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years you turned out of your own to look. like cannons failed to determine its outcome. in negotiations last thirty years of mediators succeeded in reaching agreement. it was the birth of modern diplomacy. sixteen forty eight road to peace starts oct twenty fourth and d.w. . griffith. welcome to another special edition of euro max this week was showcasing europe's most popular destinations and today it's my formal brisson we'll take you up and
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down the country what's coming up. insider tips to explore london off the beaten track. metropolis visit liverpool birthplace of the beatles. and some top the traction at because who is scotland number one tourist mecca. and we kick off today's show in the british capital many tourists come to london wanting to see all the main attractions like buckingham palace taleb bridge and the houses of parliament but there's a whole other side to london that is usually just known to locals today we want to help you get to know a more personal side of the city so here is a real london a showing you what he thinks are the best bits of the capital. london. shop. reagents canal watches its way north of
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central london but it's surprising a tranquil the canal runs almost parallel to the river thames. london author bill nash is interested in the more secluded parts of his hometown. in the past ten years. and in particular since the london olympics a lot of the canals around london of being revitalized cleaned up wildlife is being reintroduced and that's a lot of people living on house boats nash describes the lesser known aspects of the city in his book secret london. now day trip as cruise along regent's canal from little venice to camden. but there are plans to use the canal for transporting freight house in the past. along the banks people can shelf of books on a house but all they say the house of
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a new stray sion. one of the rooms is devoted to the patterns of the sea to culture in the london underground. so the gallery is based in king's cross london which is undergoing this amazing transformation over the past few years and it's now a really exciting area full of schools galleries and really interesting landscapes . so the south is soho once the homes of many artists and still make kids. today so it was mainly home to see it as an influx. even so national was a few hidden spots. secret t.v. remains about the palm. beach home first that typical british crew. skull served with jam and number three three. oyster
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to drink tea from china you know from rather than from sort of paper or plastic roll or whatever but this is not like a proper a proper cup of tea and rough going to get a mug of tea. comes in cafes and provides an alternative to shopping in the major department store. small shops often items like clothes and silver. much of the business here is done through mail order. of americans. whose try anything but all rely cheat. camden's magic circle museum is not far from the busy euston station another magical location. just keeps the secrets of all the magicians in the u.k. . this performing arts has a british tradition on display people. talking has.
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got holes. even the royal family it's interesting. trolls wrote the magic circle to ask if he could become a member. they wrote back to him said yes he may bring it to pass the test person exam so we know she's from try she came down and performed the couple strick which you know the cups on the ball the balls and the cups and pasta and is now an ordinary member of the magic circle now she lives in brixton district in south london. electric avenue he was the british capital's first market street to be the next with electricity many people in brixton descended from african and caribbean immigrants. i think. you know. there's a lot of work being done here and it sort of regenerate. even if it's in
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a i don't. it's not the richest but it's. what it is the more. friendly and metropolitan. it's a victorian convent an outcome well. she is especially fond of the fox anchor it dates back to eighty nine. and this probably is one of the few in london where they still have snags and this through from the back. they could come in here with anyone you liked and just close the door behind you. it's the perfect place to ground off an evening in one of europe's. capitals.
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well another lively city in england is liverpool a port on the river mersey is mostly known for its four most famous son paul john george and ringo also known as my favorite band the beatles they started off gigging in the local cavern club which is still open to this day and we'll take you there in a moment but let's also find out what other tourist attractions make this city well worth a visit. to the beatles may have put liverpool on the map but there isn't lots more to the city. huge draw for visitors is the historical point complex which includes the famous royal albert don't. know where houses are being converted into hotels apartments and restaurants. but the main attraction remains the beatles even more than half a century after they left liverpool. the cavern companies where the beatles performed in nearly nine hundred sixty. kevin mcmanus never saw them play here but
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he's an expert on the history of pop new. so what i'm up to see here is the whale famous cover which still attracts millions of soloists every year still thriving because industry but my my real musical life started over the road in a club called attics which is where which was the center of the punk scene in liverpool i saw many famous bands such as the clash joy division. all appropriate. amount of visitors start arriving before lunch for their taste of the fab four. feels even all the time wasted appeals are still massively important to the liverpool economy last year figures it was with over eighty million to the city
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eighty million pounds in the city over two half thousand jobs where response but credited to the beatles industry. lots of bands play here as beatles cover bands for famously the arctic monkeys played at del well famous star now. it is tatty now as it was in the sixty's. the hard day's night hotel is a more elegant tribute to the band. with a suite dedicated to john lennon. but musical life in liverpool didn't begin with the beatles all and with them. mcmanus is the curator of the museum of pop music here and he says it's the countless immigrants from ireland who brought music to the city. people. traditionally write make music tell stories sing songs and that's that's that was their way of. all social events and i am around music
