to be. discovered. subscribe to your documentary. hi everyone and welcome to another exciting edition of your own max with me your host meghan lee as always we are making our way around to all the cultural house in europe here's a look at what's coming up. riding the waves the portuguese resort of nazarene is

a surfers paradise. telling the tale a new film for trains on strewed lingering younger years. and taking it to the top featuring in the austrian patisserie high up in the alps. we start off the show on the water one of the best surf spots in the world is located off the portuguese coast in here top surfing athletes take to the water like fish and conquer mountain highways for a true adrenaline rush well this fort is not for amateurs the surfers wear special gear in case that the waves overtake them we went along to meet some of these adrenaline junkies and watch them in action. it's known as the beast of nasser a huge waves have pulled many fishermen to their death on this part of the

portuguese coast. today those same wastrel the very best of the big waves surfers from all around the world surface like sebastian strike next from germany winter is his favorite time of year he's spent the last few months preparing for the surfing scenes and. more like the more of the morning months and months go by where nothing happens but every day you have to work towards your goal to be successful but the reason i do it is because i love it. sebastian is a professional surfer at the age of sixteen he moved to hawaii but he spends the winter months here in portugal on just a few days in winter between november and february the monster waves here on the coast can reach heights of up to twenty five major his money with the answers with my greatest fear isn't dying i don't worry about sustaining terrible injuries

either. let's i think it's the competitor in me that worries. my greatest fear is missing out on the biggest wave of the mystical surveillance ocean just off the coast of nasa right this issue undersea canyon that runs five thousand meters deep it causes the water to build up creating towering waves it's thanks to the canyon that nasa ray has some of the biggest waves in the world and that has changed the town which is home to some fifteen thousand people it was once a place of pilgrimage now surfers and tourists from around the world flocked to the town making it an all year round attraction. so they are going to give us a obviously we do miss our old nestle a sometimes but only a bit because actually we're proud. our town is known the world over.

the traditional restaurant. locals and surface come together to swap stories about the wild waves. but. when they really want to. use one of them when we first came here in two thousand and twelve they all thought we were crazy this is a fishing community and folks grew up hearing about all the fishermen who died when their boats capsized. and about death beach and the waves that turn women into widows. and now we surfers have almost become local heroes and are treated as such . in the arena pariah is the second generation of her family to run the restaurant the place used to cater to fishermen now it's a fixed address for international surf as. sebastian is like a son to me i take care of the guys they turn up here frozen and i serve them hot soup they love it at the sober. up until i years ago no

one who did to go surfing think it was paired pisco the first realize nasa raise weights could be a hit so he wrote to the big white surface around the world and invited them to come. to see much more than surface he says something that will attract every single person we all get better when you see a crazy guy surfing your mall doing coming down to morrow a mountain of water that is. finally the time has come for sebastian story to get out onto the water he can hardly wait to scan the tide of his now for the fun part there's no nerves or tension at all just pure pleasure from. wearing an airbag vest which would bore him up in an emergency he heads out to sea ten people are here to assist in doctors' lifesavers. away spotter and his jet ski drivers hutto him to the right position he glides easily down the fifteen meter wave as though it were

effortless. and the moment i actually surf the web it's all just instinct i don't think any more it just happens because you know. there are only around ten people worldwide who serve on waves of this size thousands come to watch for the small town of nazareth it's a gift that big wave surface have transformed the place and given it a new sense of pride. from on the water to in the water and fish in malta received a visit from santa claus more on that and other stories in the spirit of the christmas season coming up in today's express. it seems there's nothing santa con to do he's even dived into a giant aquarium to bring the fish a little holiday cheer he came bearing gifts of fish food for the fish and sharks

that swim in the biggest kind of maltose national aquarium in kwara some to invest case is keeping alex rodriquez his dropping clued speeding the fish anyway whether or not the sea creatures recognized him in his disguise we'll probably never know. the sauna is a part of life in finland even at the christmas markets christmas shoppers can stop by to enjoy the high temperatures and to chat. there's. no thought i saw. you for that said bodies as he's. very easy to use it said. saunas in public places used to be commonplace in finland. but as more and more people installed them in their homes they disappeared from view. now the communal saunas are enjoying something of

