The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Christmas Podcast ｜ Our Travel Recommendations

00:00:00.000 hello and welcome to uh christmas algorithm filler um of the lotus eaters we're away

00:00:19.220 making merry um we're having snowball fights in the garden and uh we we needed something to uh

00:00:25.700 yeah feed the algorithm so so uh beau and i are doing our recommendations uh and i think we're

00:00:30.880 covering travel this time so we're both reasonably well-traveled men yes i know you much more than me

00:00:36.800 i mean i've been around the world a bit but you've really traveled all over the place you're a globe

00:00:41.160 tropter i would say well i've never been anywhere in africa yet okay all right um maybe why would

00:00:47.520 you well that was my thinking that was my thing egypt a push yes other than that anyway so go on

00:00:53.900 maybe um uh the first the first on my list and by the way none of none of my list is an actual

00:00:59.220 recommendation i just want to talk about them all right the one recommendation if you want a holiday

00:01:04.200 in a hot country just just go to thailand okay food is good people are friendly you won't get mugged

00:01:09.880 um they almost have um pavements to walk on and the electricity cables probably won't kill you most

00:01:18.580 of the time not like india um india your first pick is india well so it's almost like an anti-recommendation

00:01:25.940 it it kind of is but you kind of need to see it to understand it okay because it is such a world of

00:01:33.040 contrast and i've got one of those contrasts in this image here of the rich bit of india right next

00:01:38.120 to the slumber and actually my experience it was much closer than that so i kind of fell in with a

00:01:43.620 group of um very wealthy sikhs you know i knew some people out there um i knew this one guy whose

00:01:50.280 family supplied most of the you know the gas bottles that you do on your barbecue they produce

00:01:55.080 them which doesn't sound like a big deal but they were they were churning out millions of these things

00:01:58.540 and and and fabulously wealthy and i kind of fell in with it with these guys and it was interesting

00:02:04.340 a number of things first of all um they all loved the british empire they were all like i wish the 0.51

00:02:10.460 british were still running us of course they did because we can't get shit done anymore because of 0.83

00:02:15.140 the corruption and i was like yeah i wish we were still being run by those british people yeah those 0.88

00:02:20.600 british people are not on offer anymore so there's that but the other thing and there's so many weird

00:02:25.680 things you kind of have to see for yourself like you know we would go to a a shopping center

00:02:31.000 and i'd be like oh let's try while i'm in india maybe i'll try some great indian food but they just

00:02:36.500 wanted to go to the kfc and mcdonald's all the all the chain stuff right because that was like

00:02:41.400 high status for them so you'd have like a gucci store and a louis vuitton store then and a kfc in

00:02:47.320 the middle and that's where people people and it was odd and then you drive out of the um

00:02:52.440 you drive out of the um the center the shopping center and you'd have like a slum like that like 1.00

00:02:59.180 directly opposite and you'd see people just stumbling along in sort of you know basic starvation mode

00:03:06.200 and they just drive past it and they wouldn't even see it and i'd be like do you guys see that

00:03:11.900 and they're like oh yeah don't worry about that and they put things they couldn't even see it

00:03:16.820 they just mentally filtered the whole the way that god wants it to be yeah another fascinating thing was

00:03:22.880 um was nightclubs in india um it is the caste system personified so basically they've got the

00:03:30.960 tiny little dance floor which is for the plebs and then the whole thing is these tears of ever

00:03:37.980 concentric bands going out which you have to pay more and more to get in and and so the whole thing

00:03:43.980 is a caste system right where you basically just stay with your kind of group and you need to be

00:03:49.580 fairly wealthy as an indian to get into this place in the first place right and then the whole thing 1.00

00:03:53.460 becomes about moving up the bloody tears and like getting getting a better level and again it was

00:03:57.760 fascinating i mean other i mean so many fascinating things like the other thing is like you drive down

00:04:01.740 a couple of streets and the the the and they're not and when i say street i don't mean this i mean

00:04:06.100 big streets and all they are uh big indian wedding venues all right and it's like they built like a 0.69

00:04:14.860 hollywood sound stage and it's and it's just for the purposes of having a wedding and apparently wedding

00:04:20.680 um indians they spend a vast amount of money on their wedding or far more than we do here like a 1.00

00:04:25.880 you know quarter of their lifetime in income or something gets spent on a bloody wedding it's

00:04:30.500 it's huge it's absolutely huge and the other thing is um uh it's a slightly dark story but i have to

