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00:00Buzuki, auto, search for the phone.
00:05Bluetooth connecting.
00:07Look at us being technical.
00:09Oh my God!
00:12Shoot!
00:13This is in my will to be lowered into the ground.
00:16Bluetooth connecting.
00:17Just remember that.
00:21Disconnected.
00:22Oh for f***s sake.
00:25Bluetooth connecting.
00:26Dancing Queen.
00:41Dancing, designing and demolishing our way through the summer in Kofu.
00:54Amanda and I are transforming a run-down ruin.
00:59Push it.
01:01Oh my God, can you do this please?
01:04Into a luxury family holiday home.
01:06Oh it's like the cow pack.
01:09We've completed the living and dining room.
01:13The children's bedroom.
01:15And the kitchen.
01:17Oh my God, this is better than I ever thought it would be.
01:21And now we're taking on the main bedroom.
01:26Are you sure we can't repurpose this bed?
01:29No.
01:30I know, but disgusting.
01:32Cow.
01:32You work better when there's a theme.
01:35This is a bedroom, so I'm thinking Aphrodite.
01:37Oh, so what, like love and lust and...
01:42And pleasure and...
01:43Oh.
01:44Calm.
01:45Well if the earth moves in here it'll be subsides.
01:47It looks like it has moved though, look.
01:49The parents' bedroom, I want it to be a sanctuary.
01:53I want them to go in there and go,
01:54Oh my God, I remember you.
01:56You know how you do that sometimes?
01:58You just go, Oh my God, this is who we were before we had children.
02:02Let's remember the good times.
02:03That's exactly what Aphrodite said to...
02:09Who did she go out with, Hercules or someone like that?
02:12I love the idea of a full poster.
02:14That would be really nice.
02:15But with...
02:16Every time I see this room I see the windows open
02:18and I see soft muslin curtains just blowing gently in the wind.
02:22And I think if you're a parent
02:24and you've been really good with your kids all day
02:27it needs to feel like a place of calm
02:29and a hopeful place.
02:32Hopeful, okay, yeah.
02:32Hopeful, you're not too knackered.
02:34No.
02:35But it might be...
02:36You're praying you'll get some.
02:37One half of you's probably praying
02:39and the other half's going,
02:40Don't touch me!
02:43I think they're like a love seat.
02:46You mean like a window seat?
02:48A window seat.
02:49Could we both fit there?
02:50Should we see?
02:51I think we should call it like the Aphrodite suite.
02:55A room for love, you know?
02:57To think about love, to talk about love
02:59and to make love.
03:01And look at the sea.
03:03Don't you think that's nice?
03:04The kids are playing.
03:05I do think it's big enough for a love seat.
03:06Mummy and Daddy can have a bit of...
03:07And Mummy and Daddy can play Mummies and Daddies.
03:10Yes.
03:10Oh, yes.
03:11Now you're talking.
03:11Go back round there.
03:13And then I'll just, after being all romantic,
03:15I'll just squeeze past this person.
03:17Let's squeeze past, squeeze past.
03:20Ooh!
03:21Ooh!
03:22Nearly Daddy became a mummy.
03:24LAUGHTER
03:25LAUGHTER
03:26To get us in the mood for love,
03:37I'm taking Amanda on a road trip to the north-west of Corfu.
03:41MUSIC
03:41Well, it's Sadari.
03:47Now, I went back here in 1997,
03:49and there is this tunnel of love.
03:53And if you go through this tunnel of love,
03:57who you see at the other end is your love of your life.
04:01You find love.
04:02If you go in together, we will have eternal love.
04:07With each other?
04:08With each other.
04:09Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm going alone.
04:11LAUGHTER
04:12I still haven't found love on Corfu,
04:17but hopefully things are looking up.
04:20Canal du Moor is a popular destination for tourists
04:23in search of a soul mate.
04:27Oh, wow.
04:30Oh, my gosh.
04:32We're going in that hole, is that it?
04:35That hole?
04:35Is that the hole?
04:37Isn't it weird?
04:37No, this is a tourist area.
04:39I'm here to find love and no-one's turned up.
04:43Do you reckon someone knows I'm here looking for love
04:45and everyone's gone,
04:46let's get out of Sadari, Alan's here.
04:49LAUGHTER
04:49I can remember when...
