657.jpg11Garden27w1657... and closer uphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden26w1653.jpg11Garden26w1653Foxgloves, becoming increasingly prolific in what was once a lawn2011-05-30T17:05:33+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/05/17/it%e2%80%99s-good-when-a-plan-comes-together-poetry-and-wild-gardens/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/backcover1.jpgbackcoverback coverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/cover1.jpgcoverFront coverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden20w1623.jpg11Garden20w1623https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden19w16201.jpg11Garden19w1620A closer lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden18w16161.jpg11Garden18w1616Preparing for decrepitude: the ex-lawnhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden19w1620.jpg11Garden19w1620A closer lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden18w1616.jpg11Garden18w1616Preparing for decrepitude: the ex-lawnhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/backcover.jpgbackcoverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/cover.jpgcover2011-05-17T09:04:16+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/05/09/unearthing-art-philosophy-of-decision-making-deadline-brain/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden15w1603.jpg11Garden15w1603My tribute to Greek design - it waits to be finished.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden14w1602.jpg11Garden14w1602'Bicycle Fork', the work of art which might, or might not, take the art world by storm.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden16w1606.jpg11Garden16w1606Bluebells have an all-too-short flowering lifespanhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden13w1600.jpg11Garden13w1600Aquilegia self-seed everywhere but are preferrable to most weedshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden12w1597.jpg11Garden12w1597Another azalea, amazingly vivid redhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden11w15925.jpg11Garden11w15925Azalea with the gargantuan agaves in the Blue House behindhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden10w1592.jpg11Garden10w1592Dutch iris standing proud, very prolific this yearhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11garden09w1589.jpg11Garden09w1589Cornflowers: colourful, attractive ..... but can be invasive2011-05-09T09:50:30+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/04/26/art-architecture-monasticism-power-and-influence/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11rotherham08w1584.jpg11Rotherham08w1584colour palettehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11rotherham07w1579.jpg11Rotherham07w1579Storm cloud silhouettehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11rotherham06w1568.jpg11Rotherham06w1568Looking across one of the bridges https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11rotherham05w1556.jpg11Rotherham05w155612th Century ceiling!!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11rotherham04w1550.jpg11Rotherham04w1550Through an archhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11rotherham03w1541.jpg11Rotherham03w1541Built in the 12th Centuryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11rotherham02w1537.jpg11Rotherham02w1537Roche pigeonshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11rotherham01w1536.jpg11Rotherham01w1536Entrance to the Abbey precincthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11stockport27w1532.jpg11Stockport27w1532west side storyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11stockport26w1529.jpg11Stockport26w1529tributary side2011-04-27T07:50:47+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/04/19/the-second-home-hideaway-or-albatross/2011-04-19T22:51:18+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/04/11/the-lawn-a-pretentious-british-middleclass-anachronism/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11garden08w3713.jpg11Garden08w3713Copper maple in flowerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11garden07w3707.jpg11Garden07w3707Against clear blue skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11garden06w3701.jpg11Garden06w3701Acer brightening up the gloomhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11garden05w3689.jpg11Garden05w3689One of two particularly floriferous apple treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11garden04w3683.jpg11Garden04w3683Looking over the Blue House to what was the Bottom Lawnhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11garden03w1494.jpg11Garden03w1494... and yet another onehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11garden02w1492.jpg11Garden02w1492Another maplehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11garden01w1491.jpg11Garden01w1491Maple2011-04-11T09:48:44+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/04/03/travels-in-3-counties-the-lowry-and-salford-quays-architecture-as-art/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11salford38w1478.jpg11Salford38w1478art is at the forefront even in the design of functional buildingshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11salford37w1477.jpg11Salford37w1477Looking up to the end of the docksidehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11salford35w1471.jpg11Salford35w1471https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11salford34w1469.jpg11Salford34w1469https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11salford33w1468.jpg11Salford33w1468https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11salford36w1476.jpg11Salford36w1476The new footbridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11salford32w1461.jpg11Salford32w1461Remnant of the old dockside with the new footbridge and buildings beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11salford29w1452.jpg11Salford29w1452Distorted reflectionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11salford31w1457.jpg11Salford31w1457Looking along the line of the footbridge to The Lowryhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11salford28w1450.jpg11Salford28w1450The Lowry and the concourse in front2011-04-03T21:53:44+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/03/27/rambling-around-the-classic-slum-or-images-from-childhood-and-adolescence-2/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford26w1437.jpg11Salford26w1437Away