We spent an amazing 10 weeks housesitting the beautiful Tilly in Praia del Rey in February-April 2024. When we left Portugal, we were fortunate enough to be in Lisbon for the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution 🇵🇹♥️ We spent 2 wonderful years in Portugal from 2020 to 2022, and made loads of videos. Here's our full Portugal playlist if you would like to see more: PORTUGAL 🇵🇹: ua-cam.com/play/PLCmNbKU5iMrmxsbHU3CrrYmTr_S7HLSII.html
Hello Mandy and Lee, it's me again. I have a lot in common with this video as I was in Lisbon on April 25, 1974 onboard Her Majesty's Canadian Warship Iroquois during the Carnation Revolution. Canada’s relationship to the coup was purely by chance. NATO naval Exercise Dawn Patrol was scheduled to start on the morning of 25 April. On 16 April, HMC Ships Preserver, Huron, Iroquois, Assiniboine, and Annapolis departed Halifax for Lisbon. They and other NATO vessels rendezvoused in Lisbon on 23 April for pre-exercise briefings and a two-day port visit. It wasn't a joyous moment for me as I was injured by the Portuguese military and hospitalized for 2 weeks. I never hold a grudge as I visit Portugal regularly and enjoy the people immensely. Your favourite fan, Mike.
Hi Mike 👋 What an amazing story that you witnessed the events unfold first hand in such a way. Sorry that you were injured and I hope it wasn't too serious and debilitating. I often wondered what the stance of the rest of the world was towards this revolution as although Salazar was a dictator it was in the thick of the cold war and Western governments feared the spread of communism. We could tell by the passion of the people how important it was to them and what a relief it finally was to rid themselves of such a long entrenched dictator.
@@FrugalTravellers Who would ever imagine that one of your ardent followers was caught up in the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974. Thank you for your videos, stay safe and please take care of each other.
@@mikemurphy2112 Absolutely incredible! We were very fortunate to be in Lisbon to witness it as we had a flight out the following day. Otherwise we'd have been in our remote house sit and missed all the fun. 🙏
Hi Mandy & Lee 😊 Thanks for sharing as this video reminds us of One of our best roadttip with our motorbike (honda varadero❤) from Grrece almost15years ago!! It seems like yesterday as the memories are still so much alive. We just loved everything in Portugal !!!
@@farahkhelifi4398 That's so wonderful to hear, Farah. We're so pleased this video brought back such happy memories. Thank you for sharing them with us 🙏🤗♥️🇵🇹
I lived on the 28 tram route in Alfama in 89/90. This began my love affair with Portugal (Porto now) and apart from visits home to family in Australia, I have never left. All the best on your travels❤.
@@lisacraig4585 Thank you so much for your lovely comment. Porto is absolutely magical so I have some city envy there 🤗🇵🇹♥️. We'll be back on the Silver Coast in October-November, and maybe in a few years we'll find a house-sit in beautiful Porto 🙏🙌
Olá Mandy & Lee. I've taken the bus back to Lisboa from Peniche. So easy, isn't it. And the buses really are quite nice! To further expand on the Carnation Revolution, the carnations were actually purchased by a woman by the name of Celeste Caeiro, who taking them back to the restaurant she worked at... they were to celebrate their 1-year anniversary that day. She was, of course, unaware of the what was about to happen. Because of the coup, the restaurant had to close, but to celebrate the revolution she started giving carnations to all the soldiers... and they started placing them in their rifle muzzles. Very few shots were fired that day... I can't imagine oranges at $1.30 a Kilo. Crazy, eh! I can't believe you filmed at the Fonte Luminosa!! Whenever I drove in to Lisboa for the day (I always parked at the underground parking at Martim Moniz)... I would always pass the park with those incredible fountains. It's an incredibly beautiful landmark in Alameda, built in 1940, I believe. Saudades!
