s. . feel. i guess engine into the site my name's louise houghton i'll be bringing you a special program today packed for things to do to increase your well being let's

see what's coming up. cuba and happiness featuring the danes special attitude to life. playing games why german ball games are popular all over the well. as a final vine to entrepreneurs invite you to listen to entire records. we kick start the show with a great philosophy on life if you speak more than one language you'll know that sometimes there isn't a direct translation for what you want to say is some languages was just don't exist and one example is the danish word hugo you just come up counseling to but it basically means enjoying life simple pleasures be that spending time with friends and family going for a walk or simply looking at the wind blow of a candle they all signify hugo and since the day is a usually

a ranked highly among the happiest people in the wells we thought we'd get a lesson in how to live a more good life. surveys indicate that danes are among the happiest people on earth in fact the un's world happiness report regularly puts denmark at the top of the list. what is it about the danes that makes them such happy people. mike beaking has written a book about all this and he believes he knows the answer. he has to do with togetherness it has to do with the art of creating a good atmosphere it's about equality it's about saving simple pleasures i think we also see something inherently danish i think we see it as part of our national identity the same way the american see freedom we think of who gets something as

part of our d.n.a. . the word who get means being comfortable and contented often while enjoying the simpler pleasures of life. here are a few examples. it's having of kabul for warm chocolate or won't he and some basic needs at some and the talk who go a little bit deeper than the chilling on the couch and. take a. candle for us all hogan is also maybe watching a film or reading a book and brutal isn't. mike beekeeping is the c.e.o. of the happiness research institute in copenhagen he says that the danes unique attitude towards life plays a major role in their sense of wellbeing. we've been curious about why denmark does well in the happiness rankings and we've looked at the political system and that's

big part of the explanation you know high level of trust your social security and those with health care but that also explains why the other nordic countries do well so we wanted to understand why does denmark do better than than sweden finland iceland and and and now we are spending quality time with family and friends or enjoying homemade cinnamon buns that's. the danes really love christmas time traditional apple tarts are on sale at christmas markets throughout copenhagen. so is the book or doing. mulled wine. particularly amusement park is decked out with a sea of lights might be king says winter is the peak season for a good. while is practiced throughout the year i think for the winter period it becomes almost a survival strategy it's a way of getting the best out of it time of year which is doc and cold and wet and

we're forced into forced. the best place to experience here is in danish homes the danes have more living space per person than any other european country and they make their surroundings as comfortable as possible. light is important too. there's a reason why we use twice as much candle wax as number two in europe which is australia because we enjoy lighting that is at the low end of the temperature scale so we enjoy warm mortify soft diffused lights to create a nice the atmosphere in a room. but danes also like to have nice things around the house northern europe is known for its design concepts like lamps bi-polar henningsen and chairs by on a are cops and corpulent but do these things actually make people happy the notion or the concept of hickeys something that for danes is just a word or describes

a situation and or a state of mind more than a design i don't think you can say that it's a sign is a decider is. doing something to create but i think it's something that's more ingrained or maybe internalized in our culture a simple walk outside can also be good it doesn't cost anything and it makes you feel good he shouldn't be about consumerism you could also use it as the get out of jail card if something is too expensive or if you walk into a restaurant it's too. expensive you could say should we find a place that's more than you first or yeah let's find a place that's more so who should be inexpensive because it's about equality and it's about simple questions. danes call that special cozy christmas feeling. and the focus is not on expensive presents it's on being together with family and friends that's the true spirit of christmas and not just in denmark.

taking care of your well being is something that more and more people are becoming aware of these days luckily there are activities that we can do to clear the mind no matter the weather one of the latest craze is adult coloring books they're said to help relax and focus the mind and scottish artist johana basket was one of the founders of this trend. ninety six pages of detailed drawings of plants and animals and secret garden also has labyrinths to discover patterns to complete or entire drawings to color in it's a template for creative ideas drawn by john abbas for. lives and works in scotland the main job is creating illustrations for packaging the idea for

a coloring book for grownups came by accident. coloring for adults was a child that is now i so unless they were like well why not show. up five pages of this effort that to that i need to collect and you have this thing. coloring books for grown ups are booming at the moment and the bestsellers aren't fairies and pirates spark books like secret garden. is on the nonfiction buying team for britain's leading bookstore chain we're seeing that coloring books are selling much better than. that and. crossword books which used to dominate the category so be interesting to see if people start to meeting and coloring and. coloring in pictures is said to be relaxing while also improving concentration the versions for grownups are just somewhat more complex female bands are especially enthusiastic about this rediscovered pastime sometimes it's hard to

