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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And the Winners of Global Greek World's Surprise Draw Are....

 

 We  celebrated and said a big ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ for helping GGW get to 6000 wonderful friends on our Facebook page and 4000 on Twitter by holding a Surprise Giveaway!

Check out the prizes won by our 3 prizewinners who come from near and far...

In the Kitchen with Argiro
 

Christine Kounis of Athens Greece wins this great cookbook.

Donated by one of Greece's  talented, dynamic and internationally acclaimed 

celebrity chefs, Argiro Barbarigou 

Argiro recently spent  time abroad, helping organise the Greek menus at the OPA Day celebrations in Disneyland during the Greek America Foundation's amazing Gabby weekend 2013, in May in Los Angeles .

Thank you Argiro! Keep up the great work!

Argiro can be found at argiro.gr , on Facebook and on Twitter

From the Zeus collection, solid sterling silver 925 

with authentic "turquoise good luck eye" glass bead.(mati)

Sterling Silver 925 Jewellery for  your Pet or yourself from 

The Lovepaw Collection

Lynn Veremis Karavitis from Iowa in the USA wins this beautiful piece of jewellery for herself or her pet! 

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!

Thank you, Olympia!  Buy Greek forever!

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

A complimentary dental check-up and professional hygiene care package for a Wellington  winner and his or her family donated by Great Teeth Dental Care

Myrto Kenny of Wellington, New Zealand has won this great prize! 

Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Great Teeth Dental Care is run by one of our many accomplished Global Greek professionals around the world, Dr Stan Litras.

Stan with his expert team of caring and focused professionals,  offers cost effective and sound management of all  oral health issues and personalised service, where each person is treated with respect as an individual.

With over 20 years track record in Wellington, and with investment in the latest diagnostic and treatment technology, you can be sure your dental health is in excellent hands!

Thank you Stan! Our Global Greeks around the world keep making us proud!

Great Teeth Dental Care  can be found on Facebook or at  Great Teeth Dental Care 

A big THANK YOU, to all our friends and to those who participated in the draw with all the great comments, supportive and encouraging!

Ευχαριστούμε!

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