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stories. sparkling cheer a german couple and their annual christmas light extravaganza. booming business the art market is making more and more revenue on online auction. and festive treats in search of german christmas specialties we visit the city of. well it's already an age old tradition in north america where people love to brighten up their homes for the christmas season with all manner of lights and sparkling or even very humorous decorations well meanwhile here in germany the custom has also caught on in homes all across the countryside are now lighting up with garlands of light but one house in particular in color in lower saxony gets brighter every single year it's the biggest christmas light extravaganza in the country and we visited roll folks to see how and why he doesn't. why.

it's not just tiny tots whose eyes are all aglow when big and small gather on the first weekend of the advent season to watch the lights go on. five hundred thirty thousand of them in germany's biggest christmas light display on a private house and that's a record. was sort of it you're just overwhelmed by all the lights as it could no way i could do that but i have problems just getting one string of lights up it's fantastic like you have this work and i never imagined it like this you know was this made it's just perfect not some christmas market but in a deal like little display perfect for children. the man who attracts christmas lovers to column lower saxony every year is called for. the pensioner who loves his hobby. well i always just jump for joy when it all comes

together i it's that week of happiness especially when it gives people joy and they go oh well i think that's the best part of it the worst thing that can happen is if it starts raining. and then i flip the switch on the remote it may go because you know then of course the people all go. luckily that rarely happens months of work have gone into the extraordinary christmas display. close wife now mean supports his passion for christmas lights. she is in charge of the decorations in the house she decides how it gets done their work and . if well yeah this passion gives him a lots of energy and happiness. well for designs every aspect of his

christmas night extravaganza himself it all started in one thousand nine hundred nine when the couple visited their son in the united states houses all around were covered with lights. and whole never seen anything like it every house was more beautiful than the last at the front yards had moving reindeer and santa claus is on them and we said let's do this at all i'm just for us. every year it got to be a little more but she never thought it could take on these dimensions. the yuletide spectacle now involves a massive amount of effort and expense to have it ready in time the seventy year old retiree has to begin stringing the four point three kilometers of cords in the summer. with this winter predicted to be a wet one he's had a special high voltage line put in. the

movie by the blow dried at least once a week the food cooking food. all the creations have to be in working order by the day of the premiere. and you learn from little disasters for instance i always used to toss the nets over the rhododendrons and then i couldn't get some of them down in the spring without tearing up. so he set up a series of twisted wire arches. dude so there is someone manageable you can hardly even move. and the evidence is going that he doesn't have any other hobby he's put his heart in as an essay and i let him know. some people never had a childhood so they have to make up for it some time. this year old his especially proud of his new electric train. yeah there's a bit of child in me. well. he estimates that he spent around one hundred fifty thousand euros on the decorations so far the folks have to pay some three thousand

euros just for the extra electricity they use in december a little private christmas market helps to pay for it all that the you need those these you know his and he needs it and i hope this year we'll see even more shining faces that's the whole point of doing this does is in doubt that. i had to give him . they have up to five hundred spectators every week and his wife sells mulled wine and sausages while both checks the lights to make sure they're all working and he keeps coming up with new ideas that come as long as my wife joins in and i just can't stop. their leg and we'll keep doing this as long as we're able we really enjoy it yeah it's not just to make me happy but above all the people who come here on a pretty boy. the couple have been married for forty two years now for seventeen of them they've been lighting up the holiday season. i may they keep

shining for many years to come but we continue now with a look at the other lifestyle highlights from berlin and beyond. that the drones champions league finals last weekend in berlin the world's top professionals showed off their flying finesse the pilots steered their aircraft by remote control using virtual reality headset drones reached speeds of up to one hundred forty kilometers an hour as they raced through an obstacle course in a former railway station there was a hundred thousand euros in prize money up for grabs this year's top drone pilots were a british team. the s n motor show is underway it's europe's most important trade fair for two named motor sports and vintage cars more than. five hundred exhibitors are displaying their latest products in the u.s. and for example the rim speed away says the soap driving prototype from switzerland

even has a miniature garden onboard. spectacular is the jet powered school bus. blastoff for education. the four chill be f one fifty raptor is making its german debut. and if that's not enough there's lots of vintage cars and live performances the s. and motor show runs until december tenth. friends of ice cold water have opened up the winter season in the polish city of kona they started out with some warm up exercises in christmas costumes but once they'd worked up a sweat they plunged into four degrees celcius cold water. if you hesitate to imitate them for the sudden drop in temperature is actually good for you because it stimulates the immune system but all.

