just us doesn't need a plan could still. a miracle represented. merely shmita architect of east germany's police state. of decline and if i had my way. east germany would still be. master of fear. which you know. starting march thirteenth d w. welcome to the show today we start off our journey we right here in germany is what's coming up. the tourist magnets why germany attracts so

many physicists. free spirits british designer mary quant and the miniskirts revolution. planned danish i call the lego company celebrates its sixtieth anniversary. germany's capital is currently hosting the world's leading travel trade show the i.t.b. berlin over one hundred eighty countries are showcasing the latest and greatest in travel and tourism and germany itself is booming as a travel destination posting record figures for the eighth year running. it's no wonder the country has everything from sandy beaches snowy mountain peaks cosmopolitan cities and beautiful countryside so let's take a closer look at germany's holiday credentials maybe you'll be tempted to pay us a visit. modern architecture breathtaking nature

and a rich cultural heritage germany is attracting more and more tourists and they just didn't have a four hundred sixty million overnight stays in two thousand and seventeen alone tourism expert tossed in chief a knows why germany is so popular. notion pointed for every one of germany's strengths is that it offers a wide range of leisure activities insights social put it all and it boasts an excellent infrastructure for tourism and travelling between two destinations is fast boat we also have a great price performance ratio and so germany made a great impression as a host country at the football world cup in two thousand and six and since then more and more visitors have commented. according to germany's national tourist board and now tops the list for europeans looking for city tourists tourists come here around especially to visit bustling humps like you nick. for hamburg but with thirteen million visitors

a year bolin is still the most popular destination for visitors. and. we really like the food. because we are greeks and we are ok we have a good taste would. want to learn more about life here it's a very alternative city with lots of artists i like the street life here. because i have the bars it's the politics the food and drink nice and interesting people the sunday loiter. surprised the city so regal with big buildings why haven't you we like that many that we don't miss you know south. germany's economy culture is another insider tip with over three hundred restaurants sporting michelin stars it ranks second after fronts worldwide. there are also forty two you know school world heritage sites here among them hundreds fresh start warehouse district. cologne cathedral. and the palace of

science the sea and it's stunning gardens in past. so people visiting germany are often looking to relax on the coasts of the north sea or baltic sea they're interested in historic sight seeing right now on the navy's it places like the cathedral in cologne or brandenburg gate you fight so we also have a number of theme parks. hope a park in a post office over one hundred attractions making it germany's largest amusement park. not long ago hamburg's miniature wonderland attracted the most foreign visitors to the city but it was recently overtaken by the elberfeld home on a concert hall which had three times as many visitors in two thousand and seventeen . but germany isn't just an attractive destination for foreign to. wrists.

you don't want on average germans make about seventy million trips a year for five days or longer a third of those within the country but that means that germany is also a german's favorite place to travel to. the area is especially popular. could attract visitors with its conference and countless hiking pasta around the alps. the seaside relaxation families head for beaches on the north and baltic sea. the lone mountain ranges in the hot sun black forest regions are not seen. how many social twenty seventeen was the eighth year or not grow that overnight bookings have hit record highs that we expect the op would trend to continue in twenty eighty just as not only is germany the most popular destination for germans

it's also gaining popularity abroad on the almost initial results of a door for that matter t.v. . when you're looking for a bustling city life or intimate countryside germany has plenty to offer. all this week we've been asking you for your favorite holiday destinations a majority of you said you most enjoy the holidays at the beach we've picked out one lucky when this time from germany it's paid kluger thanks for taking part with sending you an exclusive euro max wrist watch and thanks to everyone else who got in touch. let's get a quick round up now of what's happening around europe in or express some trouble for ed sheeran but first we have a fellow ginger. prince

harry and his fiance american actress meghan markle have won over hearts again during a trip to birmingham. and the couple the city the city as part of a tour of britain before their wedding and on international women's day they met with young women and girls from the region. very. very. good to. have. this young straight people and in a day and i'd like to look into this is their engagement was announced last november the couple have visited london nottingham scotland and the welsh capital cardiff. they said to tie the knot on may nineteenth at windsor castle. that's. the care of the german environmentalist's are asking ed sheeran to cancel an upcoming concert in dusseldorf but wildstar is shantel to perform at newly extended concert grounds

they are on july the twenty second but the premiere with the superstar would require chopping down around one hundred trees activists are now trying to get in touch with the singer to appeal to his conscience they say they're sure he wouldn't like that many trees been found for the event. the museum my own in paris is currently showing over one hundred works by japanese french artist. he's considered the most french of all japanese artists the exhibition covers the period between one thousand nine hundred thousand and one nine hundred fifty one. lived and worked in paris. turkey or his unique style combines asian techniques. i . have a patent with western chalmers. paintings and this week's series pioneering women today we get to know mary quant who's invention caused a scandal in the early sixty's the fashion designer was responsible for introducing

