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oh, wow, look at this. it's right in the middle of this massive complex, isn't it? and you'd never know if you're just driving through. hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from switzerland, or more specifically, week from switzerland. i'm on a journey from switzerland's capital, beginning with a drive two hours southwest, because i've heard that all around this country is a vast network of bunkers, some of which are open for travellers to explore. among them are old military forts,
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which you can still see hidden i've i'v e been given a pin that tells me there is a bunker basically here somewhere. it's camouflaged so that is going to be a trick finding it. this stretch of mountainside looks like every other stretch of mountainside for miles and miles in the right direction. hopefully, we are in the right place. you shouldn't search for military bunker still in use, but what i'm looking for is something else. in recent decades, some of the bunkers have been sold off and made into everything from hotels to high—security data centres. i'm told this one houses a local delicacy. how well camouflaged will it be? this looks like solid rock. is there an entry point? crafty, look at this.
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look at this. camouflaged door. that is awesome, i was 20 feet away and didn't notice. hello. look at this. michelle bought this bunker in 2004
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and recently started offering tours. there are thought to be many thousands of these many thousands of these in the country. oh, that is lovely. it is gorgeous. for hundreds of years, switzerland has remained famously neutral during conflict, and staying neutral has involved taking precautions. so from the 18805 and stepping up during world war ii, these bunkers help to keep
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out potential invaders. look at this. wow. this is a great spot to get a sense of the strategy behind this place, because michel is telling me, this is the only road to go into this region, and that used to be covered by a big anti—tank gun that used to be here. this is prime position right here. in fact, one company here has begun offering its swiss bunker experience for the world's wealthy, with prices starting at $10 million each. and today's bunkers aren't just for the ultra rich. since the cold war, a policy has been in place stating that every
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swiss resident must have access to a bunker, either within their own building or in a public shelter, in most cases within a 30—minute walk. so i've reached out to a local resident to show me something in her cellar... they exchange greetings. ..that�*s really not unusual here at all. this way to the bunker, i guess? yeah, it's just here. look at this door. i know, right? i think that even myself, i can't really...pull it. it's quite thick. i think it's concrete. and this one, you can basically close it from inside in case of emergency. i mean, this is no ordinary cellar door. no, it's not. and you can see that the cellar is basically split in two parts, so you have like the bunker with some shelter inside that i'll show you. lead the way, let's have a look.
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and then you have here all the, like, half of the apartment�*s food stock and, like, othersupplies. so these are like survival supplies for the bunker? it's not... or is this used for general storage? it's for general storage. so it's not mandatory, like, to keep, it'sjust recommended to keep some supply. i don't do it. but you can see that here, for example, you have some neighbours that have some food supplies. what was your reaction when you first moved into the apartment and they were like, "oh, by the way, "downstairs there's a bunker." yeah, i was actually amused and surprised. when i first moved in, like a few years ago, like, i didn't think about, like, in case of emergency, what can happen. but since covid and since also, like, ukraine war, that is like at the door of europe, right? you never know what can happen. in the city of lucerne, what was built as the largest shelter in the world lies hidden in the heart of the city. this kind of looks like any old tunnel you might find in europe,
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but we're in switzerland, so you might be forgiven for suspecting something else is going on, and this one is special. it's part of a huge bunker system that was designed to accommodate 20,000 people in the event of an emergency. theyjust slam shut big blast proof doors at either end of the tunnel, and suddenly this stretch of road becomes a i.5km long shelter. surrounding the tunnel is a vast seven—floor structure with all the facilities that might be needed in the event that the bunker is activated. today, its capacity is reduced to 2,000 people with regular tours available. what kind of things might people use this for today? still, armed conflicts. it could be a conventional war, it could be a nuclear warfare, biological, chemical, orjust a natural disaster when people lose their home due to avalanches, mudslides, floods, for instance.
