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Old Crank

(3,569 posts) Mon May 23, 2022, 08:26 AM May 2022

Daily Distraction 23/05/2022

This set is a few from our bike and hike to teh Acropolis of Polirrinia out side of Kissamos.
There are Roman ruins all over it, walls, cisterns, and some building bits.

Cave house

View from the top

Some of the fortifications

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Daily Distraction 23/05/2022 (Original Post) Old Crank May 2022 OP

Very interesting, Old Crank. brer cat May 2022 #1

Looks like a tough place to move around in! CaliforniaPeggy May 2022 #2

Most of the farming is olive trees Old Crank May 2022 #3

brer cat

(24,559 posts)

1. Very interesting, Old Crank.

Reply to Old Crank (Original post)

Mon May 23, 2022, 08:34 AM

May 2022

It is beautiful to see flowers spreading over the ruins.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,587 posts)

2. Looks like a tough place to move around in!

Reply to Old Crank (Original post)

Mon May 23, 2022, 10:15 AM

May 2022

Love the way the flowers cover so much of it with their vining and leafy growth.

Thanks for sharing!

Old Crank

(3,569 posts)

3. Most of the farming is olive trees

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #2)

Mon May 23, 2022, 11:37 AM

May 2022

They can grow of hillsides. Goats and sheep can forage where the trees are unharvistable or won't grow productivity. There isn't much flat area. What there is seems to be cultivated intensely. Roads are narrow and winding.

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