with the oldhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford24w1436.jpg11Salford24w1436Renovated chimneyshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford25w1438.jpg11Salford25w1438Old chimneyshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford23w1434.jpg11Salford23w1434Drawing attention to yourself in the Langworthy Road shopshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford22w1432.jpg11Salford22w1432waiting to be demolished, the landmark Langworthy Hotel, with the Fitzwarren high rise in the backgroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford19w1422.jpg11Salford19w1422Some derelict buildings have sitting tennantshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford21w1428.jpg11Salford21w1428The tower blocks of the once infamous Fitzwarren Street arteahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford16w1429.jpg11Salford16w1429Old chimney pots to the right, new chimney pots to the lefthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford20w1425.jpg11Salford20w1425The gulag-entrance to Chimney Pot Parkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford27w1376.jpg11Salford27w1376Manor Road, the 'posh' bit at the rear entrance to the Grammar School2015-08-23T16:58:40+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/03/21/sustainability-heritage-nuclear-power/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11gwent07w13491.jpg11Gwent07w1349.... and in places there are sunken tracks broad enough for vehicles but very roughhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11gwent07w1349.jpg11Gwent07w1349https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11gwent05w1342.jpg11Gwent05w1342In places the path has sunk through to bedrockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11gwent03w1335.jpg11Gwent03w1335A fairly shallow 'sunken way' flanked by beech and ashhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11gwent04w1339.jpg11Gwent04w1339There are countless examples of beech 'stools' up on the ridgeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11gwent06w1343.jpg11Gwent06w1343Looking across the fields on the flanks of ridges to the 'old' field system of the Vale of Uskhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11gwent08w1353.jpg11Gwent08w1353Treeless common land is extensivehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11gwent01w3675.jpg11Gwent01w3675Bare ridge-tops under blue sky2011-03-21T19:02:21+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/03/14/garden-devastation-and-uncertain-future/2011-03-14T20:35:49+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/03/08/walkabout-nostalgia-the-classic-slum-and-sunshine/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford04w1261.jpg11Salford04w1261..... and the steel framework behind.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford03w1260.jpg11Salford03w1260Facade retained intacthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford02w1258.jpg11Salford02w1258Looking across the new chimneys of the 'new' terraces to the high rise beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11salford01w1257.jpg11Salford01w1257The garden-balconies of the newly redeveloped terraced houses from Chimney Pot Parkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11stockport06w1262.jpg11Stockport06w1262and behind the pond ....... sky-paintinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11stockport09w1320.jpg11Stockport09w1320Moorhen, more reflectionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11stockport11w1313.jpg11Stockport11w1313Tranquil in the sunshinehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11stockport10w1316.jpg11Stockport10w1316Rush-hour on the pondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11stockport08w1300.jpg11Stockport08w1300It's fed-up mate reflecting on what went wronghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11stockport07w1299.jpg11Stockport07w1299Heron reflecting in the sunshine2011-03-08T09:45:27+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/03/03/cars-social-castration-and-sunshine/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11stockport07w1253.jpg11Stockport07w1253The iconic Stockport Pyramidhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11stockport06w1251.jpg11Stockport06w1251Stockport Beach .... under the M60https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11stockport05w1244.jpg11Stockport05w1244Sunset over pond on Heaton Mersey Common https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11stockport04w1241.jpg11Stockport04w1241Colourful sign on the Trans Pennine Trail alongside the Mersey2011-03-03T23:31:19+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/02/27/the-car-as-a-vehicle-of-social-castration/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11birds03w3672.jpg11birds03w3672Zooming in https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11birds02w3673.jpg11birds02w3673Heron perched in the topmost twigs of a tree at the end of the gardenhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/27febstepsgraph.jpg27FebStepsgraphCopy of the pedometer graph. Note the increase in distance after 13 February when I lost the use of my bus pass2011-02-27T19:20:53+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/02/22/grey-economy-business-opportunity/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11stockport06w1227.jpg11Stockport06w1227Diversifying into iron railingshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11stockport05w1222.jpg11Stockport05w1222https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11stockport04w1220.jpg11Stockport04w12202011-02-22T15:06:54+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/02/18/back-to-my-origins/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11stockport04w1204.jpg11Stockport04w1204The aliens are watching!