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a peg gasland takes roc said evergreens on the tour. and perfect photographing models with skin blemishes in color. first off we pack our bags and travel far away from the continent and this week series dreams we're showcasing europe's most interesting islands and today also takes us to the caribbean more specifically to the lesser antilles nowhere in the world britain france and the netherlands closer to the overseas territory of angua and the french dutch island of some off or sint. so let's take a closer look at this island hopping experience with a twist. the plane touches down in dutch territory but seven thousand kilometers from amsterdam

. this is sin to morton in the lesser antilles islands a sun worshippers paradox. since martin is part of the netherlands vacationers here can look forward to sun sand and duty free shopping. and they can pay an entry engravers in peak season up to ten cruise ships a day dock at the island just beyond the deep water for travellers can get a taste of amsterdam the cheese not the city. which. i always grew up with display of cheese on my sandwich with some jam or reversal sweets assaulter good combination. hot sauce so that's why we also offer that sort of people taste a lot of people still want to come in. and they all say you it's hot sauce or cheese but why not try and they like it. fifty different

types of cheese. bush i grew up here and loves the diversity of cultural influences in the caribbean. this is. the majority of st martin's population are descended from african slaves and dutch colonialists added to the mix are the french who've been sharing the island's ninety square kilometers with the dutch since sixteen forty. came here for salt because they needed salt for their herring mistry salt was very important in the preservation of foods and we were a goldmine of salt and the french also needed their own stories of salt so we have a salt palm on the front side of salt on a side. they bought split even half in the side to live purposefully. in from the dutch side to the french side of the border is barely visible even from the air the somewhat larger french side it's called some afternoon and i like martin

a real part of the european union. league that. arrived eleven years ago she and her husband had originally set out to see the world on their sailboat but once they stopped off in some knockdown they knew they'd found a new home. and all our flour comes from france to our butter to my husband makes everything by hand with no artificial coloring but our baked goods are made only according to traditional recipe. that one was to. the customers who are every bit as demanding as in paris the baker says and they pay in euro's. means that the fifth ministration here is french but how can i put it we have something caribbean in us to. just see.

the joy. this is the culture of the entity that's a blend of the caribbean and europe. that's a blend that elsewhere in the lesser antilles includes the british too just a twenty minute boat ride away its ugly population nearly fifteen thousand just deserted beach is an excellent snorkelling make it a hot tip among travellers to this corner of europe in the caribbean. i wonder how it works. why we go. in and get out the legal tender is the east caribbean dollar bearing a portrait of the queen today the former colony is a british overseas territory representatives of the crown take care of foreign financial and domestic security policies. there's a lot of cricket and there's

a lot of football on the island. there's a lot of. traditional british good morning good afternoon old fashion respect ladies wearing hats to church on the day a lot of that still exists. as does british food if fresh lobster doesn't tickle your palate traditional british roast beef and yorkshire pudding are available right on the beach. to the. pub owner clare lynch came to the island with her parents over thirty years ago. the way that we serve our food almost like you eating at grandma's house. came out it's just we want you to be fall into place like grandma beating you up play a. british beef dutch beer and parisian style. enjoy to enjoy the caribbean sun.

so plenty of people from europe and around the world call those islands that home but we'd like to know what you take with you if you are costa way to an uninhabited desert island all alone with no multicultural crowd to keep you company send us a picture of yourself with a luxury item that would brighten up your stay whether that's a person or an object just upload it to slash lifestyle where you can also find yesterday's installment of our series now we return to the european mainland and take to the skies in our euro max express. around the world are in italy for this year's teano international balloon challenge cup. ninety teams are competing in total with one thousand bottles of local wine up for grabs this is the fourth edition of the balloon challenge.

