tv The Travel Show BBC News February 26, 2017 8:30pm-9:00pm GMT
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an updated version will be sold under licence by the finnish start—up hmd global. john mccann is uk phones and tablets editor for the online technology publication, techradar. hejoins me on webcam from barcelona. just in case there are people who do not know what they nokia 3310 rudy was, or is, can you show us one?” have two with me in my hotel room. these are old school nokia 3310, which the new phone is based on.” have one in a drawer at home and think, i liked that one. what was it about the phone that was so appealing? it captured the market at the right time. mobiles were booming and it had a good battery life and it was dubbed the indestructible phone it seemed to survive any
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dropped you could expose it to. people have fond memories of the solid device that work. what are we getting now? it has refinements, it is not just like the getting now? it has refinements, it is notjust like the old one. it has been brought up to the modern day, thinner, lighter, with the camera. it has a colour screen but it is a homage to the old design. front on you can see the old style but round the back it looks like a different phone. it is an interesting trade—off they have made. can you send e—mail audit? —— on it? i don't think you can. it is a basic web browser, i do not think it supports 3g. browser, i do not think it supports 36. there will be basic apps but do not expect the internet you have on smartphones today. prospects for the
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weather over the next day or two. windy, i think, weather over the next day or two. windy, ithink, in many weather over the next day or two. windy, i think, in many places. we can say good evening. it has been windy today. particularly across the north and west of the uk because of the fifth named storm of the season, storm ewan. it was named by the irish met 0ffice ewan. it was named by the irish met office because that is where the bulk of the storm was expected. some rain is clearing eastwards over the next few hours and then we will see showers coming in by the end of the night. containing a mixture of rain and sleet and snow over high ground. turning cold in the north—west. early tomorrow, there will be showers, which will be heavy and thundery. maybe not for everyone and
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they will contain a mix of rain, hailand they will contain a mix of rain, hail and sleet and snow over higher ground. quite windy, as well. a cold start on tuesday with widespread frost. there could be icy patches. bright and breezy for some in the afternoon. and still scattering of showers, some on the heavy side. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines. jeremy corbyn says he takes his share of responsibility for his party's defeat to the conservatives in the copeland by—election. speaking at the scottish labour conference — he urged the party to unite. britain faces a ‘sustained and serious' level of terror threat from islamist extremists — that's according to the independent reviewer of terrorism laws. after a leaked report by the us anti—doping agency
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suggesting that his coach alberto salazar may have broken drugs rules. now, time for the travel show. this week, camping in churches. i'm going to try to go to sleep now and try and forget that i'm entirely surrounded by graves. a spanish celebration of pork. el rey de la cocina! and getting to grips with sudan. wrestling a guy in front of 2,000 people is a bit further this week, i'm in kent, in england's south—east corner. this is the city of canterbury, a place of pilgrimage ever since the 12th century. apparently, if you look up
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at the stained glass windows — ah, here we go — one of the panels depicts a fairly extraordinary scene. really the thing that put canterbury cathedral on the map. it's got thomas beckett, who, at the time, was the archbishop of canterbury, being killed by two knights with swords and it was his murder and martyrdom that made this a place for pilgrims to come from across the world. britain's ancient places of worship have always attracted visitors. ca nterbury‘s competition comes from sites like york minster, westminster abbey and even the holy island of lindisfarne, but around the country there are religious treasures to be found in the smallest places. this is fordwich, about two miles down river from canterbury. with 370 local inhabitants, they reckon this is the smallest town in the uk.