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11stockport05w1201.jpg11Stockport05w1201The wise man built his church upon the rockhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11stockport03w1218.jpg11Stockport03w1218I bet they didn't get those shelf brackets from B&Qhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11stockport02w1214.jpg11Stockport02w1214Wary heron keeping a watchful eyehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11stockport01w1217.jpg11Stockport01w1217Moorhen on the pond on Heaton Mersey Common2011-02-18T23:31:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/02/13/grey-uncertainty-chaos-but-put-in-perpsective/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11birds01w1186.jpg11birds01w1186Geese on a missionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11plants01w1180.jpg11plants01w1180Amazing brightnesshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11newfire04w1196.jpg11newfire04w1196Ever shifting arthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11newfire03w1190.jpg11newfire03w1190Put back togetherhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11newfire02w1183.jpg11newfire02w1183This is just the rubble that came into the house ... far more in the garagehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11newfire01w1179.jpg11newfire01w1179This was what was behind the old gas fire2011-02-14T20:29:00+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/02/03/the-grey-cliffs-of-sussex-or-3-grey-days-and-2-sunsets/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11sussex03w35271.jpg11Sussex03w3527Maybe if we give this a push ....https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11sussex23w11701.jpg11Sussex23w1170Reflected treehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11sussex23w1170.jpg11Sussex23w1170https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11sussex19w1173.jpg11Sussex19w1173Self portraithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11sussex18w1174.jpg11Sussex18w1174Raindrops on car roofhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11sussex20w1159.jpg11Sussex20w1159On reflectionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11sussex21w1157.jpg11Sussex21w1157Sensously rolling Downhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11sussex14w1154.jpg11Sussex14w1154The vivid colour finally starts to mellowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11sussex10w1146.jpg11Sussex10w1146... and closer uphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11sussex09w1144.jpg11Sussex09w1144The sun sinks behind horizon cloud2017-07-01T21:05:02+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/30/recipes-and-the-connexion-between-garlic-and-paragliding/2011-01-30T00:22:25+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/26/grey-and-grumpy/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10sky05w-1120.jpg10sky05w-1120Where did I go?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10sky04w-1120.jpg10sky04w-1120Grey and gloomy2011-01-26T10:58:31+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/21/and-what-about-grey-britain/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10sky02w-1111.jpg10sky02w-1111https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10sky01w-1107.jpg10sky01w-1107Plane out of control?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10sky03w-1117.jpg10sky03w-1117Vapour trail cuts across the bluehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10sunrise05w-1114.jpg10Sunrise05w-1114Sun bursting over the ridge, vapour trail straight as a diehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10sunrise04w-1106.jpg10Sunrise04w-1106The sun peeps between the roofs on the ridge top2011-01-21T11:04:16+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/16/back-to-grey-britain-and-a-new-direction-for-air-travel-research/2011-01-16T21:25:19+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/15/rocky-mountain-winter-trails/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada99821w1102.jpg10Canada99821w1102By the time I got back to the apartment the icicles were right across my mouthhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9981w1089.jpg10Canada9981w1089Jagged edge of Mount Rundlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9980w1083.jpg10Canada9980w1083Icing-up againhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9979w10781.jpg10Canada9979w1078Sunlit mountains reflected in still-water pools.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9979w1078.jpg10Canada9979w1078https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9978ow073.jpg10Canada9978ow073Magnificent landscapeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9977w1070.jpg10Canada9977w1070Narrow open channels in the river icehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9975w1065.jpg10Canada9975w1065Long shadows on frozen riverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9976w1066.jpg10Canada9976w1066Hoarfrost on my beardhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9974w1062.jpg10Canada9974w1062Hoarfrost on bushes2011-01-15T15:24:11+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/13/banff-and-the-bow-valley-wildlife-on-the-doorstep-walking-on-the-wild-side-and-getting-it-wrong/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9966w09941.jpg10Canada9966w0994Ice on the beard - it was very coldhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9970w1037.jpg10Canada9970w1037Close up of the Hoodooshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9969w1035.jpg10Canada9969w1035Hoodoos seen from the ridge against the background of the Bow Valley far belowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9968w1002.jpg10Canada9968w1002Deer/elk tracks lead through a clearing in the forest on the ridge, Cascade Mountain in the backgroundhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9965w0992.jpg10Canada9965w0992The trail opens outhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9963w0985.jpg10Canada9963w0985Ermine tracks emerging from hole in the snowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9964w0986.jpg10Canada9964w0986Some of the many unidentified trackshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9967w0997.jpg10Canada9967w0997Coyote prints on the trailhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9960w0967.jpg10Canada9960w0967Gnarly tree, frozen river, Mount Rundlehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9966w0994.jpg10Canada9966w09942014-05-14T02:35:23+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/11/banff-wildlife-on-the-doorstep/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9954w3507.jpg10Canada9954w3507Ripping