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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks A b M.

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Speaker 2: The Man with the Best Job in the World that

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Speaker 2: travel corresponded Mike Yardley's here.

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Speaker 3: Hey Mike, good morning Jack. I'm so pleased you had

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Speaker 3: such a great time. And Rara Tongua. How much ikamata

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Speaker 3: did you consume?

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Speaker 2: I consumed a lot of ikamata, I do you know.

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Speaker 2: I basically just alternated between the fruits ikamata and like

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Speaker 2: fried fish, sandwiches or burgers. I just, oh my god,

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Speaker 2: this is so there is just there is there are

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Speaker 2: a few things in this world that I think can

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Speaker 2: compare with them. With raw fish and with deep fried

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Speaker 2: fresh fish. Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, absolutely delicious. So no,

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Speaker 2: I loved my time there. Actually, you know, it felt

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Speaker 2: and felt silly. It's just like the obvious things I

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Speaker 2: was saying earlier in the show that you know, like

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Speaker 2: I'm always surprised, and I don't know why I'm surprised

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Speaker 2: when I go to Pacific Islands, and I'm always surprised

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Speaker 2: by how lush and green they are.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and those those peaks that's I kind of look

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Speaker 3: like Jurassic I.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly it. So I did that. Of course, I

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Speaker 2: did the cross island walk and through the needle on

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Speaker 2: on Raratonga and when I got to up the top

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Speaker 2: there I my wife was getting a massage while I

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Speaker 2: was doing this, So I did alone, each to their

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Speaker 2: own and I met a lovely young couple up there,

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Speaker 2: and that was what they said to me. And they said, oh,

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Speaker 2: this is kind of like Jurassic PARKA. How is that? Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 2: it's beautiful. Anyway, we are focusing on another fairly warm

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Speaker 2: island this morning, Corfu your top bites and sites and

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Speaker 2: Corfu and Corfu is I mean, like ludicrously close to

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Speaker 2: the coast of Albania, right you come on, You could

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Speaker 2: swim it, couldn't you.

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Speaker 3: You could, you really could it and you wouldn't have

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Speaker 3: to be an Olympian. It's just three kilimeters across the water.

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Speaker 2: So this north stretch to work out three k's of

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Speaker 2: swimming is not nothing. Yeah, yes, but I mean it's

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Speaker 2: yeah yeah.

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Speaker 3: But about car Fevers, it feels so on Greek even

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Speaker 3: though it is Greece's northeastern outpost. And if you look

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Speaker 3: at a map you'll notice that Italy is so much

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Speaker 3: closer than Athens. So even though it is Greek, the

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Speaker 3: architecture is just a mishmash of all the conquerors who

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Speaker 3: have been enticed to corfe as much as holiday makers.

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Speaker 3: It's Venechean bench. In fact, it's the Venetians who left

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Speaker 3: the bigness calling card because they ruled the roost for

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Speaker 3: four hundred years. So you've got these magnificently colored toundhouses,

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Speaker 3: neoclassical villas. The landscape, the countryside is just crowned with

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Speaker 3: all these pastor painted hilltowns. It is a gorgeous, gorgeous island.

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Speaker 2: Oh nice, would you say it's the greenest of Greeks,

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Speaker 2: of the Greek island?

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Speaker 3: Yes, rare tongue of green, actually, Jack, It is probably

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Speaker 3: because of the climate. It's more Adriatic than Mediterranean, so yeah,

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Speaker 3: a lot more rainfall. At times when you're on the

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Speaker 3: Corfu Trail around the island, it's like you're looking at

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Speaker 3: an Impressionist painting because there's all of these time outed

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Speaker 3: farmhouses and cottages virtually swallowed in boogamvillia and wisteria and jasmine.

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Speaker 3: It is just so verdant. And the high you climb

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Speaker 3: on that Corfu trail, the more achingly beautiful. The perspectives

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Speaker 3: become between sea and sky. So yes, definitely at some

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Speaker 3: time to hit the coastal trailers around the island.

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Speaker 2: Mike, what's so impressive about the Old Fortress?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm a James Bond junkie, so when I went

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Speaker 3: to the Old Fortress, I thought, oh my god, I

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Speaker 3: can see that Mercedes being kicked off the side of

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Speaker 3: a cliff and for your eyes only, So yes, if

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Speaker 3: you are a James Bond aficionado, you may well know

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Speaker 3: that for your eyes only was shot almost entirely on Corfu,

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Speaker 3: and a lot of the scenes happened around the Old Fortress,

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Speaker 3: and it's this incredible fortification which the Venetians built to

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Speaker 3: keep the Ottomans at bay. But the thing to do, Jack,

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Speaker 3: because it is a really good purch to buy the

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Speaker 3: old town. The thing to do is go there really

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Speaker 3: early because Corfu is a big cruise port, so you'll

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Speaker 3: get dow for people disgorging from those ships. At around

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Speaker 3: nine o'clock in the morning. Go there before that, walk

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Speaker 3: across the moat, head up the tower of the Old

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Speaker 3: Fortress and you will get the most magical view across

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Speaker 3: the watercolor patchwork of terra cotta rooftops of the old

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's a great tip, thank you. They played cricket

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Speaker 2: on Corfu.