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you wouldn't know it now, but tiny fordwich used to be an important port. it was here they unloaded the french stone that was used to build the cathedral. here, in this barely used norman church, is my bed for the night. so it's very reassuring walking through a graveyard to get to your accommodation. i'm here for a spot of champing, church camping. it's available at 12 historic venues around the country. beautiful ancient sites that are rarely, if ever, used as places of mass worship any more. it's a very big hotel room. money raised from letting champers like me stay means the crumbling
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buildings are spared a slow, inevitable decline. there's1,400 years of history here. you can see from the architecture that there would be little bits from every generation, because we all make our mark on it, often trying to modernise it, whetherfor the good or the bad is another question. so i'm keen to give this champing a go, so where will i be sleeping? you'll be sleeping possibly in the executive pews because it's meant to be the warmest part of the church. it's good that it's a box pew because it stops the drafts. 0h, here we go. so, here you are. there are a few nice touches here — that good old staple, the tea tray, and a basket of goodies with biscuits and wine. so i guess there's a risk, what if people are here drinking and carrying on? there is an agreement that you have to agree to in terms of how you behave in the building as you hire it, as it were. particularly here, it speaks silence and good behaviour and one hopes that people would enjoy that and appreciate that.
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i mean, it's only 6pm and it's already cold. safe to say, champing is usually more of a summer activity, more of a summer activity. at least the pub next door looks like it's going to be warm. purely medicinal this g&t. people have said, you know, waking up in this amazing place in the summer, with the birds singing and the sun pouring through the windows, is just something very special. we are given historic churches by the church of england where there's no longer a worshipping congregation, but the church is of such significant historic and cultural value that it needs protecting and preserving for the future. why would anyone want to go champing? because you get to spend such a lot of time in truly amazing historic buildings. the way people usually visit
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historic churches, and i've seen it, is that they go to the door, they pop their head round and they go — oh, there's a font, there's an altar, there's some very nice stained glass, that's very pretty, and then they leave. what you miss by doing that is, you don't get to dwell in the place and really get a feeling for it. somebody at the pub just told me that tonight is supposed to be the coldest night of the year. so that's good, as i head into my unheated church room for the night. i've got my air bed, sleeping bag. so i've just got into bed and it's
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quite comfy, actually. i'm quite cosy, given how cold it is, and i can see my breath. i'm going to try and go to sleep now and try to forget i'm entirely surrounded by graves. it is quite cold, it's quite noticeably cold. i think there's a jolly good reason that champing is only done during the summer, because these old churches don't have nice central heating. but it's oddly peaceful, actually. it's cold, but peaceful. deciding to come champing in the dead of winter was a really terrible idea. knocking
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morning. hi, how are you doing? 0h... i thought you might want some coffee. you are my favourite person in the world. brilliant, and some bacon sandwiches as well. welcome! how did you get on? i mean, it's the middle of winter, when you don't normally run champing. well, i was going to say, there is a reason why we run champing from spring to the end of summer. yeah. but how about the atmosphere and the experience? i tell you what, i was surprised actually because i'm quite a scardy cat, but really, the second i sort of actually settled down to sleep, it was really peaceful. yes. it's really lovely. you're lying there and there's no sound from outside and the atmosphere was surprisingly
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quiet, sort of calm, and all through the night i had no moment of being, sort of, alarmed. the champing season starts around mid—march, a far more sensible time of the year to try this. bookings cost around £40 a head, but for that you get a historic building all to yourself. so if you're thinking of heading to south—east england in the nearfuture, here are some things you need to know. there are may day events happening all over the country, but one of our picks is the jack in the green festival in hastings, in west sussex. four days of folk dancing and music culminates in a wild costumed parade in the old town. the roots of this go way back, to the 16th and 17th centuries. those clear spring days should be
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an ideal time to try to out the world's thinnest tall building — brighton's i360. it only opened last year on the city's seafront, marking the entrance to the old iconic west pier, which burned down in 2003. and in hampshire, events are planned throughout the year to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of the pride and prejudice authorjane austen. the main focus for events is injune, but even now there are exhibitions, tours and performances taking place around her home city of winchester. next up this week — our global gourmet heads to andalucia to take in a festival that shows, like no other, just how much the spanish love their pork. still to come
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on the travel show. ben continues his trip around sudan. this time, it's safe to say, he's finding the locals quite a handful. you grab the arms, you grab the legs. i think you need to get them on their back and then you win. the travel show, your essential guide wherever you're heading. welcome to the slice of the show that tackles your travel questions. coming up, a heated discussion about dubai in july. but first, skiers heading for winter park, in the american rockies, can take the train this winter. the winter park express runs from denver's union station every weekend until the end of march.
