if you want to know what's inside let's get it on with whom you have to turn in the most favorite homeland isn't. coughing or maybe will get a chance to do so. actually. good luck. to. everybody welcome to the show today among other things we'll show you just how easy it is to avoid hangovers is what's coming up. hi i'm dr new alcohol free drinks are in line with the spirit of the tarp's. small wonder i'm books miniature. is adding venice to obstruction.

and up and away germany's highest peaks. of a stunning views on the new speedy cable car. many people started off the year with a months long fost from alcohol millions of people across europe took part in dry january if you don't just want to alternate between soft drinks and water while you banish the booze here some like for like replacements these alcohol free gin substitutes allow you to drink and drive we had to london where mixologists have gotten rather creative with the virgin cocktails. alcohol free cocktails being mixed in one of the hippies to bars in london while nonalcoholic beverages used to be good and at the back of the menu these days there's a center of attention and the best bartenders are creating new drinks that are

alcohol free beer rosemary meats all spice and beef meats mustard aromas people all you know drinking less and hawing last sunday the us army of more benign civil discussion i want to challenge myself and there was a want to give to my thoughts also to my guests one of the best ispcc you bring to yourself no i quoted three weeks i mean not colleagues that definitely a night. i was in files that were industry. people that's when the flies. british and campaign such as go sober for october or dry in january which urge people to go booze free for a certain time are becoming increasingly popular more than three million people in the u.k. gave up drinking for dry january this year. the beverage industry has also picking up on the trend they're creating distilled nonalcoholic spirits that imitate the taste of gin without using sugar or artificial flavors branson gave up alcohol

a decade ago but with the lack of alternatives he decided to develop his own. blend your now with friends. or you get home from work and you had a long day and you want to start dinner but you don't want to have that clause or read on. there's nothing that creates the occasional then feel special. what to drink when you're not prinking has become the slogan of bronson's company seedling. that's the name he gave to the nonalcoholic spirits he's been selling since two thousand and fifteen. made from six ingredients seed lip is best when mixed with other drinks many drink it was tonic water as a real alternative to the iconic gin and tonic. we've been very fortunate that we work with lots of amazing balls and amazing bots and those who are like this is brilliant this gives me something to work with and to

build a drink and means that i can give people who are not drinking a great compaq's you know adult drink instead of the end of fruit trees. the gong bar is one of london's top addresses for alcohol free cocktails located on the fifty second floor of the shangri-la luxury hotel it's the city's highest bar bartender federico bedouin his colleagues spent over a year working on the cocktail menu one of their creations was the web slinger made from treasure brine spinach syrup bramley apple concentrate and cedric. the seed leap even if it's in a tiny amount to make sure that all the ingredients the you know the blend together the bottle together in the right in the right way let's say i mean it's that to me

seeing how can i say airing of the chain. the best bars go to great efforts to create their cocktails. beer in the drink factories lab style kitchen they. refined and prepare many of the ingredients for their mocktails themselves. a bit of the research and development team so we burgess says developing alcohol free cocktails requires a change of thinking. i mean the nature of alcohol and how if after rains this mean that this child's midflight maybe well say an alcoholic drink on the house plans yes tasty but that's not say that you caught a scene for rabies from the inside it. does. in london's restaurant scene some other use and bartenders are also looking for creative non alcoholic beverages to accompany meals at the close of club ranked one of the world's fifty best restaurants in two thousand and seventeen barkeeper rob simpson

proffers alcohol free beverages which accentuate or expand on certain flavors in the food even better than the wine normally offered the latest trend is toward tea based drinks which like wind contain tannins that will do wonderful things that we can make around whole free they have lots of different textures a lot safer mouthfuls whereas wine is generally the same feel you know it you know you going to get some of their behavior that dry out the mouth a bit more some of them are a bit shallow but on the palate they will feel like one. of the journey to discover new alcohol free taste sensations has just begun but you already have the sense that nonalcoholic drinks are finally growing up. well from london to venice a city that attracts thirty million tourists a year in order to avoid overcrowding and pollution the italian government

introduced a cruise ship late last year but we have another somewhat smaller solution to the problem visits hamburg's miniature of the indolent and has the world's largest model railway exhibition and next week they'll add a miniature model of the entire city of venice with everything from gondolas to fake water and moving figures. there is no mistaking this city famous for its gondoliers and hordes of tourists a mini version of venice is being recreated at the miniature in hamburg. every day new visitors come to life. most have been fished out of this box of leftover plastic figurines. then gives them a make over transforming this woman into a proud nation dressed for the city's famous carnival a miniature oranges for her customers just a few millimeters in diameter her headdress is made from wood splints now to add

