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Alan and Amandas Greek Job - Season 1 - Episode 05
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00:01Is this a pair of show, this car?
00:04Suzuki.
00:06Auto.
00:07Search from phone.
00:10Bluetooth connecting.
00:12Look at us being technical.
00:14Oh, my God!
00:17Shoot!
00:18This is in my will to be lowered into the ground.
00:21Bluetooth connecting.
00:22Just remember that.
00:26Disconnected.
00:27Oh, for f***'s sake.
00:30Bluetooth connecting.
00:33Stop.
00:34Oh, my God!
00:39Oh, my God!
00:42Oh, my God!
00:44Oh, my God!
00:44Dancing Queen!
00:46Be the beat from the Tamperee!
00:51Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
00:54Dancing, designing, and demolishing our way through the summer in Corfu.
01:01Amanda and I are transforming a rundown ruin.
01:04Push it.
01:06Oh, my God!
01:07Can you do the split?
01:08Into a luxury family holiday home.
01:11Oh, it's like the cow pack.
01:14We've completed the living and dining room, the children's bedroom, and the kitchen.
01:22Oh, my God.
01:23This is better than I ever thought it would be.
01:26And now we're taking on the main bedroom.
01:31Are you sure we can't repurpose this bed?
01:34No.
01:35I know.
01:36Disgusting.
01:37Sal.
01:37You work better when there's a theme.
01:40This is a bedroom, so I'm thinking Aphrodite.
01:43Oh!
01:44So what?
01:45Like love and lust and...
01:47And pleasure and...
01:48Oh.
01:49Calm.
01:50Well, if the earth moves in here, it'll be subsides.
01:52It looks like it has moved, though.
01:53Look.
01:54The parents' bedroom, I want it to be a sanctuary.
01:58I want them to go in there and go, oh, my God, I remember you.
02:01You know how you do that sometimes?
02:03You just go, oh, my God, this is who we were before we had children.
02:06Let's remember the good times.
02:09That's exactly what Aphrodite said to...
02:13Who did she go out with? Hercules or someone like that?
02:16I love the idea of a full poster.
02:19That would be really nice.
02:20But with...
02:21Every time I see this room, I see the windows open
02:23and I see soft muslin curtains just blowing gently in the wind.
02:27And I think if you're a parent...
02:30Yeah.
02:30..and you've been really good with your kids all day,
02:32it needs to feel like a place of calm and a hopeful place.
02:37Hopeful.
02:37OK, yeah.
02:37Hopeful. You're not too knackered.
02:39No.
02:40But it might be...
02:41You're praying you'll get some.
02:42One half of you's probably praying and the other half's going,
02:45don't touch me!
02:48I think they're like a love seat.
02:51You mean like a window seat?
02:53A window seat.
02:53Could we both fit there?
02:55Shall we see?
02:56I think we should call it like the Aphrodite suite.
02:59A room for love.
03:01You know?
03:02To think about love.
03:03To talk about love.
03:04And to make love.
03:06And look at the sea.
03:08Don't you think that's nice?
03:09The kids are playing...
03:10I do think it's big enough for a love seat.
03:11Mummy and Daddy can have a bit of...
03:12And Mummy and Daddy can play Mummies and Daddies.
03:15Oh, yes.
03:15Now you're talking.
03:16Go back round there.
03:17And then I'll just...
03:19After being all romantic, I'll just squeeze past this person.
03:22Let's squeeze past.
03:24Squeeze past.
03:25Oh!
03:26Oh!
03:27Nearly Daddy became a mummy.
03:29LAUGHTER
03:39To get us in the mood for love, I'm taking Amanda on a road trip to the north-west of
03:45Corfu.
03:46Well, it's Sadari.
03:52Now, I went back here in 1997, and there is this tunnel of love.
03:58And if you go through this tunnel of love, who you see at the upper end is your love of
04:05your life.
04:06You find love.
04:07If you go in together, we will have eternal love.
04:12So...
04:12With each other?
04:13With each other.
04:14Aw.