chunks out of the barkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9953w3503.jpg10Canada9953w3503Hanging around https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9952w0945.jpg10Canada9952w0945Russet patch on its head clearly visiblehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9951w0944.jpg10Canada9951w0944First sighting of Hairy Woodpecker2011-01-11T06:39:43+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/10/art-nature-pushing-the-limits-and-knowing-when-to-stop/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9948w0919.jpg10Canada9948w0919Heart-warmingly random art in the middle of nowherehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9950w0925.jpg10Canada9950w0925Tensioned ice cleared of snow by the strong windhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9949w0924.jpg10Canada9949w0924Across a bend at a narrow part of the braided riverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9947w0913.jpg10Canada9947w0913Walking through the forest not knowing what else is doing sohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9946w0901.jpg10Canada9946w0901Looking across the river to Rundle Mountain with Aspens light against the coniferous foresthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9945w0898.jpg10Canada9945w0898Colour and pattern in the stump of a gnarled, dead Douglas Firhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9944w0896.jpg10Canada9944w0896..... all shapes and sizeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9943w0893.jpg10Canada9943w0893Fascinating shapes in the ice on the river rapidshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9941w0882.jpg10Canada9941w0882Mount Rundle framed by the gazebohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9940w0881.jpg10Canada9940w0881Clearing the snow from the skating track2011-01-10T11:25:49+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/08/what-do-you-do-in-a-ski-town-when-you%e2%80%99re-not-skiing/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9936w0874.jpg10Canada9936w0874Gothic opulence of the Banff Springs Hotelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9935w0871.jpg10Canada9935w0871It is so cold that the sap freezes as it seeps from a damaged treehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9934w0863.jpg10Canada9934w0863A balmy -3 degrees and the ice begins to crack as the rapids continue to run underneathhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9933w0856.jpg10Canada9933w0856Sometimes you get to feel that you are being watched.2011-01-08T07:53:41+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/06/white-out-wipe-out-black-monday/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9932w0852.jpg10Canada9932w0852Trees blasted by the snow-cannon and, ironically, the Ski patrol and First Aid Posthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9931w0850.jpg10Canada9931w0850.... and, apprehensive and grim-faced, I was there toohttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9930w0848.jpg10Canada9930w0848Ruth and Tim looking comfortable and composedhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9929w0843.jpg10Canada9929w0843Just below The Top of the Worldhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9928w0841.jpg10Canada9928w0841At the top of 'Wiwaxy', the training and warm-up run.2011-01-10T13:21:10+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/05/rocky-mountain-sunshine/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9927w0820.jpg10Canada9927w0820Seen from the Tunnel Mountain, Cascade Mountain which is the backdrop at the end of Banff's main streethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9926w0837.jpg10Canada9926w0837The sun picking out ridges on the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9925w0826.jpg10Canada9925w0826Last glimpse of the setting sun through the treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9924w0822.jpg10Canada9924w0822The top of the mountain can be a windy and gnarly placehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9923w0814.jpg10Canada9923w0814Some trees are deformed in sappling-hood by other trees falling across them and they retain the shapes throughout the rest of their liveshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9922w0813.jpg10Canada9922w0813High mountains mean the sun sets mid-afternoon.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9921w0812.jpg10Canada9921w0812Mount Rundle, the Bow River Valley and the mountains beyondhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9920w0805.jpg10Canada9920w0805..... and looking up the trail as the trees thin out.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9919w0804.jpg10Canada9919w0804Looking back down the trail in bright sunshine. Note the dying trees, the work of Pine Bark Beetle2011-01-05T16:54:41+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/04/another-frozen-rocky-mountain-canyon/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9913w0798.jpg10Canada9913w0798The mouth of the canyon and the peak behind now both lit up with the sun at its zenithhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9917w0795.jpg10Canada9917w0795Emerging from the mouth of the canyon into the sunshinehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9916w0789.jpg10Canada9916w0789Walking into the sunlighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9915w0776.jpg10Canada9915w0776Climbers playing on the icefall in the headwall of the canyonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9914w0779.jpg10Canada9914w0779Having hot chocolate at the confluence of the frozen rivershttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9909w0762.jpg10Canada9909w0762Approaching the headwall of the canyonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9912w0765.jpg10Canada9912w0765One of the ochre-painted Hopi Indian pictographshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9911w0766.jpg10Canada9911w0766Narrow gap between towering cliffs completely filled with sheet icehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9918w0752.jpg10Canada9918w0752Smooth as glass and very blue.