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hopping revisit for all the canary islands. or when it comes to leather most people think of collars or lemons leather right if you wanted a bit more excited maybe snake a crocodile level but have you ever heard of fish leather surprisingly it is just as strong as normal leather and it has another advantage it's sustainable because the waste from the fishing industry can be used sounds weird doesn't have but in fact more and more young designers like to use fish leather for their collections let's find out more. fish leather may look exotic but it's made from the skin of familiar kinds of fish like salmon colored and touch. a label. on a company that makes products from fish. she produces them and i studio ninety six

they designed it discovered the benefits of fish skin as a material in iceland she lived there for a year very close to a fish never factory. you to fish how. every fish skin is unique even within its own greed. so i was on the us. this is often and the other thing i like about it is the feel you get the feeling you're holding something that alternates between silk and paper hands arms. and on top he. talks to him it's wafer thin and feel silky yet it's very robust this is the worst . so i cut in uses fish leather to make kinds of products. but it wasn't just the look and feel that won her over she also likes the idea of using a sustainable material it's made from fish skins that would otherwise be thrown away. and every type of fish makes for a different type of fish and. as

far as the arrangement of its scales goes here you can see the letter a line organ . this salmon is very regular very conformist closeable so i can make classical handbags without well the card has its own characteristics and i like that a lot too that's marcus i know. that is unleashed product and given that it costs some three hundred euros per square metre it's likely to stay that way still it's unique look and diverse he says are inspiring young designers to experiment with it. a company that makes some and never is located south of like sick here they make the fish leather that is later turned into products like this. but it takes quite a few steps to transform the skin internet off. the skins are timed and

drums like these at this point have already been scaled and things are lost that fishy smell. the leather was tanned using eco friendly substances made from tree bark the tanning process is also crummy for the chromium salts off a nice in the industry would destroy the fish skins while the material is already more to resistant than you'd expect it still needs to be stabilized through the tanning process. then the skins have died according to the client's wishes. the skins are simply smoothed out and then left to dry the processing of fish that are difference from last about eleven which often stretched out for drying fish skin is too sensitive about. the dried leather a softened again in machines like this then the skins can be like it will sing together to make larger pieces to suit the client's wishes.

company found a hole behind spent several years developing the right processing methods he says that his left eye has one major advantage over his competitors. when he does from the op when you look at the product as an exotic character actor and with every want to be if you please thinks of snake or crocodile sustainable no way but was our material not a single animal is killed as it were really is recycling a waste product so we're closing the ecological cycle isn't going to him with his new coalition guys. design is like on a country usually make everything by hand so a finished auto bag sells for several hundred euro. but she thinks it's worth the money. i would have been ahead tessa the ass's i miss afterwards i have a bag that might well outlive me just this is that this contract is that it's lovingly handcrafted i use very good thread good leather good gluten clear it's

something that will be around for a long time because this does atocha that's a long. durable sustainable and unusual fish never has plenty of advantages and there's nothing fishy about that. really good to know otherwise you'd be pretty lonely in that outfit but now the saying fishing for compliments really makes sense doesn't it ok that's and i hope that that's fine no what else is going on in europe and today's express. the largest sweet water pearl ever found goes under the hammer in the hague this week. named the sleeping lion it weighs in at one hundred twenty grams it's seven centimeters long and some three hundred years old it was found in china it once

belonged to the russian empress catherine the great and disappeared after her death it resurfaced in one thousand sixty three and has since changed hands numerous times. the pearl is expected to fetch some five hundred forty thousand euros. she's the queen of experimental pop and now there are calls for marriage her opera vesper team on the stage of the national theatre in the western german city of. the opera is based on her album of the same performance transports viewers in. suspended somewhere between pop and opera. between addresses the highs and lows of newfound love. a champion chaser has broken the in time record for the most cheeses one and he and he will cheese rolling wrecks in the english county of gloucestershire the competition sam's

participants chasing down hill are touring the chiles. this year thirty year old chris anderson once again he's not taken home a total of twenty two double gloucester cheeses over the past fourteen years the race is said to date back to roman times. and now it's time again for another your next travel load and this time you can look forward to a short trip in the sun we are heading to the canary islands they are very popular travel destination for many germans the group of islands belongs to spain it consists of seven main islands which are located in the atlantic ocean we have visiting four of them today fred event to our grand canaria and. we do the trip this week for a really good reason on may thirtieth it's words canary islands day on this public

