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hello from and welcome to new week of your i'm max before we get started let's have a look at what's coming up and today show. so gary sweet a trip to the biggest in the bread town in the world in norway. my guide and entertaining to up a clear exhibition in switzerland. and winter wonderland a visit to the polish he was all on it. for many begging in norway is known as the capital of rain because of rain smaller than two hundred days a year but when the winter season starts there's nothing sweeter than this city for a few weeks bagging whole. the world's biggest gingerbread city after years since

this christmas tradition began in one thousand nine hundred schools kindergartens and local businesses come together to create a miniature version of it with sweet little houses trains cars a much smaller let's find out more about this yummy winter we wanted to let. to mark the onset of the festive season a miniature town made up of two sounds and delectable buildings has been unveiled in berrigan american is norway's second biggest city. but it boasts the largest gingerbread town in the world. all this was made by care steep rock star she's the architect of the sugary settlement. when you go around looking new we want to audience to dream themselves into for instance that. of the french cafe where they

can dream that they're sitting in a poll or go into the merry go round we want to give them. a stepping from their reality and. into a fantasy fantasyland. local residents pitched in to help build gingerbread city kindergartens schools families and local societies all got involved. a total of ten thousand volunteers contributed to the tiny town including members of americans a postal culture center. form our instrument making together has become a tradition there. well you like something nice for christmas. the gingerbread artist drew inspiration from

the old buildings around the coastal culture center. they used to store dried codfish now they house museums or they function as tool sheds combine this with a pinch of creativity and you get some great results. here steep rock stars getting gingerbread creations right up to the very last minute so improvisation was key. you never know what you get so then you maybe have to change the bounce back a bit if we get the last of a photo with. paris a small paris and then we get. the kremlin cathedral and then have to make space. rock star and her team of thirty work for about a month to transform the four hundred square metres of a former swimming pool into a hilly winter wonderland. steiner kristofferson began the festival tradition twenty six years ago back then it was more of a gingerbread hamlet. the idea came in one thousand nine hundred one.

when i was a marketing director found that we had exhibition area what we wanted to do something and. we got the idea of making the gingerbread city. since then bergen's gingerbread town has morphed into a major tourist attraction some one hundred thousand visitors flocked to see it beach here. some of them even joined in to help build the town. there were five hours together and building all these houses and all these features who is in them used to go for children and families call the christmas the magical christmas we made if a bomb it's the. a little train that goes up and down the hills in the kingdom of the kids build a different game house each year this year's theme was hollowing. the architecture

of the miniature town is certainly diverse the train chugging along the tiny track leads from buildings in the norwegian style to the eiffel tower and maybe a short stop at london's iconic big band. bergen's delectable gingerbread city will be on display throughout the christmas season until december thirty first. well that will minds me i need to buy my christmas presents early enough this morning on to today's express and of course the big news also royal wedding next spring. britain's prince harry aged thirty three is going to marry the thirty six year old american actress meghan markle the engagement was officially announced by the royal family on twitter. the prince of wales is delighted to announce the engagement of prince harry to miss meg and mark all read the statement from clarence house. once they're married the

couple will live in a house on the grounds of kensington palace. the marriage is set to take place next spring. and staying in britain for the first time in history sailors from the royal navy took on the changing of the guard at buckingham palace it's part of the festivities marking the year of the navy. bases ahead of next week when we see the commission in all of them not just the ship carry a queen elizabeth so it's going to be i'm every really good and. a total of eighty six sailors have been selected to guard the queen and other members of the royal family. the austrian city of clark in fort sol one of the region's biggest crumpets runs

more than fifty thousand spectators were on hand to watch the eight hundred massed figures on their one and a half a kilometer procession through the streets. the run is a traditional pre christmas parade in alpine countries in our climate this scary figure of krampus a company st nicholas and while the same rewards good children the knotty ones get punished by congress. for many people going to museum is a moving experience but for others it's literally like watching paint dry to make a visit to a museum a great experience and to so that art is really also meant doesn't have to be boring a museum in switzerland is offering a very unique tour through an exhibition. the tour guide is a bit of

a comedian but how well does this coverage go with the museum will give it a try. swiss performer nils altos is offering two hours through an exhibition of paul claims paintings. this way please for paul clay the basel based foundation byerly opted to hire out house an actor and comic to guide visitors through the museum can you see all right well apocalypse paintings are just a bit too small for my tour. money as this is my first guided tour comes i'm going to come over here so we can look at this painting. i'll tell us is quite a respectable museum guide numerous times he's been nominated for switzerland's film prize fans consider him something like a swiss james dean and he sings too even though he's

