Maria Kofou

Travel Blogger

What comes to your mind when you hear the word “Tinos”? Surely the island, the sea, maybe oblations or Virgin Mary of Tinos? How about dove cotes, food, surf? If Tinos is famous about something, well that has to be the Virgin Mary of Tinos. Mainly a religious destination, probably due to the fact that ...

Maya Tsoclis

Travel journalist

Tinos, right from the start I insist that it was the Virgin Mary who saved Tinos! For decades, in the collective consciousness of generations of modern Greeks, the island has long been associated with religion. And let us thank God for that. The full-scale touristic pilgrimage to pay homage to the Blessed Virgin has been ...

The Discover Greece Team

Do you follow us on Instagram? If not, click here, follow us and share with us your photos and adventures from Greece! Use the hashtag #DiscoverGreece and you may see your photo on our Blog My View of Greece! Today we start in the north, from beautiful Alexandroupoli and its lighthouse, followed by a tour ...

Andreas Sifniotis

Senior Master

I’m  a Greek  active  Captain, still  on service  and travelling . I have  been a  Captain in full power and command on ship’s, since 1980. Over the years, I have travelled all the world’s oceans and seas, commanding every type of vessel. This was my childhood dream and I am happy to have fulfilled it. ...

Thalia Nouarou

Photographer and travel editor

The most “misunderstood” island of the Cyclades probably owes a great deal to … the Virgin Mary. For it is Her benevolent presence that radiates through all this island’s immaculate, ineffable beauty.  Unfathomable and ceaseless, neither words nor images can do it proper justice. It is an idea and a feeling. Like the breeze in ...