Huma Mobin's 'Husband-Less-Honeymoon' in GReece Photo Album goes Viral!

Huma Mobin on her 'Husband-less-Honeymoon' in Greece
Source: Photos are from Huma's Facebook page, the collage is ours!

 

Theoretically this lovely lady should be smiling… but she’s not, even though she is having a great holiday in the best country in the world…

Which country is that? Greece, of course! 

How can someone be in Greece and be unhappy you say? It’s simple. 

If you were planning the trip as a second honeymoon and your other half didn’t get his visa approved, then you have good reason to be a bit sad as you go on your ‘Husband-less Honeymoon’ to Athens, Crete and Santorini.

That’s what happened to Huma Mobin. A creative director at BBDO in Pakistan, she didn’t let the inspiration she had go to waste. 

She decided to create her own ‘Husband-less-Honeymoon-in-Greece’ album with her arm around her ‘in absentia’ husband and share the photos with that other half, and of course, via Facebook, with the rest of the world!

Her pictures have gone viral. We loved her story so we are sharing it and the photos. 

 Source: Huma Mobin's Facebook page

Thanks for visiting Greece, Huma and for showing the world how beautiful this country is even when your other half couldn’t make it!

We hope that you will come back soon, with your husband and take the same photos with him in it this time!

 Compassionate Caryatid - Acropolis Museum

Source: Huma Mobin's Facebook page

PS Please make sure you get his visa application in early next time, just in case…

 

PPS Maybe you should enter one or two of your photos in this year's World Tourism Day Greek Photo Competition starting in September 2016! 

Think about it!  

Check out the rest of Huma’s pictures on her personal FB page  or on her Outside Girl FB Page.

 

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

© GlobalGreekWorld 2009-2017 All Rights Reserved

Dear David Cameron, Elgin STOLE them, They are NOT the Elgin Marbles

 

Dear British Prime Minister, David Cameron,

Let's get it straight...

Elgin STOLE them, they are NOT the Elgin Marbles.

The sculptures held captive in the British Museum are

the PARTHENON Marbles 

You cannot change the past, what's done is done.

But you CAN do something about the future,

You CAN change the present.

Do what's right.

Return the PARTHENON sculptures to their rightful home, 

Return the PARTHENON Sculptures to Greece. 

Global Greek World

** This post is dedicated to our beloved Melina Mercouri, 

who left us 19 years ago today,

 on March 6, 1994. 

She never accepted this abhorrent term, 

and in her speech to the Oxford Union  in 1986  

said the following:

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

There is a Michael Angelo David.

There is a Da Vinci Venus.

There is a Praxitelles Hermes.

There is a Turner ‘Fishermen at Sea’.

There are no Elgin Marbles!

  

There are NO Elgin Marbles.

They are the PARTHENON Marbles.

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

© GlobalGreekWorld 2013 All Rights Reserved

Athens' New Acropolis Museum:3 Today and Still Waiting for the Parthenon Sculptures! Let's Bring them HOME!

  

Χρόνια Πολλά! 

 Athens' New Acropolis Museum 

inaugurated on 20 June 2009 turns 3 today

and is still waiting for the Parthenon Sculptures...

The magnificent marble sculptures plundered from the Parthenon by the infamous Lord Elgin and held hostage by the British Museum

 

 Let's join every single person around the world - Greek and non-Greek alike - working to bring them home...

Last week, British Actor Stephen Fry and MP Andrew George, speaking in favour of their return, won the debate hosted by Intelligence Squared in Cambridge by a large majority.

Yesterday and today, an
International colloquy in London on the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles

  was held at London's Hellenic Centre

The momentum is growing...


There is no excuse anymore 

We have built the Museum...

 

Each missing sculpture has its own space...

Each space is a missing word in the story...

  
the beautiful story of the Parthenon

the temple dedicated to the Goddess Athena

The Caryatids are waiting for their long-lost sister...

Let's Bring them Home! 

  
It is the least we can do... 
we owe it to our children , the future
and to Melina, whose vision for the Parthenon Sculptures put the wheels in motion for their return!


If you ask me whether I will be alive when the Marbles return to Greece, 
I tell you, yes, I will be.

When the Sculptures come home to Athens, so will I,

But even if I'm not, 

I will be reborn. 

 

Melina Mercouri 

" Αν με ρωτησετε εάν θα ζω όταν 

τα Μάρμαρα του Παρθενωνα επιστρέψουν στην Ελλάδα, 

σας λέω πως ναι, θα ζω. 