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it's basicallyjust a useful resource that's there to be used for whatever you need it for. yes. technically, you're supposed to have food stocks ready at home for two weeks. that's the maximum duration of stay you have to be prepared for in the beginning. we're four levels underground here, but you wouldn't know it with this big space which would have been used for up to 700 staff that would have looked after 20,000 people down on the tunnels, if it had been used. they really thought about everything, though, because you've even got prison cells where, if there were some troublemakers, they could be brought up here, you know, locked up away from the main population. oh, wow, look at this. hum of traffic. this is the road we came in on right here. it's mad! it's right in the middle of this massive complex, isn't it? and you'd never know if you're just driving through. wowee.
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very cool. and noisy, too. ever since the war started in the ukraine, i've been getting calls and emails from people asking me, "can you please "tell me what i have to do if this gets closer?" wow, and that's swiss, swiss people... not people from outside saying, "how do i build a bunker?" swiss people. mostly elderly people, so this just shows how massive that threat must have been back in the �*60s and �*70s when these measures were taken and how those recent events bring up those fears again. that place is an amazing place to visit. just the scale of it, seven floors under the ground. but i think what's most interesting for me is really what it says, a place like this, about this country and its mind—set, and really what it takes to remain neutral in such a conflict—ridden world. i think there must be also something quite reassuring for a swiss person to know that all of this energy and ingenuity has been expended in the event
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of an emergency to keep you safe, for a couple of weeks at least. we're looking back at some of our best bits from the last few months, including eva's encounter with a slippery customer in mexico. oh, my god, it's so smooth. it's so lovely. oh, this is so incredible! and my big splash in an estonian bog. absolutely freezing cold, but i mean, what a setting. so dojoin us then, if you can. aand in the meantime, don't forget, you can catch up with what we're up to on the road by checking out our facebook and instagram accounts. but until next time, from me and all the rest of the travel show team here in switzerland, it's goodbye.
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hello. in many parts of the uk cloud was hard to shift and sunday sunshine was in short supply. but there were some brighter spots to point out. northeast scotland saw some sunshine, at least for a time. it brightened up across a good part of wales and into the far south west of england, cornwall and parts of devon. indeed, look at this picture from a weather watcher in north devon and westward ho earlier on today, blue skies overhead. now, as we head through the night, we are going to see some clear spells here and there, and where the skies do stay clear for any length of time, well, it could get a little bit chilly, potentially cold enough for a touch of frost. but for the majority, temperatures will stay above freezing, particularly where you do keep fairly large amounts of cloud overhead. but we do start the new week on a mainly dry note, thanks to this area of high pressure centred right over the heart of continental europe. this frontal system pushing in from the west, taking its time to get here. so in the meantime, we are looking at mainly fine conditions, a lot of cloud though
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through east wales, the midlands and parts of eastern england and some of that cloud i think will linger along some of these eastern coasts, could stay quite murky for some actually here through the day. but elsewhere, with a bit more of a breeze, we should break up more of the cloud and reveal a little more in the way of sunshine. and if you do get some sunshine tomorrow, it won't feel too bad at all with temperatures between eight and 12 degrees. now, as we head on into tuesday, this little frontal system here will start to introduce some cloud and some splashes of rain, particularly across northern ireland and scotland. but this southerly breeze bringing a renewed surge of mild air. and when you get some shelter from that breeze, it is likely to feel very mild indeed. southern parts of england, perhaps parts of wales, starting the day with some fog, which will tend to clear. england and wales seeing sunny spells, northern ireland and scotland more cloud and some bits and pieces of rain. but it's mild everywhere and parts of north wales, with some shelter from the southerly breeze, could get all the way up to 15 degrees celsius. now, a change does come as we head
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through the middle of the week. this frontal system pushes its way eastwards, eventually bringing some outbreaks of rain, becoming increasingly light and patchy. aand then, as we move towards the end of the week, we will see some further rain at times, but not all the time, and it will remain very mild. in the south, we could see highs of 15 or 16 degrees.
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