San Stefanos Online ~ North West Corfu
Your help and reviews are required => Information and help please => Topic started by: Lesley on April 18, 2011, 03:08:38 PM
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Hi all, would anyone know which TV channel the Royal Wedding on 29th April will be shown in UK as we maybe able to pick it up depending on which channel here in Corfu. The Greek TV has had a lot of coverage over the past few days, wedding plans for Kate's family, where they staying prior to the wedding, rumours on possible honeymoon destinations, including the possibility of Corfu?
It would be nice for some of us to get together if we knew which channel to be able to view the celebrations over a cuppa or a vino. Thank for any help/advice ???
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BBC is the main provider - Sky will be taking a feed, so you may get it in one of the Sky bars in SS. Coverage in Corfu should be good, considering that the groom's grandfather was born there!
Personally, I won't be watching. The cost to the economy is estimated at £5 billion. We could probably buy Greece for that!
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and a Puiblic Holiday in England I believe......
Thanks Jimbo for info much appreciated, you wouldn't know the time of the wedding as well of course it will be plus 2 hours here.
San Stefanos is not really open at mo so a group of us will probably be going to our little village in Avliotes to view it as the owner said if it was on BBC/SKY then we were more than welcome......... whilst here it will be a normal working day.....
cheers 8)
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Service is at 11am BST, so you can watch the nuptials over lunch!
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Cheers Jimbo :)
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Lesley, I'll be watching it with you! and supping a Mythos as I am off that day.
Whatever the cost is Jimbo, the Royal Couple will generate more in return for the country in the long run.
Hey, be happy! Me - I'll be sharing a Mythos with Prince Phillip as well!
He's from Corfu - good enough for me!!
Yammas
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Yammas from me 2 I am sure we will share in the fun here too 8)
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Given the odds involved with that particular family, I'm sure the Middletons are absolutely 'thrilled' that their daughter is going to be William's first wife.....
Affair(s) and divorced by 2020 methinks with gazillions of taxpayers lucre down the drain with it.
Anyway the real royal wedding is in Edinburgh with Zara and that rugby chap.
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Well cynical or what, poor old Willy!!
So it seems that with Loftyscott, nothing south of the border would count! LOL
Zara - ?? - oh! yes!
Bet you watch though!!
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Gotcha!!
No, won't watch, we will take the holiday though. Playing golf in the morning with the lads and then football with my son in the afternoon.
I will admire the pomp and ceremony on TV later on, but must admit I lost faith in 'the firm' a long, long time ago. Maybe, I've just realised this as I grew older. Maybe when I'm really old I'll appreciate them again!!
That said, his cousin Peter was/is employed in our place and by all accounts is a good lad.
Still, I'm a weekly visitor to London, back again tomorrow, and I must admit my colleagues in London are all kinda non-plussed about it as well....which surprises me.
I played at Royal Eastbourne GC on the day of Charles & Diana's wedding and my memory tells me it was all so different 30 years ago so perhaps the lens through which the public view them has changed a bit given their behaviour and the constant media scrutiny of them. For the better I think.
Anyway, 12 weeks on Friday.....tick, tock, tick, tock :)
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A royal wedding breaks the monotony and a day off is great!
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'Normal' working day here in Corfu but sure we can manage to view the excitement either on a long lunch break/siesta or other...... Just heard the local channels will also be showing it as well, it's certainly has had a lot of press recently on Greek TV whatever personal views are, seems it is big news all round..... I'm looking forward to seeing......with some friends in the sun over a meze and a krasi 8)
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i heard there is going to be coverage of the wedding on ALPHA channel.......for those of us who dont have the luxuries of SKY!!!
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ok, I've caved in, I bought a bunch of red, white and blue flowers from ASDA.
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Who cares !! The only reason i am all for it is the day off. Other than that i aint interested and wont be watching, but i have no doubt it will be rammed down our throats for weeks to come.
OK thats that sorted :D
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Hear hear Spesh, who cares. It has been rammed down our throats in ever increasing amounts for weeks now.
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I'm far from being a royalist, but I have to say that was a stunning production. The camera-work inside the Abbey was just simply beautiful - the music was excellent - the biggest world TV audience ever and a triumph of perfectly-timed production. Those who would like Murdoch to take over TV might want to admire what the BBC can do when it's sending its feed to the world.
After the obnoxious Thatcher presided over the destruction of most of our manufacturing base, and passed the chalice to the bankers we all love, we don't have a lot left. But we can do marching and horses and bands and a bit of flag-waving. You watch the presidential inauguration in the USA, and let's face it, it's totally naff compared to this. Most of the "tradition" is fake, but they really have got the script right!
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Well as a foreigner here in Corfu watched and loved and supported my home land and felt a sort of spirit for the BRITS and am now looking forward to 2012 8)
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I thought the whole service was fantastic. Nobody does all that pomp and ceremony like the Royal Family, it was terrific.
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Ceremony, royalty and all that aside - this has been one of the most complex outside broadcasts ever mounted, directed by the director of the X-Factor. Never once in the Abbey did we see a camera, but there were wide and close shots from every angle. They had miniature high definition cameras hidden away, including one in the flowers on the altar! I've spent a lot of my life in radio and TV and I was stunned at the quality of the pictures and sound. The high wide-angle shots downwards on the chancel were simply stunning. Let's raise our glasses to the crew as well as the cast.
Great show. Others will no doubt disagree, but I think it was appalling not to invite Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and for that matter Sarah Ferguson (whom I've talked to many times). It seemed to me petulant and not in the spirit of national joy and unity which was the emergent theme of the somewhat sycophantic commentators. The excuse was the laughable statement that it "wasn't a State Occasion". Do me a favour! Are Wills and Catherine best buddies with the King of Tonga?
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Fantastic production and a wonderful day. I really enjoyed it and watched everything from start to finish.
I felt extremely proud of our country.
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With you there Jimbo - I enjoyed the quality more than the quantity, but we (friends and family), gathered for a great BBQ on the excuse of the wedding, and had a brilliant day in the garden - sunny and relaxed!
Cold beer, champagne, wine, Pimms-O'clock, decent food and good company - - - so to the Royals' - - - thanks for the extra day off and the spectacle -
always love the show, the marching bands - - - and it always seems better after a drink!!