@@JenShea Wow... thank you so much for your awesome comment, Jen! The Carnation Revolution was incredible, and we so appreciate you sharing this brilliant information 🙏🤗♥️
Your series was our go-to for our trip to Portugal. We went out last night for Portuguese food last night to reminisce. Your suggestions were brought up with fond memories. We later watched your Philippines series back at home
@@prosperouspsw That really is so lovely to hear, thank you for taking the time to let us know that our Portugal videos were helpful to you 🙏♥️🇵🇹 I hope you enjoyed the Philippines series as well... a very different experience as we were only there for a month as opposed to 2 years, but we still had a wonderful time 🇵🇭🤗
Hi Mandy and Lee! Our first European trip was to Lisbon right after Portugal lifted the covid restrictions. Airfare and accomodations were soooo inexpensive then. Anyways, our bnb was on Rua Augusta and every day we walked thru the Rua Augusta Arch to the Tagus just to take it all in. That was 3 years ago and I'm still completely smitten. 😊. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us!! Take care and be safe!🤗🐕
What a wonderful opportunity to see Lisbon at a brilliant price and to soak in the whole city centre area. ❤️. We stayed right downtown during COVID also and it was so cheap. 🙏. Things are changing considerably now it's becoming so popular. Understandably. Lisbon really is amazing 😍
Thank you, thank you, thank you both for this video on the 50th anniversary of the carnation revolution. 🎉 It was our goal to move to PT in time for this unique day but my health woes kicked in which changed our priorities. 😢 I truly appreciated this video! 💓 Lisbon looked rather chill considering this special day. Must be the Portuguese way I reckon. Wish we were there and maybe bumped into you both-who knows?!?!? Safe and healthy travels to you both. -maurice
@@lucchese20 Thank you so much for your wonderful comment, Maurice. I'm sure we'll bump into you at some stage, somewhere in this glorious world of ours 🙏🤗♥️
The "wait until the last minute" approach to revealing your gate is a feature of all London airports. I've run through Heathrow and Gatwick as well. Enjoyed the viedo.
@@dave.wendy.wander Oh no! We found it quite stressful, especially with the super long queue for Immigration AND the fact that 2 planes were sitting right beside each other and were leaving at almost the same time! We're so pleased you enjoyed the video, thank you for your lovely comment 🙏🤗
Brilliant - Love the Video - Yourself Mandy and Lee are Wonderful - Fantastic Channel Full of Information and Brilliant Views of Different Places in The World - You Both Take Care and Thank You ❤❤
Thank you so much for all your kind words, Karen. We really appreciate all the love and support. It drives us on to keep making videos and showing the world to all. 🙏❤️🙏
Oh, I live just a few blocks away from Alameda and the Fonte Luminosa! Would have been so fun to bump into you. Nike did an ad there that you can find here on UA-cam where they scrubbed all the identifying signage from the neighborhood, but when you see the fountain at the end, you recognize it for sure.
The fountain at the park was an incredible find. It is sad that beautiful buildings all over Portugal are in ruins. I just want to save them all! I'm hoping that one day the government will introduce a golden Visa program for rehabilitating derelict buildings. It would really help with the housing shortage ❤
@@MirandaHorger That is a brilliant idea, Miranda! There are just so many beautiful old buildings sitting in prime locations, just falling to pieces, so it would be great to have them restored and lived in once more! Thank you so much for your great comment! 🙏❤️🇵🇹
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We spent an amazing 10 weeks housesitting the beautiful Tilly in Praia del Rey in February-April 2024. When we left Portugal, we were fortunate enough to be in Lisbon for the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution 🇵🇹♥️
We spent 2 wonderful years in Portugal from 2020 to 2022, and made loads of videos.
Here's our full Portugal playlist if you would like to see more:
PORTUGAL 🇵🇹: ua-cam.com/play/PLCmNbKU5iMrmxsbHU3CrrYmTr_S7HLSII.html
Hello Mandy and Lee, it's me again. I have a lot in common with this video as I was in Lisbon on April 25, 1974 onboard Her Majesty's Canadian Warship Iroquois during the Carnation Revolution. Canada’s relationship to the coup was purely by chance. NATO naval Exercise Dawn Patrol was scheduled to start on the morning of 25 April. On 16 April, HMC Ships Preserver, Huron, Iroquois, Assiniboine, and Annapolis departed Halifax for Lisbon. They and other NATO vessels rendezvoused in Lisbon on 23 April for pre-exercise briefings and a two-day port visit. It wasn't a joyous moment for me as I was injured by the Portuguese military and hospitalized for 2 weeks. I never hold a grudge as I visit Portugal regularly and enjoy the people immensely. Your favourite fan, Mike.