04:55It's too choppy to swim today, Alan.
04:57You're going to get smashed against those rocks.
04:59It's not worth being injured for love.
05:02Well, I'd do anything for love, like Meatloaf said,
05:04but I won't do that.
05:05LAUGHTER
05:07I'm not going up there.
05:14Look at that, you can't.
05:15No, you can't.
05:17I think we should just have a paddle.
05:19Yeah? Just dip your toe in.
05:21Yeah. This could be foreplay.
05:26Ooh!
05:27Cold.
05:27That's quite chilly still.
05:30See, it is like your love life in that once you get in,
05:33you get used to it.
05:35Yeah!
05:35Right.
05:37Very shallow.
05:38LAUGHTER
05:39I am just going to get this because it's not good for the ocean.
05:52Look.
05:55This is bad.
05:57Let's hold hands.
06:02We go, we go together, Alan.
06:04Whee!
06:06What was it like in 97?
06:08How many homes were there in 97?
06:09Oh, my...
06:10Well, this...
06:10This was all rock back in the day.
06:13LAUGHTER
06:14This wasn't even here.
06:15It was fields.
06:17Do you know what?
06:18I remember back in 1997, yeah?
06:21Right.
06:21I had this lovely green towel that I used to take everywhere.
06:25LAUGHTER
06:26And...
06:27LAUGHTER
06:28LAUGHTER
06:29Oh, my God.
06:32LAUGHTER
06:33And I've always...
06:35LAUGHTER
06:36Where...
06:36What happened to it?
06:37What happened to it?
06:38LAUGHTER
06:39I might not have found love,
06:53but Amanda and I are inspired to find ways
06:55of bringing romance to our bedroom design
06:58using Corfu's natural beauty.
07:01This is lovely.
07:02So I'm on the beach foraging for driftwood
07:04for an idea I have for our bedside lamps.
07:07I love that one.
07:09The things I do...
07:11..for aesthetics.
07:13..while my inspiration is literally on my doorstep.
07:18Now, do you remember these doors?
07:20They're at the top of the stairs.
07:22Yeah, but I think they're...
07:23We can't reuse it.
07:24It's dead.
07:25You can, you can.
07:25What do you want to do with them?
07:27Headboard.
07:29Make a minute, because, you know,
07:31it's like the Aphrodite Swede.
07:32Right.
07:33You know, we want it to be all about love.
07:35And we need a sturdy headboard.
07:37Do you get what I'm saying?
07:38Yeah.
07:39OK.
07:39If the headboards are rocking, don't come a-knocking.
07:43So...
07:43Everywhere you look in Greece,
07:45when you look at the houses,
07:46you get these shutters and the doors,
07:49and they seem to really care about them.
07:51You see them in all different kinds of colours.
07:53So, I think to bring that outside in is quite clever, really.
07:59This is what I was thinking.
08:01Yeah.
08:02Cutting across here where the letterbox was.
08:04Yeah.
08:05And then putting that up there,
08:06it's like that, that, that, that, all in a line.
08:09It's repurposing, it's reusing, it's recycling,
08:13it's everything that I love as a designer.
08:15It's ridiculous.
08:19That was quick for you.
08:20Yeah.
08:21I believe in second chances.
08:23So, I think it's nice that we've given those doors,
08:26you know, a new lease of life.
08:33Lovely.
08:33I've left the headboard design to Alan,
08:37so I can bring my beach treasure to local artist Sakis,
08:42who creates lighting from Corfu Driftwood.
08:46We make two lamps.
08:48Two lamps from this one?
08:50Yeah, left and right of the bed.
08:51OK.
08:52Lighting is a game-changer in a room.
08:54Just little pockets of light, subtle lighting,
08:57and you can do it really inexpensively.
08:59To make a lamp like the ones in his shop,
09:02Sakis first cuts the wood to size.
09:05Great.
09:06Making sure the ends are flat so he can attach a base.
09:12Then he drills a hole down the centre
09:14for the cable to run through.
09:16Let me have a go at doing this.
09:18Ah.
09:19Yeah, you see?
09:20Ooh!
09:21There she is.
09:25Perfect.
09:26Hello, and welcome to Mandy's.
09:29Whittling hour.
09:31It could be whittering.
09:35And now...
09:37Perfect.