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one way fares, for the two—hour trip, range from $39 to $59 with no extra fees for skis or snowboards and there are easy connections at union station with the new rail link from the city's airport. next, neil smurdon faces an eight—hour stop over at hong kong airport and wants to know... can we exit the airport and go into hong kong? if so, what happens to our suitcases, as we don't want to drag them around? so long as you have a passport from one of 160 approved countries, including almost every nation in europe and many in asia and the americas, it's easy. make sure your bags are tagged to your final destination, then you won't need to wait around at the baggage reclaim, you can go straight through passport control into hong kong without problem — just be ready to show your onward boarding pass as proof of your travel plans. then take advantage of the superb airport express train link direct from the terminal into the city.
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you'll need 100 hong kong dollars in cash rather than a credit card to buy a same—day return ticket. take the train to the last stop, on hong kong island, where you'll emerge beside one of the world's great harbours, ready for a few hours of exploration and eating before the 24—minute trip back to the airport. rich and tara ballard are looking ahead to summer and, fortunately, contacted the travel show before they booked. just a quick email to ask whether to travel to dubai in the first week ofjuly. will it be too hot to do any sightseeing? yes. stay away from the gulf in summer, unless you're merely changing planes. 0nejuly, i was flying via dubai and made the mistake of building in a day to go sightseeing. the a0 degrees plus heat was debilitating. i resorted to flagging down taxis just to travel a few hundred metres in order to get some brief air conditioned respite. sure, there are plenty
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of chilled indoor attractions, but that's not the point of a dazzling city such as dubai. i enjoy the gulf states from november to february, but during the remaining eight months of the year you'll find me elsewhere. sharri rendall is heading to tel aviv in the last week in april for a friend's 40th birthday. late spring is an excellent time to be in tel aviv. it's a beautiful, welcoming, cosmopolitan city which, despite being barely a century old, has loads to see. exploring beyond tel aviv is easy, notably on the spectacular train ride through thejudaean hills tojerusalem, taking 80 minutes forjust 20 shekels, which is about £4 or $5. travelling as a single woman presents no special risks though the danger of terrorism is ever present. whether you're considering the balkans, the baltic or bogota, the travel show is here to help,
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so email your question and i'll do my very best to find you an answer. from me, simon calder, the global guru, bye for now and see you next time. finally this week, we're back on the road in sudan. it's a country scarred by conflict and largely inaccessible for tourists, but with a bit of resolve and some careful planning, it is possible to get there. last time, benjamin zand explored some of the country's impressive archaeological sites. this week he's in the capital khartoum trying something a little more hands—on. every friday at 4.00pm, in haj yusef, khartoum, this ancient sport, originally thought up by nubian pharaohs, is still being practiced.
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is still being practised. for thousands of years, wrestling has been a fixture the nuba are originally from the nubian mountains in southern sudan but now, as unrest pushes them away from their homeland, the sport has found another home in the capital, and for the locals it's a huge event. things are heating up here. these guys go in pretty hard. from the start, basically anybody can get involved, theyjust have an empty arena and all the little kids, kind of, jump in and wrestle each other and anybody can try it out. it's quite cool. i probably should try it out, but i'm not going to. after seeing how heated the matches were getting, i was happy i was only a spectator. but quickly, i realised
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the organisers had other plans. i was told an international exhibition match was going to be taking place — one between sudan and britain. and, yes, you guessed it, i was going to be representing britain. i'm usually up for doing a lot of things, but wrestling a guy, in front of 2,000 people, is a bit further than what i usually go. so, i'm a bit nervous, the guy is kind of scary. as preparations are made for the big showdown, i was given the chance to meet my opponent. all right, so this is my opponent. let's shake your hand. i look forward to it. here we go, i'm scared, i'm kind of scared. all right, sweet. that guy looks like he wants to kill me. then it was time to head out into the arena. oh, god. wish me luck, wish me luck! ah, no, they actually think this is like britain against sudan. i actually don't know fifhéf ffiffljlfi if?