00:04:38.080 tell it um i was driving along in some taxi one evening and um i saw all these cars uh jostling

00:04:45.900 around a tuk-tuk thing and i said to my driver what what the hell is going on there looks like

00:04:50.000 is there road rage or something what's going on and uh he says oh no no sir no sir and he he gets 0.90

00:04:56.380 a bit closer so i can see and it is the ropeiest prostitute i've ever seen in my life hanging off 1.00

00:05:01.760 the back of this tuk-tuk and you and you had car and it must have been like seven eight nine cars 0.82

00:05:07.260 jostling around it like some chariot fight each car with like four or five indian men in it leaning 0.99

00:05:13.840 out with fistfuls of money trying to get her to come with them and yeah yeah it's horrible the point

00:05:24.740 is you kind of understand india better once you've actually seen it with your own eyes right but i don't

00:05:30.300 i don't have time to get into the driving but every single car that i saw was was battered

00:05:38.020 from collisions and you might think what how is that i mean within within like 20 minutes coming

00:05:45.160 out the airport i saw people driving the wrong way around roundabouts in order to get to their exit

00:05:49.280 quicker uh i mean just there are absolutely no rules whatsoever my only experience of india is i once

00:05:56.960 uh had a layover flight in delhi right um did leave the airport briefly but didn't go much beyond the

00:06:05.020 airport basically yes but even in the airport yes everything i do mean everything was an absolute 0.89

00:06:12.300 clown show chaos nonsense yes the way everything worked was retarded it was mad it was mad it was 0.99

00:06:20.980 sort of maddening yes that there would be i don't know like so baggage pickup or i don't know just a 0.98

00:06:26.740 kfc or something that's in the there'll be like eight people employees standing around doing nothing

00:06:32.900 yeah well one person not not even one person really doing any work meanwhile there's giant

00:06:39.660 giant giant queues yes they could also it was just um and the queuing for that you probably would have

00:06:44.580 picked up on as well it's just um i just sort of couldn't believe how dysfunctional everything

00:06:50.620 seemed to be and that's in an airport yeah well you've heard the phrase where things are a bit more

00:06:56.100 squared away than the rest of it you would think and you've heard the phrase organized chaos india

00:07:01.080 is disorganized chaos right so yeah but but but fascinating to see um you picked rome probably a

00:07:08.000 better choice than my one or just italy in general right um yeah so the opposite this is a genuine

00:07:12.920 recommendation visit italy i've got a love affair with italy i've been to italy a number of times i don't

00:07:19.880 know five six times i do say to some people um it's crazy to visit the same place more than once

00:07:24.820 you've got a finite number of holidays in your life try and spread it out and i've broken my own

00:07:29.840 rule on that a number of times with italy is that is that because there's a smidging of history that

00:07:34.380 you can find in italy right yeah just a little bit just here or there like i've been to rome four or

00:07:38.900 five times been to florence two or three times and a few places more than once um rome for example is

00:07:45.020 one giant open museum essentially there's many many layers the onion of rome you've got modern rome

00:07:52.020 then you've got like the baroque renaissance middle ages rome and then you've also got like

00:07:56.580 the ancient rome that you go to the forum or you go to the coliseum or something there's there's the

00:08:01.040 ancient world is there for you as well you'll turn a corner some random piazza you've never heard of

00:08:06.600 you didn't mean to visit and in front of you is some masterpiece of of baroque architecture right

00:08:12.160 in front of you like wow what is that that's grander than buckingham palace literally oh it's the

00:08:16.980 post office it's rome's post office right i'm not making that up that's not an exaggeration you go

00:08:21.540 to rome and you'll be if you've got any sort of uh artistic or or historical or architectural

00:08:26.660 feeling you will go there and you will be amazed uh and it's the same in all over italy or not quite

00:08:34.740 the same but go to places like florence or milan or some small little medieval hill town like urbino

00:08:41.900 or something and you'll go there and again if you've got any sorts of sensibility you will

00:08:47.420 probably love it fall in love with it i have if i had endless money if i had elon money i would have

00:08:54.260 a couple of homes in italy i think in tuscany or somewhere okay remarkable place now the next one i

00:09:01.460 got another slight anti-recommendation but this this is getting closer to an actual recommendation

00:09:06.540 um cambodia i've been to cambodia yeah i visited anchor what many years ago lots of steps lots of

00:09:13.500 chinese people oh yeah it's got a lot of chinese tourists um again uh just just just go to thailand