09:38Do you want me to do the light switch on?
09:40Yes.
09:40People pay good money for this.
09:42Yep.
09:44Da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
09:46Aw.
09:47It's working.
09:48Well done.
09:50That's so good.
09:51And now it's for...
09:53No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
09:54It's mine.
09:55You're not selling that.
09:58So cool.
09:59Another one.
10:01I know Alan is very fond of rustic,
10:05but you've got to make the parents feel like
10:07they're in a special, bougie little hotel room.
10:10Not some sort of fisherman's shack.
10:13No more rustic.
10:17No more, no more.
10:18Perfect.
10:18Oh, my gosh.
10:19I love them.
10:20I love them.
10:22At the house, we've cut the old doors down into panels,
10:26given them a quick sand and spruce,
10:28and my headboard is taking shape.
10:30That's great.
10:31Yeah?
10:32Love it.
10:32OK, middle one.
10:33This is the only intimacy I've had in Corfu.
10:40Stop, stop, stop.
10:44There you go.
10:45Oh, my God.
10:46Lovely, right?
10:47Nice one.
10:48Right, I'm going to really just push it now.
10:50Yeah.
10:50I don't care.
10:51What?
10:56Maybe try just, like, doing it a little bit
10:57and a little bit and a little bit.
11:00There you go.
11:01That's noise.
11:02Did you hear it?
11:03It's like a...
11:04If it's going in,
11:06or a...
11:06If it's not.
11:08And even blindfolded operating a screwdriver,
11:11I would know.
11:13And that is a real skill.
11:16This is already looking amazing.
11:21It's tools down for the afternoon
11:31because I've had a call from Julie
11:33at the donkey sanctuary
11:34where we've been volunteering for the summer.
11:37She wants me to meet a new resident
11:39who needs some help settling in.
11:43This is a new horse that arrived yesterday.
11:47Oh, so young.
11:48Oh, my gosh, has someone just abandoned him?
11:51Hello, darling.
11:53He's just adjusting, I think, at the moment.
11:55Oh, my gosh, you're in the right place, darling.
12:00You're in the right place now.
12:03He's spending time with the donkeys
12:05rather than horses
12:06because the horses are a lot older
12:07and a lot bigger than him.
12:11Sometimes a foal is abandoned
12:13when its mother is a working horse
12:14whose owners don't want her taking time out
12:17to nurse her young.
12:18What's his name?
12:20Diogo.
12:21Diogo.
12:22Yes.
12:22Diogo.
12:23There.
12:24He's got a lot to get used to.
12:26I know.
12:28At just three months old,
12:29Diogo's main source of food
12:31will have been his mother's milk,
12:33so he's been reluctant to eat
12:35since arriving at the sanctuary.
12:37He's got a lot to get used to,
12:38but you'll be the kingpin when you'll get bigger.
12:41You'll get bigger and then you'll be fine.
12:43You have lovely red hair.
12:47Oh, it's beautiful.
12:49So beautiful.
12:50It's heartbreaking.
12:52Julie's hoping that by feeding him alongside the donkeys,
12:56he'll feel safe enough to start eating again.
13:00This place is surrounded in love,
13:02but the animals that have come here
13:03haven't been that fortunate,
13:05and the way they still trust humans
13:07and still have an open heart
13:09is something we can all learn, I think.
13:13I feel like the trolley,
13:14you know, when it comes around the hospital.
13:16All the goodies.
13:18Unconditional love and truth.
13:20Yeah.
13:21And we're here to protect them,
13:23not abuse them.
13:26I now need to make myself cry.
13:29It's true, though.
13:34You're being followed.
13:35Come on, Nick.
13:42Does the poll eat the same?
13:45Yes.
13:49Hey.
13:51Are you scared to join in?
13:55Nick, would you like some?
13:57No?
13:58Would you?
14:00You have your own little portion.
14:03Yay.
14:04There we are.
14:06I think he's a bit nervous
14:08to eat with the other ones.
14:11Even though I don't normally
14:12like people crunching in my ear,
14:15I don't mind you crunching in my ear.
14:17Me and Alan are both animal nuts,
14:20and to be able to come down here
14:22and just feel something in your soul
14:23is just beautiful.
14:26It's a really beautiful part
14:27of this whole experience for me.