a biochemist by training now he's bringing his light hearted ways to the cerebral art world. devised. i don't know about you but i always feel a bit tense in art museums. and i always wonder is this artwork evoking the correct emotion in me. of the am i looking at this piece from the right angle and why is the artist called this piece evacuation plan. i mean think of cave paintings. they are just badly drawn stick figures. and so now our tour has ended where. back with the stick figures. toyed with obstruction and nails on house takes a playful approach to pop clay a challenge in this setting. since. museum is

unlike a stage but this month here you can stroll around and walk through a group of people. you can talk to them you can't plan for everything but you'll realize that ok it'll take a few minutes until the last few visitors have walked over to me and the painting. so then you perform a little as you wait as a so i need to be flexible i like that. unfortunately clay is no longer available for comment but it's well known that this was born painter love to experiment. and swiss multi-talented nils. can you hear me is a performer who also loves experimenting. clay was born in band like me. later he moved back to his hometown as well not

quite like me. he didn't have a swiss passport as he was never naturalized. but we're proud of our paul clay. who didn't even have swiss nationality that's a possible about you know well. if you get up close you can see that this part here has been cut out and then pasted on top of. his presentation style is unconventional he combines gags with more serious takes on pop plays approach to art a delicate balancing act. is a spirit. you could regard this painting as the final stage and high point of paul clay's abstract art work. but size not. really in what sense is clay an abstract painter aren't his works both abstract and representational with a little house here

a camel there were trees and all of it woven into paul claims and collected kuna verse a style that can't be pigeonholed. the exhibition features more than one hundred of clays works most of them in the small formats that the artist preferred. least follow me into the first room at a leisurely pace. of houses tour is an entertaining novelty though paul plays works are fascinating in their own right there on show in basel till january twenty first . and now it's time for a new episode of extra two a series today we take a trip to poland best of year we crest from bogota in colombia to see a caught says this there and wrote in to us wanting to know more about poland it's

her dream to go there once on her own until then we went there for. we're off to a now it's right in the south of the country near the slovakian border and one thousand meters above sea level is poland's highest on that makes a popular winter sports resort. magical landscape of peaks around in the high touch it's the icy temperatures in the clear mountain air make the region of favorite with lovers of winter sports. around three million people visits up upon it every year the town is called poland's winter capital. at its heart street lined with stores and restaurants invites tourists to take a stroll. oh. no

you choose from which we come here every year it's relaxing you can stroll around other one resorts don't have the upas fear that they do here. you might call them go to but i actually love the mountains in the summer but i wanted to come and see them in the winter and i'm bowled over out a great feeling it's wonderful news. a pleasant way to view the cultural highlights of zac upon it is from a horse drawn carriage the typical architecture of the region is known as a style. this small wooden chalet like houses feature high point of roofs eaves and decorations influenced by the art nouveau movement. one of the oldest buildings in the town is the village built in the eight hundred ninety s. today it houses a museum of regional architecture tradition is taken very seriously in. the building to build the houses are made entirely of wood no nails or screws were

used your beautiful buildings made of natural wood your healthy and ecologically friendly houses. pani is known throughout europe as a sports venue it regularly hosts skiing competitions. the most. give yoshi's just under two thousand meters high with a spectacular panoramic view of the area. a ride on the popular cable car reveals the wild landscape of the high to address. that down on corporate p. street people are lining up to buy a local specialty. spoke cheese made from salted sheep's milk and. the decorative shape is typical of the tigris. the saleswoman explains how it's eaten in. i think i saw this most cheeses very aromatic it tastes best on slices of bread but you can fry it in a pan as much number so why not like that. on the outskirts of the town local

handicrafts are on offer. the artistic carvings are known throughout poland and are on display in many churches and museums would is the typical material of the region . but i think you've got to see because it's part of our tradition in the us lots of wooden boards when i cook ok you have to replace them fairly often but it's a natural product not some kind of plastic like silicone that's the track acidic on the high. as night falls the bars and restaurants on her puppy street are great places to warm up one hot spot is parchment the polish word for temper and it offers not only hearty food but folk music. it's the perfect place to experience authentic polish hospitality.