find any any time for myself to actually think that what me say this is the way that i can just sort of think about me and it's something for myself the. bastards first book secret garden has sold more than ten million copies worldwide she draws by hand with pen and ink she gets her inspiration from a castle in scotland where her grandfather was the gardener. as really inspired by the catholic art at. it's just a really beautiful place to play when you're a child and just a lovely setting that it be really imaginative so the pics of inspired by that childhood and this mammoth cave and then the second back in time and thought it best takes its inspiration from the forestry that was behind my grandparents' house . chanted forest was published in twenty fifteen and became a bestseller and she's since published on their own twenty e-book editions of her

work so far this is one genre that still works best printed on paper. well as where and chill out mode today we wanted to show you this fabulous hotel in the mountains of the czech republic the building is an old t.v. tower the ten years to build initially is now filled with character and doubles as the main mark of this popular winter sports region on a clear day there's a great view of the city as well as parts of poland and germany but when we visited winter was in full swing. this is yes. and on top of it the famous ninety four metre high t.v. tower. which houses the u.s. did hotel. the building in the czech city of liberates is an impressive site provided the weather is on your side in winter the tower is often shrouded in fog.

taking the cable car up is almost a mystical experience in the winter a special atmosphere pervades the mountain. no one knows this better than who's worked at the hotel for years the returns come on in your. games and in the winter like another seasons you can enjoy stunning views from here come on it's wise for us with eleven new hot sometimes you get to experience this kind of snowy winter wonderland we're having today as he tells me and i don't mean to marry him. scenery that many guests appreciate from behind observation windows. which been really impressed by all this the weather in particular a shame we can't enjoy the view today this is a belief that there are no cars and no traffic only nature do not to look. the snow the wind you know it is friendly people everywhere. and the. you know

like cloud nine it's great defense of. the hotel has one thousand rooms on two floors and two of them still have the original nine hundred seventy s. furniture that was created by interior designer what to carbon are. the other rooms were redesigned the look of the hotel reminiscent of a space ship or an airplane was preserved. by night at the us dead hotel starts at seventy euro. the futuristic tower opened in one thousand nine hundred three after ten years of construction it was a sensation at the time partly because of its unusual construction materials. porcelain was used in the hallway. and a wall in the lobby is made of exposed concrete and bohemian glass art.

is to put to finish for me this hotel was unique example to me working here is not just like working in a hotel but also like being on a gallery on board and i know you know i know. chairwoman of the gifted seventy three club wants to preserve the hotel as it was she works closely with the original interior designer he's drawing up plans to build reconstructions of the furniture and lights. this was the small lounge forty years ago and today refurbishing it took a year and cost twenty two thousand euros. after that the bar was refurbished soon the exterior of the tower will be renovated it's exposed to extreme weather conditions at a height of one thousand meters. a fish that has special at most here at these people who spend

a night here they say so and. which is for me the most beautiful a situation where you are above the clouds you are in the sunshine but deliberate on the whole republic is going to clubs and then you feel like in a spaceship. just outside the spaceship flies the chick skiing region of the user of mountains. feels nice and feels like home and you really mean you know and also the tower it's really famous and that is plus the year does if there are too many people here or i feel tired i can take the cable car to the hotel and have a coffee in the charmer or take a break for maimane when i know both of us. covered in snow and ice the yes good

hotel doesn't lose any of its appeal in fact it looks even more mysterious in subzero temperatures. interior design at its best check out our you tube channel interior design stunning design ideas spectacular buildings and d.i.y. tutorials on home decoration we'll take you inside the most beautiful european homes show you the latest in furniture fabrics accessories subscribe and don't miss out see you on youtube. that sent me that time of year it's because he isn't it in winter there's nothing i like more than to be warm by the fire with family around me and a board game like many people i spent a lot of my childhood playing clued up early and then later trivial pursuit when computer games and consuls became popular though board games ended up on the shelf

just gathering dust and tell recently times are changing again i'm board games are enjoying a revival certainly in germany anyway and that is thanks in part to innovative concepts like this one. it. is the name of the game it's about taxes and commodities bluebloods and peasants it's a new board game developed by. the players are the royals they've got to build statues to themselves this is one of about fifteen hundred board games released in germany each year. a lot of people play them to unwind. games or a deliberate time around and wait for the players to sharpen their focus to refine their completely. they don't think about the next week and what they do or what went wrong yesterday on the job they have to be totally focused on the.

