distrust comes in medicine close to. a miracle represented. me architect of east germany's police state. that the clinton if i had my way. east germany would still be here believe me mr. pm would you know. starting march thirteenth de total you. welcome to the show today we start off our journey we right here in germany is what's coming up. taurus magnets why germany attracts

so many visitors. for free spirits which is designed ameri kwanza and the mini skirts revolution. 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 if they just didn't pay 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 cold at all and it boasts an excellent infrastructure for tourism and travelling between two destinations is fast we also have a great price performance ratio front so germany made a great impression as the host country of 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 it now tops the list for europeans looking for city tourists tourists come here around especially to visit bustling humps like munich or hamburg but with thirteen million visitors

a year palin is still the most popular destination to visit his. we really like the food. because we are greeks and we are ok we have a good taste in food and what i want to learn more about life. it's a very alternative city with lots of artists i like the street life. because i have the bars it's the politics the food and drink now it's interesting people in the sunday lot of us are pretty surprised the city is so regal with big buildings white avenues we like that many that we don't let you know south of. germany's economy culture is another insider tip with over three hundred restaurants sporting michelin stars it ranks second after france worldwide. there are also forty two you know asco world heritage sites here among them hundreds fresh start warehouse district. cologne cathedral.

and the palace of some still see and it's stunning gardens in pasta. so people visiting germany are often looking to relax on the coasts of the north sea or baltic sea all they're interested in historic sites seeing what is currently on and they visit places like the cathedral in cologne or brandenburg gate if i'd said we also have a number of theme parks. the only hope a park in the 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 harmonic concert hall which had three times as many visitors in two thousand and seventeen. but germany isn't just an attractive destination for foreign tourists. the doj want on average germans make about

seventy million trips a year for five days or longer a third of those within the country that means that germany is also a german's favorite place to travel to. the van it is especially popular. at a trance visitors with its consuls and. plus hiking ponds throughout the alps. to see some relaxation families head for beaches on the north and baltic seas. the lone mountain ranges and the hot sun black forest regions are not seen. how many social twenty seventeen was the eighth year and i wrote it overnight bookings have hit record highs that we expect the op would trend to continue in twenty eighty is not only is germany the most popular destination for germans it's

also gaining popularity abroad on the almost initial results of the doors for that matter t.v. . whether you're looking for a bustling city life or in delhi 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 holidays at the bitch 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 roundup now of what's happening around europe in or express some trouble for ed sheeran but first we've heard a fellow ginger in birmingham. prince harry and his fiance american actress meghan markle have won over hearts again

during a trip to birmingham. and the couple visited the city as part of a tour of britain before their wedding and an international women's day they met with young women and girls from the region. and in a van and. like. this their engagement was announced last november the couple of visited london nottingham scotland and the welsh capital cardiff. they said to tie the knots on rain nineteenth at windsor castle. it. became the german environmentalists are asking ed sheeran to cancel an upcoming concert in dusseldorf wildstar a show jewel to perform at newly extended concert grounds vale on july the twenty second but the premier with a superstar would require chopping down around one hundred trees the activists are

now trying to get in touch with the singer and appeal to his conscience they say they're sure he wouldn't like that many trees being 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 hundred thirteen and one hundred thirty one. lived and worked in paris. turkey or his unique star combines asian techniques like silk painting and have a pittance with western genre. painting in the roaring twenty's runs until the middle of july. now to the final episode in this week's series pioneering women today we get to know mary quant whose 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 it's 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 elegance and libido flirting i'm sure like back then people would think it's not cool because i'd be

a very conservative. but i think it is cool for women to wear and once here i think must've been really controversial but it's really cool that it's invites. the british fashion designer sparked a genuine revolution in the early one nine hundred sixty s. . i want original mini skirt hitched up hemlines to at least ten centimeters above the knee and became a symbol of a mensa paid 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 bobs hair and slender figure the model quickly became a style and cultural icon of the swinging sixty's the mini skirt was a polarizer as kwan soon learned in her own shop from the beginning. of the long list of young men to bring in my girlfriends and write about everything

