Winter in Greece

 Fellow Medit-Planters,

 Merry Christmas to you all: this is my last day at work, so I'll be offline
 over the holiday period. Hopefully (i.e. if there are no air-traffic
 problems) I'll be spending a week in SE Greece, seeing for the first time
 what the Mediterranean looks like in mid-winter. I'm staying with some
 friends who had a house built on a terraced, olived hillside plot out in the
 countryside near Nafplio in the Peloponnisos. The electricity is not yet
 connected, so things will be at most candle-lit at night, and the bulk of
 the local toad population (Bufo viridis, for herpetologically minded) now
 lives in the water cistern beneath the house. Still, I suppose it means it
 (was) nice water. Seriously, though, I'm hoping to find some of the more
 ephemeral annuals and bulbs, etc. that are normally shrivelled away by the
 spring. When my friends built the house, you just wouldn't believe the size
 and number of Cyclamen graecum tubers the builders dug out! I think most
 that were not too mortally wounded were repatriated into the Greek soil.

 Nick.

 Nick Turland,
 Department of Botany,
 The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
 Tel.: 44 (0)171 938 8803  Fax: 44 (0)171 938 9260
 Email: nt@nhm.ac.uk
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