Prespa birds

Ther pelikans breed at Prespa but they come to feed at the lake of Kastoria. One can watch them from the lakeside cafes!

 

Woodland Shrike, Rotkopfwürger

hunting Sqacco Heron, Rallenreiher

Reed Bunting, Rohrammer

Magpie, Elster

Night Herons, Nachtreiher

 

Crested Grebe and youngs, Haubentaucher

Little White Egret, Seidenreiher

Zwergscharbe, Pygmy Cormorant

Red-backed Shrike, Rotrückenwürger

Bee-eater, Bienenfresser

Lake Prespa 2014: The restaurant at Mikrolimni and the festival at Ag. Triada

After two years we have come back to Prespa to visit our dear friend Artemis. Meanwhile her daughter and her husband have moved here from Athens where they left behind careers in the TV business. The food they offer and the warm hospitality make this a very special place! Not to speak of the natural beauty and peace the lanscape offers!

Artemis in the kitchen

from this terrace at the lake we saw bears come down to drink

 

The festival at Agia Triada near Pisotheri

the holy well

ladies preparing for the dance

holy bread

the band and the singer rehearsing with the dancers in the forest

the small lake of Prespa, Mikrolimni, and the peninsula of Agios Achilleos

Kiriakos

Zenia

Sfakia

 This is Chora Sfakion. A bunch of hotels and tavernas in the rocky wilderness of Skafia.

 The smell from this bakery woke us in the morning. The room was so small we could hardly move.

 

We had enough wonderful bread to keep us going through gorges for weeks, but the weather suddenly changed and we could not go all the way through Aradena gorge. Still, what we saw was great!

Arádena Gorge

Kalderimi, steinige alte Wege

Rittersporn

eine duftende Wicke?

mark the taped left shoe!

junge Wechselkröte?

an Aristolochia species

Mohn und Rittersporn

wild onion or garlic?

Pigeon chasing Kestrel

Felsenschwalbe, Crag Martin, Ptyonoprogne rupestris

Gyps fulvus, Gänsegeier

Schwarzkehlchen

Bussard