just a start he made a plea to still. a milk representative. billy srijit architect of east germany's police station. and explained if i had my way. east germany would still be. master of. the past which you know. starting march thirteenth d.w. . welcome to the show today we start off our journey white here in germany is what's coming up. taurus magnets why germany attract so

many visitors. free spirits british designer mary quant and the miniskirts revolution. and 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 by just a nearly four hundred sixty million overnight stays in two thousand and seventeen alone tourism expert tossed in shifa 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 thought it all and it boasts an excellent infrastructure for tourism and travelling between two destinations is fantastic about we also have a great price performance ratio and 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 and 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 the limb is still the most popular destination convinced his. we really like the food. because we are greeks and we are ok because 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 like the street life. it's the can i have the bars it's the politics the food and drink nice interesting people the sunday lloyd a. surprise the city is so regal we have big buildings how wide avenues we like that would be that we don't live you know south of. 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 unesco world heritage sites here among them humbugs 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 sight seeing right now woodward and they visit places like there could be drilling cologne or brandenburg gate you fight so we also have a number of pain parks. we all 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 home on a concert hall which had three times as many visitors in two thousand and seventeen . but your money isn't just an attractive destination for foreign tourists. to dodge not only average germans make about seventy million trips

a year for five days or longer a third of those are within the country but that means that germany is also a german's favorite place to travel to. the venue is especially popular. could attract visitors with its consuls and. rootless hiking costs around the alps. the seaside relaxation families had for beaches on the north and bolting seas. the lone mountain ranges and the hot sun black forest regions are now nothing new. social twenty seventeen was the eighth year not grow that overnight bookings have hit record highs that we expect the outward trend to continue in twenty eighteen thus not only is germany the most popular destination for germans it's also gaining

popularity abroad on the also initial result of adults for that matter t.v. . whether you're looking for a bustling city life or it's in the 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 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 round up now of what's happening around europe in or express some trouble for ed sheeran but first we've 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 meet with young women and girls from the region. to varying i am very. good to that yes. yes yes i'm straight. and 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 chair of the german environmentalists are asking ed sheeran to cancel an upcoming concert indecl don't do well star is shantel to perform at newly extended

concert grounds they are on july the twenty second but the premier with a superstar would require chopping down around one hundred trees activists are now trying to get in touch with the singer and appeal to his conscience they say the sure he wouldn't like that many trees being found for the event. the museum i own in paris is currently showing over one hundred works by japanese french artist to go out on foot. he's considered the most french of all japanese artist the exhibition covers the period between one thousand nine hundred eighteen and nineteen fifty one. lived and worked in paris. tokyo his unique style combines ancient. techniques like some painting and have a patent with western john ross. painting in the room twenty 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 i guess and would be to 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 was given one too 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. . quantum original mini skirt hitched up hemlines to at least ten centimeters above the knee and became a symbol of a mensa painted women in one 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 raving about everything and there were not a lot of. window with. rage. to want to manage to do what few fashion designers had done before she changed the psyche with a piece of fabric and. i think it is all. really down to mary quant she was an art student she didn't want to dress the way the 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 a matter 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. the black dress and it comes really out in it's black and so. high. cut right through it. and so it flows right so it fools it just shows up in. london's victoria and albert museum has been collecting and archiving kwame'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 like sporting cuts like these it's wearable fashion for work or having fun.

reacting against that very grown up lady like tailoring that england 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 post-war austerity and the younger generation with. clubs and she claims that you can if you're young woman and go straight off to. the mini skirt wasn't quantz only fashion coo she also became the first us. minor to use vinyl in dresses and shoes. and. she also takes credit for inventing waterproof eyeliner and strapless broads plus she popularized colored 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 are 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. fashion designers like germany's giteau maria kuch maher include short skirts in many of their collections . i think because they're a 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 series a classic and a recurring favorite on the catwalk. area 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 color in every 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 the sun 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 i really do miss is that well there was. wheat. in alan bond 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 two thousand and thirteen and sitting in their lives. 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. to 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 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 well. first is not and this is. 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 what it is we just love. one of his cafés signature dishes is

a poppy seed bagel with avocado in salmon. island marinate the salmon in ricky. insults. should a. fresh do. and fuck up. he needs to chill in the refrigerator for three days. the cottage is of course a staple of a bun diabetes breakfast. straining cuisine is big on fusion combining asian and european flavors. in choice reinterpreting classic dishes. the red meat marinate gives the salmon a pink issue and then any usual slightly sweet edge.

so that's. 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 there and we always used to go there and sit down and swim salty and all those one bagel with. papa said every morning we used to be like like it was amazing it was just perfect was that the best he 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 mountains. 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 been kind of a habit forming that we can hear in the sunday morning either inside or outside a. beautiful autumnal 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 wine as we so many times things happening here is a series as well and yet so is there fool in nice. in the evenings when the cafe transforms into a wine bar allen'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 purpose is to go we have a kettle 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 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. on their bedroom floor. lego can have painfully sharp pages. like this. where i see my conversations with colleagues about their children and lego bricks i've often heard stories about the ouch when you go into bed and 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 bricks. 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 that was my first encounter with lego blocks on my left. middle and has worked with the company on several occasions developing toy 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 ups. 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 gottfried 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 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 ladner 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. 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 for adult fans of lego have long been an integrity part of lego fan culture to regularly like here in leipsic. prudence's those who have been 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. 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 they've learned change and reflect. it on themselves in the process the plastic breaks are created an entire subculture rush 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. artists use lego to make art works i'm as an it's an invention that has left its mark on three entire generations to present. 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 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

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