Visiting Greece During a Pandemic - Travels with Julie Episode 5

[Music] we are obviously in greece with like the only tourists here um i was a bit scary kind of coming in for me because i only have an american passport so but i have a visa that's called indefinite leave to remain visa and so i had to bring that visa i've never had to travel with that visa before but i had to bring it to show that i'm resident in the uk but it literally was there was a scary moment because the customs guy didn't speak english and he didn't understand what i was trying to say and kept saying well where's your british passport and i was like i don't have a british passport i have an american one but i have a i'm resident in the uk anyway then i had to call somebody in and literally call somebody in i was so nervous all my family all the kids husband went through customs no problem because they all have british passports so the kids are half american half british they all have british passports and so i think there was a moment we were really scared and then i had they brought in a senior guy and he anyway went through and then was like okay yeah you can go through but there was this moment i was like oh my gosh anyway so we're walking to the beach it's considered the top one of the top 10 beaches in the world so wait till we get there here we are coming up after that walk this is top 10 beach in the world we'll give you all the details don't worry but as you can see we're pretty much there's one of my children right down there easy to spot with the white hair the only people here it is definitely if you guys come here this is the beach you are going to want to go to it is out standing up above there up at the top of the cliff uh there is a um and behind it there's an old castle ruin which is unbelievable um and you'll definitely look at nestor going all the way out there you're definitely going to want to hike it up but this is whoops this is the beach everybody so i mean it's sensational it's absolutely that is why look at the color of the water top 10 beach in the world and this is our first day here in greece this is where we're going to be spending our entire day nestor's gonna swim right out to that rock okay so here i am i've just climbed up a bit i've given you but this is it this is top 10 one of the top 10 beaches in the world it's incredible we're literally i mean there's a few a handful of other people here but other than that it is basically us it is i mean extraordinary um i mean words can't really describe it to be honest just to be some of the only people here i know that this won't be there's some people there there you go um i know that this won't be uh how it will be um forever but the beach like i said we are a handful of people on this beach this fantastic beach so definitely come and visit this when we're all allowed to all right you guys we've made it to greece we've been here for a few days but i wanted to give you a tour of the house that we're staying in in case when you come to greece you want to stay here too so we're in the peloponnese and our nearest uh town is just down the road and it's called caroni um it's been fantastic so this uh house again it's we just found it online and emma's going to give you kind of a big tour of it up here so you can see just it's a beautiful structure over here we've got some pomegranate so emma if you want to come this way and walk so over here you can see we've got our own pomegranate tree here tons and tons of olive trees there's an inflatable over there that's blown away in the middle of the night but you can see we've got our own lemons those are actually lemons i know they look like limes but over here they're green and then i'm just going to take you so the house is three bedroom it and the bedrooms are huge and all the bedrooms have ensuite so all the bedrooms have are ensuite and in fact i'm not going to show you the bedrooms because i don't know if my kids would necessarily really like it so much if i was showing them but there's a bedroom in here that's a double decker i like to call it a double decker bed and uh then you've got two more bedrooms upstairs both of them with ensuite the thing and then there's a lovely kitchen we hired um some buddy who was absolutely amazing who did three nights of cooking for us um she was incredible and much much less than going out to dinner i can tell you that um and so this is the back of the house you can see here we've got the pool and it overlooks again the glorious sea we've got our own barbecue there and then we'll take it out here so you guys can see the back of the house here i'm about to definitely go on one of these chairs but i wanted to give you again a really good view of the sun is out so it's quite bright right now but when the sun goes that way to set you can see much more of the outline of the mountains here so you can see much more of the outline of the mountains but again you can see the beautiful sea and all of the olive trees here so all of the olive trees here the one thing that emma can you turn around and get the back of the house do you think the one thing that is quite funny is that the house has a lift or aka an elevator so if you do come with a lot of luggage and it's heavy you you have the elevator that can take you up and down um to your rooms uh down below so they produce their own um uzo here and uzo if you haven't had it's it's a greek speciality to me it kind of it tastes very sort of licoricey um so kind of like black sambuca is kind of how i would describe it um so it tastes kind of and we would sit out there to eat in the evenings and then we're just going to peer into the lift so we'll just head back in here and come across the room here so coming across and this is it's quite funny but it's quite cool is so believe it or not this actually has an elevator or a lift so here is the elevator it can take you up and down it plays elevator music i mean it's quite cool and then lastly i'm just going to show you i am going to show you downstairs and again downstairs is they have their it's been this house has been in the family um i think for quite a long time because you can see here's all of the