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let's have a look at the topics. windows with wow we take a look at christmas window displays in europe's top department stores. with this is a learn how to make your own sausages. and holiday with how and now you can take your beloved with on a cruise. just a few weeks to go on to christmas and europe is getting ready for the festive season the lights ugly mane and other wear their christmas decorations especially and the huge department stores which create winter wonderland in their windows here in berlin the best is also known as caddies e is a must see every year as one of europe's largest department stores it's as well known as london's harrods or get in paris and let's start our two and the french

capital. these decorative store windows are a parisian tradition during the christmas season every november the main department stores in paris dress up their window displays for the holidays and they've been doing that for decades. it's a tradition that many persians both young and old look forward to at this time of year so it's people they've used to feel it's the magic of christmas if we're trying to you like. oh well i think they're important the department stores do them every year and the children are happy. i wanted to come and see them they're always different and i change it's nice a sign of christmas in. the christmas window displays at the big department stores are true works of art they're more inventive and more surprising every passing year the tradition started in the early twentieth century. you kinda know when i think

the christmas windows were created after world war one and during a depressing time. they were meant to raise the morale of the persians and all the french. and the whole thing. the department store private tong has taken part in this festive tradition from the very start. planning the various teams can take up to a year and setting up the scenes takes three months. maker's young club day he has been decorating these windows with his magical creations for forty two years. the new one of the best and i this year we've placed moveable figures in the windows travel around twelve hundred kilometers over the next month. the characters are made of stainless steel so they're quite hard and heavy so that was the challenge i had this year with them. some of the windows have a specific story to tell. last year we created two characters

and violette and this year they're going on an adventure as explorers to look for presents from all over the world. other big reasons department stores take part in this tradition too while the themes vary from window to window and store to store the general idea is the same to create a festive atmosphere in the run up to christmas. in the mean time at berlin's most exclusive department store caught evade the christmas spirit is also taking hold in the decorative windows and displays. here to animated figures are placed in amusing settings to catch the eye of passers by. the. special windows because we want the people to stand here a while and then come. at it harvey

nichols department store christmas looks like a big wild party. that suffered just the santas are in a festive mood. and things are buzzing. nothing to say it. came to london san fernando into not just me saying that it's a test you. know you could land by not living up to the christmas but. meanwhile back in paris the streets are alive with the usual hustle and bustle. but sometimes local residents and tourists alike take time out to notice some window display were to. what you can see they took time to

create the windows and make their ideas come true. this is the us i love them they're super i find they're full of light simply beautiful and magnificent. christmas may still be a few weeks away but the decorative windows in various european capitals are a great way to get into the holiday spirit. our we are staying in the wind to move. around up on today's express. the city of dresden is currently hosting its ice world event twenty five artists from twelve countries spent weeks working on around one hundred sculptures. four hundred tons of ice and snow were used to produce twenty three winter scenes of famous winter athletes fairy tale characters and famous preston landmarks. the

artworks which are up to seven metres tall on display in a one thousand square metre hall which is kept at a temperature of minus eight degrees celcius the exhibition runs until the end of february twenty eighth. for. face jumpers hans rafi and fred have plunged into the depths from mt young for all in this was the duo set themselves a special challenge in freefall they headed for the open hatch of a small airplane and climbed aboard they managed the stunt on their second try. from the time they leapt they had two minutes and forty five seconds to complete the daredevil maneuver and this is what success sounds like. british filmmaker ridley scott is celebrating his eightieth birthday scott is one

of the most influential and successful filmmakers of our time after he studied art scott began working in advertising we'll he made this commercial for apple in one thousand nine hundred forty one it's seen as a masterpiece of advertising. later scott went to hollywood and filmed a series of blockbusters. for example alien followed by gladiator his latest film all the money in the world good cinema so. wrestle as the odd world's greatest mass as an stands alongside the lives off michelangelo and leo novel da vinci they tell him painter an architect work for pokes and princes and florence and rome even today most people know his paintings he's best known for his madonnas and his typical cubits but thought to be a big kitchen nowadays. the museum in austria selling

a lot of great mosques over. even though most of his themes come from the bible raphael belong to a generation of artists who gave the biblical characters special vitality like the property line just. in here even though he floats on a cloud toward heaven he still seems to be of this world. human emotions also become tangible is this the holy family or brother a picture of father mother and child. today it's considered kitsch cupid's and madonna's have been reproduced millions of times imagine these images were once new and radical. rafael explored proportion gestures psychology and above all the idea of the divine god in order to find