oh yes i come from the mountains this is our life. that was the greatest but a lot of people come here for the music and when it stops the day ends here and upon it like obama. but there's always the next day to look forward to especially in the winter with plenty of snow and fun on the slopes. i mean other belly is one of the people who is changing the way the fashion world sees german style was unbelievable about our german fashion is much more then later wasn't dirndl it's thanks to bloggers like me not a more and more people are getting to know that the twenty four year old started as a fashion assistant and today the hamburg based blogger is using social media so her style skillz now she's become what's known as an influencer whether on you tube

channel and thousands of followers on instagram we met up with her to find out more . there are lots of ways to describe me not about me one of them is influencer. everything she posts on facebook instagram or you tube which is tens of thousands of people. it's important to realize that influencing people can be a good thing or a bad thing and. she started up her you tube channel on a whim five years ago since then she's used it to dispense fashion tips and sometimes even brings up sensitive subjects she's always fresh and says what she thinks facial hair has to go. that appeals to her growing fan community to her personal stories like the first reunion with her father in more than twenty years. and i look to the side and there's my father. i could cry right now well i thought it wouldn't be an emotional video i hate emotional you

tube videos and confidence is key the good man german has often received insulting comments about her skin or hair so she wants to give her followers empowerment and homage but you can see there are lots of girls out there who don't dare to wear an afro out of the house i get messages from people saying you give me strength and show me what's possible like. i know if. i may not i would never have expected to be a social media star she grew up in a family affair ground workers among her many addresses the hamburger dome funfair she frequently changed schools and lived in a trailer those experiences helped her today. as company got to my communicative ways coming from my fairground background that was arrested and was when you're operating a tin can alley you have to talk to people and be open like i love making crepes ten years ago we bought our own crepe stand and i got to sell them and that was one

dream i realized as did almost. nothing. but ultimately coming out and decided against a fairground life she studied journalism and worked for a fashion magazine right now she can make her living from you tube and the jobs it brings or her vintage style is her trademark. i love wearing things that aren't pretty and styling them to make them cool anger creative sometimes i think this is size forty eight or whatever that won't fit not criticize for. my jackets from the flea market a bargain. how do you like it. i think i need this. each new outfit is uploaded to instagram her followers expect constant input. three times a day on average the reporter. presenting. her

growing popularity on social networks has led to a number of presenter jobs here she's at a festival for a radio station from northern germany and she interviews musicians from around the world for her you tube channel. for being an influencer means constantly being online posting and reacting to other people's post. work and leisure time are inseparable and it's unclear how long the success will last. a site if i can't earn a living with it i can sell creeps again i'd be happy with that. despite her success has both feet firmly on the ground and that's why her fans love her i also love the you tube channel and i'm sure we'll also find a lot of wind of photos on her instagram account next time maybe from

a christmas market typical things you find there are bread and wine and also roasted chestnuts they are so delicious and they are perfect snack for the cold season a long time ago test a staple of life in hard times today you can do much more than just. we're heading to france for the season now. a monster seems to be huffing and puffing its way through these woods in the early morning. it's a chestnut harvesting machine the spiky shelled nuts are practically worshipped here in a muslim in central france so no surprise that signs warn against gathering by unauthorized persons. joy you'll feel good if it were constantly saying organized chestnut thieves who still large numbers of our chestnuts in order to sell them for you mobile. in this giant fiery oven the chestnuts are showed and roasted before being transformed into delicacies like the chestnut blood sausage. the

coon. chestnut. is a specialist in sweet chestnuts he hopes his creations will restore the reputation that chestnuts once had before they were replaced by potatoes. said that of both of them in the past the chestnut was the main staple for the people here in certain periods it helped them survive. it was really the potato of the people. and indeed the chestnut is experiencing a kind of renaissance here demand in france is so high that the round brown nuts have to be imported in this chestnut rich region many farmers are starting to abandon cattle for chestnuts. a friend of mine sold his cows he planted chestnuts and is now raising chickens that grow in the shade of the

trees. the locals love their chestnuts these two men have baked at chestnut cake weighing one hundred forty kilograms for a festival the nuts are perfect in sweet as well as savory dishes. it's more of a challenge for the six people who will have to carry. to the festival. nuts growing popularity is a good thing for the people in regions like limo some where they grow in great abundance. what would you also like to try out chestnuts or maybe you would prefer to give this truffles or try may not that that's what we want to know this week write to us about that the legacy you would like to try once in your life you'll find a selection on our web site so choose one and when you do your name will be entered out of magically into a prize draw for this exclusive euro max what just go to w dot com says lifestyle

so good luck with that and we're running out of time now but hopefully tomorrow until then thanks for watching for me on the entire team here in berlin and by. next time on your own max munich is supposed to get a new concert hall but the winning design has taken a lot of flak descriptions like greenhouse glass bunker or even coffin have been leveled at the plant building. but on second glance the concept from architects of our works well decide for yourself next time on your own next.

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