04:14Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm going alone.
04:17LAUGHTER
04:19I still haven't found love on Corfu, but hopefully things are looking up.
04:24Canal du Moor is a popular destination for tourists in search of a soulmate.
04:31Oh, wow.
04:35Oh, my gosh.
04:37We're going in that hole, is that it?
04:39That hole?
04:40Is that the hole?
04:42Isn't it weird?
04:42No, this is a tourist area.
04:44I'm here to find love and no-one's turned up.
04:47Do you reckon someone knows I'm here looking for love and everyone's gone,
04:51let's...
04:51Back off.
04:52Get out of Sadari, Alan's here.
04:56I can remember when...
04:59It's too choppy to swim today, Alan.
05:02Oh.
05:02You're going to get smashed against those rocks.
05:04It's not worth being injured for love.
05:07I'd do anything for love, like Meatloaf said, but I won't do that.
05:10But I won't do that.
05:17I'm not going up there, look at that, you can't.
05:21No, you can't.
05:22I think we should just have a paddle.
05:24Yeah?
05:25Just dip your toe in.
05:26Yeah.
05:26Yeah.
05:27This could be foreplay.
05:31Ooh!
05:32Cold.
05:32That's quite chilly still.
05:35See, it is like your love life in that once you get in, you get used to it.
05:40Yeah.
05:41Right.
05:42Very shallow.
05:51I am just going to get this because it's not good for the ocean.
05:57Look.
06:00This is bad.
06:04Let's hold hands.
06:07We go, we go together, Alan.
06:09Whee!
06:11What was it like in 97?
06:13How many homes were there in 97?
06:15Oh, my.
06:15Well, this was all rock back in the day.
06:19This wasn't even here.
06:20It was fields.
06:22Do you know what?
06:23I remember back in 1997, yeah?
06:26Right.
06:26I had this lovely green towel that I used to take everywhere.
06:32And...
06:35Oh, my God.
06:38And I've always wondered where?
06:41What happened to it?
06:43What happened to it?
06:44What happened to it?
06:56I might not have found love, but Amanda and I are inspired to find ways of bringing romance
07:01to our bedroom design using Corfu's natural beauty.
07:06This is lovely.
07:07So I'm on the beach foraging for driftwood for an idea I have for our bedside lamps.
07:12I love that one.
07:14The things I do for aesthetics.
07:18While my inspiration is literally on my doorstep.
07:23Now, do you remember these doors?
07:25They're at the top of the stairs.
07:27Yeah, but I think they're...
07:28We can't reuse it.
07:29It's that...
07:30You can, you can.
07:30What do you want to do with them?
07:32Headboard.
07:34Make a minute because, you know, it's like the Aphrodite Swede.
07:37Right.
07:38You know, we want it to be all about love.
07:40And we need a sturdy headboard.
07:42Do you get what I'm saying?
07:43Yeah.
07:44Okay.
07:44If the headboards are rocking, don't come a-knocking.
07:48So...
07:49Everywhere you look in Greece, when you look at the houses, you get these shutters and the doors,
07:54and they seem to really care about them.
07:56You see them in all different kinds of colours.
07:58So I think to bring that outside in is quite clever, really.
08:04This is what I was thinking.
08:05Yeah.
08:07Cutting across here where the letterbox was.
08:09Yeah.
08:10And then putting that up there, it's like that, that, that, that, all in a line.
08:14It's repurposing.
08:16It's reusing.
08:17It's recycling.
08:18It's everything that I love as a designer.
08:20It's ridiculous.
08:24That was quick for you.
08:25Yeah.
08:26I believe in second chances.
08:28So I think it's nice that we've given those doors, you know, a new lease of life.
08:38Lovely.
08:39I've left the headboard design to Alan.
08:43So I can bring my beach treasure to local artist Sakis, who creates lighting from Corfu Driftwood.
08:51We make two lamps.
08:53Two lamps from this one?
08:54Yeah.
08:55Left and right of the bed.
08:56Okay.
08:57Lighting is a game changer in a room.