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9908w0748.jpg10Canada9908w0748Heading up the glassy, rippling surface of the frozen river into the canyon2011-01-04T23:36:26+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/02/banff-and-a-rocky-mountain-winter/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9903w0719.jpg10Canada9903w0719Zooming in on the town bridge and the frozen riverhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada98w0702.jpg10Canada98w0702Looking over Banff upriver https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9901w0711.jpg10Canada9901w0711View of the impressive Mount Rundle through the trees near the top of Tunnel Mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada97w0691.jpg10Canada97w0691Zooming in on the floor of the Bow River Valley ..... Haven't found out what this is yethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada95w0693.jpg10Canada95w0693Mount Rundle and the floor of the Bow River Valleyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada99w0705.jpg10Canada99w0705Snow laden trees, attractive even under the cloudhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9905w0730.jpg10Canada9905w0730...... provides a home for a woodpeckerhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada9904w0729.jpg10Canada9904w0729Dead tree at the edge of the trailhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada96w0701.jpg10Canada96w0701On the top of the mountain some trees become gnarledhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada94w0688.jpg10Canada94w0688Broken stumps of dead trees add a splash of colour2011-01-08T14:13:28+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2011/01/01/it%e2%80%99s-cold-outside/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada85w0651.jpg10Canada85w0651'Chocolate Mountain' corner Downtown Banffhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada89w0652.jpg10Canada89w0652A brief respite on the pistehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/10canada88w0656.jpg10Canada88w0656Ice formed on my new neoprene face mask after just 45 minutes skiing.2011-01-01T17:27:42+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/29/more-impressions-of-banff/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada84w0636.jpg10Canada84w0636Gathering around the fire for a chathttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada83w0640.jpg10Canada83w0640The Waldhaus ice rink at Banff: locals out enjoying themselveshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada82w0627.jpg10Canada82w0627Increased surface water flow through the ice on Bow River Fallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada81w0630.jpg10Canada81w0630River flow drops below the original level at which it froze https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada80w0633.jpg10Canada80w0633Snow cover gone, thew fragility of the ice exposed below Bow River Falls2010-12-29T07:30:14+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/28/frozen-north-ps/2010-12-28T23:50:09+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/28/frozen-north/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada74w0611.jpg10Canada74w0611Detail of the top lip of the Upper Fallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada73w0610.jpg10Canada73w0610The 100 foot high Upper Fallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada72w0608.jpg10Canada72w0608The intense blue of an ice-fallhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada71w0604.jpg10Canada71w0604Looking upriver to the Twin Poolshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada69w0595.jpg10Canada69w0595Steel walkway clings to the sides of the narrow sections of the canyonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada68w0592.jpg10Canada68w0592Close-up of the frozen fallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada66w0587.jpg10Canada66w0587The Lower Falls, frozen but the water keeps flowinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada63w0579.jpg10Canada63w0579With Ruth in the Canyon2010-12-28T18:31:31+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/27/alternative-christmas/2011-01-06T06:55:41+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/25/the-run-up-to-christmas-in-the-canadian-rockies/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada58w05591.jpg10Canada58w0559Waiting for the bus back to Banff, a truly amazing skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada58w0559.jpg10Canada58w0559Waiting for the bus back to Banff, a truly amazing sky https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/img_0560.jpgIMG_0560Waiting for the bus to go back to Banff, a truly amazing skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada57w0555.jpg10Canada57w0555View from Eagle Meadows just before the run drops sharplyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada56w0551.jpg10Canada56w0551The river continues to freeze overhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada53w0548.jpg10Canada53w0548Long shadows at noonhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada55w0530.jpg10Canada55w0530Looking downriver below the falls as it bends sharplyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada54w0531.jpg10Canada54w0531Looking up to the frozen fallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada52w0544.jpg10Canada52w0544The frozen fallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada51w0522.jpg10Canada51w0522Looking down from the top of the Bow River Falls2010-12-25T07:29:10+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/24/taken-for-granted/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada47w0507.jpg10Canada47w0507Trees cocooned in snow from the snow-blower alongside.