once upon a time the highlight of british christine was the sunday roast with homemade yorkshire pudding something that mothers and grandmothers of course always did best and these days while the interest in home cooking in britain has never been higher people people are also more eager than ever to try things that they might not cook on their own which is why the concept of the we find food network has really taken off. outside it's an and conspicuous tourist tolleson lymington english inside it's a restaurant serving exotics cuisine a minor revolution in gastronomy eating out and in camp dutton's welcoming eleven guests she made her hobby her profession for a year or so she's been cooking for people mostly strangers in her own home and trying to keep things as informed as possible and so hopefully people come in and feel quite quickly and sort of home away from home. and then they can just relax

and chat with the other people who are here and enjoy the food. for the equivalent of about thirty euros patrons can reserve a place at dutton's table online she's a member of we find food a site that connects cooks with diners looking to discover some new food and meet new people my past non-business to wherever i am in the world to find a way five i host to feed me that is my pastime basin and we've found sucked in the . darkness quite professional by now even if occasionally slightly stressed it takes some time for eleven strangers to warm up to each other they have to bring their own wine or beer this is thaiday the first course is spicy crab cakes. it's like a combination of eating at home but not having the half so i needs i mean she quit her office job this is a social network that connects through the stomach the recipe for success good food

and good company. well anyone who's got real money to burn these days is well advised to invest in art as the art market sees prices for artworks going simply through the roof just last month later nodded eventually salvator monday went for a record breaking four hundred and fifty million dollars that's nearly three hundred million euros and the market for contemporary art is also booming cashing in on all of this is the lead auction house in cologne where this very past weekend three works by get hot the world's most expensive living artist just went under the hammer. and that's why in the us about six hundred thirty two front get out of the . front once it was switched off for one switched on. the atmosphere is crackling at this

auction of contemporary art better action is among the objects going under the hammer are several works by german painter guaranteed a star. there's nothing more exciting in the life of an auctioneer than the day of the auction itself it always brings surprises in who will bid on what how why will they go. killian j. fun zelda nick has been one of the directors of germany's largest auction house since twenty twelve his work begins long before the auction itself it takes months to prepare an auction one of the most important aspects is staying in touch with collectors potential buyers and art sellers option house has been in business since one thousand forty five it's the oldest family run auction firm in the world. some paintings we've optioned off two or three times already say in one thousand nine hundred seventy five and twenty seventeen the trust that we've built up over

generations is naturally something you can't buy with money. dollars and telephone front of of annoyance. we're not thousands and the board any more than one hundred five thousand. i'm more than. a buyer paid one hundred five thousand euros for a book of illustrations by gary hart of my stuff it's one of the german artist's earliest works now eighty five years old has been experimenting with various genres of painting since the one nine hundred sixty s. even minor works by him fetch six figure sums playstyle is the star of the art market among all living artists his works command the highest prices the online database art nat says that all told us works have earned more than eight hundred million euros in auction in two thousand and fifteen his abstract image sold for more than forty million alone. with your how to push day is

a fascinating artist it's no accident that his work sets new price records and is unbelievably popular among collectors. was a title and for fun. but six hundred thirty three then was begin with six on the front dollars. collectors can also bid for works that lead parents auctions online the auctions are live streamed and bidding is in real time the art market is going digital roughly twelve percent of its business in two thousand and sixteen was on the internet that's more than three billion euros an increase of fifteen percent from the previous year collectors like from berlin appreciate the advantages of digitalisation the forty five year old himself founded an art collectors platform called independent collectors to make private collections more accessible. and the collecting has a lot to do with discovery so for collectors it's fantastic that it's now so easy

to get up to date information. and at the same time it's tough to keep track of all the influences and. russians and information. the challenge today is to find your away and keep a balance. let pass is also trying to unite art collectors from all over the world in an online community one task is to convince collectors to bid on where they may never have seen in real life let's use his videos in which experts introduce works of art. and i think there are situations in which serious collectors can buy art works they've never seen before . but mostly you should stick to only art by artists whose work as a whole you know well. and so despite his popularity no online collectors bid

today on his tate a landscape the painting goes to a bitter who is present in the auction hall. sold for seven hundred fifty thousand. thank you. ouch well for duramax extra tour we're now fulfilling a wish from one of our viewers in costa rica anymore lena wrote in to us from san jose that she wanted to visit some of switzerland because her country is interesting they refer to as the switzerland of central america well not far from lake constance so in the north east of switzerland is the city of gallon and during the advent season they like to let out all of the stops there and from the old town that sparkles with garlands of lights the winter certainly looks a lot less tree. in winter st gallen is a wonderland. the medieval abbey of st paul complex has been a unesco world heritage site since one thousand nine hundred three. it includes an

opposing baroque cathedral. in the years six twelve irish monk st founded hermitage on the side of modern st gallen. bottles the other time people believed that the heart of their lives on earth were the more beautiful heaven would be i'm saying to go also believe this. he stayed here a place with an altitude of seven hundred meters because when he first arrived he stumbled and saw it as a sign from god he was collecting wood to make a fire when a brown bear approached him sank all spoke to him and said in the name of god go and fetch me more wood for my fire and he did. the reformation arrived in st gallen in fifteen twenty seven. conflict between catholics and protestants was rife a ten meter high wall was erected to separate the abbey from the time. the began to