holiday the residents celebrate the first session of the parliament back in one thousand nine hundred eighty three let's have a closer look how varied the canary islands are it's no wonder that millions of tourists flock there every year. located just one hundred kilometers off the west african coast the canaries are an outpost of europe with an enticing climate. each island in the archipelago was formed progressively from volcanic magma over the course of millions of years. and each one of the seven boasts its own particular beauty. in the second largest of the canary islands is four to ventura on first glance it looks rather barren but it boasts spectacular beaches and is famous for the golden dunes of call a halt that stretches all the way to the atlantic. the banana without you see here that nature builds things that are so much more impressive than anything humans

make the same but also the landscape it's so much more frantic because until we like the sand best on the climb actually going to go ok and i want to say oh it's lovely. fourth of into is continuously buffeted by winds from the north offering the perfect conditions for surfers and that includes windsurfers and quite servers . we have different times of different series or so there are bigger waves smaller waves and really big raises awareness of why the color of the fire bureau. next up gran canaria the third largest island with three hundred fifty days of clear skies a year it's a paradise for sun starved travellers from the north. the lively capital las palmas is located in the northeast. it's botanical garden is a must see home to five hundred indigenous plant species. colonial architecture

lends the city its distinctly spanish feel and testifies to the influence of the rulers from the mainland who founded the city in fourteen seventeen. an entire museum is dedicated to the nation's famous explorer christopher columbus. you have it. only opened up a new world you know discovery of a new continent was a major milestone for europe and for spain in particular. due to its location cannot be a play their history teacher role in the conquest of the americas in the sixteenth century and i plan to go and see what he say has the america columbus set sail in his legendary voyage from las palmas in fourteen ninety two here's an exact reproduction of his ship's cabin on display in the museum on. the eastern most island his lens of arctic with his characteristic lava fields and volcanoes. in the bay of los colorado there's an underwater surprise. the

museo atlantico at a depth of twelve metres is an exhibition of three hundred life size human figures they draw attention to global issues such as climate change. the museum is the brainchild of british artist jason to carrie's taylor who's been producing sculptures for the collection since two thousand and thirteen. eight of the pieces is designed obviously for marine life to inhabit a lot of the services we we make very rough and textured and that's the sort of perfect substrate for marine life in a way you know we build all these structures but it soon as they get put in the sea you know we say goodbye to them. the art works are made of ph neutral concrete and are left to take on a life of their own underwater. we

wrap up our tour unlock homa known as let you slip anita the beautiful island its biggest attraction comes to the fore in the dark the deep black nights with cloudless skies and little light pollution our ideal. astronomer's carmelo gonzales or three guess is an amateur enthusiastic. but i mean one of the for me that's one of the best places in the world to view the heavens there is hardly any distracting artificial light and i don't have high mountains two of them in astronomy nigga but other allow them. we leave the clouds down below. for all or when night falls on la palma the astronomers focus their telescopes and begin their search for heavenly bodies located millions of light years away.

from here the universe seems within reach. all the canary islands a place of longing in the atlantic. so to a lot of us you know we're there you don't have that much nature and lots of big cities especially here in europe where some of becoming more and more crowded huge concrete tells us are the only solution most of these places are not particularly green and apart from some docks you don't often see anima there either in such changing though for instance in munich and so on germany we have discovered an almost how only herd of sheep. the grass is always greener only have assigned to be she found grazing on pastoral matters they live in downtown munich between railway tracks and construction sites high up on the rooftop of a high rise. that's really just ask of course it's

a totally different environment than a meadow or a mountain pasture because it's not the point this project is about bringing a piece of nature into the city if you stop putting in. nicholas frick and tends to the animals in the so called mountain farm sixty meters about the streets of munich the twenty five hundred square meters are noises of grain in the city jungle. the space of a city kids a place to connect with nature. they can dig around in the depths of. their own raised beds. the heights. and spinning wheels for the sheep's wool. that's it for tonight i like it here a lot we get to cook and there's a lot to learn about bees and come in that there we can plant stuff in the beds one can die a little bit of down i like the bees best. chop the sheep are cool but so are the

bees so. it's a strange picture up on this form a factory building with a view of the train station and surrounding construction sites a view that underlines the value of such natural islands like this rooftop. and specter spectacular sight that's bearing it created specifically to address the disappearance of nature in new york and landscapes if you look around you see the city is becoming more delsea that's the human form and it's fantastic that someone's taken a stand on an offer to provide space for a green roof top stories it's a big green at. the sheep evidently not conceal the fact they're about to welcome my first lambs into the fold is perch and it appears even an occasional gust of wind poses no danger to the animals. south a sheet blown away by the way and i don't think so and i don't mean. the project as a model that can be reproduced on other rooftops in other cities up here meanwhile

they're getting ready for new housemates rabbits and chickens and a colony of ants will soon be keeping the sheep company. especially of the somme are such a roof garden at the place to be or do you live to go to the lake with friends more that's exactly what we want to know this week just upload a picture on a website that shows you doing your favorite summer activity and with a bit of luck this year next watch lists and be yours so join in and good luck. now i'm sure you'll send a color photograph won't you the times of black and white pitches along now the great german writer good to set callow is not only couple of four but is always associated with emotion the proof of that can be seen at the summed up on the two minutes in france in its callen exhibition adventure of color.

