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Travel ๐ History ๐ & Jungle Music ๐พ
Find the history episodes & travel blog here:
https://www.youtube.com/forestjunglecollectv
@forestcollectiv.bsky.socialalso a first visit for us a couple of months back did not disappoint! Though the question that remained unanswered: If the pit is closed for lunch ...what are you feeding it??? ๐จ๐จ
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social#MedievalMonday with the Baรฑos del Nogal in Granada,
a bath house from c11-12
See more of the historic centre of Granada in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mIW...
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social๐๐ ...i mean, its a change from 'these were people who danced on the sabbath'
@forestcollectiv.bsky.socialGuilty as charged
@forestcollectiv.bsky.sociali simultaneously want a carnyx ๐ whilst also knowing i do not in the slightest have the brass technique to actually make a sound with one ๐ค
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social#SundayStonework with just a fragment of the gorgeous detail of the Generalife, the summer palace of the Alhambra, Granada
See much more in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mIW...
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social#StandingStoneSunday with the Dunbeacon Stone Circle, Co. Cork ๐ฎ๐ช
Very nice stones, not crazy about the fence, but actually accessing it ... IYKYK ๐
See more adventures from the British Isles >>>
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social#CastleSaturday and while the Alhambra is & has many things: Palace, Court, Church, Gardens
Its also a great fortress & the Alcazaba on the western side definitely fits the Castle criteria
...and it is just ludicrously pretty ๐ฅฐ
See more of Granada in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mIW...
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social
@forestcollectiv.bsky.socialWe've got a new episode up on Granada ๐ช๐ธ for your Saturday evening! >>>
@forestcollectiv.bsky.socialSlip a victorian street urchin a couple of shillings to jump the railing and then loudly exclaim 'Help i have become inextricably entangled in this nationally significant archaeological feature' Being a stand-up guy you would of course have to do the right thing and step in
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social#CastleSaturday & the beautiful castle of Chinon in the Loire Valley ๐ซ๐ท
See more from Chinon in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Cp...
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social#RomanSiteSaturday with the Brachaud Gallo-Roman Villa, just out to the North of Limoges ๐ซ๐ท
Built in c1 AD, abandoned around c4 AD
See more of Limoges & central France in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Cp...
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social#FontsOnFriday with this Octagonal font at St Andrews, Penrice๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
unclear if contemporary with the c12 founding of the church:
'very early, octagonal font probably remodelled in the C15 or C16'
Catch more journeys from Wales >>>
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
@forestcollectiv.bsky.socialthe forbidden truffles ๐
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social#FindsFriday with some of the huge numbers of Neolithic finds at the Musรฉe des tumulus de Bougon ๐ซ๐ท
See more from the Loire & central France in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Cp...
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social#RuinedPrioryFriday with Hore Abbey, just outside Cashel ๐ฎ๐ช
@forestcollectiv.bsky.socialI maintain to this day that the genre should've been known as: Rage Against the Mandolin
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social#AncientTheatreThursday with the Gallo Roman theatre at Saxnay ๐ซ๐ท
see more from the Loire & central France >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Cp...
@forestcollectiv.bsky.social#AdoorableThursday with this spectacular doorway from the รglise Saint-Maixent de Pamproux ๐ซ๐ท
see more from the Loire & central France >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Cp...