Hi Mike 👋 What an amazing story that you witnessed the events unfold first hand in such a way. Sorry that you were injured and I hope it wasn't too serious and debilitating.
I often wondered what the stance of the rest of the world was towards this revolution as although Salazar was a dictator it was in the thick of the cold war and Western governments feared the spread of communism.
We could tell by the passion of the people how important it was to them and what a relief it finally was to rid themselves of such a long entrenched dictator.
@@FrugalTravellers Who would ever imagine that one of your ardent followers was caught up in the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974. Thank you for your videos, stay safe and please take care of each other.
@@mikemurphy2112 Absolutely incredible! We were very fortunate to be in Lisbon to witness it as we had a flight out the following day. Otherwise we'd have been in our remote house sit and missed all the fun. 🙏
Hi Mandy & Lee 😊 Thanks for sharing as this video reminds us of One of our best roadttip with our motorbike (honda varadero❤) from Grrece almost15years ago!! It seems like yesterday as the memories are still so much alive. We just loved everything in Portugal !!!
@@farahkhelifi4398 That's so wonderful to hear, Farah. We're so pleased this video brought back such happy memories. Thank you for sharing them with us 🙏🤗♥️🇵🇹
I lived on the 28 tram route in Alfama in 89/90. This began my love affair with Portugal (Porto now) and apart from visits home to family in Australia, I have never left. All the best on your travels❤.
@@lisacraig4585 Thank you so much for your lovely comment. Porto is absolutely magical so I have some city envy there 🤗🇵🇹♥️. We'll be back on the Silver Coast in October-November, and maybe in a few years we'll find a house-sit in beautiful Porto 🙏🙌
@@FrugalTravellersI would love to meet up. Will look out for your return❤.
@@lisacraig4585 We might ask you to look out for house-sits for us in a couple of years 🤗♥️🇵🇹
What a great time to be in Lisbon! Looks like quite a party.
@@carolinacadabra8278 It was brilliant, Carolina! Everyone was celebrating, and in such wonderful spirits ♥️🥳🇵🇹
Love this! Such good prices 😊❤
@@julespastor8149 We're so pleased you enjoyed this video, Jules. Thank you for your great comment 🙏🤗
Olá Mandy & Lee. I've taken the bus back to Lisboa from Peniche. So easy, isn't it. And the buses really are quite nice!
To further expand on the Carnation Revolution, the carnations were actually purchased by a woman by the name of Celeste Caeiro, who taking them back to the restaurant she worked at... they were to celebrate their 1-year anniversary that day. She was, of course, unaware of the what was about to happen. Because of the coup, the restaurant had to close, but to celebrate the revolution she started giving carnations to all the soldiers... and they started placing them in their rifle muzzles. Very few shots were fired that day...
I can't imagine oranges at $1.30 a Kilo. Crazy, eh!
I can't believe you filmed at the Fonte Luminosa!! Whenever I drove in to Lisboa for the day (I always parked at the underground parking at Martim Moniz)... I would always pass the park with those incredible fountains. It's an incredibly beautiful landmark in Alameda, built in 1940, I believe. Saudades!
@@JenShea Wow... thank you so much for your awesome comment, Jen! The Carnation Revolution was incredible, and we so appreciate you sharing this brilliant information 🙏🤗♥️
Your series was our go-to for our trip to Portugal. We went out last night for Portuguese food last night to reminisce. Your suggestions were brought up with fond memories. We later watched your Philippines series back at home
@@prosperouspsw That really is so lovely to hear, thank you for taking the time to let us know that our Portugal videos were helpful to you 🙏♥️🇵🇹 I hope you enjoyed the Philippines series as well... a very different experience as we were only there for a month as opposed to 2 years, but we still had a wonderful time 🇵🇭🤗
Hello. The hostel where you stay is in the same bulding that my school.