14:30Oh, I love that dance.
14:36Good.
14:37Oh, good.
14:39At least he's eating.
14:41You know he's all right.
14:42Yes.
14:43Yeah.
14:43He'll settle in.
14:44Yeah.
14:53While Amanda spends the afternoon
14:55at the sanctuary,
14:56my parents are in town,
14:57so I'm taking them to dinner
14:59in Corfu's oldest village.
15:01You've got your sensible shoes on, Mum,
15:05because it's quite cobbly.
15:06Yes, I have, yes.
15:0814th century.
15:09That's when the village was built.
15:11I know you like history, Dad.
15:13What did you call Pompeii?
15:16Right.
15:16The dillness, right?
15:18Oh, talk about embarrassing.
15:25The ghost village of Old Peripheria
15:27lies near the top of the island's
15:29highest peak,
15:30Mount Pantocrator.
15:32Populated since the 1300s,
15:34it was abandoned in the 1960s
15:36when tourism hit Corfu
15:37and its villagers went in search
15:39of their fortunes
15:40nearer the coast.
15:45F***.
15:49Oh, it's the road.
15:53Oh, and that handbrake's on, see?
15:55Right, yeah.
15:57Now preserved as a historic monument,
15:59life is returning
16:00in the form of the odd B&B
16:02and Taverna.
16:03This is cute, isn't it?
16:07What a lovely place.
16:08So I've booked a dinner
16:09to give my parents
16:10a true experience
16:12of rural coffee at Cuisine.
16:15When it comes to food,
16:17my dad will be quite adventurous,
16:20but my mum will not try anything new.
16:23I'm starving, are you?
16:25Here we go.
16:26Oh, here we go.
16:27Wow.
16:27It'll be delicious.
16:28My mum likes fish fingers.
16:32She's like a five-year-old
16:33when it comes to food.
16:36I have Greek salad here.
16:38Lovely.
16:39Bakery amazing.
16:40This is pork
16:41with Greek local societies
16:43and red spicy sauce.
16:45OK.
16:47Now, Mum,
16:47I know you're not a fan of feta,
16:49but do you want some of this?
16:50Just a...
16:51No, I won't.
16:55There you go, Dad.
16:57Do you want some of this, Mum?
16:58No.
16:59I'll...
17:00Come on.
17:04I am.
17:05Big mouthful.
17:07In comes the train.
17:08Choo-choo.
17:10She's suspicious.
17:11We say,
17:12this restaurant
17:13wants you to have a nice meal
17:15so you come back.
17:18But for my mum,
17:19it's like a bush tucker trial.
17:21I have rabbit stew.
17:23Yeah.
17:24Oh, nice.
17:26This is stuffed vine leaves.
17:28Oh, thank you.
17:32This is traditional vine leaf.
17:35Well, don't take the vine bit off.
17:38That's rabbit stew.
17:40Oh, yeah?
17:40Yeah.
17:41Do you want a bit of rabbit?
17:41No, thank you.
17:44Dad, what do you think, love?
17:46Very nice.
17:47Yeah.
17:48We're going to get dessert.
17:50There's a rabbit moose.
17:52Oh, no.
17:53Oh, no.
17:54Oh, my God.