08:59Just little pockets of light, subtle lighting.
09:02And you can do it really inexpensively.
09:04To make a lamp like the ones in his shop, Sakis first cuts the wood to size.
09:10Great.
09:11Making sure the ends are flat so he can attach a base.
09:16Then he drills a hole down the centre for the cable to run through.
09:21Let me have a go at doing this.
09:23Ah.
09:23There you see.
09:24Ooh.
09:26There she is.
09:30Perfect.
09:31Hello.
09:32Welcome to Mandy's wittling hour.
09:36How could we wittering?
09:40And now.
09:42Perfect.
09:43Do you want me to do the light switch on?
09:45Yes.
09:45People pay good money for this.
09:47Nope.
09:49Da-da-da-da-da-da.
09:51Aw.
09:52It's working.
09:53Aw.
09:54Well done.
09:55That's so good.
09:57And now it's for...
09:58No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
09:59It's mine.
10:00You're not selling that.
10:02Okay.
10:03That's so cool.
10:04Another one.
10:06I know Alan is very fond of rustic, but you've got to make the parents feel like they're
10:12in a special, bougie little hotel room.
10:14Not some sort of fisherman's shack.
10:21No more rustic.
10:22No more.
10:23Perfect.
10:23Oh, my gosh.
10:24I love them.
10:25I love them.
10:27At the house, we've cut the old doors down into panels, given them a quick sand and spruce
10:32and my headboard is taking shape.
10:35That's great.
10:36Yeah?
10:37Love it.
10:37Okay.
10:38Middle one.
10:40This is the only intimacy I've had in Corfu.
10:45Stop, stop, stop.
10:49There you go.
10:50Oh, my God.
10:51Lovely, right?
10:52Next one.
10:53Right, I'm going to really just push it now.
10:55Yeah.
10:55I don't care.
11:00What?
11:00Maybe try just, like, doing it a little bit and a little bit and a little bit.
11:05There you go.
11:06That's the noise.
11:07Did you hear it?
11:07It's like a, if it's going in, or a, if it's not.
11:13And even blindfolded, operating a screwdriver, I would know.
11:18And that is a real skill.
11:21This is already looking amazing.
11:35It's tools down for the afternoon because I've had a call from Julie at the donkey sanctuary
11:39where we've been volunteering for the summer.
11:42She wants me to meet a new resident who needs some help settling in.
11:48This is a new horse that arrived yesterday.
11:52Oh, so young.
11:53Yeah.
11:53Oh, my gosh.
11:54Has someone just abandoned him?
11:56Hello, darling.
11:58He's just adjusting, I think, at the moment.
12:00Oh, my gosh.
12:01You're in the right place, darling.
12:05You're in the right place now.
12:08Are you spending time with the donkeys rather than horses?
12:11Because the horses are a lot older and a lot bigger than him.
12:16Sometimes a foal is abandoned when its mother is a working horse
12:19whose owners don't want her taking time out to nurse her young.
12:24What's his name?
12:25Diogo.
12:26Diogo.
12:27Yes.
12:27There.
12:29He's got a lot to get used to.
12:31I know.
12:32Oh.
12:33At just three months old, Diogo's main source of food
12:36will have been his mother's milk.
12:38So he's been reluctant to eat since arriving at the sanctuary.
12:42You've got a lot to get used to, but you'll be the kingpin
12:44when you'll get bigger.
12:46You'll get bigger and then you'll be fine.
12:49Your lovely red hair.
12:51Oh, it's beautiful.
12:53So beautiful.
12:55It's heartbreaking.
12:57Julie's hoping that by feeding him alongside the donkeys,
13:01he'll feel safe enough to start eating again.
13:05This place is surrounded in love,
13:07but the animals that have come here haven't been that fortunate.
13:10And the way they still trust humans
13:12and still have an open heart
13:14is something we can all learn, I think.
13:18I feel like the trolley, you know,
13:19when it comes around the hospital.
13:21All the goodies.
13:23Unconditional love and truth.
13:26Yeah.
