what is humankind learned from the great war. as it learned anything about. nineteen eighteen not forgotten d. w.'s november focus. hi there welcome to a new week of euro max your daily dose of european lifestyle and culture here on v.w. and today special we're showcasing the best that germany has to offer is what's coming up. is it the vikings i said who is a unesco world heritage sites in northern germany. don't see adventure take

a walk across the muslims. and discover book area visit the southern german states great consideration. for a first german holiday destination was staying right here in the capital berlin has so much to offer that as a tourist it's hard to know where to start every district has its own particular flair and collection of quirky attractions so we're going on a little round trip and start off in one of the city's liveliest areas quite spared which is teeming with artists. lynn has plenty to see. including the cloyd. the hill stand sixty six meters above the city and lends its name to the surrounding district.

it's extremely popular with artists you find digs a bishop in all sorts of places like here inside the form a church of syntagma it's. the chinese gallery shows contemporary art here targeting the younger generation. as if we currently have thirty eight artists on our books all of them making contemporary art many of them come from abroad but now live in berlin. these playful wooden sculptures were made by swiss artist claudia. not far away in the district of show back we find one of millions more bizarre exhibitions a lip stick museum run by makeup artist and writer already called here he divulge is the make up secrets of former film divas and other celebrities many left a lip stick kids instead of an autograph. it was when i got to know hildegard naif that i became

a serious collector i did her makeup for over thirty years and advised her on fashion and style. one day she said to me that she'd done an advert for lipstick before i was even born it was for the folks left unchecked meaning people slipstick or vo for short the headline in the popular bill tabloid was the men have v.w. so now the women have video. and this is it here they cost one mark fifty back that. underworld the satiation maintains a permanent takes a bishop in a form a storage area off a subway station it documents hitler's architectural plans for the capital he appointed his chief architect are about share as general building inspector. history in the present is a major topic in. this exhibition is intended to make a small contribution to it whether on a stroll through town or visiting from elsewhere by revealing some of the many

facets that aren't always that apparent. but then has countless restaurants like the sardine bar. deane's and other fish and seafood to serve right from the tin there are more than seventy different types which. is very proud of. him as i got the idea for a sardine bar while on holiday in lisbon portugal. there aren't many tables so if you're interested you best book in advance. no no to the district a friendly sign things here are a bit more colorful than in many other parts of the city walls pose an opportunity for all to still a trip there a shop selling handmade clothes and accessories and a textile shop called ocean. if it has ever been i'm a vegetarian so it was quite a humorous thing to do and does seem to have captured people's imaginations it also

fits in with the site because things appear to be one thing. in fact quite another . piece in the district of horn should housing is a great place to relax many would no doubt love to live in this bungalow at least it's open to the public it was the last place bauhaus architect to be found the hole it designed in germany. can they bring just picked a vice and z. is rich in natural beauty spot it takes its name from a lake that's popular for bathing it's a world away from city life though not very fun from the city center. and that's just scratching the surface of this wonderful city are cold so make sure to visit some day now we're headed further north to soak up some ancient history near the german danish border you can get an accurate picture of how vikings lived

over one thousand years ago at the height of two settlement and the dawn of act four trips back in the eleventh century these sites were the center of the trade networks between northern and western europe today seven viking houses and the landing bridge invite visitors to experience what life was like back then. the vikings life was not for the faint hearted the men hunted for food with bows and arrows. pans made clothes and cloth kept them warm during the cold winters. vikings built wooden ships with the simplest of. the viking settlement of haines or blue once numbered among the foremost in the medieval trading centers in northern europe. died should visitors how the vikings went about their daily lives over a thousand years ago. it was

a life in and with nature but had an incredibly sharp power of observation they were very well acquainted with the materials around them and knew how to use them to their advantage to build housing ships and wagons and make rope. they made a great many things that we could hardly even imagine today to be on the fourth and current. capabilities in a college dine in northern germany. seven facts to roof wooden houses have been faithfully reconstructed. the settlement was built at the end of the shoreline an inlet on the baltic sea. it was a strategic location for trading precious metals weapons and pelt today it's a treasure trove of jests. behind me the eyes here

of a viking age settlement in the ninth tenth and eleventh centuries the first glance it doesn't look like much because it's just a green meadow but there's usually an archaeology the real treasures lie underground and here behind us there isn't a square centimeter that doesn't contain archeological finds. we always say hey that was archaeologically contaminated. in the nearby viking museum visitors can inspect many of the original artifacts. it's one of chalets because shine is the most popular museum. over one hundred thousand people come and you are in search of the real vikings. the museum shows the viking is highly developed from the sun still the smiths are not for example or the pill jewelry things that often surprise visit is. up four hundred from the profession unlike the classic image of the vikings as warriors what i find after such an intense examination here is that