last in fifteen days it ends on the fifth. paris is testing cooling benches in public streets and squares are designed to give pedestrians some relief from the continuing heat wave the benches are connected to an underground system of pipes that convey water from the river center buildings are also benefiting from the cooling system for the past few weeks many parts of europe have been sweltering under temperatures of thirty degrees celsius or more. forecasters expect more hot weather in the days to come. from producer are to a blown out turns one hundred years old on wednesday he was arguably the most influential figure in west germany post-war cinema history founded in one nine

hundred forty six his production company released a series of big screen here it's he also made a special commitment to films dealing with the holocaust and the nazi era. galleries to be held in our two a bronze honor on september the eighth. some music and the return of an iconic band from the late eighty's and early ninety's the swedish pop duo rock set scored international hits with songs like it must have been love one half of the double act singer songwriter paragon will be taking their biggest hits back onto the stage this time without his long standing partner the fred dixon following a successful battle with cancer her doctors advised against it but those music lives on. it must have been like the speech in the movie pretty well

a lot has happened since then. most of. this wholesome flow will be taking rock set on soul sadly without seeing frederick's on fans won't be disappointed. i think they're going to have a blast if they like rocks at songs because it's going to be lots of upset songs and. rereleased sixty two singles in my career and lots of them were hits and we're going to play lots of hits we're also going to play a few of the other songs i think it's. it's got a magic i'm sure hope so anyway it. rocks at all yet another of pop success story to hail from scandinavia. this week his biggest exporters of hit songs off the album.

healthy bank balance and a string of. mean pair gessler can afford a relaxed approach to work these days he doesn't feel any pressure to match old successes. no i don't at all i think it's every time of your life you know there's a season to everything you know and i can't really it will be that doesn't mean that i might not have a hit record in the in the future i might have that but it is talk of a song like the look you know because the look belongs tonight. so i don't feel any pressure and i think also the music industry in itself has changed so much since since we had our heydays you know we were. we worked our asses off for eight years you know ninety in eighty eight to ninety ninety five that was the hey. hey days of upset and that's a very long time eight years is just as long as long as the beatles existed you

know it's atheist. rucksacks with my read frederick song and paragraphs love were not successful thirty years after the turn of the millennium however the jules school choose to put troops home for the worlds in two thousand and two to sing among refreshed rick sloan was diagnosed with a brain tumor. has always paid me the brands besides rucksacks and pursued a solo career. let me. make. his latest album is june for repeats in september. that. started out. as a swedish album in swedish. and the idea for that album came. because mary told her that she had to stop working with works at in february two

thousand and sixteen. which was sad of course but it was expected at the same time you know what she she worked overtime so to speak the last ten years we were upset . so i decided early on that the next project i'm going to do should be something very different from rocks that. in main memory frederick suntanned sixty she's doing well given the circumstances but not well enough to go back on stage so she'll be rooting for pat and his solo of parents is away from the spotlight. well all of us here max and her very best wishes now we move on to photography and an artist keen to examine beauty standards hide the planet from cologne chooses the models for pictures based on their uniqueness portraits show children teens and adults that have birthmarks or pigment disorders in hopes to encourage people from

hiding so-called cosmetic flaws the result is a captivating photo series so we met her and one of the models for a look behind the scenes. one last look in the mirror and félix dawna is good to go. the young man takes care of his appearance in his case are somewhat distinctive appearance he was born with a port wine on the stand today he's in hiding probably studio to have some new photos taken with his face as the primary focus. for the past five years how to progress has been taking photos of people with genetic idiosyncrasies as he calls. so far she's recruited thirty subjects for the project each of them with a conspicuous facial feature and no qualms about displaying it in public. félix was one of her first models. hired out to mr. hyder

approached me back then on the subway i was waiting for my train and she came over and asked if i'd like to do some photos. she told me she was doing a series and found my stain interesting enough this this estimate as you meant it was the first time somebody wanted to take photos of it with a few but you do often get people asking about it. whether it's a burnt or a bruise from a fist fight or. a go bag of using bell does or in fact it's just excess blood vessels which is a good professor and it doesn't really bother me so i would switched around three in a thousand people are born with a port wine stain or fire mark the capillary malformation is in most cases physically harmless nevertheless many parents decide to have their child stain removed phoenix dawna still has here's mine it's on the stomachs off. my parents

took the advice of a pediatrician and started the process of having it removed when i was four assault . on it since five when i was maybe ten or twelve i said we didn't need to carry on but. and that i'd rather have the stain than the later treatment yet some people have tattoos and in my case i have a natural one on my face as if i did program uses an analog camera so it often takes a few days for her to tell how the photos have turned out she only touches up a photo when the negative has a scratch or a speck of dust on it the series she hopes will show how much a parent says can define the individual and how they're perceived. in their flag was what i wanted to explore and what i found interesting was how frequently that one distinctive feature on someone's face draws all the attention. because my series the woman with the stain on her face has become a kind of synonym of the foam at the end it's about this woman with this dame and