and there were not a lot of. wind there with. rage. managed to do what few fashion designers had done before she change society with a piece of fabric. i think it is all. really down to mary quant she was an art student she didn't want to dress her mother to it 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 in it's black and she can be put in a high. cut right through it. and so it flows right up so it just shows up in. london's victoria and albert museum has been collecting and archiving quantz 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 kwan's forte is like sporting clubs like these it's wearable fashion for work or having fun. reaction against that very grown up tailoring that. fashion was known for and she

brought in something completely new things were changing anyway there was a different feeling with people who were fed up with. the younger generation with. clubs and place that you could wear if you're young woman and go straight off to. the mini skirt was a quantum only fashion she also became the first us. minor to use vinyl and dresses and shoes. and. she also takes credit for inventing waterproof eyeliner and strapless broads plus she popularized 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 her 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 by her best known creation the many scary he's still a fixture in the fashion world and. fashion designers like germany's maria cuts mar include short skirts in many of their collections. that's a fashion because there are young people and everyone who's young and shouts already i'm here also wants to wear a mini skirt and. it started as a scandal and turned into a symbol of rebellion and emancipation today the mini skirt is a classic and a recurring favorite on the catwalk so. very one wrote a chapter of fashion history on 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 as straight as like really simple is the sun i'm is the. wearing flip flops where my boys when i go for a swim every day i always miss it a large one in winter especially when it gets dark at two o'clock in the afternoon i really do miss is that there was. wheat. alan live on has found his little place here in berlin relieving the gloomy winter with a splash of australian sunshine in the foremost cafe a.b.c.

alan sprint. 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. recently 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 twenty thirteen and settling in. two years later he opened his own café i'm going to try and show. love food i love cooking so basically. everything i learn from different places that i work in. i think. try them at home or i have to come home and we cook together and practice together every show that i work with a restaurant and i work every kitchen i work with they're all trying to give me

something that i love. and in conversative form into a cozy breakfast venue 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. as cafes everywhere. break first is not. really a way of life we wake up in the morning we call our son we gather together and we go to a cafe. and drink and spend time together yeah we're just big foot is that's what it is we just love. one of his cafés signature dishes is a poppy seed bagel with avocado and sun and. alan marinates the salmon in great the . insults. fresh still.

and focus. he said to chill in the refrigerator for three days. smashed up a condo is of course a staple of upon diabetes breakfast. straining cuisine is big on fusion combining asian and european play this. enjoys reinterpreting classic dishes. the red meat marinate gets the salmon pink issue and then any usual slightly sweet age. is. day where used to live with my girlfriend and everything

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

love this place i live just around the corner there so it's bit of a kind of a habit forming that we could hear in the sunday morning either inside or outside for the. beautiful old tumble morning like this it's fantastic it's also a very nice place to come here at night so 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 in nice. in the evenings when the cafe transforms into a wine bar alan's french side comes to the full back in the day time he says ozzy as they come ok guys today we have prepared for you homemade cured salmon with publishing to go we have a cattle and. well from fifty kitchens to a sixtieth anniversary and nine hundred fifty eight a danish company registered the 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 ed sheeran 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. danger lurks on their bedroom floor. lego can have painfully shop ages. this. is where i see my conversations with colleagues about their children and lego bricks i've often heard stories about the actually going to bed in step on a block you forgot to put away for. me to go and there's 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 breaks. another 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 and that was my first encounter with lego blocks. schmidle and has worked with the company on several occasions developing twenty designs like this together with her students. because they have few moving parts and are 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 theme 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 belonged business boomed so what made the new toy so special the first attempts at creating the system proved wobbly but after the stamps on top of the box 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 that now the everyone was a little scared because the patent 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 the quality of playing for kids. but lego no longer only caters to children after olds short fat adult fans of lego have long been an integrity part of lego fan culture regularly like here in leipsic.

who insist us women got it 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 is the model building aspect of course but it's also an art form that it was this 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 like gort translators play well people have been following that advice for sixty years now and have learned changed and reflected on themselves in the process the plastic bricks have created an entire subculture. that ended 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. card let's

use lego to make artworks i'm as an one jason 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 lifestyle but we're back tomorrow with the highlights of the week about the now. next time i see the coupons that make a woman's allusion films to. this designer who came up with colored contacts. and a special train it brings the cultural says he's a member it's not fluent closer to. this and more next time on your next high

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