owners ancestors and stephen will be sure to put all this stuff on the airbnb so you guys can see it but they've left us a nice present some keychains and it sounds it's their sort of uh roso is kind of like their vineyard on rosa where they make their um this is from summer 2020 um in their oak barrels and this is their um ozo uzo sorry uzo um here so we haven't tried any yet i'm not really into um like spirits and stuff but i'm sure it'll be good but i'm definitely gonna um uh i'm definitely gonna have one of these keychains that they left for us so again this is the downstairs where they're they've got just a bit a seller a wine cellar here and then again it's yeah it's been really spectacular i was wondering if there is yeah i think that there's stuff in here as well so that's a little tour over place without showing too much of the bedrooms but all bedrooms have ensuite and steven will give you this but we just happened to find this place online and we are definitely definitely going to come back the other thing i will say about the cook that we had she was outstanding and like i said it was i mean the food was better than any restaurant we ended up going to and of course it's much less expensive um than going out to dinner 100 [Music] okay this is uh the castle so cronie castle cronie is the nearest town to us so the nearest town and yeah you can see it's spectacular it's beautiful and we're like the only people here it's pretty sad on the one hand very very sad but i have to say wonderful for us this is just another another view of our local town caronie um but sadly many things not the restaurants but many shops are closed uh this should be open tomorrow and apparently carony the town has the best some of the best olive oils so we will be heading here definitely look at these beautiful steps leading up so we walked down here but like i said the local coffee guy who's on the road told us about that's it that's the beach we're going to right there a private beach that nobody goes to but us but look at this look at this view and the mountains in the background and that is where we're going to right now so just so you can see on the other side of our private beach that we just found is this and then we just turned it around to here and there is two of my family members swimming which i'm about to do right now all right i have just gone for a swim so i just wanted to give you a little view of what it's like down here and it has it i mean this is unbelievable and i'm just going to give you a little view of where i see areas of nestor up on top all right just about to watch the sunset look at that i mean it is just absolutely spectacular all right it's our last day in greece and we've come to messinia and we're going to see a um a fantastic ruin like it's this i think it's the second most famous ruin in all of greece obviously i'm going to film that for you guys but i just want to show you where we're eating lunch today so all the bright sunshine so you can see look at how cute that is outdoors that is where we're eating lunch before we head to the ruins but i just i just want to stay here for quite some time but anyway i'll give you guys more in a second but just wanted to show you this oh lovely so we've just come to ancient messini and it was founded in b c so um and i think it's the second oldest um archaeological site founded in greece i'm going to give you a tour in a second but it is sensational it still has its gymnasium it has its theater has its amphitheater still has a lot of the structure so it's in such good shape so i'm just going to turn it around so you guys can see this magical incredi oh it has its um uh yeah you can see the amphitheater coming up here anyway i'm gonna stop talking so you guys can see but it is sensational i mean so fantastic to be here and especially with hardly any tourists so here you can see i mean you guys must if you come to the peloponnese where we were we flew into kalamata so this was about um this is again about 45 minutes from from kalamata airport and this i'm going to give you more information but i just want to right now just show you there's my kids walking down there it is spectacular and we did just have food i have to be honest at probably one of the greatest greek restaurants that we've we think we've ever been in um but it is i mean this camera is not giving it any justice it is truly i mean it's just extraordinary to think about this i'm going to do a little jump there we go and yeah so i'll zoom in on some things oh my goodness i'm just in awe right now hopefully you guys watching this are in as well i mean just a whole city here really uncovered whole city uncovered those were the good old days right [Laughter] and you can see we are literally some of the only people here i'll just zoom in there there we go look at that just sensational so this is the this is sort of like where the a lot of the assembly hall meetings would happen politically um quick one of emma and william boom there we go okay and yeah pretty fantastic so all of this here was basically sort of the at the center these were where the government buildings were so there were actually um baths here as well but this is sort of this is where it all happened as far as decision-making governments um or the government making decisions and of course so this is where all the the powerful players would be here all of this rather nice i'm on a mission though to find the baths and you can see these columns you know that columns hold power for sure we've just found so remember we're still in sort of the government um part of it and we've found kind of the model of if you can see in here might be a little bit tricky with my camera but you can see the small amphitheater is there hopefully you can see my finger there we go which is the one literally right here and then remember we saw those columns right there that i just passed that's what it would have looked like you can see the columns there and wow and then over here are the baths and that is where we still have to find the baths which we're going to right now okay so we've come down and again getting up close and personal here it's beautiful day again