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a german photographer specializes in capturing extreme weather conditions. on carnival culture a close look at the festive tradition fast enough in the swiss town of basel and arctic abode we visited a norwegian couple at their luxury cabin. we start off with a photographer who loves a frill he doesn't track wild animals or travel through dangerous areas bustin van it chases storms whenever the weather is wild rain pouring wind howling he grabs his equipment and hurries toward the eye of the storm hoping to capture the perfect picture of mother's nature's mayhem over the years he's developed a real knack for it and at age twenty five has established himself as one of germany's leading weather photographers. not the most easy mother nature.

bus john van is a full time storm chaser. does this to us let's a full that's the last photo i took of the supercell above adlington on july twenty eighth twenty thirteen which produced a massive fail storm in the picture you can see my storm chasing team colleagues sprinting the banks of the continent the doors were still open to us it was germany's most devastating thunderstorm ever in just thirty minutes it caused three billion euros of damage oil officer shot in fells of. the us ok sure you know you want to get that photo but you only have two minutes left before the hail storm a break it was in a triangle and fuels larger than it will but. twenty five year old bastion valinor

is obsessed with photographing apocalyptic looking funder storms across germany skies. as a child he had a recurring dream that he was being chased by a tornado as he did when i was nine we lived near geneva one day a storm front was gathering in the valley of league geneva i told my parents something really bad is brewing like it was in a dealer camp to noon but suddenly trees were strewn across our lawn our neighbor's trampoline was blown into our garden trashed grounds and everything was flying about the whole area was devastated recent. a small village somewhere in eastern germany the green hue in the picture is a dense haze of hail stones a whopping nine centimeters inside us. humans have managed to conquer and control the young earth but not the skies storm chasers are just content with snapping pictures of thunderstorms. they want nothing less than the

perfect picture of the perfect storm. i'm sure that they'll gladly travel fountains of calamitous just to get that one only important image. because i get all started in school i was bullied for years i even had to change plans of civics and so i needed something in my life to distract. us and i got interested in the weather and from the storm chaser community online to be a community if i had finally found a passion all to myself something that wasn't football which everybody else did if you knew this was a hobby that was all my own something only i knew about do is come out. storm chasing can be hard work sometimes tireless enthusiastic will stay up until three or four in the morning for the fiction. no need for flash photography in this picture the lightning bolts are bright enough. serious troubles are thought so and

it was a bit of a dicey writing with you right in front of the storm front as you can see in the picture forty grand then a new storm cell emerged in front of you at the moment but we didn't realize that because it was dark and of us of a sudden it started raining and lightning struck all around us and it was all that's what the pictures upright all those was at night a lightning bolt i struck right below not so if i'm wary of thunderstorms at night because i just can't see what's happening but you can't trace the clouds at night i have to accept it i don't know what's going on with us you have thought. as a child bastiaan started chasing storms all by himself on his bike he just set off from his parents' house. then at sixteen he got his glider license and at eighteen he used all his savings to buy a com. he's fascinated by all weather phenomena when you fall cloud dynamics he travels all over germany and you. in search of ever more dramatic

scenery. piloting gliders has taught him a lot about reading the weather conditions before setting off bastion carefully studies the weather and its dynamics he leaves nothing to chance but when he arrives on the scene things never turn out as expected. they threw each muslim of the he explained i'm finally facing an extreme thunder sound as i get such a sublime feeling or too little overwhelming moment of it there's that moment of calm and. it's when the air starts flowing into the thunder so it begins flowing with their losses and in that moment the wind is completely still have a completely clogged call that the way they are now you hear the hail coming in when you listen closely you can hear it coming down in the distance. and hollers. and suddenly. lightning strikes.

in human nature in the clouds. zigzagging from one cloud to another it's a moment of peace and love you see a natural spectacle lighting up the sky. well the sound of thunder must be music to his is we carry on with the delightful sounds of the violin when it comes to crafting the instrument the name stradivari comes to mind but what about mitten vote it's a town amid the alpine peaks of bavaria in southern germany and has an impressive tradition of violin making every four years musicians and craftsman from all over the world congregate there to work on the perfect sound local would also plays an instrumental role. somewhere here not far from the book very intelligent that involves two hundred fifty year old spruce trees are growing slowly but steadily

there would make for sweet sounding violence was the oddest thing off by the annual tree ring which should look like a vinyl record and the more regular they are the more valuable the work until we have forty seven every four years the violin world converge isn't that involved to compete for the best string instruments contenders come from italy the u.s. japan and korea each violin is carefully inspected beautiful craftsmanship isn't enough the instruments must also have character. been seeded so i had somebody like if you compare these two for examples of these you can see that this one looks top notch. and is used to it's just sleek. deflation on this one the surface is a bit of a neat and. yes this is this one shines like a mirror you get. a feeling for me this one is more pleasing.

