Magnolia

Μαγνόλια στη γειτονιά των Βριλησσίων, Φεβρουάριος 2018

Sugar magnolia - Grateful Dead

Gatlinburg

Gatlinburg, Tennessee, λουλούδια παραποτάμια. Αύγουστος 2017.

Μοσχάτο Τυρνάβου

Ένα όχι πολύ γνωστό, αλλά έξοχο θεσσαλικό ροζέ.

Rikubetsu Symposium

Rikubetsu, Hokkaido (Japan): at the symposion of the 20th Anniversary Symposium of Rikubetsu Observatory with colleagues and friends

Drinking beer with Tsutomu Nagatsuma from the Space Environment Laboratory of the National Institute for Information and Communications Technology.

Drinking sake with Kazuo Shiokawa from the Center for International Collaborative Research of ISEE/Nagoya University.

With Yohsuke Kamide, Director of the Rikubetsu Space and Earth Science Museum, Professor Emeritus of Nagoya University and former Director of STELab.

With Hiroyuki Tsuda, photographer of the Hokkaido red aurora

Yohsuke Kamide addresses the symposiasts

Kazuo Shiokawa addresses the symposiasts

The (excellent) sake of the symposion

Sashimi and beef for the sake

Kids in Dharamshala

Kids in Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh, India)

Καλή Σαρακοστή!

Σαρακοστιανοί γίγαντες Ελλάδος σε σουπερμάρκετ του Canmore (Alberta, Καναδάς)

Remembering our dead

Remembering our dead

Ψυχοσάββατο, μνήμη των νεκρών αγαπημένων μας

Αλεξάνδρου

Αθανασίου

Ανδρονίκης

Άννας

Κωστή

Nagasaki izakaya

"Classic" Japanese dinner at the izakaya Syukora in Nagasaki, November 2017

Mainly sashimi ...

 

 ... and live crayfish

 

 

Indeed live!

 

Video 1 (https://youtu.be/ailE2S8uJBM)

 

Video 2 (https://youtu.be/Pr8EKoTiyEU)

plus excellent sake

 

Video 3 (https://youtu.be/Jrg0fC95xB8)

Shey Palace

Visiting Shey Palace and Shey Monastery near Leh, Ladakh. July 2016.

Prayer wheels

Long, long time ago ...

36 χρόνια πριν, στα Κύργια Δράμας ... Ντίνα, Όλγα, Λίτσα, Βενέτης, Δημήτρης, Νίκος, Φύλλης

Manholes with style in Japan

Manholes with style in Japan: Nagasaki (Kyushu)

Himeji (Honshu)

Arashiyama, Kyoto (Honshu)

Matsumoto (Honshu)

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Matsumoto desu

Video: 
Announcement of the station name in style: "Matsumoto desu"! Only in Matsumoto!

My long-time favourite: Matsumoto-jo, the "Crow Castle", one of only five castles of Japan designated as National Treasure.

in the middle of nowhere ...

"Watch for pedestrians on highway" ??? 

In the middle of nowhere ... close to provincial highway 22 of Alberta, Canada

Καλό μήνα!

Καλό και ειρηνικό μήνα!

Vajra και κουδούνι στο βουδιστικό μοναστήρι του Χέμις