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a liverpool. little boy is also famous for the fair is the cross the river man. this one's dazzling paint job was designed by veteran pop artist peter blanc. these are liverpool's three graces the building on the right used to be the headquarters of the q not shipping on. jackie rafferty works there she's a location scout and knows all the most evocative sights in the city. this whole has featured in many films. so we're now in the queue now building on the ground floor and we're in what would have been in its day the first class arrivals departure lounge this is where people travel and on the key not line both some ships would have come before they've taken off to a brand new life or a nice holiday. the place to go any one is crosby beach in the north of the city the mouth of the. stroller shared a sans with one hundred cars time figures by the sculptor antony gormley staring
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out of the horizon silent expectation. when it comes to scottish music you think of bagpipes many also associate the country with beautiful green hills and valleys known as monroe's and glen it's another draw for tourists other many many evil buildings in the scottish capital edinburgh a must see is of course brook castle which makes you feel like you a must in another world are reporters for example and said that the council served as a model for hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry whether it's true or not one thing is for sure the site is truly magical. comic plug cold rock towers over the scottish capital it's one of the most visited historical attractions in scotland and it's
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a sight that by the locals visitors can get enough of. american illustrator cassandra hamilton has lived in edinburgh for the past seven years. she often sketches the cost. you know no matter where you are now. there's the castle you know you can. see it as you're sort of walking between the neighborhood the street between the buildings you know sort of almost sort of following you around. and the view from casa rock isn't too bad either i just have traced human occupation of the site back to the young age there has been a royal castle here since at least the twelfth century the complex has been besieged destroyed and rebuilt many times over and is now a collection of buildings from different eras like a four hundred year old royal palace.
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cassandra harrison's favorite place is st margaret's chapel. the oldest surviving building in edinburgh dates back to the twelfth century. you can still get married day to day. it definitely feels like you're walking down walking around the streets of a very old. you know at the top. and it's sort of imagine what it must've been like hundreds of years ago wandering around here. has also been a british army garrison and houses the scottish national war memorial. it also keeps alive a tradition that goes back to eight hundred sixty one when ships. handed all night to set them maritime clocks the farming of the one o'clock. to this day a camera in shelters set off every day except sundays. i.
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don't know sort of when you're walking around town and you hear the big boom you know after living here for a while you know that's the one o'clock got it even even though you've heard it a lot it still sort of makes you john but i don't know it's kind of i think it's kind of a culture dish and. i think it's important to keep these things going some one point six million tourists visit the castle and nearly the great hole was completed in fifteen eleven for james the fall for scotland but he didn't have much time to enjoy it he died in battle two years later after declaring war on english. the explanation is the most visited part of the carlson not least because it's free. yeah nobody cities are buying something as old as it's right in the middle it's easy for tourists to get to very you know picturesque it's right here like the movies and stuff like that it's the most recognised. place in scotland and.
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you know you can see it from anywhere edinburgh castle has inspired many a photographer painter and postcard writer harry potter author j.k. rowling famously wrote some of her books while sitting in a cafe with a view of the castle. the summer hamilton terms her sketches into prints and sells limited editions of them at galleries. where he's sitting with her at the outside if i'm out. in a park or any cafe it's the face of the castle changes and this is completely different than if i were you sitting and in a different part of town when this band is pointed it just looks like this giant. you know placing its way up to then looking down at everything. and in brick consul in a historical landmark with many facets. from edinburgh
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castle we now travel back down south near london to windsor castle for nearly one hundred years the british royal family's roots have been based in the small town of windsor forty minutes west of the capital the consul is effectively the family home in honor of queen elizabeth the town and your grace it's a six kilometer walkway which winds in and around the best tourist sites so we headed to royal windsor as it's known to see more of the city and find out what the queen gets up to in her favorite official residence. the queen making a public appearance in windsor on her ninetieth birthday on april the twenty first twenty sixteen a monitor spends a lot of her free time in the small town of windsor just west of london. windsor castle is an official royal residence for the queen hosts important guests here like barack obama and his wife. the town of windsor has always been
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a royal time the castle has been here for open nine hundred years and all the kings and all the queen's happy lived here and the queen calls this her home the king and palace is the office the town on the river thames draws some seven million visitors each year windsor is twenty seven thousand residents profit from the town's royal status. one of the highlights is the changing of the guard the ceremony takes place daily in the summer windsor is a place of pilgrimage for royal watchers. we love the royal family yes we love the fact that you're looking right at the beginning they do a lot for the not just this country for the whole world really they're all part of . our history our culture. is part of the family and. for visitors the town's main attraction is windsor castle it's the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world. amanda bryant comes from windsor she's also
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a tour guide who knows more than just the brand of and dates and places when we show visitors around the time it's not just the history of the castle that they want to name but they want to know what's happening today with the queen since nine hundred seventeen britain's monarchs have posted the same surname as their counsel windsor glimpses into its private rooms are rare but an internet video showed the queen and prince harry in her sitting room enjoying a humorous video exchange with the obama's careful what you wished for. really. believes. she grew up here and so i think where you grew up is a very special place a little. so when she comes back here from other worlds it's must feel like coming home. established in the fourteenth century george's chapel stands inside because.