the sound must also be right tim folklore who teaches violin at the frankfurt university of music and performing arts is one of the judges. who since it has been clues that well to be perfectly honest i can't get a proper sound from this file and it's from that since foreigners looks almost like a mass production house in the uk which can be a problem for the vibration of the student. pens and kind of like when someone has every had caught you know residents in their voice. is on what you two are still. involved has been manufacturing string instruments for three hundred years. the man who introduced the craft was much he has clients to this day didn't vault celebrates its first lives here as if he were a saint. as well on the instruments that were made here were very good

they were inspired by italy where a ts klutz learned and then he taught his sons and then basically every second person here was making instruments and they came out. for a time mitten fault had eighty violin making businesses. pay them today there are ten towns location along the trade route from work to venice meant it was ideally placed for entering the international market one. move. one hundred fifty years ago we are already shipping violence all over the world not just to be very or south to roll you know who are sending violent violins some of the maple wood is over five hundred years old in the movie of four if i got this tree about four weeks ago. through this one of the four most beautiful trees i've

ever received the top liking to listen to the crew about this much of the last hundred years. we've had time to develop its characters so to speak can connect to some only two people. the judges testing further interviews for best filing. if this powerful brilliant was on the on that somehow with a very interesting time because of the old this was when i would estimate it's like new cars out to be broken in my violin needs to be played so you need to imagine what this new instrument they were assessing is going to sound like in a few years. building violins requires absolute precision instruments are then covered up to thirty layers of varnish. but their quality also depends on whether the violin maker is having a good day. as is needed every day is different i love football and after byron

munich lost the german cup finals what was to say that wasn't the ideal date for building a violin. this year the top prize is awarded to violence number thirty six by u g can a call from japan. cynics might say under pressure the violin is very appealing. put if you've its color and design of pop people are lowering it doesn't feel like it's been mass produced. and it's got an unbelieving service you know and. it produces a sound that is both powerful and gentle. prefer to have your own as foreign. leader tim full flow plays a concert with the award winning violin and who knows maybe someday it will end up in the hands of a violinist in a famous orchestra somewhere. now to the third

installment in this week's series european traditions we've been introducing you to some of the additions to a rather special list it's unesco's list of intangible cultural heritage today's entry is the fast enough to swiss konovalov tradition which is quite distinct from its european cousins for instance so-called fast enough i know or clique's gather at four in the morning to ring the bells. bustle carnival starts in the wee hours of the morning with the mortgage bank all morning shenanigans the revelers described their carnival as the three most beautiful days.

months and pick and they are the only instruments allowed for the mortgage time for a beach club in blazon is a different subject on its mountains most often the political satire. in our club we have a commission that's the comes up with the subject for carnival because in some time in autumn they present it to the rest of the club that i'm fine with it and then we start the preparation. is a big lanterns like ours here are painted by artists it takes them two or three months that's a few hundred hours of work to go under them. all the clubs where you are months of high def aces the first morning the costumes until the same. the macho is shiny which means anything. this is why did you see states rather face the one you can hide behind. but behind

it you're smiling and enjoying the mortgage crisis a nice moment of basel carnival is the coming out so in the form of one it's a combination of the camaraderie and the tradition. but also as a military component of it i'm often the marching drills we do are almost militaristic and there's some nostalgia involved. between parades club members go down to the educated centers to warm up and rest a bit here they speak buzzard huge the city's enchantment tiling. all the school who could charge an old like this why did you do it all this in your balls with just a few moments after the more destruction revenues meet up again now they're in their theme costumes marks out off from the docks club tells the full story that goes with what he's wearing. your theme is goodness we have a crisis if you know the idea here is that our club is in financial crisis and

we've called in external consultants to show us where we can cut costs of the cuts or at the expense of the team we've got a really cheap costumes this year recycle are getting all the money we've saved on the. items on. the basel carnival is still celebrated exactly the way it's been for the past one hundred fifty years there are strict rules for the cultish the afternoon parade spectators are requested not to wear costumes nor are they allowed to sing and sway along. busy thinking that both know that that's probably the thing that sets it apart from other carnivals that the separation between the actual participants and the spectators speak it but they're a very important part of it all we're doing it for the spectators benefit. from the floats the vikings hand out treats for the children. along with the piccolo players and thomas the cortege also features brass band. they play what's