something like a universal measure of harmony and beauty. now the albertine a museum in vienna is showing paintings as well as one hundred thirty drawings full of his searching. mother and child no boring standard pattern but psychological studies curiosity shyness protectiveness and concern a mother who responds to her child. not much is known about raphael's life but one thing is sure he was alone early on and orphaned at the age of eleven. he depicts jesus as a child at play something new at the time. raphael and his contemporaries make the sacred part of the real world it becomes spontaneous and lively and at the same

time thanks to its ideal composition it is more than that michelangelo raphael and eventually competed with each other and sought their own answers rafael even exchange designs and works with. he switched off in the hope to be present at what rafael is all about. that for a very short time hardly more than ten years he brought together the highest ideals and perfect. raphael gave a drawing in which he said nature is imperfect and we must purify it through the ideals of the sculptures of antiquity and think of this group to him. works you feel the body in motion. amazement was a master at animating his figures by bringing up their bodies and faces with gestures and facial expressions. a portrait of a young man painted around fifteen fifteen

a brief look back over his shoulder. open alive. just becomes an idealized disturbed inside but not branded a radical with ugliness. i think this is i think that here in the twenty first century it's time to recognize once again a painter in whom ideology and harmony beauty and composure and happiness find a form that is not hyper critical. sometimes you have to move away from the all too familiar order to see things of. these drawings invite you to do so they show the creative process everything was new an experiment.

the transfiguration his last work. in the lower part we see the emotional chaos of mankind. in the upper part jesus floating powerful and luminous. no one had ever seen it that way before. during his lifetime raffael looked at familiar topics in a new way. and today we should take the same approach with his works. germany is known as the country of sausages and to be honest it's not a cliche so some germans live of their set to be one thousand five hundred types of the media treat we've got advice was. still have enough brute force cannot be of

worse. so i go on the list is endless and those are just the normal sausages you can buy off the shelf we've found a place where you can make your own d.i.y. sausages for sure it's here in germany. germany's first sausage studio is located on the edge of my soul town. and he is the inventor after i shot his business ideas to make it just with being. so he wants to teach people how to make their own sausages versts in special workshops. my philosophy is that you can decide for yourself what you want to eat maybe sometimes i want to do something crazy like try lemon grass on my sausage i want to each sage parmesan sausage. and these are things that my normal butcher doesn't offer. and if you want to try something like this for yourself then you

should do it yourself and you can do that here. for the workshop live shot by the museum his favorite shop only the best quality meat well. yes six and a half kilos of one kind and two and a half kilos of the other. perfect. sausage feelings i don't mean the feeling you get when you eat as many people misunderstand it i mean the feeling that you get when you actually create the sausage when a sausage comes to be so to speak. that's a magical moment and to experience that is what i mean when i refer to the sausage feelings. to pass it on to others to inspire other people and that's an overwhelming feeling so sausage feelings. the workshop is suitable for the whole family friends or colleagues who want to make something special for the barbecue. for most people it's the first time that they making their own sausages.

the first step is to create your own recipe the sausage can include just about anything dried tomatoes for example just don't add too much salt. you've already got forty four grams of salt. video of the sausage making is child's play and fun in the three zero zero workshop the participants learn how diverse the world of sausages can be. twenty to thirty sausages are created by each participant. to fast for. us and of course tasting on the spot is a must look at that it really is one of a crime you can't buy one like it i could barbecue for another two hours but i'm hungry now. you passed the test and you get the diplomas tomorrow.

it's time now for your mags which takes us today to iceland the country is known for its back taking landscapes with many volcanoes and springs we were invited to a house which was once just krongard bungalow but i may go over turn it into a modern home. hello welcome to my house. please comment. on it going to start just bungalow in a suburb of the icelandic capital reykjavik is a modern concrete looking villa with a previous life. like almost all the houses here it was built in the one nine hundred sixty s. . and her husband have modernized the bungalow and renovated it in keeping with its surroundings. i enjoyed to stay here and

all the lights and the nature to be in contact with nature here it's very much a balance between inside and outside it's very you feel very. good connection and relaxed. the idea for the conversion came about in twenty fifteen at first ana only wanted to redesign the kitchen and dining room. but that led to a total conversion. now there was plenty of room for ana and her husband and their daughter who often visits. the first time we started really to break things down it's like a journey you don't know where to where you're going because you never thought it there was so much. it turned out to be have to say that because it was all this more and more and more. but it was also fun to do it. hardly anything remains of the old house this special furnishing was the idea of