the mini skirt it was first pictured in a nine hundred sixty two edition of british vogue and sparked outrage from both conservatives and the church soon after the mini skirt became a symbol of female emancipation in the swinging sixty's and made mary quant a fashion icon and still as popular as ever come rain or shine. london in winter even at temperatures close to freezing there were plenty of mini skirts around mary quant invention is almost sixty years old but it still makes a specific fashion statement. for freedom and beauty and they get a little bit of flirting i'm sure like back then people would think it's not cool

because by their very conservative. they want binaries it's cool for everyone to i think must've been really controversial but it's really cool that it's a vibe. the british fashion designer sparked a genuine revolution in the early one nine hundred sixty s. . quantum original mini skirt hitched up hemlines to at least ten centimeters above the knee and became a symbol of a massive faded women nine hundred sixty six she was awarded the order of the british empire for her work the mini skirt changed beauty ideals. the new mini was soon personified by a certain leslie hornby better known as twiggy with her box hair and slender figure the model quickly became a style and cultural icon of the swinging sixty's the miniskirt was a polarizer as soon learned in her own shop from the beginning it fell. in love with the long lost of young men to bring in my girlfriends and raving about

everything and then were not a lot of. on the window with. rage. managed to do what few fashion designers had done before she changed the site with a piece of fabric and. i think it was all really. she was an art student she didn't want to dress the way a mother did which you know up until then really had been kind of the way things were. during the one nine hundred fifty s. to peace and samples were in fashion quanta was creating for a new generation and had her finger on the pulse of the sixty's in particular that of england's artists and musicians. today her designs have long since become classics her favorite dress the banana split was even honored on

a british stamp in two thousand and nine. it's the perfect black dress and it comes really out and it's black and she can be put in a ha ha ha cut right through it. and so it flows right up so it fools it just shows up in. london's victoria and albert museum has been collecting and archiving kwan's designs since the one nine hundred seventy s. because it was clear even then that her work was revolutionary some of the museums hundred or so pieces are in its permanent exhibition once forte is light sporting clubs like these it's wearable fashion for work or having fun. american reaction against that very grown up tailoring that english fashion was

known for and she brought in something completely new things are changing anyway there was a different faith in the. people who were fed up with post-war austerity and the younger generation with. clubs and she was on place that you could if you're young woman and go straight off to. the mini skirt wasn't quantz only fashion coup she also became the first designer to use vinyl in dresses and shoes. and. she also. takes credit for inventing waterproof eyeliner and strapless broads plushy popularised colored and patterned hose and it was quaint who created the short shorts known as hot pants like the mini skirt that since become a signpost in fashion history. the designer was quick to export her fashions to the u.s. and japan for shops carry dresses cosmetics and bags all under the mary quant name

in two thousand she sold the label to a japanese company and withdrew from public life but her best known creation the mini skirt is still a fixture in the fashion world and. fashion designers like germany's giteau maria cuts mar include short skirts in many of their collections. are young people and everyone who's young and sheltering i'm here also wants to wear a mini skirt. that started as a scandal and turned into a symbol of rebellion and emancipation day the mini skirt is a classic and a recurring favorite on the catwalk. very one wrote a chapter a fashion history all her own with just a small piece of fabric. we're back in berlin for our next report another installment in our series fifty kitchens one city where we explore the calorie diversity of germany's capital people from one hundred eighty

nine nations cold this city that home and so there is plenty of choice when it comes to eating out today we're heading to the district of back for a look behind the scenes at cafe a.b.c. that's where french australian alan ball has set up shop and create his own slice of sydney sunshine right here in berlin. what i'm is about is tries like really simple is. a myth. wearing flip flops where my boys when i go for a swim every day i always miss it a lot when i'm in winter especially when it gets dark at three o'clock in the afternoon you do mrs wells a wise. man is. great. alan vaughan has found his little place here in berlin relieving the gloomy winter with a splash of australian sunshine in the foremost catherine a.b.c.

alan spread. and of course that's breakfast down under style he's a naturalized australian but his roots are actually french. island used to help out in his mother's restaurant in paris where he was born in one nine hundred seventy four. brittany wanted to be a teacher then studied art and communication and eventually moved to australia. then he worked as a dishwasher cook waiter and so many years before returning to europe from sydney in two thousand and thirteen and sitting in berlin. two years later he opened his own café i'm not a trained chair. but i love food i love cooking so basically. everything i learn from different places that i work in. i think. to try them at home or have to come home i would go and practice together every show that i work with every restaurant and i work every kitchen and i work with they're all trying to

give me something that i love. and in conversative form a bar into a cozy breakfast menu enlisting the help of friends to renovate the premises and making the furniture and fittings himself. it has plenty of features that make it feel like a typical beach bar that's the atmosphere that allen wanted to recreate. in australia as cafes everywhere. breakfast is not a necessity it's really a way of life we wake up in the morning we call our sign we gather together and we go to a cafe. and drink and spend time together yeah we're just big foot is there that's what it is we just love. one of his cafe signature dishes it is a poppy seed bagel with avocado and something. alan marinates the salmon in break the. salt. sugar. fresh do.

