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Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.

What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains.

I would love to go to Greece.

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.

We cannot deny that 80 or even 90 percent of the spiritual treasures from the past 3,000 years have come from Europe. There is no other Greek theatre anywhere else in the world. There is no other Shakespeare, Dante or Cervantes.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

I love to live in a magical place.