Why The World’s Most EXPENSIVE Chateaus Are In VILLEFRANCHE SUR MER.
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2024
- Why The World’s Most EXPENSIVE Villas Are In VILLEFRANCHE SUR MER
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Sometimes less is more. Thanks guys, hope you are doing well.
You too!
do a video bargain basement property in VILLEFRANCHE!
happy new year... it is in Monaco where the sale of a penthouse smashed world records... talking about the Tour Odeon penthouse..
Indeed it has a water slide!
I am sorry you were unwell. This is a very cool video. I really like your jacket; probably more than the villas.
Me too
Happy New Year! It's great to see you all recovered and ready for more adventures, stay safe and of course, stay charged :)
Thanks and HNY!
Hi and thank you for sharing your life in France with us once again.
Could you make one of your little cameos about the implications of living in that beautiful country under the Schengen Agreement.
Best wishes for the coming year to you both.
Thanks. Do you mean the current visa arraignments for non French nationals?
Lovely holiday homes. However, we have still got Sandbanks and posh Blackpool. Lytham St Annes.🤔
Better golf in Lytham!
Don't led astray by the renaissance ceiling painting and gold leaf.... You know the owners.. When in residence... Can't sleep at nights from tbe "Audacity" of the decoration
Indeed
Love this kind of video. The history of your area is second to none.😊
Keep them coming 👍
Thanks Brian. I have a plan
Happy New Year to Tim, Mr Boo and Twiggy.
You mentioned SAFRA and I worked for the bank that bought the SAFRA Republic Bank and then the Mr.SAFRA that made a small fortune from selling his bank died in a fire at his flat in Monaco 😮 and the butler did it!!
And there’s another story behind that!
Ahhhhh...Villefranche, miss it.
So lovely to see you back on your adventures ♥️
Just watched my first 2024 installment of your adventures after a gruelling day at work. Glad to see the AMI in action once again and of course yourselves.The last couple of days it's been near freezing here in the Midlands and I have not used the AMI today as the local climb to work and back was a struggle. Maybe next week I'll try again. Anything below 8C and it's not an easy trip. Motorists here are not very forgiving and show no mercy. Again thanks for a few minutes of pure escapism and relaxation. Thanks again. Sean.
I can imagine it’s tough in the very cold. We occasionally get a sense of how slow it can go
Thanks for the response. Hope you're keeping warm. Have you seen the SILENCE 04 quadracycle car. Very nice looking, just wondering if it's popular over there as they sell them from a dealer in Birmingham.
Wow! I have missed you guys! Thanks again!
Thanks
To your health!
Happy New Year to you both , another fabulously entertaining vlog, you brighten up our grey weather here in the UK 🎉😂
Thanks Michelle
Terrific episode to start out the New Year. Love yours & Mr Boos investigative research of some housing history of the French Riviera. Very informative. Twiggy looking great as always. Thanks again for sharing your adventures!!
We’re just nosey! Happy New Year
Happy New Year and glad your health is on the mend. Also glad you allowed yourselves to dis-connect. Much deserved though I know we weren't the only ones who missed you. Thanks for today.
We were wiped. Happy New Year!
Thanks very much
Totally absorbing! Thank you Tim and Mr Boo. Bonne année ! I wonder who bought the zoo on Cap Ferrat and what did they created? I do know for a fact they did not like a guy on his run taking a photos of the public notice board about the project ... very intimidating!
I’m saying nowt
Amazing!!
Glad to see you are both looking well ❤ happy new year 🎉
Well ish!
@@MeandMonAmibetter than you were both looking in your last video anyway, hopefully you’re coughs will be gone soon and you’re be back on your riviera adventures ❤
Fantastic video, loved it
Thanks
Happy New Year, glad you are feeling better.
And to you Steve
Glad to see your both feeling better!
Twiggy looks very content.❤
King Leopold was a extremely nasty character.
In 1899, in his 65th year, is when he took Caroline Lacroix, a 16-year-old French prostitute as his mistress, they had two children.
When he died after being together for ten years, she inherited a fortune. She spent in one day on clothes, the equivalent in today's money over 3 million dollars.
All blood money from the Belgian Congo.
Indeed I think the slave stuff was pretty nasty too
Hi,glad to see you both out again,happy new yr
Happy new year!!
Nice one. All that driving and no charging necessary.
I knew a Monaco, 'part time,' resident and as he was never there, he would leave the appartement lights on timers, as the neighbours were not below snitching on, Well, anyone , really.
It's a sort of police state. Most of the wealthy faun over the royal family to a ridiculous degree. I was told by a resident, that on the princes birthday, they checked on whether you displayed the Monaco flag. If not, it was noted. Not sure if true , but?
Read the book' PALACE' by Christiane de Massey, one of the family, for a better idea of how dysfunctional they are. It's like Dallas by the sea.
I’m saying nowt (again!)
Have a good healthy 2024 and may your wishes come true..thanks for the show around some of the villas we only can dream of..🎉😅
Happy New Year Both.
Really enjoyed this video. You mentioned about the “stories for another time”, please tell them. I love it when you’ve done vids on the history of the Riviera. Have watched your “Incredible Walks” series a couple of times.