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada46w0503.jpg10Canada46w0503Reindeer sculpted from ice overlooking the main pistehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada45w0500.jpg10Canada45w0500One of the crossings built to allow migration of wild animals https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada44w0499.jpg10Canada44w0499Round a bend and yet another range of peaks appearshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada43w0498.jpg10Canada43w0498Passing Castle Mountain, one of the more dramatic of the many dramatic peakshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada42w0494.jpg10Canada42w0494View of the Trans-Canada Highway through the coach windscreen2010-12-24T01:47:34+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/22/rocky-mountain-blues/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada41w0493.jpg10Canada41w0493Looking up the main piste to the Lodge, the run-out from many of the pistes back to basehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada40w0491.jpg10Canada40w0491Looking across form the Lodge to the 'Bunny Hill'. The white trees in the middle ground are covered in 'snow' from the snow blowing machines2010-12-22T07:07:06+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/21/rocky-mountain-rivers-rocky-mountain-peaks/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada38w0487.jpg10Canada38w0487Just a high-level minor ridge used for powder-skiinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada37w0484.jpg10Canada37w0484Looking across to the Continental Dividehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada36w0480.jpg10Canada36w0480Very bleak and windswept on the ridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada39w0473.jpg10Canada39w0473The top of another piste, close to the top of the world, and the boundary stone between Alberta and British Columbiahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada35w0469.jpg10Canada35w0469Looking down the piste to the drop-off pointhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada34w0465.jpg10Canada34w0465Looking across from the piste to a ridge covered in trees heavily laden with snow.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada33w3463.jpg10Canada33w3463At the confluence of the Rivers Bow and Spray is an ice-hockey rink where locals play informally, sledge on the bank, and sit around an open log fire to keep warm and chew the fathttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada30w3456.jpg10Canada30w3456Just below the falls the river bends at right-angleshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada32w3467.jpg10Canada32w3467Looking back up the river to the frozen fallshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada28w0463.jpg10Canada28w0463The ice piling up and contorting as the river level drops2010-12-21T06:33:14+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/19/rocky-mountain-phenomena/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada26w0448.jpg10Canada26w0448Just mind-blowing phenomenahttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada25w0443.jpg10Canada25w0443The sun strikes the ice crytalshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada24w0435.jpg10Canada24w0435The sun striking through ice crystalshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada23w0428.jpg10Canada23w0428Father and daughter on the pistehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada22w0427.jpg10Canada22w0427On the edge of the pistehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada20w0422.jpg10Canada20w0422Zooming in on the ski lodgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada19w0421.jpg10Canada19w0421Looking down the bottom part of the piste to the ski lodgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada21w0424.jpg10Canada21w0424Snow blowing equipment operating along the edge of the main pistehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada18w0418.jpg10Canada18w0418Looking up the main piste-approach to the Lake Louise Ski Lodge 2010-12-19T21:03:39+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/18/images-of-banff/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada17w0410.jpg10Canada17w0410Looking down Banff Avenue from the river bridgehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada16w0408.jpg10Canada16w0408Banff Springs Hotel by moonlighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada12w0409.jpg10Canada12w0409Frozen River Bow by moonlighthttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada15w0396.jpg10Canada15w0396Late afternoon sun on panorama of Rocky mountain peaks from the terrace of Banff Springs Hotelhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada14w03951.jpg10Canada14w0395View from the terrace https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada14w0395.jpg10Canada14w0395https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada13w3417.jpg10Canada13w3417.... and from another anglehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada09w0385.jpg10Canada09w0385Why can't all Safeway supermarkets look like this?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada11w0386.jpg10Canada11w0386Crossing the nearly frozen and snow covered River Bowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada08w0381.jpg10Canada08w0381I think this is brilliant: the children hold onto a rope to keep them in order2010-12-18T05:40:38+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/16/falling-down/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada05w0374.jpg10Canada05w0374Looking down the final section of the long run to the ski lodge2010-12-17T04:47:45+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/15/screaming-legs/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada04w0362.jpg10Canada04w0362Massed ranks of tall pine trees covered in snowhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada03w0355.jpg10Canada03w0355 A glimpse of blue skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada02w0350.jpg10Canada02w0350... the sun picking out some of the upper slopeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10canada01w0348.jpg10Canada01w0348The clouds opened at the end of the day 2010-12-16T12:28:44+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/14/the-longest-day/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10heathrow1w0343.jpg10Heathrow1w0343Hanging around Departures at Heathrow Terminal 5 - four stories up2010-12-14T06:03:31+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/08/a-winter%e2%80%99s-tale/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10winter4w-3380.jpg10Winter4w - 3380Detail of hoarfrost on beech leafhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10winter3w-0329.jpg10Winter3w - 0329Spiders stand little chance of catching foodhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010garden11w3394.jpg2010garden11w3394Birds huddle up against the coldhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010garden10w3401.jpg2010garden10w3401Looking North from the balconyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010garden14w-3399.jpg2010garden14w - 3399Looking South from the balconyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010garden13w3386.jpg2010garden13w3386https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010garden12w3389.jpg2010garden12w3389https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10winter5w-3375.jpg10Winter5w - 3375https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10garnwen06w-0279.jpg10GarnWen06w - 0279................. and looking straight up.