13:26And we're here to protect them,
13:27not abuse them.
13:30I don't need myself, come on.
13:34It's true though.
13:39You're being followed.
13:41Come on then.
13:47Does the fall eat the same?
13:50Yes.
13:54Hey.
13:56Are you scared to join in?
14:00Would you like some?
14:02No?
14:03Would you?
14:05You have your own little portion.
14:08Yeah.
14:09There we are.
14:11I think he's a bit nervous to eat with the other ones.
14:16You know, I don't normally like people crunching in my ear.
14:20I don't mind you crunching in my ear.
14:22Me and Alan are both animal nuts.
14:25And to be able to come down here
14:27and just feel something in your soul,
14:28it's just beautiful.
14:31It's a really beautiful part
14:33of this whole experience for me.
14:37Oh, I love that.
14:39Dance.
14:41Good.
14:43Good.
14:44Good.
14:44At least he's eating.
14:46You know he's alright.
14:47Yes.
14:48Yeah.
14:48He'll settle in.
14:49Yeah.
14:58While Amanda spends the afternoon at the sanctuary,
15:01my parents are in town.
15:02So I'm taking them to dinner in Corfu's oldest village.
15:08You got your sensible shoes on, Mum,
15:10because it's quite cobbly.
15:11Yes, I have, yes.
15:1214th century.
15:14That's when the village was built.
15:16I know you like history, though.
15:18What did you call Pompeii?
15:21Well, the builders, right?
15:24Talk about embarrassing.
15:30The ghost village of Old Perifia lies near the top of the island's highest peak,
15:35Mount Pantocrator.
15:36Populated since the 1300s,
15:39it was abandoned in the 1960s when tourism hit Corfu
15:42and its villagers went in search of their fortunes nearer the coast.
15:50F***ing hell.
15:52Oh!
15:52Oh!
15:53Oh!
15:53Oh!
15:54Oh!
15:54Oh!
15:55Oh!
15:56Oh, it's the road!
15:58Oh!
15:58And the handbrake's on, see?
16:00Right, yeah.
16:02Oh!
16:02Now preserved as a historic monument,
16:04life is returning in the form of the odd B&B and Taverna.
16:10This is cute, isn't it?
16:12What a lovely place.
16:13So I've booked a dinner to give my parents a true experience of rural coffee at Cuisine.
16:20When it comes to food, my dad will be quite adventurous,
16:25but my mum will not try anything new.
16:28I'm starving, are you?
16:30Here we go.
16:31Oh, here we go.
16:32Wow.
16:32It'd be delicious.
16:33My mum likes fish fingers.
16:37She's like a five-year-old when it comes to food.
16:40I have Greek salad.
16:42Here.
16:43Lovely.
16:44This is pork with Greek local societies and red spicy sauce.
16:50OK.
16:52Now, mum, I know you're not a fan of feta, but do you want some of this?
16:55Just a...
16:56Just a...
16:58No, I won't.
17:00There you go, Dad.
17:02And do you want some of this, Mum?
17:03No, I'll...
17:08Come on.
17:09I am.
17:10Big mouthful.
17:12In comes the train.
17:13Choo-choo.
17:14She's suspicious.
17:16We say, this restaurant wants you to have a nice meal, so you come back.
17:22But for my mum, it's like a bush tucker trial.
17:26I have rabbit stew.
17:28Here.
17:29Oh, nice.
17:31This is stuffed vine leaves.
17:33Oh, thank you.
17:37This is traditional vine leaves.
17:40Well, don't take the vine bit off.
17:42Oh, God.
17:43That's rabbit stew.
17:45Oh, yeah?
17:45Yeah.
17:46Do you want a bit of rabbit?
17:46No, thank you.
17:49Dad, what do you think, love?
17:51Very nice.
17:52Yeah.
17:53We're going to get dessert.
17:55There's a rabbit mousse.
17:58Oh, no.
17:59Oh, no.
18:00Oh, no.
18:00Oh, no.
18:01Oh, no.
18:28Right.
