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CRETE Friday 18.4.2008 Hania and Therisso Gorge |
We visited Hania, the old Venetian town, museums, markets and mosque in the morning and had lunch at a taverna on the sea front.
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 Lighthouse |
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Mathiola tricuspidata |
 Electric cables are always on show |
 Covered market |
 Alley |
 There were many photogenic doors |
 another one |
 The Cretans grow the best roses I have ever seen; these were on a café table |
 Another alley |
 Washing and a cat |
 Yet another alley |
 Cymbalaria muralis |
 Mosque |
 Hania Sea front Panorama - better than the last one. but you can still see the joins! |
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 Mosque again |
 Dilapidation |
 Horse and cart |
| More pictures of Hania/Chania at http://fands.org.uk/1.FANDSCrete-in-Autumn-3.htm | ||
 Art |
After an early lunch we went to Therisso Gorge. The light levels were sometimes quite low. |
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 Legousia pentagonia
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 southern form of Speckled Wood |
 Rosularia serrata |
 Prasium majus |
 Euphorbia dendroides |
 Umbilicus parviflorus
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 Trifolium |
 Coronilla globosa |
 Iron stained rock |
 Dracuncularis vulgaris |
 Arum concinnatum |
 Paeonia clusii |
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We found one rather tatty peony on a steep shady hill side: everyone scrambled up and was very glad to see it. However we were even more delighted to find a superior clump on Sunday. |
 Patio evening |
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