Buenos Aires, Argentina

Last month I visited Buenos Aires for a few days. Here are some of the photos I took there. As usual, click on any thumbnail for the full-size picture.
This post is dedicated to our favorite greek-argentinian, apos.

Over the Andes, flying Santiago-Buenos Aires	Taking a break…	La Boca, the working class neighborhood	A presidential guard
From the windows of the Casa Rosada, the Presidential Palace	Inside the Casa Rosada	Casa Rosada	The 67 m high Obelisco
The Teatro Colón, one of the great opera houses	Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)	Santo Domingo; San Telmo neighborhood begins here	Squares in B.A. have facebook pages!
The Ministry of the Army	Iglesia Nuestra Señora de Belen, in San Telmo	The Buenos Aires cathedral	The goth, haunted-looking School of Engineering
Nuestra Señora del Pilar, outside La Recoleta Cemetery	At the Recoleta Cemetery	Sic transit gloria mundi	Evita Peron's grave, in the Duarte family lot, La Recoleta Cemetery
La Recoleta Cemetery	At La Recoleta Cemetery	The 60 ft high "Floralis Genérica", by Eduardo Catalano (2002)	The School of Law, at Recoleta
On the The Argentine National Congress	What would a latin american capital be without a demonstration!	The Mausoleum of José de San Martín, the leader of independence	The Argentine National Congress

More inflight pics

During my recent trip to Athens for Easter, I spent a good deal of my flight time taking pictures, as usual! Here are two of them.
The first one^* is the Rio-Antirrio bridge. Rio is to the right (and south), while Antirrio is to the left (and north). The Rio castle is also visible, just to the right of the bridge.
The second one⁺ is a spectacular view of New York city. Manhattan, with its parallel Avenues, is visible in the center of the photo. At Manhattan's center, in the shape of a dark rectangle, one can see Central Park. Left and bellow, lies Bronx, while further to the back is Queens and Brooklyn. To the right of Manhattan lies Jersey City. Further back, and to its right, is Newark, NJ.
(Click the thumbnails for a full size version of each pic).
^*Flight IB 3885 (ATH-MAD)
⁺Flight B6 22 (JFK - SYR)