a flower hoops where to go a little it's a nightmare little pieces fly off you take a quick look but if you don't spot them pick something else never start searching that takes too long. in the end there will be two hundred fifty carnival revelers and each one must be unique. and his colleagues are still brimming with ideas they've already assembled half of the carnival procession project leader told he is waiting to see how they look on st mark's square. to add a realistic touch venice is mean is to be regularly flooded with water they tried it first with real water. we did a lot of tests tried everything out but it never looked just the way we wanted it to because water doesn't act the way it should for that scale it just acts like water always does. so in their version of venice the water is really artificial risen. the model makers had to design the water scenes early on as no figure could

just plunge into the canal later. these boats are made from electric toothbrushes they've been tested but not yet perfected so the mini gondolas aren't going anywhere just yet. but elsewhere venice is bustling with activity and stefan is responsible for that. working but not intensively enough for me. now i don't know. his gundel a builder is now hard at work in future these animals will move out to right now stephanie is working on the pigeons which are smaller than the head of a pin he'll have them picking your own st mark's square with the help of a magnet. he. climbs the pigeons are the smallest things i've ever had to set in motion before their. diameter so it's really if i do this much longer.

then this is just one small part of miniature and the world's largest model railway exhibition draws over a million visitors a year and it just keeps on getting bigger the italy section rusting mount vesuvius and rome's colosseum. and venice will soon join the list of attractions. precision work which requires stringent planning still everything doesn't always go to plan. basically the computer calculations ensure that everything. but when you're building things on this scale here you might find that it's a half a millimeter bigger and with a whole millimeter has to be removed somewhere. every building will be illuminated jenny is putting in wiring to make this one light up. from the cozy roof top flight to the post office sign the lighting creates the right mood so they've decided to use warm white. completely chosen that for all of venice because cool white light

always has a bluish tint to it and does look very romantic let's head to the if. and when night falls over the miniature venice jennie's lights give the italian city a whole new atmosphere. computer controlled bring some very comical scenes to light . like the woman chatting with a dog to be strong. as a motor boat which slices a gondola in half this mini version of venice has plenty of surprises in store and reveals a lot about its creators sense of humor. yesterday we brought you plenty of pictures from the cologne carnival but the festivities continued in other german cities to find the cups up with what's going on across europe. it's the high point of conical season in europe the last monday before lent hundreds of thousands of people often

in costume gathered in the streets of many german cities floats that featured humorous poppy a mushing images of world leaders rode through the streets. in bangladesh and southern belgium the high point is a confetti backed all with clouds of colorful shredded paper. more than one hundred sixty ceramic artworks created by public picasso are now on display at the louisiana museum of modern art your company making. the exhibition brought together items borrowed from several museums and from some of picasso's descendants. because who died in one nine hundred seventy three at the age of ninety one his productivity was unmatched with tens of thousands of works to his name the copenhagen exhibit will run until may twenty seventh.

valentine's day romance comes to slovakia with a new love bank. this lovers vault located in the town of funds ghosty of nature contains one hundred thousand tiny drawers for couples can stored treasured keep sakes from their relationship instead of say stocks and bonds. the vault is part of a museum that's dedicated to a nineteenth century slovak romantic poet. we stay with the theme of love in many countries across europe the fourteenth of february is an important day for couples valentine's day is a chance to celebrate their relationship some couples go for dinner others exchange gifts with flowers and chocolates among the favorites there are many. although i was that you probably never heard of. romeo and juliet shakespeare's star crossed young lovers but it's likely they never lived here and

verona and juliet certainly never lived in this house for stood on this balcony which was built in the twentieth century but some sharp marketing people came up with the idea of selling this location to tourists and hundreds of thousands because every year. many leave letters and other items at the foot of juliet statue number five on our list of romantic european customs despite the fact that the story of romeo and juliet ended in tragedy. when people in germany carry trees through the streets and then set them up in public places it's either christmas or the end of april for centuries germans have been putting up large trees to mark the first of may sometimes outside the homes of people they love. number four on the list of romantic european customs this tradition is particularly

popular in the rhineland region but the trees can only stay in place for one month the celebrations include beer cake and kisses. wales the home of rugged landscapes and medieval castles centuries ago during the long winter nights the local residents had to come up with new ways to keep themselves occupied some took up wood carving. they often gave these items as gifts to their special someone. number three on the list of romantic european customs loves food. they're much too ornate to be used at the dinner table but these spoons are popular presence in wales even today. nights in scandinavia are long but so are summer nights lots of extra time to party for centuries people in nordic countries have celebrated the festival of midsummer

some of the age old fertility rituals associated with the festival are still practiced today. number two on our list of romantic customs an early morning walk through the countryside is said to bring luck in love or just pick some plowers and tuck them under your pillow at night a vision of your future love should appear in your dreams. dancing has always brought men and women closer together and that's still true today. but it's no longer fashionable to place a piece of locally grown food under your arm in this tradition imported from austria young women place to slice of apple in an underarm while dancing later they offer it to the young man of their choice. so our number one apple slice dance it does make sense from a biological point of view underarm sweat is chock full of pheromones chemical

