RESORT IN NOVEMBER

LOUTRAKI, GREECE - NOVEMBER 2007

The conference was held at the conference facilities of the Poseidon Resort in Loutraki, Greece! A beach resort in November is definitely a nice location for a meeting. In particular when the weather helps...


"ROOM - Cosy inside"



"WEATHER - Raining cats and dogs was a great help for the Conference's attendance..."




"THE GULF OF CORINTH is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. The weather on the day of departure finally improved..."




"POSEIDON RESORT"



"OPEN AIR THEATRE"


"ROOM WITH A VIEW"


"FLAGS"


"QUIZ"


"ANSWER"


"CONFERENCE CENTRE"


"ROCKY BEACH"


"SANDY(?) BEACH"


"LIFEGUARD OFF DUTY"


"NORTHERN COAST of the Corinth Gulf"


"FAREWELL"

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Ingrid was kind enough to give me this award!



Thank you Ingrid!

BACK TO GREECE

ATHENS - NOVEMBER 2007

In November 2007, I was invited to participate in a Conference in Greece. A nice opportunity to get back to Athens!



"ATHENS VIA MADRID - During the flight from Madrid to Athens there are some wonderful views to be seen, weather permitting. The arrival to Athens (which houses mores than 40% of all residents in Greece) is always impressive, as it seems that you see only buildings around..."


"ROOM AT THE ATHENS HILTON"



"ACROPOLIS BY NIGHT - Visitors to this blog know that there is a problem with night shots. This time it's no exception... ;)"



"ACROPOLIS DAYTIME - The Acropolis and Philopappos hills impose themselves in the city centre. There were however too many cranes around, this time..."


"LYCABETUS HILL - At 277 meters above sea level, it's the highest point in Athens"



"ATHLETE"

[Update: After the comment from Tinsie I found everything about it. So, the Athlete is called "DROMEAS II" ("RUNNER II") and was created in 1994 by the Greek artist Costas Varotsos. It has also been called "Marathon Runner" or "Glass Runner". The statue is made of stacked plates of glass and is displayed near the Hilton Hotel, at the end of Vassilissis Sofias Avenue. Varotsos, who was born in Athens in 1955 and studied fine arts and architecture in Italy, works primarily in glass and steel.]



"BENAKI MUSEUM - One of the rich museums in Athens"


"CARIBBEAN ATHENS - This Avenue has an interesting tropical touch..."


"PORTUGUESE EMBASSY"


"EUROPEAN UNION FLAG"


"WAR MUSEUM - From Stone Age to the 1941 German invasion"





"NATIONAL ART GALLERY - From the 14th through the 20th centuries. Outside there are some interesting sculptures, including Antoine Bourdelle's «The Dying Centaur», a statue of Sappho and an amazing contemporary work"

DEPARTING ARMENIA

YEREVAN - OCTOBER 2007

WITH A VIEW TO MOUNT ARARAT!


"SANTA FE BAR - There are many bars, restaurants and discos in Yerevan. The Santa Fe, close to the Opera, is a nice esplanade"


"THE CASCADE is a huge white stairwell built into a Yerevan hillside in the 1970s, as a simple ornamental work. It has water fountains, reminiscent of a natural cascade, and several statues. The structure was privatized and Gerard Cafesjian, the new owner, was building the Cafesjian Museum of Contemporary Art at its top"


"THE BLACK CAT from Fernando Botero, «the most Colombian of Colombian artists», waits for the visitors at the base of the Cascade"


"TWO FIGURES by Lynn Russell Chadwick (1914 – 2003), an English sculptor who began producing metal mobile sculpture during the 1940s"


"THE HARE ON A BELL by Barry Flanagan is also on display at the Cascade"




"GOING UP - Views from the different platforms of the Cascade with fountains, flowers and the Opera"


"THE OBELISK, aka «The Impotent's Dream», was built to commemorate fifty years of Soviet Armenia"



"MOUNT ARARAT - Often obscured by a haze, visitors to Yerevan need some good luck to see it. That's what lacked to Tsar Nicholas II, who waited a week to see it, and left saying «Too bad for Ararat. It will not have seen the Tsar!» Here Ararat can be seen at the distance"


"ARARAT - A closer look"



"ARARAT AT SUNSET"



"SOUND AND LIGHT at the Republic Square. From May through October there is a happening in Yerevan: the two and a half hour show at the Republic Square!"


"ZVARTNOTS AIRPORT - The modern terminal. No lounge though; it seems that the airport management is charging too much money and the airlines don't want to pay..."


"ARMAVIA - Armenian airlines"


"CLOUDS - Seen from the British Midland flight"

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Azer Mantessa was kind enough to make a song with some of my sunset pictures! I'm flattered! Thanks Azer!