we are it's you know end of october and the sunshine here is just phenomenal but so is this i think this is definitely the highlight of our trip here in greece hopefully you guys can just see there we go i'm just going to do a quick span or a pan and a span around pretty fantastic walking through here look at those columns straight ahead oh it's just out of this world so this is an early christian basilica and you can see it says the basilica of messini divided into three aisles uh it was first established at the end of the seventh century a.d so again this is much later on but you have you can see bits of where the nave was the chapels there's burial places [Music] most of these um column bases are preserved in place so these are where they originally started again a little snapshot there and then we'll head down over here it's almost taking my breath away to be honest and coming up to this there we are so here's a mosaic floor in a semicircular frame so it represents figures or actors of a lost comedy entitled messinia or dedicated about the second or third bc uh second or third century bc um the story was dealing with a young messini lady who failed to repay her promise to get married with her official love lover and then you can see bits from left to right are representing the messinian woman holding a cup in her left hand the peasant atticus leading a donkey with the luxurious saddle on and then the servant zelsimos dragging a second docking behind him incredible this this was part of the public area covered with mosaics in the roman period so we're heading more into this extraordinary ancient village really but hopefully i've been able to give you a little insight into um well what we've done here in greece oh listen to the bells or one bell um but i'm gonna head to the missini temple now and again i'll get bits for you as well but what a special day it has been all right so then these were the baths so these are the baths here and we're gonna head down there because what i see off in the distance which you can't see quite yet is extraordinary it's the big stadium it's the big sort of what they call gymnasium stadium it's quite i thought it ended right there i was like oh okay that's the end no no we gotta head down to there we're literally one of one other kind of couple here um it's funny because he just spotted my my camera thing which is the gimbal and but he knew exactly he's like yeah i have one it's a dj dg osmo i was like oh my gosh yeah so um uh but yeah and i just took a picture of them and i was like is it okay because i was like they're taking pictures of each other so i was like do you want me to take a picture of you guys and then i hand sanitized my hands and they were like that's okay we trust you it was really nice they were super they were definitely um from germany okay wait until you see what i am seeing right now holy cow there we go look at that that is the gymnasium the stadium let's head down there and get a closer look of that oh my goodness all right i'm walking down to it now it is truly one is just like a wonder of the world i tell you what's astonishing is that you can kind of just walk i mean obviously we're being very careful but we can just walk anywhere i thought something like this would be roped off um look at this look at the columns here look at the columns all along there look at oh my goodness all still intact i mean that's what's extraordinary oh my all right as soon as i get done i'll zoom in a little bit more so if there were gladiators here this is where it would have all happened right here it's vast it's just so unbelievably fast almost it just completely completely and utterly just takes my breath away completely i mean just unbelievable how extraordinary this is and obviously they're doing something here that's gonna help to sort of solidify it all um bringing in i assume just to make sure that they in one sense kind of stay put but yeah this is where i'm signing off at the stadium gymnasium and where if there were gladiators this is where they would have been hi everybody so um hopefully this uh video has given you a glimpse into my holiday here in greece a much needed holiday it's been amazing hopefully you guys can come and stay in this house we are definitely coming back to this house but one of the things that i do on most of my holidays is actually do live yoga and sort of broadcast it across the world so this is our setup my husband brings me um brings me this camera so we bring this camera everywhere uh we everywhere i go my mevo camera we can i don't even know how he does it but he connects it up and it we go live so today i just thought because everybody around the world is usually unable to travel and with the pandemic that i thought i would just bring grease to everybody so we set up and everybody we just finished filming live it's my last day here and you can see emma's going to give you a good pan here you can see here the pan and i bet stephen when he edits this you can see a little bit of my yoga video that i did so you guys can you can always join me live as well um when i do this and maybe some of you even received the email about it but yeah it's just something that and it was a free class that's something that i really like to do just because i think we're all needing something to lift us up i know i am that's why i came to greece um so i wanted to bring a little bit of grace to everybody anyway i just want to say um hope you guys enjoyed uh this travels with me here in greece and uh i want to say a huge shout out to all of you each and every single one of you so much for your support um throughout these past few months joining me here on patreon and a huge shout out to those of you in the top tier so cheryl sherry angeline taylor and robert thank you all so much and again lots more to come lots more to see but hope you've enjoyed uh this video and again there's details to this house we're definitely coming back here it's been amazing bye guys you

Channel: Julie Montagu: Yoga, Tea & the British Aristocracy

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Length: 27min 9sec (1629 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 13 2020