On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:56:26 +0000, K wrote:

Stephen Wolstenholme writes
I went to Kalymnos when I was younger and did a lot of walking around
the forest and getting lost.

Are you sure that was Kalymnos? Kalymnos has very few large trees and
certainly nothing which could be described as a forest.

I remember the unusual oak trees which I think are the sawtooth oak.
The leaves match your description. I remember thinking they were so
different to the oak trees in England.

This was one solitary tree. I haven't seen any others on the island. It
was in the Vathy valley, which has a number of mature plane trees. But
this tree was a long way from those. Otherwise all the trees in the
valley were the various fruit trees, with a few pistacia.


I phoned an old friend who was there with me. She thinks the trees
were on Patmos. It was about 45 years ago I may be a bit mixed up with
the other islands. I'm not so sure that it was Patmos and now I'm not
sure about Kalymnos either. There was a valley with a spring which
supplied a citrus plantation. I'm being a bit generous with the term
"forest" but there were lots of trees.

Steve

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