what would the world be like without color. what would our be without color we take it for granted until it's gone. collars don't just brighten up our surroundings many people associate them with feelings. look if it is just my favorite color is pink it stands for clarity and softness. did i do sir morse is clear mines orange because it's a joyful color and make sure happy when you yourself. i have read a lot because it's what. you see should read stands for love and passion. for what you believe blue is the color of the heavens the first one i see when i wake up in the morning and there are so many different shades of our young.

who was also a heavenly color for painter vasily kandinsky he developed his own color theory for him blue awakened spiritual aspirations well yellow was an earthly color. kandinsky was a color junkie. who could turn even his palette of paints into a work of art. his contemporary went even further for him color was even more important than subject. he expressed his emotions through color and ushered in a new style of painting for a visit. this put it off my chances associated with ferguson in one thousand and five in paris he showed works which for the first time liberated color from its habits of all kinds. i no longer use color as a naturalist a way and this caused a scandal so you better want to do it isn't sultan lee described as a fool of a wild beast israelites is someone i do for the. eventually my

t. stopped painting altogether and began making collages out of colored paper he called this technique but be a dick. in these paper cut outs color finally prevailed over form this remained mentees his preoccupation until the end of his life. because the material said that in spite of the scandal this allowed him to express his feelings openly and honestly for the first time after her collar was a transmitter of emotions i means of sharing observance what he felt was the most for galba. here there is nothing standing between the observer and the artwork. visitors are bathed in color. surrounded and illuminated by blue. for the troops are very immersive like being in

a cloud or something and they don't don't have to show us from iraq sure it's calling means very relaxing experience here. a pool of blue this is color in its most basic form for eve klein the adventure of color was a monochrome experience. similar mortal says about him at the head for klein this is a transition to the immaterial that there are no paintings on the walls any more just color pigments which lie on the floor and stay there through the force of gravity a sort of also that it's a new way of thinking about painting a much openness new avenues by exploring a single car to more explore and sort of. the adventure of color at the center pompidou mets and illuminating exhibition but certain to brighten up your day.

and always serving up. well if you can call them really delicacies because tastes to deface so they listen are disgusting the side. five european dishes that you would never expect to be a delicacy in. the greenland shark and lived to be four hundred years old unless it ends up as how kartel first ended shark meat an icelandic specialty takes fifth place on our list of european delicacies that may not appeal to everyone in fact the sharks flesh is toxic but when it's buried underground or left to ferment for weeks it becomes edible. but delicious that's a matter of taste how kartel has a strong ammonia like flavor. the side of this dish found in

spain and austria might make strong men faint from discussing. number four bulls testicles here they are being served up as a kind of carpaccio. bulls don't have to be slaughtered specifically for this delicacy which is a byproduct when they're castrated at a young age. you eat with your eyes says the same goes for the traditional seafarers meal has plenty of normal ingredients like potatoes beads ground salted meats and fish but it looks like well as if someone has been seasick which is why it's often served concealed under friday the northern german specialty lobster cause is number three on our list of less than appetizing dishes from europe this recipe arose as a matter of necessity in the past sailors suffering from lack of vitamins lost thirty five so they preferred to keep their food mashed up.

what were the swedes thinking why would a country with a thousand kilometer long coastline with fresh fish on their doorstep go for old rotten herring. it's second place in our list of not so delicate delicacies. its aroma is legendary the stench of rotten fish it's non swedes like a blow to the stomach some lose their lunch before the first bite restaurants tend to see service dreaming fans apart from other guests for obvious reasons but people in sweden are so proud of their iconic dish that think even export it in cans. flies buzzing around your food is pretty disgusting for most people put flyers are actually invited to help prepare for this cheap it's number one in the contest for the most memorable european delicacy mark since. it's

a traditional specialty in the italian island of sardinia flies lay their eggs and young cheese and their large day or maggots eat their way through it their excrement gives the cheese its incomparable flavor and texture closer marts who is banned by e.u. hygiene rules but many sardinians just can't get enough of this delicacy looking living maggots. oh my god somebody is the hungry well if you're looking for a. good recipes on our website also many stories from around europe that's all we have time for today so we'll see you again next time i. on the next edition of your own mouth for four decades markers is called an evil fortress from high above the river rhine and his home but the only life inside

these historic wall. so it's not entirely sure if some of all it's hard to make. more of the council the next time a girl my. colleagues move. move. move move move. move move. move move. move move. move. move move move.

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