a revival. sarahs and a bed of belgium has set up a christmas village in his yard and decorated it with thousands of lights and even features santa claus office. says his son over the place the jolly elf listens to children's wishes the family's been working on the village since september. so john abed took a month off work to complete it. turning now to one of the most famous guitarists of all time mark no fleur former front man of dire straits since the band broke up in one nine hundred ninety five no floor has concentrated on a solo career he recently brought out a new album called down the road where ever which includes his typical rock n roll style but also brings in some soul and jazz and hear from him now about how this

new album came about. his. time has come for the. good on you son is about being at peace with yourself and mark knopfler very much is. a bridge to a local. we visited him at his studio in london this is where he recorded his new album with. me i don't try to interfere with the mystery of it too much the soul is like a child you know in a way you you have to let it just grow and be itself and you don't mean to feel too much you know and it's a bit like choosing the best school if you can for you for your kid to soon as soon. scurry his. refrain. is was. his new songs always turn out best when times almost stand

still like in a lab stick man which takes a look back at his beginnings as a musician and what does he see i thin guy in the middle of nowhere just a match stick man. you spoke of if there was a sort of a button fastening competition or something i promise you i would be lost i mean there's lots and lots of things that i seem to do slowly i mean walking down the street overtaken by old ladies going to the post office and so i don't seem to be able to do anything particularly quick the camp. he was already twenty eight when he co-founded dire straits by that stage he played in countless bands and worked as a journalist and as an english teacher it was one nine hundred seventy seven a time when punk and disco were exploding in britain dire straits seemed almost old

fashioned at first with their. cool blues rock sultans of swing was their first big hit. then m.t.v. started out with their increasingly mainstream sound the band fit perfectly to the station's us american music profile. the slow mark knopfler solo career has now lasted longer than his time with dire straits two very different chapters of his life. you can't really compare them i think both and a lot of ways because the first achieved so much of the dream stuff that you want to you know to actually get there. was very important you know that just it was

brilliant it was great you know i mean i loved it. i loved the whole thing it until it became so big that i just stopped enjoying it. in the eighty's the band rose into the league of mega stars with the album brothers in arms the digitally produced album helped to make the compact disc popular dire straits was the first band to sell more c d's of the album than vinyl over a million and all until they split up in one thousand nine hundred five they played all the world's large stadiums. next year mark knopfler will go on tour again of course with his very own special guitar sound. good my. guitar teacher would say. you know i play

guitar like a promise you know but it's too late for me to. to correct. those mistakes i'm afraid it's good. definitely worth a listen ok if swedish author astrid lindgren were alive today she'd probably be a spokesperson for single mothers not only did she penned the famous pippi longstocking stories she had to work hard to maintain custody of her illegitimate son and that was back in the one nine hundred twenty s. her personal story is full of intrigue and challenge and it's now been brought to the silver screen and the film becoming a straight danish director parent christensen per trey's the writer's lesser known side. of the sign comes

down concerns i. where did the famous children's book author get her exuberant attitude towards life the movie centers on the three years of young astrid's life that she only spoke about decades later and only very little she was wild non-conformist and downright rebellious much like her character pippi longstocking . yes i mean she was the most. amazing fantasy and i think that has a lot to do about her childhood to grow up in the countryside in kind of freedom where she could just play around and just. be free. to move to sweden astrid lingering grew up here in the one nine hundred twenty s. in a free but conservative society her father was a tenant farmer. her mother deeply devout. by the time she was eighteen she was eager to experience life. the local newspaper was looking for

a trainee got it and she took the job and. so i tell ya don't interest us they start to top side machine nothing least so kunst funny. stuff and about us. for her first assignment she boarded a train and discovered her passion for writing but then a young unmarried astrid became pregnant a scandal in sweden at the time. passes to pick out what he must have on the novels he still tells that this time adama. had stopped us to go to the undertaker nothing to say but a nice guy so i know. it better than the new plans. us two thousand and eight. cursed me meant that it was

a fun. block but i'm not fluke on what i'm doing my mom. needs to decide until. the next consumer. the editor who fathered the child persuaded astrid to leave her baby son last in the care of a foster mother indefinitely. she endured the ordeal of being forced to give up her child because of moral religious and personal constraints. the kind of thinking didn't gain a lesson by einstein what i dislike you. he said as a tattoo he's making. there were so many women that went through the same and and some of them even worse things and it's just not been easy for those women and that's why it's so important to just remind people of this

