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make cheese. waste. pollution. isn't it time for good news in. africa people and projects that are changing our environment for the better it is up to us to make a difference let's explain each other. we do it for god the environment magazine. on d w. i though welcome to another special edition of your own acts this week was showcasing europe's most popular destinations and today it's my formal brisson will take you up and down the country what's coming up. inside the tips
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explore london off the beaten track. metropolis visit liverpool birthplace of the beatles. and some top attraction and because who is scotland's number one tourist mark. 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 ridge 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. lunde. 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 are 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 day trippers cruise along regent's canal from little venice to camden. but there are plans to use the canal for transporting freight cars in the past. along the banks people can shop for books on a house but for visit the house the venue strange and. one of the rooms is devoted
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to the patterns of a cd palestrina london underground. say 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 . to the south it's soho once the homes of many artists and filmmakers. today so it was mainly home to see it as an influx. even so national is a few hidden spot states. secret t.v. myths about the palm. beach home first that typical british. scones served with jam and. pretty much to drink tea for. trying you know from rather than from sort of paper
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or plastic bowl or whatever but this is not like a proper a proper cup of true growth in a in a mug to. come out and package and things and provides an alternative to shopping in the major department store. small shops off items like clothes and silver. much of the business being done through mail order. of americans. whose. anything bar relight. kansans 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 and people. talking has. got hold. of even the royal family interests.
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trolls wrote the magic circle to ask if he could become a member. they wrote back to me said yes he may bring it to pass the test person exam so emotions from try she came down and performed the come from full strength which you know the cops on the boat the bulls and the cops and past and there's no no no remember the magic circle now she lives in brixton a district 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 don't know 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. know live me of violence it's not the richest but it's. what it is the more. you. know it's a victorian commenting on well. she's especially fond of the functions and it dates back to eighteen or nineteen. this probably is one of the few in london where they still have snugs and there's three of them and back right. they could come in here with anyone you liked and just close the door behind you. it's the perfect place to round off an evening in one of europe's. capitals. well another lively city in england is liverpool port on the river mostly is mostly
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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 is well worth a visit. the beatles may have put liverpool on the map but there isn't a lot more to the city. one huge draw for visitors is the historical importance complex which includes the famous royal albert don't. know where houses have been 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 club is where the beatles performed in the early nine hundred sixty s. . kevin mcmanus never saw them play here but he's an expert on the history of pop
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music. so we're almost to c.c. and his to well famous cover which 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. 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
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million pounds is the city over to half thousand jobs where response but it's the people's industry. lots of bands play here the beatles cover bands for famously the arctic monkeys at del well fame the star now plays. its is tatty now as it was in the sixty's. the hard day's night hotel is a more elegant tribute to the band. and. with a suite dedicated to john lennon. that musical life in liverpool didn't begin with the beatles or end with them. mcmanus is the curator of a 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 they make music tell stories sing songs and that's that's that was their way of the whole social events and i am around music how liverpool. liverpool is also famous
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for the fair is the cross the river mercy. this one's dazzling paint job was designed by veteran pop artist peter blake. these are liverpool's three graces building on the right used to be the headquarters of the q not shipping line. jackie rafferty works there she's a location scout and knows all the most evocative sights in the city. news hole 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 queue not line boats and ships would have come before they've taken off to a brand new life or a nice holiday. the place to go any thing is crosby beach in the north of the city at the mouth of the mersey stroller share the sands with one hundred cars time
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figures by the sculptor antony gormley all staring out at the horizon in 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 glens and another draw for tourists other many many evil buildings in the scottish. capital edinburgh a must see is of course costal which makes you feel like you and in another world are reporters for example it said that the council served as a model for school of witchcraft and wizardry whether it's true or not one thing is for sure the site is truly magical. comic plug cold costs will rock the towers over the scottish capital it's one of the most visited historical attractions in scotland and it's a sight that by the locals visitors can get enough of. american illustrator
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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 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. casandra harrison's favorite
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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. adeptly feels like you're walking down hill walking around the streets of a very old style. you know at the top. and it's sort of imagine what it must have 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 to pay. handed all night to set them maritime clocks the farming of the one o'clock. to this day a common shelters set off every day except sundays.
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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 a lot it's still sort of makes you just but i don't know it's just kind of i think it's kind of a culture dish and. i think it's important that we keep these things going some one point six million tourists visit the castle annually the great old 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 castle not least because it's free. yeah nobody cities are quite something as old as it is right in the middle where it's easy for tourists to get to very you know picturesque it's right there like the movies and stuff like that it's the most recognized. 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 also j.k. 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 he out i find out. it hard before and it kept me it's the face of the castle changes and this is completely different than if i were you sitting and a different kind of town when this one is going to it just looks like this in zion . you know placing it's way up to then looking down at everything. it imbra council and a historical landmark with many facets. from edinburgh
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castle we now travelled 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 council 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 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 castle has been here for open nine hundred years and all the kings
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and all the queen's happy if 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 contact list ceremony takes place daily and this summer windsor is a place of pilgrimage for boyle 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 where 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 there were four. really. believes. she grew up here and so i think where you grew up is a very special place to live. so when she comes back here it's must feel like coming home. established in the fourteenth century george's chapel stands inside the castle. who lives on scientists involved in the running of the church
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she's witnessed many of the royal family's private moments. between spent many services here because with very happy memories and some sad ones too so for instance. when her reward was confirmed to always be up close to. the blessing of the prince of wales wedding took place the wedding of prince edward. parents her grandparents or 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 walkway celebrates the fact that in september twenty fifth the queen became
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longest reigning monarch sixty three years on the train she took 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's savile god features world to control displays that are also open to visitors. you might even catch a glimpse of the queen herself and. she. 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 here even if your 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
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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 gore's blaze is yellow between the green countryside and the blue sea. all of cornwall's coast is hike up on. the 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 none as famous as france's most them a share 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
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stone circles and standing stones. the roads in cornwall 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 cornwall's beaches. 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. and as
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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 with. dan carter 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 best route right now is probably kill five hundred people. right famous or so wrong song. for the people of the first few hours. if the sea is too challenging there's plenty to do on land. cornwall is also famous
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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 to. down to the how for driven. it's a sloping landscape well protected from harsh winds. there are some fantastic clouds as you say that would grow in the mediterranean region because of our climate so we can get them to come for the winter i'm there see them flowering in the garden at this time that he had one of them would be the big gun or a plantation on the john rubab wish looks fantastic on masses of big display area that have really sort of striking in the summer out of this time of year maybe the road to the engines the big gob or inroads that goes with the stunning. cornwall
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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 panuco. 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 that of our friend. joining us for a special edition of your an accident a trip to italy a visit to the italian capital in rome. a venice museum pays tribute to the famous not in love casanova. and the city of naples is the birthplace of the pizza join us for this and more and on next you're an expert.
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