18:29Are you all right, Mary Poppins?
18:30Well, listen.
18:31I've got to carry them.
18:33I've got to carry them.
18:33Look.
18:33What's this?
18:34Roller.
18:35Gloves.
18:37Whatever that.
18:38Ashtray.
18:39We're going to start on there because I really love that.
18:43Really?
18:43I love that.
18:45Because it was a gamble.
18:46I thought, I'm going to go for it.
18:47You know?
18:48It is very rustic.
18:50Yes.
18:51But I actually love it.
18:53We're applying a colour wash technique to the walls to give a textured appearance of raw
18:58plaster.
18:59And we've chosen two subtle shades of off-white paint.
19:03So, we're just going to go swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish.
19:09That is my favourite noise in the world.
19:12What?
19:13What?
19:13That.
19:14What's it called?
19:15Cicadas?
19:16Yeah.
19:17They never stop talking all day long.
19:21Hmm.
19:22I wonder what that feels like.
19:27How very fair.
19:28I think you've found your spirit animal, Amanda.
19:34Are you sure this is right?
19:36Swish, swish, swish.
19:37These colours are a bit...
19:38This is not doing anything.
19:40You know, this is like a room that's meant to be, like, love, passion.
19:44This is like...
19:45This is insipid.
19:46Hmm.
19:47I think this is boring.
19:48Shall we stop?
19:49Because I do think you're right.
19:51We're brave enough to say, no, it doesn't work.
19:54I think, as an interior designer, you've got to learn to say no.
19:57And I think sometimes, saying no...
19:59As a human, you've got to learn to say no.
20:01Yes.
20:02We've both got to learn to say no.
20:03It's human.
20:04I know.
20:04We are people pleasers.
20:05We say yes to everything.
20:07Yes.
20:08Rosé.
20:08I don't know.
20:09Wine, beer, vodka.
20:12Ouzo.
20:12Ouzo, limoncello.
20:14Back in the room.
20:14Back in the room.
20:15There was no passion in there.
20:16It needs a bit of passion.
20:17Yeah.
20:18To try and ignite the passion, we've made a trip to the paint shop
20:22and opted for two shades of blush pink instead.
20:27Right.
20:29Now, this is the worry.
20:31I didn't look at it when she mixed it.
20:34Ooh.
20:36Ooh.
20:37Ooh, it's purple.
20:38It is purple.
20:40Well, that is the colour of lust, isn't it?
20:42Purple?
20:43It is now.
20:44Salt of lilac.
20:45Mm.
20:47God.
20:50Oh, bloody hell.
20:52I feel stupid.
20:53But we can't stop.
20:54It looks like a mistake.
20:56It is a mistake.
20:59Yeah, the thing is, it's gone like corned beef purple.
21:03Do you know, I'm wondering whether it should have been pale green.
21:10Oh, dear.
21:12Right, then.
21:27To give us time to rethink, we're whisking ourselves off to the dramatic sea cliffs of north-west Corfu.
21:37Oh, yuck.
21:40Sitting on a rocky headland, Paliokastritza Monastery dominates the coastline with its striking facade and sweeping views.
21:52Look up here.
21:55I know this is going to make you laugh, and it isn't a joke, Alan, but there was a moment
21:59when I was young where I had a little cross and a bible, and I would sit in front of
22:04it, and I had dreams of becoming a nun.
22:06But I think loads of kids go through that.
22:09What, like Sister Amanda?
22:12Exactly.
22:13I bet you'd quite like it with no make-up and just like...
22:16No, that's when I knew I couldn't be a nun with a lash.
22:19No.
22:19That's not going to work.
22:21Oh, look.
22:21This is the entrance.
22:23Shall we have a look?
22:24Let's have a look.
22:28Founded in 1225, the architecture combines Byzantine and Venetian styles.
22:35Oh, gosh, look how opulent that is.
22:40And Paliokastritza remains one of the few active monasteries on the island.
22:45Oh, my gosh, is that an island tree on that sea?
22:50I love that.