above all they were internationally trading europeans even somewhat cosmopolitan. many of the have to. be in the hands craft with very highly developed and that indicates they were not just worry is definitely a culture they are quick to for a come on. the down of a canny hate of you is another significant archeological site from the viking age. it consists of earthworks walls and trenches reaching some thirty kilometer. fortifications date back some one thousand years they can best be explored by bicycle. and the down a vehicle was built to protect the just land peninsula against invaded. the donna vereker was the longest lasting border of the middle ages and the best preserved in its various phases as my saying here the best waldemar small for example was

a very innovative construction for the time. they had many guns are built with bricks in the twelfth century. the site gives us a unique insight into how the vikings lived. the archaean. fines indicate this was once home to a global trading power. here in haiti but we found mercury holes that came from western afghanistan. we also found us of brass and were brought here from the white sea. and so as a trading hateable was something like the major ports of hamburg in rotterdam are today. and they've gotten some place where all kinds of ways of trading groups came together and dispersed again we have. paid to build proofs that the vikings were not just. strangers and people who lived in harmony with nature.

but we stay in northern germany for some wonderful nature just a little further southwest from a viking site you can go on a very special hiking tour through the wardens see every six hours the tide changes drastically their use of the ebb and flow of the tides it's then possible to walk far into the mud flats when the tide is going out hiking directly on the sea bed. high no bearing is taking his guests on a special kind of to he's going to show them how to land become sea and the sea land. now we're headed out at the water on sea is low point for we're going now later this afternoon the water will be about this high above our heads. nobody knows the mudflats around the north sea island of houston like hina baron his father before him was also

a mudflats guide and whenever he was ill hina had to take over the first time was when he was just eleven and that was almost six decades ago. although now if you look back there you'll see a whole sticking up on the horizon you see it that's where we're headed it's going to be interesting. they walk nearly two. two and a half kilometers out on to the mt flats. above the water's already rising we have to make sure we arrive on time and go on. to high no one says guess to save at this strange place and see how fast everything changes though doesn't see that this is the one sees deepest point. in the time it took us to get from back there down here the sea level has risen about forty centimeters back there you can still see a little patch of the mudflats that was visible as a much larger island. if we were out there on it now we'd

be entirely surrounded by water. now the water is pushing in our direction from the sea well with on the horizon it's changed again it changes from minute to minute wherever the water isn't rippled it's moving fast. how much water would you guess has to flow in per minute between order ny and used and between poor used. to submerge this vast area of the mudflats only really going about thirty three when the last of that that happens three or four times a day it was low tide just a moment ago and now here comes the high tide. and we decide the tides move such a massive amount of water in here from the north sea in six hours and twenty minutes that it can cover an area of months lots eleven caves in that direction. anyone over there and thirty case and not directions to an average of between two meters forty and two meters. that's a gigantic mass of water. unimaginable it shows the power of

a title and then flow if you've got a look now let's move on to higher ground and now all the way to the left of our main room. down through the water now it's going around and you can see how it wobbles and rushes. what you see. there and. the kid gets funds evenin changing from minute to minute we can't stay here much longer let's go over to the other side of the law and when you go through the water and on the east walk like a story you know long don't try to push your way through or the water will start running over your boots though you know this is still flat enough that you can get over there easily. but you have a no draw a line well movement up and you stand behind it looking in that direction. then begun to i can see the water coming straight towards you down then you then

just knew by the time i get across this entire area will have gone on the good wife but i will be safe here you can see the waves and be quiet as a mouse can you hear the water flowing north. it's not hard to hear the incoming tide music. it looks so peaceful that many visitors underestimate the speed of the approaching water the situation can sweep people become life threatening. now we can go diagonally across here to the other side so we can have

a look at. the good quickly zigzags they way back to the island high no knows exactly where the ground is saif. i'll move them hollow right behind me. don't go up higher to the left i'll have to walk through the water a little movement of the most. once again the high no bearing has brought everyone cycling back before the time which is the island. well now that we've explored the north let's venture south to the state of area most people associate it with the annual october fest with down those and later big brass bands and hearty meals but even outside the beer fest season very attracts tourists with us mountains lakes and castles now to anniversaries have prompted a special celebration one hundred years ago the free state was founded and two hundred years ago the state's constitution was written to mark the double