17:55at the house the old bedroom ceilings come out the internal walls are primed and amanda and
18:14i have a plan to give the bedroom a calm yet seductive feel
18:18right you're right mary poppins i've got to carry the look what's this roller gloves whatever that
18:33ashtray we're going to start on there because i really love that really i love that because it
18:40was a gamble i thought i'm gonna go for it you know it is very rustic yes but i actually love it
18:48we're applying a color wash technique to the walls to give a textured appearance of raw plaster
18:54and we've chosen two subtle shades of off-white paint so we're just going to go swish swish swish
19:01swish swish swish swish that is my favorite noise in the world what that what's it called cicadas
19:11yeah they never stop talking all day long huh hmm i wonder what that feels like
19:22how very i think you found your spirit animal amanda
19:29are you sure this is right swish swish these colors are a bit
19:33this is not doing anything you know this is like a room that's meant to be like love passion this is
19:39like this is insipid i think this is boring shall we stop because i do think you're right we're brave
19:46enough to say no it doesn't work i think as an interior designer you've got to learn to say no
19:52and i think sometimes saying as a human you've got to learn to say no we've both got to learn to
19:58say no no we are people pleasers we say yes to everything yes rose wine beer vodka who's though
20:08limoncello back in the room back in the room there was no passion in there needs a bit of passion
20:14to try and ignite the passion we've made a trip to the paint shop and opted for two shades of blush pink
20:20instead right now this is the worry i didn't look at it when she mixed it oh oh oh it's purple it is
20:34purple but that is the color of lust isn't it purple it is now it's sort of lilac god
20:43oh bloody hell stupid but we can't stop it looks like a mistake it is a mistake yeah the thing
20:55it's gone like corned beef purple do you know i'm wondering whether it should have been pale green
21:05oh dear right then
21:13to give us time to rethink we're whisking ourselves off to the dramatic sea cliffs of northwest kofu
21:32oh look
21:36sitting on a rocky headland paleo kastritza monastery dominates the coastline with its striking facade and
21:42sweeping views
21:47look up here i know this is going to make you laugh and it isn't a joke alan but there was a moment when
21:54i was young where i had a little cross and a bible and i would sit in front of it and i had dreams
22:00of becoming a nun but i think loads of kids go through that what like sister amanda exactly i think
22:08you quite like it with no makeup and just like no that's when i knew i couldn't be a nun with a lash
22:14no that's not going to work oh look this is the entrance
22:18do you have a look let's have a look
22:23founded in 1225 the architecture combines byzantine and venetian styles
22:29oh gosh look how opulent that is and paleocastritza remains one of the few active monasteries on the
22:39island oh my gosh is that an olive tree on the tree on that sea i love that should you be covered
22:46up a bit more being in a church as if there's a wimple in lost property or something
22:56i don't know what it's for is it a prayer
23:00oh yeah prayers well it's all in greek
23:03all deceased it's people who've died
23:05oh sad isn't it i'm gonna do my nanny and granddad and then i'm gonna do my little boy theo
23:19goes there and then we just get a candle
23:24we'll just light them over here
23:35it's so lovely i always think whether you're religious or not to come to a place a church
23:49anywhere where you can actually have a moment of still yeah and not think and just be grateful
23:56oh yeah yeah i've always felt like my heart is slowing i know and that's what we need
24:02yeah because we're both always hectic i don't want to get maudlin but when we lost theo there wasn't
24:14one moment where i thought why has this happened to me but there also wasn't a moment where i
24:21sort of blamed god or anything and i just the way i accepted it was to say that he chose me
24:35just for those few months to see what it was like to live and develop and be in the universe and then
24:43the universe took him back now i don't think that's religious no but i let him go back yeah that was my
24:52belief rather than like he went back to heaven as such yeah i felt like he went back into the universe and
24:59he's out there and he's still part of our family yeah you've got to process it somewhere you've got
25:04to make some kind of sense of it i was like gosh i was so lucky to have him for all that time and even
25:14though he was born sleeping he was perfect
25:28and i always always say i'm a mother of three yeah always because i am
25:35oh all right come on you
25:51it's been a labor of love getting the aphrodite suite ready
26:09our horrible purple wall is gone replaced by a more serene shade of green the love seat is almost done
26:18and i'm ready to build my romantic bed canopy
26:24oh i love it this is like a princess bed i love it it looks amazing ready for the finishing touches
26:32gotta look good in this
26:36oh it's nice isn't it that's for two
26:40i made these alan isn't he clever because i'd never even think he looks quite good and rusty
26:47oh yes
26:50she may be the face i can't forget betrays the pleasure or regret
26:59maybe the treasure or the price i have to pay
27:02well we got there in the end oh my gosh it really works it really works
27:12i think this says romance as well like doing the canopy is like an affordable way of having like a
27:19four-poster bed yeah and the wafting curtains as well i wanted the wafting muslin
27:27that was a stroke of genius that i did that i know that it feels chic rustique greek chic rustique
27:36we set out to make this essential room for two people to reconnect and rest
27:47in honor of aphrodite yes might want to put her feet up here do you reckon she might
27:51well move her legs up hopefully
28:07most people next time we make a splash whoa why is my horse river dancing and i learned the art of
28:19beekeeping oh you can't wave her there oh it's your hand as we pour our hearts into the front garden i love you
28:28I love you.
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