Αλλά κι αν ακόμη δεν ζω πια,

 θα ξαναγεννηθώ!" 

Μελίνα Μερκούρη

Melina in front of the Parthenon
This magnificent photo which graces the Acropolis Metro Station in Athens

was taken by her personal photographer  Ilias Anagnostopoulos 

Dedicated to Melina Mercouri, 

a woman with vision,

who was born Greek and died Greek,

and left us so much poorer...

Γειά σου Μελίνα! 

Related posts: 

• Virtual Tour of the Acropolis

• Melina Mercouri - The Woman who should have been Mayor of Athens 
• In Memory of Global Greeks Melina Mercouri and Jules Dassin
• Parthenon Marbles: There are No Excuses Any More - Bring Them Back!
• The Parthenon through the Ages: Costas Gavras' Masterpiece 
• I AM GREEK AND I WANT TO GO HOME...Let's Bring Them ALL Home! 
• Alexis Mantheakis - Pilgrimage for Repatriation of the parthenon Marbles

Remembering Melina ...the Fighter, the Woman who was Born Greek and Died Greek

Melina in front of the Parthenon
This magnificent photo which graces the Acropolis Metro Station in Athens

was taken by her personal photographer  Ilias Anagnostopoulos 

For Melina Mercouri, 
who was born Greek and died Greek,
and left us so much poorer,
18 years ago today...

If you ask me whether I will be alive when the Marbles return to Greece, 
I tell you, yes, I will be.

When the Sculptures come home to Athens, so will I,

But even if I'm not, 

I will be born again. 

 

Melina Mercouri 

" Αν με ρωτησετε εαν θα ζω οταν 

τα Μαρμαρα του Παρθενωνα επιστρεψουν στην Ελλαδα, 

σας λεω πως ναι, θα ζω. 

Αλλα κι αν ακομη δεν ζω πια,

 θα ξαναγεννηθω!" 

Μελίνα Μερκούρη

Parthenon Sculptures - behind bars at the British Museum 
Photo Credit: Alexis Mantheakis 

 

Let's bring them home... 

We have built the Museum...

 

Each missing sculpture has its own space...

  

The Caryatids are waiting for their long-lost sister...

Let's Bring them Home! 

  
It is the least we can do...
 

Related posts: 

• Melina Mercouri - The Woman who should have been Mayor of Athens 
• In Memory of Global Greeks Melina Mercouri and Jules Dassin
• Parthenon Marbles: There are No Excuses Any More - Bring Them Back!
• The Parthenon through the Ages: Costas Gavras' Masterpiece 
• I AM GREEK AND I WANNA GO HOME...Let's Bring Them ALL Home! 
• Alexis Mantheakis - Pilgrimage for Repatriation of the parthenon Marbles

I AM GREEK AND I WANT TO GO HOME...Let's Bring them ALL Home!

I AM GREEK AND I WANNA GO HOME is an independent movement for repatriation of the Greek Sculptures lovingly created by Ares Kalogeropoulos one of our Global Greeks living in Germany. All the Photography, Concept and Artwork are the brainchild of this  exceptionally talented young diaspora Greek.

Ares'  wonderfully expressive photos with their simple but emotion packed message are doing the rounds of the internet these days, appealing to all of us around the world to help bring home the magnificent statues and sculptures plundered in days gone by and now held 'hostage' in various museums around the world. This campaign is one of many especially aimed at the British Museum, which steadfastly refuses to part with the sculptures ripped from their original home by the not-so-noble Lord Elgin...

Bravo Ares! Messages like this inspire us...to spread the word around the world!

I AM GREEK AND I WANNA GO HOME....

LET'S BRING THEM ALL HOME...  to GREECE!

 Ares Kalogeropoulos

Ares message  .... from his Facebook Page

I AM GREEK AND I WANNA GO HOME

Αυτή είναι η φράση και το κεντρικό μήνυμα που αποστέλλεται παντού μέσο διαδικτύου, από την Ανεξάρτητη εθελοντική κίνηση με σκοπό την επιστροφή των Ελληνικών αρχαιοτήτων που παράνομα κρατούνται εκτος Ελλάδας.

