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people here don't have a clue about that feminism but there are women who want to instigate change in every day life for justice and equality. under the skin of russia's when it starts nov thirteenth on the w. . news. welcome to another special edition of euro max this week was showcasing europe's most popular destinations and today it's my form of britain we'll take you up and down the country has what's coming up. insider tips exploring london off the beaten track. music metropolis visit liverpool
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birthplace of the beatles. and some top attraction and because who is scotland's number one tourist mark. 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 postal side of the city so here is a real london are showing you what he things are the best bits of the capital. london vibrant metropolis. region's canal launches its way north of central london but it's surprising a tranquil canal runs almost parallel to the river thames.
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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. life 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 daytrippers 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 shop for books on a house but all visit the house of a new stray sion. one of the dreams is devoted to the patterns of proceeds of telstra in the london underground. say the gallery is
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based in king's cross london which has undergone this amazing transformation over the past few years and it's now a really exciting area for live schools gallery and really interesting. to the south in soho once the homes of many artists and still make kids. today so who is mainly home to theatres and clubs. even so national is a few thousand spots they see. secret t.v. is about but. it's home first that typical british tree. is called served with jam. and number three. it's really nice to drink tea from trying you know from rather than from sort of paper or plastic bowl or whatever but this is not like a proper a proper cup of tea rather than a than a mug of tea. comes in half asian is links and provides an alternative to shopping
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in the major department stores. small shops often items like vintage clothes and silver. much of the business here is done through mail order. so that a lot. both try anything bar relight cheat. camden's magic circle museum is not far from the busy euston station another magical location. this keeps the secrets of all the magicians in the u.k. . it's performing arts has a british tradition on display people. talking hand. holds. even the royal family is interested in. trolls wrote the magic circle to ask if you could become
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a member and they wrote back to you she 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 into the cups and past and is now an ordinary member of the magic circle now she lives in brixton i just dropped in south london . electric avenue it was the british capital's first market street to be linked with electricity many people in brixton descended from african and caribbean immigrants. i think you know i mean it's coming. there's a lot of work being done here and it's sort of like regenerating lively even if it's in a i don't feel discomfort at work and home late. it's not the richest but it's. what it is the most.
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metropolitan. is a victorian convent can well. she's especially fond of the functions it takes eighteen nineteen. and this probably is one of the few in london where they still have snags and this is true from the back right. they can come in here with anyone you like can just place door behind you. it's the perfect place to round off an evening one of europe's. capitals. well another lively city in england is liverpool a port on the river murphy is mostly known for its four most famous sons pole john george and ringo also known as my favorite band the beatles they started off
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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 is well worth a visit. the beatles may have put liverpool on the map but there isn't lots more to the city. one huge draw for visitors is the historical part complex which includes the famous royal albert dong. the old warehouses have been converted into hotels apartments and restaurants. but the main attraction remains the beatles more than half a century after they left liverpool. the cavern club is where the beatles performed in the early one nine hundred sixty s. . kevin mcmanus never saw them play here but he's an expert on the history of pop music. so well matthew since here is the whale famous cover which
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still attracts millions of tourists every year still thriving because industry. my my real musical life started over the road in a club called attics which is where which is 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. that. feels even all the time later the people still massively important to the liverpool economy last year because it was with over eighty million to the city eighty million pounds in the city over to half thousand jobs where response but credits to the beatles industry. lots of bands
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play here as cover bands for famously the arctic monkeys played here as well famous star now here. it is tatty now as it was in the sixty's. a hard day's night hotel is a more elegant tribute to the bad. and. with a suite dedicated to john lennon. but musical life in liverpool didn't begin with the beatles or end 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. and if people have traditionally right to make music tell stories sing songs and that's that's that was their way of of all social events and i am around music liverpool. liverpool is also famous for the fair is that cross the river mercy. this one's dazzling paint job was designed by veteran pop artist
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peter blanc. these are liverpool's three graces the building on the right used to be the headquarters of the cue not shipping on. jackie rafferty works there she's a location scout 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 travelling on the queue not line both since ships would have come before they've taken off to a brand new life or a nice holiday. the place to go any name is crosby beach in the north of the city at the mouth of the. stroller shadow sands with one hundred cars time figures by the sculptor antony gormley all staring out at the horizon in silent expectation.
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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 glens and another draw for tourists are the many many evil buildings in the scott. capital edinburgh a must see is of course costal which makes you feel like you a must in another world are reporters for example it said that the council served as a model for a 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 the towers over the scottish capital it's one of the most visited historic attractions in scotland and it's 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
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often sketches the cost. you know no matter where you are not in there is the castle you know you can. see it as you're sort of walking between the neighborhoods in between street and between the buildings you know sort of almost sort of following you around. and the view from iraq isn't too bad either archaeologists have traced human occupation of the site back to the change 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 the four hundred year old royal palace. 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.