show all the good of the town into two it was half catholic half protestant he had stood there until eight hundred twenty which is when the town became a center of the textiles industry famous for embroidery then the wall was taken down among the infidel textiles brought affluence to st gallon by nineteen jan in the region was the world's leading exporter of embroidered goods today fashion brands from chanel to your and armani still use a gallon lace the local textiles museum documents the history of the industry. think alan is proud of its heritage the abbey library is one of the oldest monastic libraries in the world that houses over two thousand manuscripts dating back to the eighth through the fifteenth century xp. including the world's oldest music manuscript which dates back to the ninth century. economy so no other library in europe has been preserved in such entirety. it's

gems include very early fragments of the latin bible. a manuscript of the nibelungen a very famous piece as well as early german literature. as christmas approaches another attraction in st guillen is chocolate. milk this is milk chocolate with gingerbread spices and this year is quality chocolate with almond slivers and orange essence. nearby countries. is also marking the festive season. our christmas gingerbread is filled with almond moose and decorated with christmas garnishing it comes in various sizes. take out and christmas lights are legendary a total of seven hundred of them are switched on ahead of the first advent. of.

the stars show st gallon at its best. great mood lovely atmosphere. this is what christmas is all about christmas and st gallon straight out of the story books. well that story continues because of course during the christmas season in germany there's also a wealth of christmas markets to visit here and you'd be hard done even to visit all of the best ones which usually have their own signature treats all the christmas market in in the furthermost western tip of germany is definitely a must being famous not only for its cathedral but also for a special kind of gingerbread that's known as a printer and you can only find the real thing in itself is the recipe. is a carefully guarded secret and so it's first on our list of goodies in this week's .

auctions christmas market lies in the heart of the historic old town around the city hall more than half the stalls sell christmas decorations and gifts but there are also plenty of cullen area tractions like hearty savory food and mulled wine and punch also sweet gingerbread pastry and often specialty oftener print on as they're called here as a giant gingerbread man are the star attraction with its goodman was i have him up we have to try the spice flavored printer i know the normal ones for a moment but the ones with spices are really something special with the least don't lights darkness mulled wine and something tasty to eat a snickers for me the essence of a christmas market. this is what the market looks like during the day in the center city hall built on the foundations of charlemagne's palace. the cut off square and cathedral are situated south of city hall the unesco listed building is the city's

most famous landmark. the noblest bakery operates one of the one hundred fifty stalls it has been producing in gingerbread according to the original recipe since one thousand and fifty eight. nowadays they also come with nuts all men's chocolate fondue and icing or even in the shape of charlemagne. just as on the hot off the special thing about going to print one is that they have to be made with enough and city limits that has to do with rules which exist in germany linking the product to its geographical origin that means the designation of origin is or checked it really goes on. at the back of the stand order is demonstrated. how to make bits and their occupant filled with mars a pan. the exact recipe is a carefully guarded secret but the brown dough includes flour and baking powder and

three different kinds of sugar syrup icing sugar and rock sugar and spices of course and a seed cloves coriander cinnamon and all spice also known as ferment oh each baker has his or her own special mixture next the dough has to be rolled out. it's like it's another in the traditional normal print came for a long time because they don't include any ingredients that can spoil like eggs cream milk or butter. then. after fourteen minutes in the oven the prints are ready and can be decorated with knots or covered with chocolate what is this called clinton. clinton ok it's nice i think it's got some knots in it and i thought it's a chocolate but it's a mix of a chocolate and something else it's nice we have to simulate a different. story it's like this one and so do i and how the one and the cinema braver so we like it now my style it's like two

christmas days. if the hustle and bustle of the christmas market is too much for you you can visit aachen cathedral. the feeling that i'm back to how they find it really quaint here this cozy old town and they like the fact that there's no trashy stuff and none of the bustle of a christmas fair so. and that's what makes the trip to often during the advent season so popular with visitors they can experience a traditional christmas market and and historic city. well now that our taste buds are well primed we want to know which treats get you into the christmas spirit is it ginger bread or fruit cake or even a piping hot glass of mulled wine whatever it might be send us

a picture of your favorite christmas treats and you can find details of how to do that on our website and as a thanks for your feedback one lucky viewer will get our specially designed your max watch so be sure to get in on the action and with that it is time for us to sign off so all the best and until next time to spawn to meet us. next time on your own max the imus on his calling in and over the famous rain forest are now worth three hundred sixty degree panoramas the largest of its kind in the world. artists yet again c.c. created this three thousand five hundred square meter illusion by combining thirty thousand photographs of virtual amazon rain forest next time on your own facts.

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