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10garnwen01w-3359.jpg10GarnWen01w - 3359Looking North from the top of Garn Wen2010-12-10T14:35:13+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/12/03/tripping-on-speed/2010-12-03T01:51:50+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/11/27/images-of-an-early-winter/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10pontypool01w0267.jpg10Pontypool01w0267Just a nice compositionhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10folly09w0265.jpg10Folly09w0265Farmers having to start winter feeding of the sheep very earlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10folly08w0264.jpg10Folly08w0264Snow drifting through the hedge in the strong windhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10folly07w0257.jpg10Folly07w0257Holly tree just below The Follyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10folly05w02501.jpg10Folly05w0250If I was at home for Christmas I would be collecting holly in a couple of weeks time https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10folly05w0250.jpg10Folly05w0250https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10folly06w02532.jpg10Folly06w0253The scenic route to the supermarkethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10bluehouse15w02411.jpg10BlueHouse15w0241First thing Saturday morninghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10folly06w0253.jpg10Folly06w0253The scenic route to the suopermarkethttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10bluehouse15w0241.jpg10BlueHouse15w0241First thing Saturday morning2010-11-29T10:22:57+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/11/25/acceleration-speed-time/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010garden04w0226.jpg2010garden04w0226A little bit of tongue-in-cheek creativity in the middle of the Autumn tidying, my old sculpture 'Bicycle Fork'https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10bluehouse12w0221.jpg10BlueHouse12w0221.... and massed Agaveshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10bluehouse11w0223.jpg10BlueHouse11w0223Massed Aeoniums in the Blue Househttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10pontypark06w0218.jpg10PontyPark06w0218Autumn rushes into Winter2010-11-29T08:31:43+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/11/18/room-at-the-top-but-none-on-the-bus/2010-11-19T10:31:34+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/11/14/incentives-and-distractions-2/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10garnwensunset11w-0206.jpg10GarnWensunset11w-0206By the time I left the top of the mountain it was darkhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10garnwensunset09w-0203.jpg10GarnWensunset09w-0203... closer stillhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10garnwensunset10w-0202.jpg10GarnWensunset10w-0202Closer lookhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10garnwensunset08w-01971.jpg10GarnWensunset08w-0197https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10garnwensunset08w-0197.jpg10GarnWensunset08w-0197Back to the West the colour gets even more vividhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10garnwensunset07w-0196.jpg10GarnWensunset07w-0196 .... in fact bands of cloud lit up in every part of the skyhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10garnwensunset06w-0193.jpg10GarnWensunset06w-0193.... and to the Westhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10garnwensunset05w-0192.jpg10GarnWensunset05w-0192Affecting the sky to the Northhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10garnwensunset04w-0190.jpg10GarnWensunset04w-0190Close-up of the cloud bandshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10garnwensunset03w-0187.jpg10GarnWensunset03w-0187Starting to inflame the underside of the narrow bands of cloud2010-11-14T23:14:53+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/11/10/chocolate-teapots/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010mouse06w01732.jpg2010mouse06w0173Fatal flaw in the design - the mouse ate its way out of the end of the trap.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010mouse06w01731.jpg2010mouse06w0173Fatal flaw in the design - the mouse ate its way out of the end of the trap.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010mouse06w0173.jpg2010mouse06w0173Fatal flaw in the design - the mouse ate its way out of the end of the trap.2010-11-10T10:53:01+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/11/09/incentives-and-distractions/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010mouse05w0170.jpg2010mouse05w0170Setting the trap: note the wire coat-hanger reinforcing the walls of the trap - our super-mice eat their way out. And one last chance for the cat. https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010mouse03w0159.jpg2010mouse03w0159Keeping one eye on the problem but to no availhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010garden02w3338.jpg2010garden02w3338Dripping washing-line spinning in the breeze https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010garden03w3336.jpg2010garden03w3336Douglas Fir at the end of the garden dripping with waterhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010mouse02w0160.jpg2010mouse02w0160Taking a longer perspectivehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010mouse04w0157.jpg2010mouse04w0157The view of the roof when I stuck my head through the hatchhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010mouse01w0167.jpg2010mouse01w0167On the case, Trapper Hankey2010-11-10T22:56:09+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/11/06/positive-temporal-discontinuity/2010-11-09T10:27:34+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/11/03/rift-in-the-spacetime-continuum/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010-garden01w-01512.jpg2010-garden01w-0151Scarcely able to move in the cold, this poor lizard is definitely in the wrong place.