Mount Penteli

A trip to "snow-white" Mount Penteli. February 28, 2012.

Athens in snow 2012

Well ... not exactly Athens, but its northern suburbs "in snow"; picture from Mount Penteli, today.

Rotenburo Psoroneria

Open-air hot spring (rotenburo) "Psoroneria" near the town of Lamia, Greece. February 2011.

Carnival 1971

Carnival, four decades ago ... with my brothers.

Athens Snow 2008 II

Four years ago, snow in the roads of Vrilissia, Athens.

Athens Snow 2008

The dome of the Penteli telescope of the National Observatory of Athens, with Mount Penteli covered by snow, winter 2008.

Strasbourg II

The Petite-France neighborhood in Strasbourg.

Strasbourg

Concert in the St. Thomas church of Strasbourg, with the 1741 Silbermann organ, played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1778 ...

... and the Old Customs House (L'ancienne Douane - now a brasserie)

ISU Strasbourg

At the International Space University in Strasbourg (France).

South Kaibab trailhead

Trailhead of South Kaibab Trail, Grand Canyon, August 2009.

Grand Canyon Deer

Grand Canyon Deer, July 2009 / © A. Stavridou

Girl and doggie

Good company!

Golden Gate Bridge

Passing the Golden Gate Bridge outbound, August 2009.

Small torii at Inari-yama

Small torri on family shrines of Inari-yama, southwest of Kyoto (Japan), Oct2007 / © I.A. Daglis

Torii at Inari-yama

Fushimi Inari temple complex: Innumerous, omnipresent, bright vermilion torii ... Kyoto, October 2007

Inari-yama, Kyoto

Mysterious pond of the Inari-yama hill southwest of Kyoto (Japan), where the Fushimi Inari shrine complex is located.

Family shrines ..

.. are numerous (tens of thousands).

Tonkatsu

My son Alexandros savoring a tonkatsu lunch in Himeji, Japan, Oct2007.

Garden secret

A small "secret" in a garden in Himeji, Japan...

Jimmy and the pet

Ο Δημήτρης με το κατοικίδιό μας ...

Samurai castle

Himeji-jo, the White Egret castle. October 2007.

Himeji-jo is the finest surviving example of early 17th-century Japanese castle architecture, comprising 83 buildings with highly developed systems of defence and ingenious protection devices dating from the beginning of the Shogun period. It is a masterpiece of construction in wood, combining function with aesthetic appeal, both in its elegant appearance unified by the white plastered earthen walls and in the subtlety of the relationships between the building masses and the multiple roof layers.

Φθιώτιδα

Παλιό αρχοντικό στη Γιαννιτσού Φθιώτιδας, Ιανουάριος 2011.

Βασίλης Ξανθόπουλος

Vasilis Xanthopoulos and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

8 Φεβρουαρίου 1982 - σαν σήμερα πριν από 30 χρόνια, ήμουν μαθητής του Λυκείου Δοξάτου - απόσπασμα ημερολογίου: 
Ομιλία Βασίλη Ξανθόπουλου στη Δράμα, την πατρίδα του, για τη Θεωρία της Σχετικότητας. Δύο σειρές από το Λύκειο Δοξάτου, πάρα πολύς κόσμος.
Οκτώ χρόνια αργότερα, το 1990, ο Βασίλης, ένας εξέχων Έλληνας επιστήμονας με τον οποίο συνεργαζόταν ο Νομπελίστας Τσαντρατσεκάρ, έπεφτε νεκρός, μόλις στα 39 του, από τις σφαίρες ενός Κρητικού φοιτητή που θεωρούσε ότι "είχε αδικηθεί" - μια από τις πιο διαδεδομένες νεοελληνικές κατάρες, σε ατομικό και συλλογικό επίπεδο, η αίσθηση ότι έχουμε μόνο δικαιώματα και ότι είμαστε μονίμως "ριγμένοι" και αδικημένοι.