Εμπνευστής και δημιουργός είναι ο Μουσικοσυνθέτης και φωτογράφος Ares Kalogeropoulos ο οποιος διαμένει και δραστηριοποιείται στο Oldenburg της Βόρειας Γερμανίας

Η Ανεξάρτητη αυτή κίνηση, απέκτησε χιλιάδες υποστηρικτές στο διαδίκτυο, μιας και ξεκίνησε μέσω Facebook, από το προσωπικό Προφίλ του Ares Kalogeropoulos

Το μήνυμα " I AM GREEK AND I WANNA GO HOME " καθώς και η αισθητική ματια που συνοδεύει τις εικόνες, είναι δημιουργημένες ώστε να προκαλέσουν συναισθηματικα θεατές ανα τον κόσμο. Οχι να απαιτήοσυν, αλλα να μιλήσουν απο τη μεριά της Ιστορίας που ζητά αποκατάσταση. Για αυτό το λόγο άλλωστε επικοινωνείται στην Αγγλική γλώσσα.
-Το δευτρο μήνυμα που συνοδεύει αυτήν την κινηση είναι " Our Budget is our Love" που δηλώνει ξεκάθαρα πως απλώς και μονο με την αγάπη μας για την Ελλάδα και τον κοινό στόχο, μπορεί αυτή η κίνηση να επικοινωνηθεί, έξω από χρηματοδοτήσεις και κονδύλια στήριξης.

Η αγάπη μας και η εθελοντική μας εργασία για τον κοινό αυτόν Εθνικό στόχο είναι αρκετή και μάλιστα πιο ισχυρή από κάθε χρηματική υποστήριξη!

Υποστηρίξτε και εσείς αυτήν την μεγάλη και αγνή κίνηση που μας επιτρέπει να στεκόμαστε απέναντι στην ιστορία μας περήφανοι ως Έλληνες και ως πολίτες αυτού του κόσμου!

Απλώς κοινοποιήστε παντού αυτές τις εικόνες. Σε Ελλάδα και εξωτερικό. Να ακουστεί η φωνή μας!

Ας κάνουμε κάτι για το οποιο η Ιστορία θα μας κοιτά με το πιο τρυφερό της βλέμμα.

Ευχαριστώ προσωπικά όλους σας μέσα από την καρδια μου!

Ares Kalogeropoulos


I AM GREEK AND I WANNA GO HOME

This phrase is a key message sent everywhere via the Internet by the Independent voluntary movement for the return of Greek antiquities illegally detained abroad. Inspirer and creator is the Composer and photographer Ares Kalogeropoulos who lives an works in Oldenburg in Northern Germany This independent movement, gained thousands of supporters on the Internet, and was started through Ares Kalogeropoulos personal  Facebook Profile .The message "I AM GREEK AND THE WANNA GO HOME" and the aesthetic glimpse that accompanies the images have been created in order to have maximum emotional appeal both  within and outside Greece. For this reason also the message is communicated in English.
 
The second message accompanying this move is "Our Budget is our Love" which clearly states that simply  with our love for Greece and our common goal, this move can be channelled independently of any financing or support funding. Our love and our volunteer work for a common national goal is enough and much more powerful than any financial support! 

Please support this great and pure movement that allows us to stand against our proud history as Greeks and as citizens of this world! 

Simply communicate  these images, everywhere, in Greece and abroad. 

So that our voices can be heard!
 
Let's do something that will make history look at us with its most tender look. 

I personally thank all of you from my heart!

Ares Kalogeropoulos

You can find Ares on Facebook here

Earth Hour 2011 - In Greece the Countdown begins with the Parthenon...

The Acropolis, a symbol of western civilization, will be the world’s oldest landmark to turn off the lights for Earth Hour and join the global movement against climate change.

At 8:30PM local time the Parthenon, the centrepiece of the Acropolis, will turn black and join hundreds of millions people from around the globe to switch off the lights in the first global election on the future of our planet. 

From Athens to Auckland, London, Sydney, New York and Singapore, we'll be joining the rest of the world today 26 March 2011 to switch off our lights. 

It’s a reminder to us all that we only have one planet Earth. And it’s an urgent message that we want to reduce the impact our energy system has on that planet. Of course this one hour is symbolic, we should all be doing our utmost to reduce our energy consumption,  every day, every hour, every minute...

Join us!

Ready, steady, go...lights out!

Read more at WWF :

Simply Breathtaking! Lightning Over the Parthenon - Almighty Zeus is angry!

What a magnificent shot from Petros Giannakouris for Associated Press...

A brilliant photo from a very talented photographer!
Thank You for sharing your view with the world, Petros! 

Almighty Zeus is angry!

Like a picture taken straight out of our Mythology books, a bolt of lightning illuminates the sky around the 2,500-year-old temple dedicated to the Goddess Athena, the Parthenon, in Athens early yesterday morning....

Read the relevant article 

from the Daily Mail / from To Vima (In Greek) / Time (Picture of the Day)