signals that tell us right away whether we're attracted to someone. i'm quite glad that tradition hasn't stood the test of time now today's installment of our series the coal of the mountains you can catch up with yesterday's massive hole magic online today we're off to a german austrian border to visit the spitzer it's the highest mountain in germany and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors per year on a clear day you can see a total of four countries from its peak and recently it's become quite a lot easier to get to the top. spitz is germany's highest mountain just under three thousand meters it's about average for the alps. the stroke is also a popular tourist destination every year around five hundred thousand people visit the mountain to enjoy the breathtaking views. a trip to the summit is spectacular

this new cable railway has been running since last december it covers a total of two thousand meters which is a record for this kind of transport to. the. land there's just one support call of the trip to the top of the steep and the fastest. in the city but it's not so long and if you can even see the station from here we're traveling at a forty six degree angle you won't see the summit until we get close to us that the station has glass panels from top to bottom see it was a ford and when the weather is nice and clean up provide some spectacular views on this for the last year when on the bottom of the. there's not much to see when the weather's bad of course but the trip is still worth it as it is standard it was pretty scary at first because of the wind event but when you're in that big cable

car it's actually quite pleasant at some guns i mean it's a very beautiful cave and we like it very much because it's so much big we have the space full a lot of people it's very impressive it's a very high. amazing amazing. just below the summit there's a ski area with twenty kilometers of ski raft that's not a lot by international standards but this is planted snubs. visitors can stay overnight in the a glue village it's made of snow and is rebuilt every year from scratch sculptors create each individual room based on a specific theme this year everything is in baroque style it's an unusual way to spend the night in freezing temperatures. many it's really something special in the middle of the night when things are quiet here on the mountain the guests

and staff sometimes go sledding or hiking we also have germany's highest whirlpool and germany's highest sauna as far as elevation is concerned it's an exclusive experience the fight or much put it. but most overnight tourists stay in the town of garmisch poppin cation population about twenty six thousand garmisch is one of germany's most popular ski resorts. just stamp side the town is pop not gorge which features cliffs the rise to a height of eighty metres the gorge is part of a protected nature preserve. a seven hundred metre long hiking trail follows this stream which provides some unique winter landscapes like these giant gap. icicles. another popular attraction is the olympics ski jumping site it's home to the annual competition known as the four hills tournament.

dish on here people for that one is this version of the ski jump was built ten years ago it was with a it went in and that's once again part of a skiing tradition it began in particular show a nine hundred twenty i'll bet a carry that with the architect's him up with an excellent design for time i'll bet the gravity defying candidly were designed continues the competitive tradition of part and it would it and if it's in. the tower at the top of the jump is sixty meters high visitors can see what it's like for world class athletes to stand here before a jump. there's at least one person who travels up and down the slopes spitzer every day letter carrier and grass overpowered by the snow no wind will keep him from the swift completion of his appointed rounds which includes opening germany's highest post office for the dad.

this is what you each and every day it's a new experience you get to meet people from all over the world. begin your car. stamps that are canceled here are marked with that soup spitz's elevation and zip code. in any kind of weather in any season of the year germany's highest peak and the scenery that surrounds it never seems to fascinate. would you like to visit the souks bitsa let us know what your ideal holiday getaway looks like on our website d.w. dot com slash lifestyle by taking part in a poll you'll be in with a chance of winning this exclusive euro max wristwatch now to our last report which features the music of norwegian pop band aha the band that brought us

the eighty's smash hit take on me is on the road again they're performing an unplugged concert on valentine's day in london before going on a thirty one date european tour this summer. since first forming in one thousand nine hundred two the norwegian pop group has released ten studio albums and more than eighty million records they know how to please fans while remaining true to sound. music this is a language that is never so and that's the attraction of it is that it can work across cultures but i think this is definitely components. in our music that stems from our upbringing and from our country or our context you know whether it's. northern european.

eastern norwegian creole quickly became known for their sins. the tune that really started it all was take on me. the video for the song broke new ground internet era in which music videos were emerging as a new art form you know that was made right at the beginning of a career. it was made at the beginning of video music videos really or at least when it became a big thing it became an m.t.v. started around the same time. are currently in europe performing a series of m.t.v. unplugged shows they have a very loyal fan base. is that i've loved them ever since the beginning. they're part of our youth. and are still backing the stadiums with their

melancholy scandinavian sound. that's all we have time for today but we'll be back tomorrow when we catch up with the jury present of the sixty eight international film festival which begins on thursday about finale. next. the ballet not just german director tom took his hometown film festival several took his own film top premiered at the balun all that over the years as a young man he always had season tickets for the festival now he's the president to fish just barely knowledge your next time on you're a. glocks

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