and fuck up. he said to chill in the refrigerator for three days. of a cardio is of course a staple of upon diabetes breakfast. straining cuisine is big on fusion combining asian and european flavors. common in choice green seventeen classic dishes. the red meat marinated gets the salmon pink issue and then any usual slightly sweet edge. that's visible is. i used to live with my girlfriend

and like every morning we go for a morning swim then after that next to our place is a. i was born and we always used to go there and sit down in the sun swim just salty and orders someone bagel with. poppy seed and every morning we used to be like like it was amazing this is perfect is that the best thing you could do. an inspection is in france the neighborhood he lives in even though it's gentrified it has surprisingly few good breakfast menus putting talent he's now filling the gap in the market. his cafe is open from wednesdays to sundays and it's always for. this is really one of the best breakfast places in france arbor wonderful food great quality great service wonderful environment even on a cold day it's really wonderful to sit outside on the trees so really enjoy coming

in i love this place i live just around the corner there and so it's bit of a kind of a habit forming that we can hear in the sunday morning either inside or outside of for the. beautiful autumnal morning with this it's fantastic it's also a very nice place to come here at night like we have a bit of wind as we so many times things happening here is a series as well and yet so is a fool a nice. evening when the cafe transforms into a wine bar onions french side comes to the full facts of the day time he says ozzy as they come ok guys today we have prepared for you homemade cured salmon with purpose of a go we have a cattle and. well from fifty kitchens to a sixtieth anniversary and nine hundred fifty eight a danish company registered a present for colorful bricks that's. together and sixty years on they have sold

over six hundred billion lego bricks it's a favorite for children the world over and even adults join in the fun singer-songwriter serum for instance is themself a big fan even penning a song called lego house let's find out what people love so much about the timeless toy. on his bedroom floor. can have painfully sharp edges. where i see michael decisions with colleagues about their children and lego bricks i've often heard stories about the out when you're going to bed and step on a block you forgot to put away for. me to land is a professor of design for playing and learning in holland she was born in one thousand nine hundred fifty eight the same year lego applied for a patent for the toy bricks. brick is one of the first i ever got my hands on because i'm the same age as lego i had white briggs red windows red

roof slopes that was my first encounter with lego blocks to get. me to learn has worked with the company on several occasions developing twenty zines like this together with her students. because they have few moving parts and easy to put together even small children could have fun with them the designs opened up new markets for the toy making giant the family business from denmark is now a global phenomenon with parks in several countries and topics from everyday life to start. lego sold around seventy five billion individual plastic blocks and other components worldwide in twenty sixteen two thousand four hundred eleven items a second. the story of lego began in one thousand nine hundred thirty two. with wooden toys however nine hundred fifty eight was

a landmark year that's when carpenter got free care christianson patented a very special plastic brick designed by his father before long a modern automated production facility with one hundred forty employees opened in the small danish town of bill and business boom and so what made the new toy so special the first attempts at creating the system proved wobbly but after the start on top of the blocks were complemented by tube spello a design classic was born today lego has around eighteen thousand employees there a lego movie is lego on you tube smartphone games and even software for building with virtual toy bricks lapierre that everyone was a little scared because the passenger was due to expire what would become of lego but it's evolved the company now offers a lot more than just the toy bricks. they've adapted to the zeitgeist and have developed play worlds including on the digital front you can argue about whether it's good for lego in general or improves the quality of playing for kids. but lego

no longer only caters to children after all those short fat adult fans of lego have long been an integrity part of lego fan culture meet regularly like here in leipsic . who is this woman going to be for us it's a combination we don't just refer to them as toys there's a great blog that says don't call it toys i always find it very fitting there's the model building aspect of course but it's also an art form but it was this entire thing it's an expensive hobby of a time consuming hobby but it's great fun because you can use your imagination obviously it was in the fact that lego is such high quality standards means each brick fits on the other and stays in place lego has another shade of meaning in danish gort translators play well people have been following that advice for sixty years now and have learned change and reflect. it on themselves in the process the plastic breaks have created an entire subculture you have rushed for them to end up

as a design student i built my volume models with it when i wanted to build something very quickly on this winter and scientists use it to describe phenomena. part let's use lego to make artworks i'm as an it's an invention that has left its mark on three entire generations separated. well long may it continue unfortunately we have come to the end of the program but you can catch up with all our reports from this week on our website d.w. dot com slash mark stout will be back tomorrow with the highlights of the week of arsenal. next year in the timeline. that make the mormons a little from. this list designer who came up with college contacts.

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