called good music maybe gold nobody's udev agrees but in their own special way. since twenty seventeen the boss of khan of all has been on us because of this the intangible cultural heritage of humanity a source of great pride for the clubs that owns it and that it doesn't change anything for us the civically but it's really a recognition of this local tradition one that centuries old. koster exactly seventy two was the carnival always comes to an end but not long afterwards numbers stop planning the costumes now when next year it bounces enthusiasm for conifer is passed down from generation to generation. now food waste is unfortunately a big problem here in europe many people and businesses end up throwing away spoiled food due to inadequate planning but fortunately there are enterprising

minds like eve she kourou in the austrian capital of vienna you notice that bananas in particular are being thrown away in great numbers so he decided to turn his surplus into wine. waste not want not even to cruise tomato every week he sells his rather unusual wine and vienna's not . most people struggle to discern what the beverage is made from. seeing this unfold it has a very interesting flavor and aroma the initial taste is a little strange for wine drinkers it but then it gains in body in lofty shmuck in fight the deceit and tastes different light and refreshing it's not too strong i thought. i noticed the banana and the off to taste. banana wine is mainly popular in africa even to kourou came to austria from his native home the democratic republic of the congo when he learned how much fruit gets thrown away in europe he

started buying up over ripe bananas so by this the bun and most people stopped buying bananas in as they get brown spots or start getting sweet sear just get thrown a workable it's we have go so instead of letting them go to waste us victory buy them to go for the air make something new from the muck of us lies to us. he pays ten year rose for a crate of bananas which is about half the original price during the course of the year event his wife makes three to four batches of banana wine the first of the bananas are peeled and the fibers removed so the wine doesn't taste bitter then it's time for fermentation. the wines sugar content of depends on the type of banana they use after four to six months in the tank the wine is ready. to open at any one finish worlds remember not a wine tastes like banana wine it's its own thing and you can't buy character white wine or other wines so it's an egg and it has its own aroma its own after taste is from. one hundred kilos of bananas for around thirty to forty liters of wine

in this way if you could who has already saved around thirty tonnes of bananas from being wasted he's especially proud of that. i'd love to try some now while most of europe is already enjoying some of temperatures folks in northern norway are still thawing out from a long winter and while a lot of europeans enjoy venturing south for the holidays we've met up with a norwegian couple who go the opposite way they vacation at their weekend home. up on the lincoln peninsula as part of our ongoing series your remarks to locke's we travelled far north. north of the arctic circle this holiday home is perfectly suited to the cold northern norway where snow covers the ground for roughly half the year it was built

by hot part kramer. hello welcome to my cabin come inside. the heart of the building is the living area with its floor to ceiling windows which afford a stunning view of the water this two hundred square meter bungalow is hot board kramer's sent over felts weekend retreat the retiree's spend as much time here as possible i. most assignments and looking at the sea. we are relaxing more we can. read that book we can. be a more outside. during the winter months the sun doesn't rise for too long months to compensate for the lack of daylight that has decorated the house and

vibrant colors and fitted it with cozy carpets and blankets geothermal heat pump and a wood fire ensure cozy temperatures. i can stand. near the wall from the fireplace . it's a very giving me i love. the house also boasts a sauna that can be used all year round. i go away in this house every second day i will be out here take this out with the family to. they also. they have a yeah we all of us here. have a very cold in. the bedrooms face the heath behind the cabin. and her husband searched for twenty years until they found this spot to build their cabin construction began in two thousand and seven their idea was to build

a cabin that harmonizes with its environment yet also provides a warm haven amid these harsh climbs. i like the structure they're feeling the warmth feeling gives they want to. be like i said. you see it oh i own all there. on the outside. the cabinets wooden structure was neatly fitted into the fuehrer dropped from ation it's malls are lined with low who wind current. architects norris jenison designed the cabin and shows materials like wood which will withstand the harsh arctic climate for many years. it's untreated so it has a gracious look but still it's a warm work on the outside see dark which of course in this climate also is.

very well suited. and turns your silver grey in time. twelve the fountain hubbard kramer spent plenty of time outside if the weather permits it sometimes they can observe reindeer or whales at sea and in the winter they sometimes see the northern lights this is why they love being so far north. it's the beta and not the temperature. they are their surroundings we have here. that i have. for example the fountain hope our trainer spending time in their cozy kavanaugh worth of the arctic circle is nice no matter what the season.

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