22:51Shouldn't you be covered up a bit more, being in a church?
22:54As if there's a wimble in lost property or something.
23:01I don't know what it's for.
23:03Is it a prayer?
23:05Oh, yeah, prayers.
23:06Well, it's all in Greek.
23:08All deceased is people who've died.
23:11Oh.
23:12Sad, isn't it?
23:14I'm going to do my nanny and granddad.
23:17And then I'm going to do my little boy, Theo.
23:23Go, Sarah, and then we just get a candle out.
23:28Would you slide them over here?
23:31Oh.
23:48It's so lovely.
23:50I always think, whether you're religious or not, to come to a place, a church, anywhere, where you can actually
23:55have a moment of still.
23:57Yeah.
23:58And not think.
23:59And just be grateful.
24:01Oh, yeah, yeah.
24:02I almost feel like my heart is slowing down.
24:05I know.
24:05And that's what we need.
24:07Yeah.
24:07Because we're both always hectic.
24:11I don't want to get maudlin.
24:14But when we lost Theo, there wasn't one moment where I thought, why has this happened to me?
24:22Mm-hmm.
24:24But there also wasn't a moment where I sort of blamed God or anything.
24:32Mm-hmm.
24:33And I just, the way I accepted it was to say that he chose me just for those few months
24:42to see what it was like to live and develop and be in the universe.
24:48And then the universe took him back.
24:50Now, I don't think that's religious.
24:52No.
24:53But I let him go back.
24:54Yeah.
24:55And that was my belief rather than, like, he went back to heaven as such.
25:01Yeah, yeah.
25:02I felt like he went back into the universe and he's out there and he's still part of our family.
25:06Yeah.
25:07You've got to process it some way.
25:09You've got to make some kind of sense, haven't you?
25:11I like that's the only way I could make sense of it.
25:12I was like, gosh, I was so lucky to have him for all that time.
25:18And even though he was born sleeping, he was perfect.
25:33And I always, always say I'm a mother of three.
25:37Yeah.
25:38Always.
25:39Because I am.
25:42Right.
25:42Oh, come on, you.
25:44Come on, you.
25:47Love you.
26:09It's been a labour of love getting the Aphrodite suite ready.
26:14Our horrible purple wall is gone, replaced by a more serene shade of green.
26:20The love seat is almost done.
26:22And I'm ready to build my romantic bed canopy.
26:28Ooh, I love it.
26:31This is like a princess bed.
26:33I love it.
26:34It looks amazing.
26:35Ready for the finishing touches.
26:37God, I look good in this.
26:41Oh, it's nice, isn't it?
26:42That's material.
26:44I made these, Alan.
26:47Isn't he clever?
26:47It's clever.
26:48It's clever.
26:48It looks quite good and rusty.
26:52Oh, yes.
26:55She may be the face I can't forget.
27:00The trace of pleasure or regret.
27:03May be the treasure or the price I have to pay.
27:09Well, we got there in the end.
27:11Oh, my gosh.
27:12It really works.
27:13It really works.
27:17I think this says romance as well.
27:20Like, doing the canopy is, like, an affordable way of having, like, a four-poster bed.
27:25Yeah.
27:26And the wafting curtains is what I like.
27:28I wanted the wafting muslin.
27:32That was a stroke of genius.
27:34I did that.
27:36I did that.
27:36It feels chic rustique.
27:40Greek chic rustique.
27:43We set out to make this essential room for two people to reconnect and rest.
27:52In honour of Aphrodite.
27:53Yes.
27:54Might want to put her feet up here, do you reckon she might?
27:56Well, put her legs up, hopefully.
28:06Is she...
28:15Next time...
28:17We make a splash.
28:19Whoa, whoa.
28:20Why is my horse river dancing?
28:22And I learn the art of beekeeping.
28:25Oh, you get away from the bear!
28:28Oh, it's your hand.
28:29As we pour our hearts into the front garden.
28:32I love you.
28:33I love you.
28:34I love you.
28:37I love you.
28:46I love you.
28:54Some love waiting for you
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