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this is going to end so badly. it actually started quite well, that's until my opponent took off his shirt in a display of ultimate warrior in this man—on—man death match. what's going on? how did this happen? i spent the duration of the match running away from the opponent. i learnt later that you're not really meant to move backwards, only forwards, but they let me off as i was new to it and they probably knew i was going to lose. as things heated up, i used my premium agility skills, dodged my opponent's attempts to bring me down. with the crowd on my side, i decided to go in for the kill. but i failed massively, and i lost.
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as it was all over, i was happy i could now retreat to the changing room and think about what i'd just attempted. but in a celebration of british—sudanese relations, my opponent decided a parade around the arena would be more suitable. oh, my god, i lead a strange life! whilst in the arms of my new sudanese comrade, i had time to reflect on what i was seeing. sudan is a very divided country when it comes to things like religion and ethnicity, but here, in the wrestling arena, it doesn't matter where you're from. even a young lad from liverpool can earn respect. now it's all finished, all i can say is, this could be a bit of a daunting place to walk into, but, after that experience, and the love everyone showed me, all i can say is that was unbelievable. and a cheering crowd as well, i'm being carried around. i can get used to that, honestly. what a day, what a day. well, that's all we've got time
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for in this week's travel show. coming up next week — skiing in the danger zone. six years after the disastrous meltdown at japan's fukishima nuclear plant, carmen heads for the slopes nearby to find out how skiers are being enticed back. so dojoin us then, if you can. in the meantime, if you'd like to keep up with what we're up to out on the road, you can sign up to our social media feeds. but for now, from me, christa larwood, and the rest of the travel show team here in south—east england, it's goodbye. good evening, some of us had a
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thoroughly wet and windy day today. the west of scotland, it was pouring with rain earlier. the view of glasgow, water running down the street. there was some rain in cheshire at times and the cloud broke a little bit to allow sunshine through. thanks to the weather watchers for sending those in. storm ewa n watchers for sending those in. storm ewan was named by the irish meteorological service because that is where we expected the worst impact. the bulk of the uk, it was wet and windy. the strongest winds overnight will be across the north of scotla nd overnight will be across the north of scotland with gusts up to 70 mph for a time. tomorrow morning,
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showers coming in from the west and some will retain wintry weather. not turning particularly cold in the bulk of england and wales. but in some parts patches of ice first thing. from early tomorrow quite a lot of showers, and heavy thundery showers around. a mixture of rain, sleet and hail. some sunshine in between. the east of scotland probably doing quite well. a cold day. single figures. through monday evening, showers around but they fade away. windy and wet on the south coast and into the north—west. in between it will turn cold and widespread frost to start the day on tuesday. i think it will turn cloudy in the afternoon with a scattering of showers and. again in single figures so cold on tuesday, as well.
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tuesday night, cloud and rain drifting south. high pressure building infor drifting south. high pressure building in for the start of wednesday particularly across the eastern side, so a bright but cold start here. we are looking down to the south—west for the next area of rain. getting up into wales and eventually to the london area and midland. the further north you are, it should be that bit drier. thursday, it will see rain fizzling out. temperatures creeping up into double figures in the south of the uk. there are some warnings in force, you can get the details online. this is bbc world news today, broadcasting in the uk
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and around the world. i'm geeta guru—murthy. the headlines — a rising tide of anti—migrant feeling in germany, as it records more than 3,500 acts of violence against migrants in a single year. that's an average of nearly ten incidents a day — there are calls for the government to do more to protect migrants from far right groups. anti—putin sentiment as thousands march in memory of russian opposition leader, boris nemtsov, who was shot dead near the kremlin two years ago. also coming up: time to roll out the red carpet in hollywood, where this year's oscars are shaping up to be the most politicised ceremony for many years. the issue is going to be for winners, whichever side of the divide they stand on, how do they say something that isn't partisan and pointed?
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