00:09:20.240 but um cambodia is kind of interesting because it's well they've got a bit of history that they

00:09:27.900 went they went through what was it a purge or something like 25 kamae rouge yeah the kamae rouge

00:09:32.980 they they basically killed they found they identified their smartest 30 percent and killed

00:09:38.580 them and if you want to find out what what happens to a country afterwards um visit it so i mean but

00:09:46.260 they've got a different temperament to the indians so it's not it's not a mess it is a clean and tidy 1.00

00:09:52.420 because they're still asian rather than in kind of yeah kind of kind of um it's it's complete free 1.00

00:09:59.540 for all so um i mean i i my my way of doing a holiday is to fly into an airport one end of the

00:10:06.600 country and out at an airport at the other end of the country and i make my way across the country

00:10:10.120 and i just see it i just see how the real people live and for and for a bit of a journey i um teamed

00:10:15.700 up with some um australian army medic who had been medically discharged or something was traveling

00:10:20.040 across so i'm kind of make making my way way across this country um and and i mean he was telling

00:10:26.800 me that until like a few weeks ago the government finally got around to banning it so i i'll tell you

00:10:32.220 the sharp end of their regulation they'd finally got around to banning rehypnol you could just go

00:10:39.300 into any pharmacy and buy it before then okay yeah very minimal government very very yeah to this day

00:10:45.880 even after the kamae rouge it's still communist government they're still commies though yes and uh 0.52

00:10:50.900 yeah very light touch shall we say i mean a free-for-all bit of a free-for-all well the only the only reason

00:10:56.160 why anything gets done in cambodia is because the chinese pay for it right and i was i was talking 0.89

00:11:00.620 to this um um this um well he wasn't an official anymore but a cambodian sort of retired official

00:11:05.820 and i was asking about how it works and he says oh yeah the chinese basically do everything here

00:11:10.200 and um so that so they might come in and drop they say oh you need a new road here so we're going

00:11:15.320 to give you x many millions to get this road done and they just pick a guy who can make it happen

00:11:21.260 and so they give him the money and they kind of they kind of expect he's going to skim off about

00:11:25.760 five percent and they can live with that if he skims off like eight or nine percent he's found

00:11:31.180 face down in his bowl of rice with a bullet hole in the back of his head a week later

00:11:34.640 right that that is their version of organization and it's slightly less disorganized chaos in india

00:11:41.760 but it's it's it's a work it's raw yeah i mean when i went when i crossed the border into cambodia

00:11:49.500 i was like oh i'm out of tourist trap world land yeah it's not i'm actually in the real third world

00:11:55.960 yes now i'm actually in i feel like i'm in a vietnam movie now it's the southeast asia from

00:12:01.880 the 1970s i mean it's sort of it's sort of the real deal that's my thing i like if you like that

00:12:08.880 then brilliant i like to get outside of the two i hate going on holidays where you're sat in an air

00:12:13.380 conditioned minibus with a bunch of other westerners getting shown around some potemkin

00:12:17.340 village i can't stand that i want to get in there and make my way across the country on local

00:12:22.840 transport and actually see what it is for myself and the cambodia is raw i will give you that yeah

00:12:28.400 yeah um you picked america well i do quite like i've been to places in the third world some very very

00:12:35.140 poor places but i uh the type of nothing nothing matches detroit no i wasn't gonna say that that

00:12:42.160 wasn't the angle i was going with the opposite as i say i like quite like going to big cities i

00:12:47.840 actually prefer a city break to some back and beyond or to just sitting on a beach i actually

00:12:54.000 find i've done it a couple of times but i feel like sitting on a beach for a week or two weeks

00:12:57.860 that's a waste of time to me almost i like to go and see something interesting and anyway the

00:13:05.440 united states i'm talking about all of the united states here is a wonderful place to visit a

00:13:10.660 wonderful place i've been many places all across the united states and um uh it's just it's just

00:13:16.420 endlessly fascinating things and the the bonus as a brit is that they speak it's state in the office

00:13:21.140 but they speak english right so there's no worry about how you're going to get by how you're going

00:13:26.620 to make yourself understood you get an instant plus one sophistication oh yeah jackson yeah there's

00:13:32.020 that as well pete mclaughlin was telling me that when he went to um when he went to america and he's

00:13:37.660 a single guy he his tinder profile just said british that was enough that was enough that's

00:13:43.080 all you need yeah um i just think from the east coast to the west coast and the united states is so