@@LuisSantos-us1ww Oh my word, Luis... that's incredible! 🤗🇵🇹🙏
Hi Mandy and Lee! Our first European trip was to Lisbon right after Portugal lifted the covid restrictions. Airfare and accomodations were soooo inexpensive then. Anyways, our bnb was on Rua Augusta and every day we walked thru the Rua Augusta Arch to the Tagus just to take it all in. That was 3 years ago and I'm still completely smitten. 😊. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us!! Take care and be safe!🤗🐕
What a wonderful opportunity to see Lisbon at a brilliant price and to soak in the whole city centre area. ❤️. We stayed right downtown during COVID also and it was so cheap. 🙏. Things are changing considerably now it's becoming so popular.
Understandably. Lisbon really is amazing 😍
How lovely to see Lisbon again :)
Yay 🎉🎉 We never tire of Lisbon either. ❤️
Thank you, thank you, thank you both for this video on the 50th anniversary of the carnation revolution. 🎉 It was our goal to move to PT in time for this unique day but my health woes kicked in which changed our priorities. 😢 I truly appreciated this video! 💓
Lisbon looked rather chill considering this special day. Must be the Portuguese way I reckon. Wish we were there and maybe bumped into you both-who knows?!?!?
Safe and healthy travels to you both.
-maurice
@@lucchese20 Thank you so much for your wonderful comment, Maurice. I'm sure we'll bump into you at some stage, somewhere in this glorious world of ours 🙏🤗♥️
Thank you for your videos. You're such a lovely couple. I wish you much success with your channel!
Thank you so much 🙏🙏. We really appreciate your support and feedback. ❤️
Looks great, I must visit at some time. My brother in law lives there! Take care and stay safe 🙏❤🇬🇧
Thank you 🙏 It is a wonderful city and well worth a visit. This video just shows a small aspect too. There's so much to see. 😍
Love Lisbon .. you guys should get a windsock for your mic .. make a huge difference. Cheers
Thanks 🙏 We definitely need to fix the mic problem. 🙏
The "wait until the last minute" approach to revealing your gate is a feature of all London airports. I've run through Heathrow and Gatwick as well. Enjoyed the viedo.
@@dave.wendy.wander Oh no! We found it quite stressful, especially with the super long queue for Immigration AND the fact that 2 planes were sitting right beside each other and were leaving at almost the same time! We're so pleased you enjoyed the video, thank you for your lovely comment 🙏🤗
Brilliant - Love the Video - Yourself Mandy and Lee are Wonderful - Fantastic Channel Full of Information and Brilliant Views of Different Places in The World - You Both Take Care and Thank You ❤❤
Thank you so much for all your kind words, Karen. We really appreciate all the love and support. It drives us on to keep making videos and showing the world to all. 🙏❤️🙏
@@FrugalTravellers You and Lee do a Fantastic job as your channel is amazing ❤️❤️
Oh, I live just a few blocks away from Alameda and the Fonte Luminosa! Would have been so fun to bump into you. Nike did an ad there that you can find here on UA-cam where they scrubbed all the identifying signage from the neighborhood, but when you see the fountain at the end, you recognize it for sure.
@@amberalexander7756 That's so cool, Amber... it would have been fun to have bumped into you 🤗🙌 It's such a great park and area 🇵🇹♥️
The fountain at the park was an incredible find. It is sad that beautiful buildings all over Portugal are in ruins. I just want to save them all! I'm hoping that one day the government will introduce a golden Visa program for rehabilitating derelict buildings. It would really help with the housing shortage ❤
@@MirandaHorger That is a brilliant idea, Miranda! There are just so many beautiful old buildings sitting in prime locations, just falling to pieces, so it would be great to have them restored and lived in once more! Thank you so much for your great comment! 🙏❤️🇵🇹
Did you see any portuguese people 😀?
@@Thirt33n313 Didn't you see them all in Praça do Rossio?!? 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
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You'll see the Palestine flag everywhere these days. 🙏. So much moral support. ❤️
I saw 1 Palestinian flag in the crowd we don't need that in lisbon
Thank you for the comment
they're helmets, not bullets!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martim_Moniz
Thank you for this. 🙏 This makes total sense. 👍