Oops, we nearly forgot! World Tourism Day 2014 Greek Photo Competition: And the Winners are...

1st prize 
Pinelopi (Poppy) Athanasopoulou(USA)

Window to Heaven, Palamidi, Nafplion,  Greece

 

 2nd prize
Eleni Balatsas (Canada)

The Best of Navagio Beach, Zakynthos, Greece
(we call it the Colossus of Navagio...)

3rd prize
Rebecca Elia (USA)

Diamond Bliss, Skopelos, Greece

Congratulations to our prizewinners Poppy, Eleni, and Rebecca (2nd year in a row)!  

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The Prizes
The Donors

1st Prize

Poppy wins a very beautiful Greek inspired print of her choice from the workshop of Georgia Pistolis,  one of our very talented Global Greek artists, who lives and works in South Carolina in the USA but whose gorgeous artwork is largely inspired by her homeland- and ours - Greece!   

Poppy gets to choose one of the three beautiful prints shown below: 

Art by Georgia 
You too can purchase one of Georgia's wonderful Greek themed artworks by clicking here

2nd Prize 

Eleni wins an Apollo Pendant, a beautiful piece of solid sterling silver 925 bone shaped with authentic 'good luck eye" glass bead (mati) for herself or her pet from The Lovepaw Collection in the USA

Apollo from the Zeus Collection

Designed by one of our Global Greeks, and expertly Made in Greece by one of Greece's fine silversmiths , this beautiful piece of jewellery has been donated by Olympia Zacharakis of Miami, creator and founder of The Lovepaw Company, specialising in fine pieces for pets and/or their owners!

Olympia's Lovepaw Company photos can be found on Facebook  while her website  is being upgraded
  

3rd Prize

Rebecca  wins a copy of popular Hollywood actor, writer, traveller and adventurer Thaao Penghlis' latest book ‘Places, Journeys of My Days, My Lives.’ 

A veteran world traveller, with many tours through his (and ours) ancestral Greece, Egypt, and the Middle East, Thaao has also investigated some of the world’s most sacred sites and travelled through the jungles of the Amazon. In this, his latest book  published in July this year, which he has kindly donated as a prize, Thaao recalls some of these amazing and perilous journeys for his readers.  

You can win your own copy of Places by leaving a comment here 
or 

 You can buy your copy of Thaao's 'Places:The Journey of my Days, my Lives' on Amazon 

THANK YOU - ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟYΜΕ, 
to our Global Greeks
Georgia, Olympia, and Thaao 
for their generosity in donating these wonderful prizes for our winners 

and

a very big 

THANK YOU - ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟYΜΕ

to all of our friends who entered their photos 

and made this competition come alive with...Greece 

and their love for Greece! 

 You helped make this our most successful competition ever, 
with a record number of participants, 
a record number of magnificent photos and a 
record number of people who voted! 

All the photos were stunning, here they are in one collage and we will soon have a video of them for you to watch!  
In the meantime, if you want to check out the entire album on our Facebook page, please click here 
 

Greece is Greece's No 1 product.

It deserves to take its rightful place in the world...

right at the top! 

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows! 

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Promoting Beautiful Greece: World Tourism Day 2014 #GreekPhotoCompetition

September 27 is known as World Tourism Day, and as always is a great opportunity to promote our beautiful Greece - the Ultimate Tourist Destination! 

Here at Global Greek World it is the day we launch our Greek Photo Competition every year on our Global Greek World Facebook Page to showcase this magnificent country of ours.

So here goes! 

We've set up the album for 2014, now it is over to YOU!

Check it out here

The rules are simple:

Anyone can enter! 

All it takes is a photo that you have taken yourself, anytime, anywhere in Greece that we can add to the album so that people can vote. 

Maximum number of entries per person this year is 3.

Send us the photo(s)you would like to enter in the competition either by emailing us directly or by clicking on our Facebook Page, liking it and sending your photo(s) to us via our Facebook Message facility. 

Closing date for entries is Friday 24 October 2014.

You can vote for the picture(s) you like...with a 'like'. 

The picture with the greatest number of 'Likes' when the competition closes wins....

PRIZES TO BE ANNOUNCED....
Watch this space! 

Well, we're working on giving away some great prizes to the winners this year too, so stay tuned. 

If you would like to sponsor one of our prizes please contact us. 

If you are a hotel, resort or part of the hospitality industry in Greece we would particularly love to hear from you! 
A weekend for two at your establishment, 
A dinner for two at your restaurant, 
an air-ticket to an island, 
boat tickets eg a one day 3 island cruise 
even free entry to one of our wonderful museums,
these are all great prizes!

YOU are the ones we are trying to support!

In the meantime, check out your albums, 
digital or otherwise,
and 
Start choosing your best pictures.... 

We are waiting! 

Good luck!

Καλή Επιτυχία!

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows!

© GlobalGreekWorld 2014 All Rights Reserved