00:13:48.280 big so varied that you know they've got they've got swamps they've got deserts they've got they've

00:13:54.900 got mountain ranges they've got salt flats they've got they've got the oceans they've got there's

00:14:00.940 everything anything you could want really is there like the prayer is in britain we haven't got

00:14:08.160 any of those things particularly sorry pete mccormack not pete mclaughlin he's the leader of

00:14:12.920 the sdp i don't oh yeah two different very very different people very different sorry carry on so

00:14:17.320 anyway i was just going to say just in general um there's a lot like some it's sort of modish i think

00:14:23.380 in europe or in some places in in britain in uh in the online sphere it's sort of fashionable to dunk

00:14:32.720 on america the gae there's something wrong and fundamentally crappy about america i just don't buy

00:14:39.160 it i don't buy i think america is a wonderful place i think most people there outside of inner

00:14:44.640 cities we know what i'm talking about there outside of that most people are extraordinarily polite and

00:14:50.440 generous that was my experience is i probably need to see more of america i kind of end up getting

00:14:57.600 trapped in las vegas every time i go i just i just i i go and go to it than that right yeah and and

00:15:03.460 the thing that i'm kicking myself about now is i suddenly realized i never actually saw the grand

00:15:06.580 canyon even though it is like a mile up the road yeah you should make yeah i i just things are poker

00:15:13.120 tables there so i just end up yeah i once traveled across utah and nevada the salt flats right i mean

00:15:20.220 like across colorado the rocky mountains when i crossed colorado was unbelievable come out of

00:15:26.220 kansas and the the prairies there up into the the rockies and then down into the deserts on the

00:15:32.420 western side of the rockies yeah i mean there's just nothing in the uk to compare to these things

00:15:38.180 but you know i went to northern california the giant redwoods in in given it's so vast if you had

00:15:43.760 to go to one place in the us i mean i it's like saying one place in europe there isn't there's not

00:15:50.520 a good arm you would say rome but i might say rome or florence yeah um i don't know there's a few

00:15:56.380 places in the united states which i haven't been which i badly want to see um jeez i don't know

00:16:03.440 i really don't know i would love to i haven't been that many places on the east coast i've never

00:16:09.800 visited new york i would love to visit new york it's probably past its best at this point probably

00:16:17.060 yeah but like uh i would love to see new york in the 80s yeah that would have been cool yeah

00:16:22.620 oh well there's so many places there's a place called barringer crater

00:16:27.460 in uh is it arizona it's a big where a meteor hit the earth and there's a giant crater there

00:16:34.700 and a bit of a geologist space fan nerds uh idea of a good time but i'd love to visit that absolutely

00:16:43.520 love to visit that just for myself but i mean there's again it's a whole continent of things

00:16:49.020 to see and do yeah there's plenty there uh third not recommendation because the correct answer is just

00:16:55.080 go to thailand um is the philippines right i've never been to the philippines so philippines is

00:17:00.120 fascinating tell me about it for a start do not attempt to drive in manila it is it i mean indian

00:17:07.980 roads are paradise compared to manila not because they drive badly when they do but there are so

00:17:16.200 many cars in such a compact area that it is genuinely quicker to walk from one side of the city to the

00:17:23.500 other okay um the fascinating thing about the philippines is just how young and vibrant it is

00:17:29.660 because you know you walk you walk around a european city or an american city you just see old people

00:17:35.600 everywhere especially in europe you you just see oh look there's a there's a boomer there's another

00:17:39.200 boomer there's 10 more boomers it's just old people everywhere in the philippine everybody's under 25 0.86

00:17:45.820 it's yeah it's it's an unbelievably young population okay so when that i mean their population pyramid is

00:17:56.400 an actual pyramid unlike everywhere else in the world and so i mean this and and you can see and

00:18:02.820 you can just see the shoots of this is going to be a considerably more potent country 20 years in the

00:18:09.300 future because there's there's um uh upshoots of construction and there's something is emerging

00:18:16.280 within this place and it's an interesting place because um it is asian but mixed with latino

00:18:24.220 or or latin blood because basically what happened is spanish spanish because what happened is the

00:18:30.800 spanish occupied it for about 400 years and these um these spanish sailors basically didn't have

00:18:36.240 anything to do for those 400 years apart from the local girls and and so it's kind of infused and

00:18:42.220 created this new mix and and it's and it's not because i mean you go you go to a buddhist country

00:18:48.540 in asia and you can walk around with headphones in and you're not going to get mugged and you're fine