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it definitely feels like you're walking down hill walking around the streets of a very old town. 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 step. tended to set their maritime clocks the farming of the one o'clock. to this day a common shot is set off every day except sundays. but no 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
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a lot it still sort of makes you jump but i don't know it's just kind of a i think it's kind of a culture dish and. i think it's important to keep these things going so one point six million tourists visit the castle and nearly the great hole was completed in fifteen eleven for james the fourth of scotland but he didn't have much time to enjoy he died in battle two years later after declaring war on english. the esplin age is the most visited part of the council not least because it's free. yet nobody cities are buying something as old as it is right in the middle it's easy for tourists to get to very picturesque it's like the movies and stuff like that it's the most recognised. place in scotland and. you know you can see it from anywhere edinburgh castle has inspired many a photographer painter and postcard writer harry potter author j.k.
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rowling famously wrote some of her books while sitting in a cafe with a view of the castle. the summer hamilton turn so sketches into prints and sells limited editions of them at galleries. where he's sitting with her the outside of my mouth. 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 different part of town when this one is pointed it just looks like this giant. you know placing it's way up to her looking down at everything. it in brooke. and a historical landmark with many facets. from edinburgh 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
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windsor forty minutes west of the capital the costal 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 sixth the monarch spends a lot of her free time in a 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 a royal time the cough though has been here for over nine hundred years and all the kings and all the queen's happy lived here and the queen called face her the king
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and palace is the office. that town on the river thames draws some seven million visitors each year windsor's twenty seven thousand residents profit from the town's royal status. one of the highlights sees the changing of the guy at 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 let me tell you and i do a lot for the not just this country for the whole world really they're all part of . in 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 works. amanda bryant comes from windsor she's also a tour guide who knows more than just the brand of and dates and places where we show visitors around the time it's not just the history of the castle that they
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want to name but they want to know what's happening today with the queen since nine hundred seventeen britain's monarchs have boasted the same surname as their castle windsor blimps is into which 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 wish will. really. be. she grew up here and so i think where you grew up is always a very special pope place a little. so when she comes back here for liberals it's must feel like coming home it was. established in the fourteenth century george's chapel stands inside the council. shall not manly who lives on scientists involved in the running of the church here she's witnessed many of the royal family's private moments.
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the queen spent many services here because with very happy memories and some sad ones too so for instance grandchildren her reward was confirmed almost bottles to. the blessing of the prince of wales wedding took place here the wedding of the other was expensive it was her first son took place here but her parents her grandparents or great grandparents are all buried here visitors can follow in the royal family's footsteps on the queen's walkway it boasts sixty three points of interest over a distance of over six kilometers. because means a more quake celebrates the fact that in september twenty fifth dean the queen became known gift reigning mana sixty three years on the thread a sheet over to the record of how great great grandmother queen victoria. visit is
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also front to the windsor great park it served as william the conqueror his private hunting grounds in the eleventh century. today's savile god in the park features world cars horticultural displays that are also open to visitors but the bit of luck you might even catch a glimpse of the queen herself and. she goes 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 park you just have to be the right place at the right time and you can get quite place to heresy. even if you just catch a glimpse of her majesty and exemestane royal windsor is always worth a visit. now travelling around britain as a kid i always most enjoyed the country's coastline beautiful beaches staggering cliffs and the solti see. one of the best places to experience the british coast is
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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 wild coastlines old castles and exotic gardens. cornwall is england's wild west where gorse blaze is yellow between the green countryside and the blue sea. all of cornwall's coast is hike of all. south west coast path comprises just over one thousand kilometers of that coastline it's one of europe's most beautiful trails with breathtaking scenery. in cornwall it seems like in chanted castles rise up from the sea maybe not as famous as francis schaeffer but for that reason not nearly as busy.
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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 are narrow and winding so it's important 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 cornwallis beaches. beginners can ease themselves in when there's just a light swell. nuki in the north is
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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 it all depends on your budget and taste. and dan darvill offers fishing trips off the lizard peninsula where anglers hope to catch place flounder target mackerel or even small sharks but the waters off cornwall aren't without their dangers if the great writer is probably killed five hundred people. right famous or up. song. cycle that people want to first figure out.
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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 cared for and maintained for nearly two hundred years. tree but is in a gentle valley that leads. down to the how for driven. it's a sloping landscape well protected from harsh winds. and. there's some fantastic as you say that we're growing in the mediterranean region because of our climate so we can come for the winter and they'll see them flowering in the garden at this time of the if one of them would be the big gun or a plantation over john rubab which looks fantastic on masses of big display area
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that it's really sort of striking in the summer out of this time of year maybe the road to the engines the big ol boring road that goes there can study. 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 we'll be visiting a country with a woman climate and i'll happily admit it better food see them all off and. join us for next special edition of your an accident a trip to italy for a visit to the exciting new capital rome. of venice museum pays tribute to the famous latin lover casanova. and the city of naples is the birthplace of the
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