a construction worker during the renovation he had cut. one piece out of the bathroom wall to make a window and and from this piece cut this out and to make this a lot better this is really the only piece from the old house that reminds me of this is. the spacious open living space with many small cozy corners is a new feature. it includes a t.v. corner in the heart of the house. and office space in the rear. there is a room with a fireplace on the lower level. the furnishings are a mix of souvenirs and functional furniture when it comes to interior design on a place is great importance on quality and continuity i think it's good to keep her

old. pieces also yes for one of the past quarter members of the past you have. his bungalow has three hundred forty five square metres of indoor living space. remodelling instead of building a new group the right decision in addition there is the newly designed outdoor area with the typical icelandic thermal baths. i was happy with my house before and so i looked just wanted to have a new way yeah i think you'll see. from the house what you can and then you break down the facts and make them as you want to have it. the best and. a mix of old and new classical and modern the bungalow is now exactly the home doctor always. here in germany seven million households have

a dog for many on us they are like real family members they treat man's best friend like you know lying them accessories much more some even polish then they've seen this and now there's even a few clues for dogs. offering the passengers on this cruise a spa area would be barking up the wrong tree after all most of them have four pines the green area that serves as a toilet is much more important to them some fifty dogs and their owners are enjoying a cruise on the rhine river canine passengers are only allowed on the ship at the end of the season. the day before in cologne nearly one hundred passengers are waiting to check in. death mina and his partner goodwin hardy got their dog about a year ago because paddy now plays a major role in the couple's life their travel plans have changed radically. yes.

yes this is the first time we've booked a river cruise with a dog. we've travelled further afield to the caribbean in the past but we don't really want to do that anymore so we bought the dog last year and said if we go on holiday then we will always take the dog. went and yes this is our first voyage together sixty five of. the guests are welcome to board in the afternoon tour guide of a boy memorizes the names of many of the four legged friends he knows how important direct contact is. possible really with the barber shop they always look like this . but all i do is just it's stressful for everyone to the crew dogs just the first day but over the next few days we'll get to know each other better not just the owners but the dark students of old and also the moment. these well seasoned passengers from potter borne can now have their dog patty with them in their cabin the couple have paid around two thousand euros for the seven day cruise . who. had

a come on get in here come on look. good as our i'd say it's a bit simpler the cabins on the larger ships are a bit more luxurious. but we'll manage a visit over the next. the ship sets off for bond the passengers and their parents all gather in the saloon there's one rule on board animals have to be kept on the leash only a feeling of relaxation sets in. and the thought well i think it's great he can stay with us he has other dogs to play with it's fine especially now he has started to come down. the toilet. shortly afterward the first rush for the doggy lawn although many stopovers are included the dog still need to relieve themselves now and then on board. instead of an entertainment plan or sports activities there's an animal trainer on this cruise who gives tips

on how to train difficult for legged friends this issue and this was all this is special space is a bit limited of course you're used to running around outside with the dogs here we have to adapt a little to the circumstances but we can do a lot. to hide because. i think he's got to go out. most of the passengers and their dogs disembark at the first stop over the pets head for a treat for a much needed pit stop. if you are not it's really nice it's fun we don't have yes . this is probably not the last cruise patty you'll be going on and other guests have already booked their canine cabins for next year. you can also find much long crazy stories from around europe on a web page and don't forget to join in our draw it's also on the dot coms less lifestyle this week we want to know what's delicacies you would like to try once in

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for my child. but in a society in which breastfeeding is often frowned upon and adds well for me to abound with profits is more important than my baby's well being how do i know how to make the right decision to be listening to you know all these parenting blogs or the keep your traditional have to conform to my frock with the help. mil starting december ninth on d w. they're black and living in germany. she's reminded what that means on a daily basis presenter john up like this not being able to blend in and i was kind of. being you know different than the rest. she travelled across germany to meet other black people and to hear their stories.

it seemed that. i grew up in a white family in a white neighborhood it was definitely a challenge. she decided to put me up for adoption. the main thing was to keep your head down and your mouth shut of course of the face like this i could never completely disappear if you see all these stereotypes about africa it's good to see you. do something for your country but you're still the black guy with an. afro germany starting december tenth w. .

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