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who lives on site is involved in the running of the church she's witnessed many of the royal family's private moments. the queen spent many services here because with very happy memories and some sad ones too so for instance her grandchildren would have been her what was confirmed to be up close to . the blessing of the prince of wales wedding took place here the wedding of expensive. places. parents her grandparents her great grandparents are all buried here visitors can follow when the royal family's footsteps on the queen's. post sixty three points of interest over a distance of over six kilometers. the queen's a walkway celebrates the fact that in september twenty fifth the queen became the
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longest reigning monarch sixty three years on the thread a sheet over to the record of great great grandmother queen victoria. visitors also front to the windsor great park it served as william the conqueror his private hunting grounds in the eleventh century. today. features world class want to control displays that are also open to visitors. you might even catch a glimpse of the queen herself and. she could. whole thriving in the park even at the age of ninety she has a little black pony called emma so we're very lucky we sometimes see her in the pot you just have to be the right place at the right time and you can get quite place to heresy. even if you're just catch a glimpse of her majesty and examine seen royal windsor is always worth a visit. now travelling around britain as
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a kid i always most enjoyed the country's coastline beautiful beaches staggering cliffs and the solti sea at one of the best places to experience the british coast is cornwall and the southwest of england the peninsula is particularly influenced by the gulf stream its warmth gives cornwall an almost mediterranean climate which is so mild that palm trees grow all over is a look at the counties while coastlines old castles and exotic gardens. cornwall is england's wild west where gore splays is yellow between the green countryside and the blue sea. all of cornwall coast is hike of all. the south west coast path comprises just over one thousand kilometers of that coastline it's one of europe's most beautiful trails with rescuing scenery.
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in cornwall it seems like in chanted castles rise up from the sea maybe not as famous as france's most damage but for that reason not nearly as busy. here every fork in the road offers an opportunity to encounter witnesses to long ago history burial mounds stone circles and standing stones. the roads in cornwall are narrow and winding so it's a big. and to drive carefully and always be courteous to your fellow driver for everyone's safety. wherever you see a black and white flag flying alongside the red white and blue union jack that's cornwall. britain's best surfers meet on cornwall's beaches.
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beginners can ease themselves in when there's just a light swell. nuki in the north is considered the best place for surfing at low tide the beaches there are perfect for families ideal for both children and shell seekers but you need to be tough to take a dip with water temperatures around sixteen degrees celsius. as a tourist you can stay on a remote farm if you like with a peaceful herd of cows as your nearest neighbor. or you can stay right on the beach and it all depends on your budget and taste. and dan carter offers fishing trips off the lizard peninsula where anglers hope to catch a place flounder target mackerel or even small sharks but the waters off cornwall aren't without their dangers it's a great writer as probably kill five hundred people. right five or six sets of
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pop. song. of the day it was the first hit right. if the sea is too challenging there's plenty to do on land. cornwall is also famous for its spectacular gardens it's said that each garden is a bit of heaven on earth. triva garden is a sub tropical paradise on the helford river it's. full of exotic plants and it's been here for and maintain for nearly two hundred years. is in a gentle valley that leads down to the helford river. it's a sloping landscape well protected from harsh winds. there are some fantastic as you say the growing the mediterranean region because of
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our climate so we can get them to come for the winter i'm near see them flowering in the garden at this time to be at one of them would be the big gun or a plantation over john rubab which looks fantastical my house is a big display area that of really sort of striking in the summer out of this time of year maybe the road to dungeons the big gob or emerge that goes there can study in. cornwall has a wild coast but a mild climate the gulf stream allows palm trees and tree ferns to thrive in the southwest corner of britain and it allows the horticultural arts of a garden crazy nation to reach their pinnacle. we've reached the end of our expedition through britain tomorrow will be visiting a country with the warmer climate and i'll happily admit it better food see them off and. join us from next special edition of your an accident a trip to italy a visit to the italian capital rome. of venice museum pays tribute to the famous
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