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Speaker 3: Yes, next to the old Fortress, they've got this sprawling

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Speaker 3: square they call the spi Andada. It's the biggest public

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Speaker 3: square in Greece. It's lash, it's leafy, it's full of life,

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Speaker 3: but pricks the curiosity and apparently Corfiots as they are called,

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Speaker 3: are cricket and it's obviously a hangover from British rule.

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Speaker 3: But if you go there on a Sunday you will

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Speaker 3: see so many people playing cricket. They are just obsessed

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Speaker 3: by it and then flinking one side of the square.

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Speaker 3: Another really cool area to check out is this enormous

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Speaker 3: long arcape building called the Leston and it was actually

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Speaker 3: built by Napoleon. He wanted it to resemble the Rue

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Speaker 3: de Rivoli in Paris. So it is absolutely stuffed with

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Speaker 3: the best coffeehouses in Corfu. Good.

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Speaker 2: So, what are some of the highlights in the old town.

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Speaker 3: Well, it is a jumble of Venetian style of buildings,

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Speaker 3: but really cheerfully painted in Oka and Rose Hughes and

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Speaker 3: I just love getting lost in the old town. I've

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Speaker 3: got a fabulous medieval quarter called the Kimpiallo and that

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Speaker 3: is all you know, your skinny hoes and at Moscow

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Speaker 3: Lore they do great gelato in Corfe. Definitely check out

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Speaker 3: the kumquat shops in Corfu. It is quint senral Corfou

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Speaker 3: so come quote. Those tiny egg shaped fruit are like

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Speaker 3: they like miniature gods. They found you away from China

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Speaker 3: to Corfu sometime in the eighteenth century, and Corfu has

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Speaker 3: made up their own So come quat liqueur absolutely delicious,

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Speaker 3: but even better jack the candied and glazed kumquats. Buy

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Speaker 3: a box of those. They are the perfect companion on

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Speaker 3: the Corfu trail.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I'm convinced. Why is Corfoud so popular at Easter?

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, they go totally crazy. It's just a

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Speaker 3: riot of festivity and a lot of locals. They celebrate

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Speaker 3: Easter by having clay pots from higher above out there

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Speaker 3: apartment buildings, smashing them onto the cobbled lanes below. So

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Speaker 3: if you are going there for Orthodox Easter, keep that

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Speaker 3: coming down. But it's all about expelling evil spirits. Then

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Speaker 3: they get sloshed on the kumquat licure and they have

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Speaker 3: eighteen philharmonia orchestras that to the streets around Easter. So

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Speaker 3: it's it's pretty pretty loud, Yeah, pretty zy, very good.

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Speaker 2: What about good eats in town?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two signature corfe itt bite. I do recommend pesta sado.

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Speaker 3: It's wretch beef and tomato stew. But they serve it

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Speaker 3: with pasta. It is such a good mix. And if

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Speaker 3: you are a fan of eggplants, and the Greeks do

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Speaker 3: love eggplant, in Corfu they do what they call pasta

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Speaker 3: kio egg plants. So this egg plant is fried up

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Speaker 3: with cheese porks and army sliced boiled eggs. It's baked

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Speaker 3: in the oven then topped with tomato sauce. That is

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Speaker 3: a melon a half.

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Speaker 2: That sounds great, oh good. And beyond the old town

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Speaker 2: where is good?

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Speaker 3: Well, obviously Corfo is loaded with lots of dreamy bays

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Speaker 3: and beaches. My pick would be a place called Palo Castritza.

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Speaker 3: It's this chic beachfront village backed by dramatic claffs, mountains

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Speaker 3: carpeted and cypress and fur. But the thing about it,

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Speaker 3: it's west facing, So it's the primo spot for long evenings,

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Speaker 3: perfect sunsets and lots of kumquat cocktails.

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Speaker 2: I go, hey, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Mike.

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Speaker 2: Oh that sounds incredible, Beck, Yeah, oh very good. We'll

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Speaker 2: put Mike's tips for enjoying the pints and sites in

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Speaker 2: Corfu up. On the News Talk, he'd be Website News Talks.

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Speaker 2: everything from our show, next up Jason Pye a very

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