everything else is secondary and then there's the issue of how you deal with it when it's always visible. furnitures new photo will be set to a blue backdrop blue stands for serenity which is exactly what felix exudes in heider prime as photo. now we're back to the topic of music plenty of songs have been written about lovers and heartbreak but many are dedicated to a special place for instance over thirty thousand chews have been composed about new york which takes the on a as the most crooned about city in the world but of course european cities can claim a few serenades to. find european cities that you may feel did not know are featured in countless songs. many of the songs written in tribute to mainland sight its beauty and glamour.

but as well as being a fashion hub milan is also a center of music and home to two top soccer teams so plenty of reasons to sing its praises to god all if he she needs. to do. with three thousand eight hundred fifty four songs it's number five on a list. because . germans either love it but then all they hate it's. the ballin the say their city combi beat back with six thousand two hundred sixty

seven songs barely known the ranks full. roam the eternal city anyone who's been there long three times it has inspired many so. it's about its charm and its lifestyle like. elvis presley paid his own tribute. to move all over the road to the italian capital has racked up eleven thousand eight hundred fifty nine songs to date earning it their place in our rankings. can go. on next city has been home to countless world famous bands and artists over the years little wonder then that

they've sometimes penned lyrics about the place london born adele wrote this tribute. man. down. country born ed sheeran needed time for climate ties to the big city. and london whose mean stranger. than. all. the british capital is featured in fourteen thousand eight hundred in five songs but that only makes it our runner up. again. not. melancholic and romantic edith p.i.a.f. left her native paris as did jazz legend ella fitzgerald.

man. number one with twenty thousand and seven songs is paris. the city of light is also the city of romance. one man even some the praises of what they must reason st. is a is a. bold as it is a. now bloggers have taken you tube by storm in the last few years with young creators using the platform to showcase their talents online but they're not all in their teens and twenty's folks who hails from the north german city of hamburg is a passionate chef and that eighty certainly well above the average age compared to a contemporaries like any granny she has her own signature dishes has helped her

out by holding the camera when she starts cooking in the kitchen including my absolute favorite. has. three minutes to go until monica folks begins her next project. at the tender age of eighty. make every mistake imaginable her son montana is helping out as assistant chef cameramen and director. yes. today we're making bubba good news an appetizer known as a man. in this case an eggplant puree from lebannon the preparation time is normally thirty minutes but today it'll probably take several hours from the looks pretty good.

that you know me and i was probably jabbering away and we had no sound time. that morning your folks posted her first video online three months ago and the response has been overwhelming. i'm a tad holmes and there are comments such as i love you i want to marry you the way to a man's heart is through his stomach i've not had a single comment saying what's that old lady up to she can't cook that's something i dread. her starting bowker was a smash hit her nine grandchildren also approved once they found out knew my bosses know that i knew until we suddenly blurted it out one day the whole family was shocked what a margin of momo that's me it was a huge surprise and we were grinning from ear to ear. or and the kunst from chicken breast with tomato congress

a two liver pâté and apple crumble if you can conjure up any there. is roman dialect for jump into the mouth monica folks is been a passionate cook for decades every friday and she invites strangers into or living room restaurant in hamburg she's always kept a recipe secret until now. with this fact i now present the award winning giant schnitzel dinner is served because. there are a couple of humdingers that i haven't been revealing people email me to ask when i'm doing such and such all in good time. she shoots a new video every week. look most of us look at the difference. he doesn't michelle and when i'm worn out and have to carry my bones around in a bag and then i'll go back to writing and it's something i did for years with a passion i did and you can do it lying down. when those kinds of. but not yet with

her cooking career far from over the distant past and there we got up and i got an old classic a midget and made dinner is served. well i have to take a closer look at that recipe online later you can also find plenty more your remarks online on our facebook and instagram pages d.w. your remarks that's all we have time for today but i'll see you tomorrow for another edition of your mix featuring another paradise island and cleansing more european lifestyle and culture until then thanks for joining us by phone i hope. next time on your own minds spending on his or german computer scientists but he's become an internet sensation with his dance videos he calls his style communal

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