this history is can the many of. us. astrid visited last as often as she could but he clung to his foster mother the most muslims. and. the best of what we can push darnedest there can't be. yes at it and then actually i knew that's what i think because of the model august shines as lingering. after young astrid leaves the baby's father she plunges into a new life and tries to forget her despair. her sorrow at having to give up her son for a time may have been what drove her to write the stories which have been enjoyed by millions of children. being so lost in the in those things has affected her. and her writing and she had said share empathy for

children also and that must have. to do with the loss i think. in other stories about this lonely kids. becoming astrid tells the highly emotional story of how astrid langridge uses her imagination and knack for storytelling to reconnect with her son and forge a new path for herself. yet the film never resorts to kids her path those rather it's an ode to courage inner strength and finding your own voice. when last as foster mother becomes gravely ill astrid brings her son back to stockholm slowly she wins him over with her love and her stories. and stuff and downcast and i just asked. actually really miss her

today us says we need her today because she could say things outloud and she was not so scared i. want to know more about european lifestyle and culture visit euro max on facebook. you'll find highlights from our programs. three hundred sixty degree videos of the most beautiful places in europe and snapshots taken by our reporters take an exclusive look behind the scenes at how the program is produced and follow us on facebook live. we knew love it when fans visit our facebook page and give us their feedback visit d.w. euro max on facebook. time now for some dessert and kaiser shrine is one of australia's most popular sweets it's basically like a pancake that's been all cut up and it served with sugar and cherry sauce on the

side now it's quite decadent but it manages to hit the spot on those chilly winter days and what better place to eat it then on a mountain top. look it's called lazy it's austria's highest ski resort here the ski season lasts until may three restaurants feed hungry winter sports enthusiasts one atop the glazier that's almost three thousand five hundred metres above sea level and the others it's an elevation of almost three thousand metres. after a day on the slopes as can enjoy delicious helping up on the sweet dish is that's much a part of austrian identity as the alps. wonderful just like my grandma used to make. nearby you'll find austria's highest patisserie stephanie is hard at work here paying pastries and the smart.

you put it everything is produced up here in the bakery because we make all the desserts for the two restaurants the bits and custom and we also supply cafe three for forty with fresh cake and students. every morning that is sent up by cable car to austria's highest coffee house cafe three full forty it lies six hundred meters about the bakery aside from the fantastic there's another treat for visitors at the so-called place yes no cake. i know cannot find very fluffy very large but if you get it fresh it's quite magical i certainly recommend it. but operating a sky high bakery has its pitiful it's. about three thousand four hundred forty meters the boiling point is different so if we know that the weather

will change will produce the biscuit bases a day early because otherwise they might not be so fluffy and could fall apart kind of. milk eggs flour sugar that's all. kinds of smarm doesn't require any delicate preparation just mix the milk in flour and separate the eggs and beat the egg white with sugar until stick. it's coming up now that it's nice and foamy will do the famous test that. it should be like this. as the rest of the act to the mixture. then to give it its airy consistency gently fold in the exploits nearly all men. on the pits todd glacier we don't use mineral

water and. we prefer egg whites. than the kaiser stays moist longer the piped in. by. pfizer used to shavings i. saw your come on you know now we can add some raisins on the glacier we put in raisins but you can leave them out if you wish. that. we sell up to four tons of man in the winter season that's one hundred fifty to two hundred portions a day. kaiser should be baked for five minutes on each side and then it's ready. stephany's i'm too low also supply. the restaurant's week. and clips. is said to get its name from a pancake that went wrong. the austrian emperor of france use it.

but when a pancake fell apart during cooking people scrambled up and served. the emperor loved it and then purse crumbled all kinds of smart. so now it's just missing the icing sugar on top you know here we serve our kaiser with apple sauce and thing on their. mind isn't just a favorite thing to roll it's one of austria's most popular designs. and finally before we go we want to let you win on the winner of this week's draw we asked you to send us a photo of your best moment of two thousand and eighteen and we received some

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