WELCOME to our new channel! The two of us met 30 years ago at University and have remained best of friends ever since .There is nothing we love doing more than exploring new places with the other by our side - so we decided to share the fun! Our channel is all about exploring the beauty of the world and the amazing people in it - while also having a lot of laughs along the way! Life is a journey of friendships and we want this to feel like a trip out with friends.
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First you made me fall in love with LaLande and then the Loire valley and then France inandof itself, then Istanbul, London, Barcelona, Lisbon, and now Porto!! I feel like I’ve traveled all around and learned so much from you both. Thank you so much.
In the 80's and 90's our business took us to Milan often. We would take an apartment at Villa Cortine...in those days a very private, small five star hotel for six weeks in late April through May. We ate well, drove fast and explore we did. I love Verona, Vicenza, and Padua, so many art and architectural treasures and history to soak up...Palladio's Teatro Olimpico...but my fav is Mantua... which is worthy of a day trip. However, The Palazzo Del Te, built for Federico II Gonzaga by Guilio Romano... with his dropped triglyphs and La Sala dei Giganti are a must. As Giorgio Vasari wrote "... And whoever enters that room cannot help but fear that everything will fall on him." A day when Greek mythology and Italian art collide spectacularly is a perfect day. Pehaps I'm getting ahead of your agenda! A fangirl note: I had to laugh when Stephanie, Michael and Gerry were hanging the lantern fixtures in the hall and an aside was made and Stephanie, who had recently listened Stephen Fry's "Myths", happily bubbled up with "You know that Juno was Zeus's wife" the two men paused for a heartbeat, exchanged looks and carried on. I do that too.😉
I would so watch your show on TV. These are so good and I learned so much. I remember seeing this food court in I believe it was an episode of somebody feed Phil. Stephanie, you always look so put together and lovely even after a long day out in a busy, coastal city. Anyway what a wonderful episode of food in history and culture and architecture!
This palace is absolutely marvelous. Every room was interesting and particularly the arches, tile work and amalgamation of styles. Thank you so much for sharing this with us! What a treat!
How fascinating I feel like I just took the most wonderful class in art history or cultural historical studies. I didn’t like the villa either, Stephanie- it was so heavy and it appeared a little chaotic and baroque. For all his exquisite taste in apparel I don’t think he had an eye for interior design. It looks so beautiful from the outside, but not so much on the inside. Still what a wonderful day , and story!
This episode was incredible. The past three episodes in Istanbul have made me feel like I took a quick trip there. Thank you both so much. I’m loving these as much as I love your individual home diaries. You both are so much fun and so engaged in the world, as well as cultural icons and their historical implications
I just love your travel, Vlogs! Really they’re so fascinating and this one was particularly interesting as I had very little knowledge of the harem and the mechanisms of the more modern Ottoman Empire. Thank you so much for all the information and beautiful photography as well as your commentary. I know there’s a lot of people in the comments who are, chastising, modern perspectives of the way of life, but isn’t that what we do when we travel and learn about history? We analyze critique and contextualize, and this is necessarily from current perspectives. I don’t think there was any disrespect and anything said, only wonder and to some degree a little sadness for what women have endured historically in nearly all empires and cultures.
Oh, I wish I had gone to the Time Out market when I was in Lisbon! Nevertheless, its a wonderful city with lots to see and do and the people are very nice.
At 23:27 I can't help but notice the spirit darting into the dressing room! As it is February, there wouldn't be insects, upon slowing it down and going frame by frame, it appears to be a luminescent blue color. Fantastic! Perhaps letting you know that... "These are my clothes and shoes!" 😂
I’ve always thought that the crux of the art nouveau is the exuberance, celebration of craftsmanship and imagination and whimsy in the enduring examples. I think of Art Nouveau illustrators like Maxfield Parish, or Mucha as well as buildings from the time and I feel that they’re incredibly whimsical and joyful. That’s why I’ve always been drawn to the style. This building is such a find. I think I could spend all day in there.
15:01 again, what is this? overdone, turbo ornamentalization, but then it ends around 2 meter high and from that point on you got just white wall? zero taste, tilework spam, that's what this is.
8:12 those tiles around the big windows looks like the cheapest toilet tilework. they definitely overdid the tilework. sometimes the less you do the better.
The portrayal of the Harem in Western culture is often seen through an Orientalist lens. In reality, the Harem was a significant institution involved in politics, waqf, palace politics and the education upbringing of Sultans. It was not simply an Ottoman version of a modern-day playboy lifestyle, which most Westerners accept and tolerate under notions of sexual liberty and personal freedoms.
10:57 very unfortunate that you had to give a typically fake Western narrative we are all fed up with about the conquest of Constantinople. The very opposite happened when Mehmet entered the Hagia Sofia. The people of the city were crammed in the Church and feared for their lives when Mehmet entered and said you are free to live about your lives and your belongings are safe guaraded. The following days he issued and edict guarantying this as the head of state and and the edict still to this day with Fatih Sultan Mehmet's signiture.
It was wonderful, thank you, I learned some things I didn't know about Dalí and Gala. But ... What a pitty you didn't visit Cadaquès and the amazing Dalí's House and Garden in the beautiful bay of Port Lligat in the afternoon ! 😭😭😭 Well, business is business ! 😓😢
I wonder if the garden area with the 2 red eyed dragon animals, turrets, and stone patio was the place for ceremonial induction of a Templar or increase in ranking. I believe all the ceremonies were held at night. The place illuminated with candles tucked in the holes of the In the gratto walls. My grandfather was the Grand master of his lodge, my grandfather an eastern star. All there ceremonies were held in the evening. I want to go here. ❤
I've just stopped the video at around 4 minutes in, to say thank you, wonderful knowledge, information, filming, making me look forward to my visit next month even more.
Thanks for this! I'll be travelling do Istanbul in May this year and was wondering if there is a way to get a tour of Pera Palace (without having to attend the afternoon tea)?