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010platt1w01092.jpg2010Platt1w0109.......... there are characters from Dr Who around. DON'T BLINK!!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010platt3w00932.jpg2010Platt3w0093Platt Church. But you can never be sure when ...........https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010platt2w00992.jpg2010Platt2w0099Is this rural Cambridgeshire? Or a park in South Manchester?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10folly04w01373.jpg10Folly04w0137Is this the rift in the space/time continuum? Or just a glorious sunset?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010-garden01w-01511.jpg2010-garden01w-0151Scarcely able to move in the cold, this poor lizard is definitely in the wrong place.https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010platt1w01091.jpg2010Platt1w0109.......... there are characters from Dr Who around. DON'T BLINK!!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010platt3w00931.jpg2010Platt3w0093Platt Church. But you can never be sure when ...........https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010platt2w00991.jpg2010Platt2w0099Is this rural Cambridgeshire? Or a park in South Manchester?https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/10folly04w01372.jpg10Folly04w0137Is this the rift in the space/time continuum? Or just a glorious sunset?2010-11-03T11:41:32+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/10/28/remembering/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/2010-28october3w-0123.jpg2010-28October3w-0123https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/2010-28october4w-0119.jpg2010-28October4w-01192010-10-28T22:02:29+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/10/28/reaping-the-fruits-paying-the-price/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/05-end-of-an-era-w2.jpg05 end of an era wThe sky on the day I finished work to be with Enfyshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/05-end-of-an-era-w1.jpg05 end of an era wThe sky on the day I left work to be with Enfyshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/05-end-of-an-era-w.jpg05 end of an era wThe day I left work to be with Enfys2010-10-28T11:07:53+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/10/18/golden-days-and-autumn-rambling/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10folly02w0055.jpg10Folly02w0055Dramatic prism effect in the cirrushttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10folly01w0056.jpg10Folly01w0056Low sun on cirrus cloudhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10folly03w0038.jpg10Folly03w0038Holly berries add dazzling red https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10pontypark01w0011.jpg10PontyPark01w0011The bowling greenhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10pontypark05w0016.jpg10PontyPark05w0016Leaves collecting under the treeshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10pontypark03w0017.jpg10PontyPark03w0017The bandstandhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10pontypark04w0006.jpg10PontyPark04w0006The Park Gates, now controversially painted green not black and goldhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10pontypark02w0021.jpg10PontyPark02w0021Home of the once famous Pontypool Rugby Club in its parkland settinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10sunrise03w3295.jpg10Sunrise03w3295...... and clearing ithttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10sunrise02w3287.jpg10Sunrise02w3287Sun just peeping above the ridge2010-10-23T19:23:20+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/10/23/taking-a-cold-bath/2010-10-23T17:41:55+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/10/20/keeping-plants-can-be-dangerous/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10bluehouse08w0083.jpg10BlueHouse08w0083The one that did the damagehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10bluehouse04w0071.jpg10BlueHouse04w0071https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10bluehouse03w0075.jpg10BlueHouse03w0075even more ouch!!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10bluehouse05w0070.jpg10BlueHouse05w0070https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10bluehouse06w0080.jpg10BlueHouse06w0080ouch!https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10bluehouse02w0069.jpg10BlueHouse02w0069Blue agave, planted in rubble and doubled in size in 2 yearshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10bluehouse01w0066.jpg10BlueHouse01w0066Agave Arizonica, 5 feet high and 6 feet across having smashed its way out of pot https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10bluehouse10w0088.jpg10BlueHouse10w00888 foot tall, 2 inch spineshttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10bluehouse09w0084.jpg10BlueHouse09w0084Still small but fattening uphttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10bluehouse07w0081.jpg10BlueHouse07w0081Doubled in size in 6 months2010-10-20T23:24:01+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/10/09/test/https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10gwent002w32801.jpg10Gwent002w3280Damage to the mountain by illegal motorcyclinghttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10gwent003w3281.jpg10Gwent003w3281Rutted track on the top of the mountainhttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10gwent002w3280.jpg10Gwent002w3280https://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10gwent001w32791.jpg10Gwent001w3279Believe it or not but there is a mountain up therehttps://barrysramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10gwent001w3279.jpg10Gwent001w3279Believe it or not but there is a mountain up there2010-10-18T14:57:21+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/2010/10/15/we-are-at-the-dawn-of-a-new-era-if-only/2010-10-18T14:54:41+00:00monthlyhttps://barrysramblings.com/about/2024-06-08T17:15:05+00:00weekly0.6https://barrysramblings.comdaily1.02026-01-12T18:25:08+00:00