00:18:52.820 i was in manila for about two minutes before i realized i needed to go and buy a fake wallet and a

00:18:59.980 fake phone that i kept my pockets above my actual wallet and phone because nothing actually nothing

00:19:05.600 happened to me the whole time i was there but you when you travel a lot you just get this vibe

00:19:10.260 of like i know what you mean yeah a couple of sketchy places i know what you mean yeah you you

00:19:15.340 get this but you you pick up this ability to walk down the street and just think no i'm going to turn

00:19:19.820 around and go back again this is something wrong here and i could just tell in manila that um i i

00:19:24.700 seriously could just get a moped pull up and a pistol put in my face and hand over the wallet and

00:19:29.200 that's why i had the fake wallet and phone um i mean everything i mean um all random shops have got a

00:19:34.820 a guard outside with a shotgun so yeah right it is lively place and when i did serious okay and when

00:19:41.660 i did get a taxi back to the to the airport um the guy told me oh yeah um earlier this week i was

00:19:49.080 taking um a couple back to the airport and a moped pulled up at the side and they had to hand over

00:19:54.280 their wallet's phone their luggage and they they just robbed them at gunpoint yeah and and and drove

00:20:00.340 off so so that's why it's another not recommendation just go to thailand but it but it is that if if

00:20:07.020 they can get a pekele or something in there to top well they kind of did they got dirty yeah yeah

00:20:11.500 yeah he he was a slightly uh it was an interesting character now there's a story there um but but

00:20:17.680 it's it's just such a young vibrant population that you can tell that something is going to grow

00:20:23.740 out of this and the other thing is they all speak english right so they they've all got jobs in like

00:20:29.040 call centers and actually their english is good because the americans took it off the spanish yes

00:20:33.280 and then re-liberated it in world war ii off the japs my favorite thing is so it's americanized yes

00:20:40.040 as well yes that in fact there's i don't know if you can see it in this picture but there's a big

00:20:44.180 u.s naval base there uh which apparently is a popular listing um for american service personnel

00:20:50.980 now my favorite thing about visiting manila was uh when i discovered a massive statue of a cardinal

00:20:55.960 it makes me laugh to this day um the the this famous manila cardinal um had the surname sin

00:21:03.880 literally cardinal sin was his name uh and god so that that made me chuckle but an interesting

00:21:10.980 vibrant place a catholic country right so oh very catholic yes uh you've you've gone for london uh not

00:21:17.180 sure i can agree with this one well again so so i'm a londoner yes kind of i spent i spent 20 years

00:21:24.200 i was so glad when i left really yes because i picked this as well for the same reason i sort

00:21:29.220 of picked the united states that is sort of again modish to dunk on london and i think probably because 0.98

00:21:38.100 it's become so awful and i think i think london's brilliant right so yeah screw you guys you hate 0.78

00:21:44.200 london um there's a few council estates around london yeah where if you go there and you cause 0.97

00:21:52.620 a problem you'll be you'll be in trouble such as being white sure yeah there's a few council estates 1.00

00:22:00.120 where you won't be welcome there and it's a bit it's a bit rough it's nothing like manila or the

00:22:05.820 favelas of yeah of of rio it's nothing like that but nonetheless there are a few rough areas okay i'll give

00:22:11.560 you that the vast majority of london the vast majority of london certainly the central bits

00:22:17.140 are absolutely fine unless you have your phone out well yeah yeah yeah who's that um but no no wait

00:22:26.000 the middle of london is a treasure trove of wonderful interesting things that is from the

00:22:33.440 tower of london that is the british museum the national gallery the national portrait gallery the

00:22:37.680 houses of parliament westminster abbey on and on and on and on and on and on yes it's a wonderful

00:22:42.840 place most people that don't like london are country bumpkins with a chip on their shoulder

00:22:47.700 yes that's what it is if if if it if they if there could be a little bit of spring cleaning

00:22:53.260 you've got a gem there so when i i moved to london in about the year 2000 something like that

00:23:00.620 and i've got to say it was it was a it was a wonderful place back then it's just um you know

00:23:07.960 when i found myself googling stab proof vests i just thought yeah maybe i just maybe i just move

00:23:12.720 my family out of london maybe again in central london yeah right the city of london the city of

00:23:18.660 westminster yes you're not going to get stabbed you're not going to get stabbed out of nowhere for

00:23:23.080 nothing no it's a tourist trap you're fine yeah aren't you be honest yeah you put you probably