Glad you’re both feeling better
Thanks. I have plans to do more.. I have many plans..
Yes, yes and more yes, your back, love it
Happy New Year Twiggy, Mr Boo and Tim. We have really enjoyed your tales for the past couple of years - hope there is plenty to come! Hope those nasty coughs go away soon.
Happy new year! They’ve gone, just!
hope you feel better soon
Happy new year gentlemen
Happy new year!
Oh if I had €45m! That villa is perfect- not too big. No harm dreaming eh! Glad you’re both now fully recovered and Happy New Year to you too ❤
And to you Andy. Not sure I could face the gardening bill!
Fab vlog ……..good to see you both meaning 2 of you back at it after your horrid illness Xx
Good to be back!
HPpy New Year so glad you’re both better. Loved that tour and a nice change. Love looking at other peoples houses and what houses they were. Love little Twigs on her blanket that was such a kind thing to do . I particularly love Mr Boos face behind you sometimes after your comments it cracks me up…..looking forward to 2024 adventures, staying charged. Xxx
Thanks Linda. Twigs loves her blankie!
Hi, great to see you back. Great video - fascinating subject. If and when I buy the villa I'll invite you round for a cuppa :)
We’ll be there
Bonne Année les deux et la petit chien,Twiggy, glad you are recovered😍😘
Mister Me and Mister Boo and Elton and Twiggy 🐶🐕 'Russian Banker' 😂😂bloody excellent Tim! 👌how the other half live eh??? And they say crime doesn't pay 🤔🤔mmmmmm...far be it from me to say that some of these properties are bought with 'dodgy money' 😉😉 love Twiggs blanket 🐕🐶 good to see ya survival of the Christmas lergy Tim & Mister Boo.😊stay safe and well and obviously stay charged ❤😅🎉
All honest and above board!; Happy New Year!
@@MeandMonAmi I believe ya ! Happy New Year to you all too 😊
That’s what French Riviera is all about. Great video guys 👍
Thanks
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That doesn’t sound great. It’s a good idea but maybe needs another go?
Happy New Year Tim and Mr. Boo! Lovely to see you back after the holidays...I felt your pain having been sick with that nasty what ever it was over Christmas too. The cough, congestion, and fatigue was awful. Mine lasted from the 19th-30 which is short considering some are saying they still cough after 3 weeks! Drink loads of ginger/honey/turmeric tea and you will blast the last remains of that nasty bug to smithereens!...I loved your trip to these villas and to hear of their history. Incredible! One wonders what people do in enormous palaces like these? They take up so much real estate, yet I'm sure that most of them are empty 90% of the time! What does that do for the economy in the area? Mind you, the taxes they pay must be out of this world! .....Get well soon!
Everyone seems to have had it and it was bloody horrid!
Great video. Really informative. Loved it.
Thanks Debra
Happy New Year indeed! To both of you and Twigs! Ah, so I wasn't the only one visited by Mr. Covid on the 31th of december.. What a delight he was.. Still coughing my lungs out today..
I really liked the juxtaposition of the whine of the electric motor in Elton and those über expensive homes.
Those people don't know what to do with their money, while many others try to make ends meet.
Still, such beautiful pictures again. Really nice!
And everybody wants to say they live in Monaco, but nobody actually wants to LIVE there. I liked that one 😁Yeah, why live in a very crowded place if you can live on one of those areas in France in stead..... I would...
Oh, and if I find 45 million in a dusty corner of my bank account, who knows....
It seems tout le monde had the lurgi
@@MeandMonAmiYeah, I heard it from EVERYWHERE! I'm still coughing, 1,5 weeks later. Perhaps I'm a tad impatient though 😅 Still, I'm sure you've had better weather the last week. It was a bit chilly at -7C...
Very happy New Year and many adventures thanks for the beautiful videos
Happy new year!
@@MeandMonAmithank you, it has started well, my ami arrived this week, I am now testing and installing them, but I cannot get the decorative rims on the wheels
Welcome back guys, Happy New Year and I hope you had a nice birthday Tim, keep em coming and until them stay charged
Thanks Bobby
Happy new year glad you are better
Happy new year!
Good to see you back again & in fine fettle ( bar Mr Boo’s cough)
Happy & healthy 2024. Who looked after Twiggy when you were down & out in Villefranche?
Those villas and gardens - aside from the Russian / Ukrainian connections now are stunning pieces of architecture and landscape gardening, How could an owner not spend time there admiring it all. Too busy counting their filthy lucre!!
She looked after us. Yes the idea that such glory is only seen a month or two a year is sad
Happy New Year / Bonne Annee boys! Tim wearing a natty new shirt... Christmas present?
Two years old!
Really enjoyed the video, however I have a question which is totally off subject... Where did you get that multi coloured jacket?
Me Boo bought me it from ASOS two years ago
@@MeandMonAmi I thought it was from a clown's outfitters?
Happy New Year! Interesting episode, how about the other way around? For regular Europeans, how expensive is the Riviera?
Good idea!