anniversary an exhibition called the myth of bavaria explores the low and legends behind the cliches. that they are in a straight out of a coffee table book traditional costumes and customs and stunning scenery those are the things people associate with ovarian and they've helped make it one of germany's most popular vacation destinations tourists never tire of the state and its people its fairy tale castles and the varian lifestyle not to mention its famous. shorts good very good looking specially the alfie with the strap with the. i don't know what you call it a costume but it's good looking the barrier such a beautiful area in this and all of the street and all of the houses a lot of people so fantastic. woods

mountains and a king's dream that's the name of an exhibition at the center of a very in history which explores the various legendary status. two hundred fifty items are on display here they show for instance how hunters and lumberjacks cultivated the inhospitable landscape. farmers often lived from what they could reap from the forests was vital as both a construction material and an art but it was landscape painting. in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries that turns that there is forests lakes and mountains into dream destinations in which was fine for the lower of bavaria and it connects the pine region with a certain lifestyle and connection was marketed far beyond germany's borders it's always football with all the city images generated still stick in people's minds to this day trip from dimension feast. the house of

the royal family of bavaria contributed to local pride and patriotism and pen around as folk festivals traditional costumes and beer steins came to symbolize the southern german state leader who is now in particular became to appear to me at the national costume the very it was portrayed as an it didn't take place and we just by various mystic status was created by man not by the gods you know some other myths claim it's the only thing in a very in myth that did not come from humans is the mountain and they play a big role in that and everything else is added to them a lifestyle the shoe popular which developed from a dance for singles into apartments and to top things off look rick the second fairytale castles. the famous king is still fundamental to the various image today he built noise council the state's most famous structure it attracts some one point four million visitors

a year then there's october fest every fall some six million revelers come to raise a toast in style. but they were also famous for its corps. and its soccer team byron munich germany's most successful soccer club has fans around the world. but these alpine meadows. are far away from the hustle and bustle of munich down to earth very and soon like to get away from it all. can stay at a mountain then like the five i am. here for a local beer and in good company you can use over the nature of the quintessential the very end. of a ferry and cannot be transplanted someplace else he's at home there and he's grounded their electric soak alexander for home when he was in south america he

said he would never take up a very in mountain guide with him because they got homesick a big deal. at the many ends in the valley tourists can discover more of a very interesting like the shoe plotline a traditional style of folk dancing that's still practiced here. visitors from around the world are welcome to join in. memphis not in we try to show people what life is like in the hospitality and we try to lift their spirits so they enjoy their holiday we care about our roots there's nothing better than bavaria gift of newcrest. the very place where dreams come true it's an image kept alive by tourists and the very hands that like . a final stop on today's tour of germany sees us take a very special train ride in the hearts of the country it goes straight through the

hearts mountains the highest range in northern germany at an altitude of more than one thousand one hundred forty me says the balkan is its highest peak i'm chugging up the mountain some of the last few steam locomotives here in europe which are still in service while the passengers sit the stokers sweat so all aboard for on the trip with trusty tank engines that have been running for generations. this train is hard to miss the broken railway in the hearts mountains when you see think plumes of smoke rising you can be sure it's on its way for the past one hundred years it has snaked through the same fantastic landscape every day and scaled the highest peak in northern germany the broken. inside the engine room it's

hot and dirty it's fuel with coal that needs to be shoveled into the one thousand five hundred degree furnace it's no easy job but make outguess now loves his work he's been working as a stoker for the narrow gauge railway since last august. and i heard on the radio that they were looking for stokers so i decided to apply and was lucky enough to get picked for. the train might be from the nine hundred fifty s. but it runs on a modern timetable several times a day it climbs up the broken mountain to the peak at an altitude of around eleven hundred meters in the winter the peak is often covered in snow. this makes it a special treat for passengers even if they're sometimes greeted by a snow storm at the top they just have to make sure to bundle up.

at each stop the crewman regularly carry out inspections whatever the weather. the worst part is the wind and when the snow freezes it feels like needles pricking your face and when you get off the train you almost get blown over. fifteen minutes later the train trundles back towards the valley the next stop is very good order where lives. the colorful town in the hearts foothills has plenty of curiosities to see like the crooked house that tilts even further than the leaning tower of pisa all the thing that's not even three metres wide. the old child hole is also worth a visit originally established as a shapiro house it was the town's venue for dances performances and celebrations we

also spent some winters here in venice. but the city center is not all there is to see the old costs are rising above the hills is another must say in the nineteenth century it was home to count. today it's been turned into a museum. but. has no time for he's already on his way back. into the snow. for today i hope even joy trip across germany will be back tomorrow with another trip through another european country. special we're off to britain where we.

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