has been making a living inventing since two thousand and ten. a year and. one hundred test rounds to create the prototype for. the moment comes in when you realize you're no longer developing you're just playing and it's just plain fun . because you get the feeling you might have to touch it up a bit here and there but for the most part the game is ready to go. by. himself. created katan. it's even hop hiller with a dot com valley who use it to get away from the monitor even facebook. board game. see the secret to

success in its diversity. game as the american see it as a mechanism that interacts like clockwork or not much luck is involved where players don't get tossed out of the game too early or the conflict doesn't mean getting military units or spaceships hordes against each other. since two thousand and thirteen the pair have been presenting board games on their you tube show hunter and they post a new episode daily. either and welcome to our channel or. find everything about board games card games children's games and other stuff. to present review games and invite other you tubers to their board game. to them board games are more than just a pastime. backdrop culture. well

there it can become a geeky pursuit for adults and young adults on a par with watching movies reading comics and playing computer games. so it's only natural that a whole culture would grow up around that. and think. board and computer games are no longer mutually exclusive either many publishers make the instructions available on the internet. and shuffle all the cards except the links card and deal thirteen cards to each player each player picks up their hand so the other players are unable to see them and. for some board games there are even digital aids for the classic scotland yard for instance an app can help players track down the elusive mr x. . game cafes and libraries have also become popular like this one in berlin patrons can choose from

a library of some two thousand games and play them for a euro an hour. it opened the cafe in two thousand and six. after a long and rocky start interest has soared. and. cafes are an alternative to pubs movies and clubs got a lot of majors are playing games here and then move on to the clubs. and. we're going right it's in the book. the game of the year award is presented annually in germany a kind of oscar for board games giving them a platform for international recognition. taking the time out to play a ball game is good for the mine body and. spirit in fact taking the time full stop

is a great way to appreciate life that is what the danes said at the top of the show and it seems that the philosophy is catching on around europe i mean when was the last time that you sat down and listened to an entire music album and really listened to it well the opportunity to do just that is spreading its way around germany. back in the days when vinyl was synonymous with records many people listen to l.p.'s from start to finish those days seem long gone. but mark and heart and we still remember them. they founded a company called play time. we. can run to sixty or seventy minutes today listening to an entire work is

a unique experience. reintroducing that to people and culture was our original idea and. when as a play time is on the billet a german cinema as here at the babylon movie theater in berlin visitors pay five euros to listen to a record in the company of others this evening's auditory treat is bob dylan's double album blonde on blonde the idea of consciously enjoying something without distractions is catching on. that's what playtime is all about taking time to press play and just listen to him music played out its own term partners without pressing skidmore fast forwarding or being seduced by other opportunities other songs that are just one click away and click and fence and on to just abandon yourself to the music from start to finish. listening to an entire album requires time and leisure and these days few people make the

effort. is. harder today we're barely able to perform any activity for a long time we live into our cycles every two hours there has to be a new impetus whether it's going to the theater the center. visiting friends or having dinner everything sinked to this to our rhythm guitar then we need something new noir time seems to be running away from us it's a plague of all modern age yet this feeling isn't so new. even two thousand years ago philosophers like the roman seneca were preoccupied with this phenomena. back then he figured and this applies to the present at a third of our time was taken from us the third disappeared on noticed and

a third slipped away and all of us have and. the longing for life to slow down is growing people are doing lots of things to escape stress visiting spas taking holidays on farms and leaving their cellphones behind when they go on a hike. this desire for things to slow down has become a trend. as a serious note it's certainly still an issue trend but i think it'll become more important as people are already noticing that many things in our time change too quickly perhaps the multi option society of the last few decades has overtaxing us to quite before dark. back into babylon cinema and berlin the album is about seventy minutes long not including the pauses needed to change the record yet none of the visitors leave before it's finished. the it's from the citric pleasant to listen to an album of the cinema and also it's

very nice to be able to do it at the right value to the arms of the home you sit down and get distracted by some screen your mobile phone or whatever you're using to listen to the music. here you just get to listen to the music moods music i think this brings back an idea of music that we need to keep alive. is super interesting. to play times and play time is a seventy minute break and doesn't matter when it happens morning noon or night it really is that a break in that is the. play times inventors plan to present the concept in other major european cities they want to keep the wheels turning but not to fox. i hope even watching the show today has helped you have a break for about thirty minutes and he way say it's all right for our last special show the weekend until then take harry's house chase.

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