pope francis is here in myanmar and his visit couldn't come at a more crucial time more than six hundred thousand muslim or hindu i have fled the country to escape from what many are calling ethnic cleansing will the pope find the right words to address their plight without deepening the religious and ethnic divides that are tearing me and mark part more full coverage of the pope's visit join us here on the w. news. it's. funny clay cancer could often. tell isn't and. i feel i'm telling the famous potato.

hello from below and work out into a new week of euro max before we get started let's have a look at what's coming up in today show. sugary sweet a trip to the biggest gingerbread town in the world in norway. good humor guides and entertaining to our exhibition in switzerland. and winter wonderland a visit to the polish the result of that. for many begging in norway is known as the capital of rain because it rains more than two hundred days a year but when the winter season starts there's nothing sweeter than this city for a few weeks bagging hosts the world's biggest gingerbread city every year 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 and much more 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 the sounds and delectable buildings has been unveiled in bergen american is norway's second biggest city. but it boasts the largest gingerbread town in the world. and this was made by care steep rock star she's the architect of the sugary settlement. and you go around looking who we want to dream themselves into for instance like sitting in the front where they can dream

that they're sitting in a poll or go into the. merry go round we want to give them. a sky thing from their reality and to. local residents pitched in to help build gingerbread city kindergarden schools families and local societies all got involved. a total of ten thousand volunteers contributed to the tiny town including members of americans coastal culture center . form our instrument making together has become a tradition there. so i enjoyed them so so. we'll make 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. cares to brock's stuff was 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 nonstick a bit when if we get a photo with. paris a small paris and then we get. the kremlin. and then have to make space. rocks dot 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 festive tradition twenty six years ago back then it was more of a gingerbread hamlet. good idea came in ninety ninety one.

when i was a marketing director shipping sound that we had exhibition area what we wanted to do something put into. 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 flock to see it each year. some of them even join in to help build the town. there were five hours together and building all these houses and all these features. in the musical for children and families for christmas the magic of christmas we made if. it's the . little train that goes up and down the hills and they get the kids build a different game house each year this year's theme was halloween. 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. 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 megan 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 back up carrier queen elizabeth so it's going to be i'm every really good and to i really positive yeah. the total of eighty six sailors have been selected to guard the queen and other members of the royal family. the austrian city of clark and ford so 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 corpus a company st nicholas and while the same rewards good children the knotty ones get punished by croppers. 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 museum a great experience and to so that art is really all some and 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 will this coverage go with the museum will give it

a try. swiss performer nils altos is offering two hours through an exhibition of place 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 paintings are just a bit too small for my tour. money as this is my first guided tour comes in could you 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. 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. on this and i mean think of cave paintings. they are just badly drawn stick figures. and so now our tour has ended where. right back with the stick figures. clay toyed with obstruction and mills on house takes a playful approach to pop play a challenge in this setting. unlike

a stage. where 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 play 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. and. clay was born in band like me. later he moved back to his hometown 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. well. if you get up close you can see that this part here has been cut out and then pasted on top of this other tells his presentation style is unconventional he combines gags with more serious takes on top plays approach to art a delicate balancing act. this is big. you could regard this painting as the final stage and high point of paul clay's abstract art work. paul klee excitement. 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 clay is

a collective 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. please 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 but instead of year we crest from bogota in colombia to see a card says this there and wrote in to us wanting to know more about poland it's our dream to go there once on her own until then we went there for. we're off to

now it's right in the south of the country near the slovakian border at one thousand meters above sea level as full as highest helm 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 camp . at its heart of key street lined with stores and restaurants invites tourists to take a stroll. oh. look it's yours on which we come here every year it's relaxing you can stroll around the

other one resorts don't have the office for that they do here. with but you must come go to i don't 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. 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 villa khalifa 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 my. she is 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 touch us. that down on crew puppy street people are lining up to buy a local specialty. let's hope she's made from salt and sheep's milk. the decorative shape is typical of the tigris. the saleswoman explains how it's eaten in. i think i saw the smoke 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 . of the sea 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 trick 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 tavern 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 well you know that was the case 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 than later was an internal 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 skills 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. one of them influencers. 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 as do 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. 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 . 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 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 i did almost. enough.

but ultimately coming out it 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 there's. 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 fight if i can't earn a living with it i can sell creeps again i'd be happy with that. despite her success i mean not 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 a 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 test not 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 constantly saying organize chestnut faves to still large numbers of our chestnuts in order to sell them so you valborg all. in this giant fiery oven the chestnuts are showed and roasted before being transformed into delicacies like the chestnut blood sausage chestnut

a 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 oysters 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 find a selection on a weapon. 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 see you

tomorrow until then thanks for watching for me and then team here in berlin by. next time on your own max. supposed to get a new concert hall but the winning design has taken a lot of flak descriptions like green house glass bunker or even cochran 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. good.

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