00:23:30.180 you walk you walk along westminster bridge and you walk up white hall to trafalgar square the

00:23:36.160 problem is afford you're not getting stabbed for no reason it's not happening it's not

00:23:39.460 affording a flat on westminster bridge that's the uh i won't deny there's some dodgy bits i'm not

00:23:45.640 claiming that's not the case i mean i i would i would say to any americans thinking of visiting me

00:23:50.940 fine go to london and you know stick to the stick to the main bits but then if you're going to visit

00:23:57.380 the rest of england just pick any english city which is more than a thousand years old and they're all

00:24:03.700 great i mean you're a winchester man yes winchester lovely place absolutely lovely but no london it's

00:24:10.380 like some british people think oh i can't go to new york or los angeles i'll get shot no you won't

00:24:16.660 no you almost certainly won't if you don't go to the known dodgy bit and cause trouble you're not

00:24:21.840 getting shot yes it's fine but people think oh the second i get off the get off lax or jfk the

00:24:27.980 second i get off the plane i'm going to get shot at no you're not yes get real get real it's the same

00:24:32.320 with london you almost certainly won't have a problem i might be a bit jaded because i saw it go

00:24:37.180 downhill for 20 years but i will say uh towards the end of my tenure i remember i i had been attending

00:24:42.340 a poker game that had gone on it gone on for about 28 hours and um when it finally ended at like

00:24:48.620 4 a.m and it was the middle of summer and i was driving through london um and the place was empty

00:24:55.620 but the sun was up but it was empty and actually driving through london when it's empty it was i

00:25:01.800 could really appreciate it it was a beautiful place and i started i started just driving around

00:25:05.840 and you know driving past westminster and a whole bunch of the other places and it's like and i could

00:25:10.920 really appreciate it god this is a wonderful city yeah it is it is if only if only if it was like

00:25:16.560 this all the time i would have loved it essentially again the city of london and the city of westminster

00:25:23.000 the central bit from sort of tower hill in the east to basically westminster in the west that whole

00:25:30.560 part and up with tottencourt road oxford street all this mainly north of the river um again every street

00:25:38.200 every corner has got a fantastic amount of history to it centuries and centuries and centuries worth of

00:25:44.140 stories connected to every road every tiny little side thing to just just miss it all there's too 0.83

00:25:50.260 many brown people here now and you people get stabbed too much and throw it away throw it in the bin 1.00

00:25:54.940 start again it's it's no no no no no no no this is a gem of our history and our heritage similar what

00:26:00.040 you said to rome you can just you can go down side street and it's wonderful um you know the

00:26:04.600 the the architecture you see in the history of the place a lot of people that don't like london have

00:26:10.500 hardly ever been there that is definitely true yes it may maybe it can get a slightly worse

00:26:17.720 reputation than it possibly deserves i think so yeah but uh once we've freshened it up we've got a gem

00:26:26.700 waiting for us there i think yeah it's the cornerstone of this island's history and heritage one of the

00:26:33.360 cornerstones when i was working at westminster as a young man um i did have an american exchange

00:26:39.260 student in the same office as me and again it sort of took it took a foreigner to make me see it but

00:26:44.980 we we were sat on um it was sat opposite that the house of parliament he was looking at it he was saying

00:26:50.080 a quarter of the world used to be run from that building over there oh yeah you're right yeah

00:26:56.000 yeah i mean westminster abbey just that alone you see where big ben is yep directly behind big ben

00:27:03.500 directly behind big ben in that image you can see a big building right that's westminster abbey just

00:27:10.460 that one building alone

00:27:11.900 kicks the absolute shit out of nearly any other historical building you will ever find 0.74

00:27:19.760 yes it's an absolute wonder yes an absolute wonder a genuine genuine gothic abbey filled with the kings 0.98

00:27:29.840 and queens of england every nearly everyone of any note for centuries is buried there

00:27:36.260 that's just one thing that's just one building there and believe me there's dozens of those dotted

00:27:43.080 around london well not to mention the british museum the british museum the greatest repository of

00:27:47.920 artifacts and treasure in the world by some margin you think the smithsonian is good

00:27:52.580 yeah please i think the guggenheim is good please please yes london the national gallery the national

00:28:01.280 portrait gallery again some of the finest perhaps only the the euphritzi in florence has got a finer

00:28:08.700 collection of art you will find in the world in the world i'm talking about and there's a tape modern

00:28:14.200 will you in the world in the world in that

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - December 26, 2025

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