Clearly, Cap Ferrat and Cap D'Antibes are the "Because-you're-worth-it" land to Elvis's Graceland.
Unless they fly out they have to travel on the same roads and walk on the pavements as the rest of us.
Indeed
Bonne année à vous deux et à Twiggy 🥰
Merci beaucoup
Happy New Year my Friends. I know 2024 will be a Great Year for you both. 🚙
Same to you!
Many episodes ago you mentioned one of the most modest forms of housing in Cap Ferrat, cabenons designed by Le Corbusier. By coincidence, Le Corbusier admired cars from Avions Voisin, founded by the two brothers who built planes in WW1 as well as the villa in this episode. Mentioning the villa now is timely. Because it is deemed historic (surely due to the importance of the Voisins and not the architecture) the villa's exterior could not be changed. Right now in Paris, preservationists are fighting to save the Pavillon des Sources from demolition by the Curie Institute (that wants to expand). It iis where Marie Curie conducted experiments.
Thanks. The voisins were interesting weren’t they? I think the house is historic architecturally though. But I may be wrong
Any news on Santo Sospir?
Still closed to the public I thjnk
The last house is a good opportunity for squatting, what is the real owner going to do about it 🤷♂
He has some very big dogs!
We are all dying to see the “Villa Moi et Mon Ami”😂
You’d need a very powerful lens!
If "There's something going on that defys explanation" in the UK ... You can guarentee that the National Crime Agency will be giving it a stiff ignoring... Juste le meme chose en France? Aussi, le meme chose en Chypre. Que se passe ?
Good to see you both back on the road . A little surprised your palatial palace was not on the tour ? Stay charged.
It was too grand to feature!
..so at least the blu-tack wont be so melty (tim the tight-wad buy some 3M tape) 😂
❤
Tank goodness both of you are alright again, however be careful with that cough though! Maybe you should have a little more rest and warmth inside guy's....
But these house prices are rediculous, don't you think? Living in Monte Carlo well... Do you want to go back to living in a flat? I won't! Those flats in Monte Carlo are smaller than a counsel flat and they pay a sh*tload of money for it! Be well soon, guy's and give a cuddle from me to Twiggy ❤️
Yup they are off the charts
Spoiler alert... YT mods took out my post speculating that the French State's need for extra dosh at this time could be related to high altitude events in the Bay of Biscay in November last.
Nice to see how the other 0,000001% live. To be honest, i prefer your reviews of restaurants with a bill of 50-70 € 🤣🤣😉
Anyway, nice to see you again and have a great 2024 and of course - stay charged!!
❤❤
Have you ever considered a career in real estate there?
Glad the trio is healthy and back on the road.
Not enough money in it;
Lads, I was mulling over how hot our glassroof tesla gets, & how flipping quickly! as it is january & neither of you are coughing up a lung anymore please do so!e research into buying a small bit of vehicle wrap to diy fit (use some decent isoprrop alcohol as a degreasant & starttakinf some measurements before & during the melting season, I am of the opinion that whilst it will be a sauna still, you may knock off 8-10c if you pick t he most light & heat reflective (maybe a pearlescent white) design, of cours e you could pay for it to be done professionally but tims northern relatives 'd be turning in their graves, + much less fun watching you engage a pro compared to the video of all that swearing as tim gets to grips with the project & mr boo keeps the coffee coming, ..i'd like to say it's merely similar to aplying an oversize protective screen cover for a tabet computer, but I leave all that to the wife! 😉
NB: I did see a nice thin stripes muted deckchair rainbow of colours on a few wrap ordering sites which I think would suit Elton, more coastal than pride, & certainly muted in comparison to tims favourite plaid check lumberjack-ian style shirt.
We have to do it!
Guys your were left hungry on this one...😮
I know! Still at least we saved money towards our purchase!;
@@MeandMonAmi so you have made a decision...
These prices are laughable compared to Mar-A-Lago, that's worth one billion dollars! Many people say...
I’m sure!
Haha. A bigly sum indeed!
Happy New Year to you both and Twiggy. Great video and start to 2024. Ironic isnt it? Well to me anyway, that Ukrainians own such sumptuous porperties and their countrys in ruins!
I think to be fair the super rich of any country play by very different rules to everyone else. In 1942 the casino in Monaco was still open (with war across Europe)
That was interesting. Those places look cheap compared the 1.5 billion dollars Donald Trump says his Florida villa is worth.
If Donald says it…
Monaco is not a good city for living, a small flat with the same standart than a normal flat in province costs 10 time more !
But you don’t have to pay income tax. „Living” in Monaco is business.
I wouldn’t fancy it
Can you buy me one while you’re at it 😅
Will do
Sure;
The next owners will be African warlords and the likes moving down from Lac Léman (Lake Geneva) 😇
Very possibly.
can't russians just be rich and buy a villa? why do you think its always nefarious
It is difficult to become wealthy in Russia if you are not on Putin's side. Now, you might ask: what's wrong with Putin? But I will stop here.
@@charlsalashI guess everything is wrong with him. He’s mass murderer and biggest thief on earth.
It would be nice to look at American and British thieves’s villas.