you're going to split this time same but yes to that is that by east going to head up i mean to get us in a curious person. thanks to cheney and to the site my name's louise houghton i'll be bringing you a special program today patrick things to do to increase your well being let's see what's coming up. cuba and happiness featuring the danes special attitudes to like. playing games pajama ball games the popular all over the well. as a final line to entrepreneurs invite you to listen to the records. we kick start the show with a great philosophy on life if you speak more than one language you'll know that sometimes there isn't

a direct translation for what you want to say in some languages was just don't exist and one example is the danish what hugo you just cut translated but it basically means enjoying life simple pleasures be that spending time with friends and family going for a walk or simply looking at the whim of a candle they all signify hugo and since the day is a usually ranked highly among the happiest people in the wells way thought we'd get a lesson in how to live a mole to get lead life. surveys indicate that danes are among the happiest people on earth in fact the un's world happiness report regularly puts denmark at the top of the list. what is it about the danes that makes them such happy people.

mike beaking has written a book about all this and he believes he knows the answer. has to do with togetherness it has to do with the art of creating a good atmosphere it's about equality it's about savoring simple pleasures i think we also see something inherently danish i think we see it as part of our national identity the same way the american see freedom we think of something as part of our d.n.a. . the word means being comfortable and contented often while enjoying the simpler pleasures of life. here are a few examples. it's having of kabul for warm chocolate all warm and some basic needs at some and the talk. a little bit deeper than the killing of the couch well we take. cattle who gets all the herd

is also maybe watching a film or reading a book listen. mike beaking is the c.e.o. of the happiness research institute in copenhagen and he says that the danes unique attitude towards life plays a major role in their sense of wellbeing. and we've been curious about why denmark does well in the happiness rankings and we've looked at the political system and that's a big part of the explanation you know high level of trust your social security and local health care but that also explains why the other nordic countries do well so we wanted to understand why does denmark do better then than sweden finland iceland and and norway. spending quality time with family and friends or enjoying homemade cinnamon buns that's. the danes really love christmas time traditional apple tarts are on sale at christmas markets throughout copenhagen. so is brooke org. danish mulled wine. particularly amusement park is decked out with

a sea of lights might be king says winter is the peak season for it. while it is practiced throughout the year i think for the winter period it becomes almost a survival strategy it's a way of getting the best out of it time of year which is dark and cold and wet and we're forced into forced. the best place to experience is in danish homes the danes have more living space per person than any other european country and they make their surroundings as comfortable as possible. life is important too. there's a reason why we use twice as much candle wax as number two in europe which is australia because we enjoy lighting that is at the low end of the temperature scale so we enjoy warm mortify soft diffused lights to create a nice the atmosphere in

a room. the danes also like to have nice things around the house northern europe is known for its design concepts like lamps by pulling an accent and chairs by on a yacob send and cortlandt but do these things actually make people happy the notion or the concept of something that for danes is just a word or describes a situation and or a state of mind more than a design i don't think you can say that it's a sign it's a sign there is. doing something to create but i think it's something that's more ingrained or maybe internalized in our culture a simple walk outside can also be good it doesn't cost anything and it makes you feel good he shouldn't be about consumerism you could also use it as the get out of jail card if something is too expensive if you walk into a restaurant. it's too expensive you could say should we find

a place that's more and you first oh yeah let's find a place that's more so we should be inexpensive because it's about equality and it's about simple pleasures. the danes call that special cozy christmas feeling. and the focus is not on expensive presents it's on being together with family and friends that's the true spirit of christmas and not just in denmark. taking care of your well being is something that more and more people are becoming aware of these days luckily there are activities that we can do to clear the mind and matter whether one of the latest craze is adult coloring books they're said to help relax and focus the mind and scottish artist johana basket was one of the founders of this trend. ninety six

pages of detailed drawings of plants and animals and secret garden also has labyrinths to discover battens to complete or entire drawings to color him it's a template for creative ideas drawn by john abbas for. chain lives and works in scotland a main job is creating illustrations for packaging the idea for a coloring book for grownups came by accident. coloring for adults was a child that is now i so i schlepped they were like well why not share. five pages of this bear who is that. you have this thing. coloring books for grown ups are booming at the moment and bestsellers aren't verisign pirate spot books like secret garden. is on the nonfiction buying team for britain's leading bookstore chain we're seeing that coloring books are selling

much better than. that and and books which used to dominate the category so be interesting to see if people start to meeting and coloring and. coloring in pictures is said to be relaxing while also improving concentration the versions for grownups are just somewhat more complex female bands are especially enthusiastic about this rediscovered pastime sometimes it's hard to find any any time for myself to actually think that what me say this is the way that i can just sort of think about me and do something for myself to. johannah bastard's first book secret garden has sold more than ten million copies worldwide she draws by hand with pen and ink she gets her inspiration from a castle in scotland where her grandfather was the gardener. as really inspired by the catholic art at. it's just a really beautiful place to play when you're a child and just

a lovely setting that it really imagine so the fix i've inspired by that childhood and those mammoth and then the second because chad thought it best it takes as inspiration a thought a story that was behind my grandparents. chanted forest was published in twenty fifteen and became a bestseller and she's since published authors but there aren't any ebook editions of her work so far this is one genre that still works best printed on paper. well as we're in chill out mode today we wanted to show you this fabulous hotel in the mountains of the czech republic the building is an old t.v. tower that ten years to build initially is now filled with character and doubles as the main mark of this popular winter sports region on a clear day there's a great view of the city below as well as parts of poland and germany but when we

visited winter with in full swing. there is yes. and on top of it the famous ninety four metre high t.v. tower. which houses the u.s. did hotel. the building in the czech city of liberates is an impressive site provided the weather is on your side in winter the tower is often shrouded in fog. taking the cable car up is almost a mystical experience in the winter a special atmosphere pervades the mountain. no one knows this better than our leisure who's worked at the hotel for years. to come on your. games in the winter like another season you can enjoy stunning views from here come on you know it's wise for us with the new what is sometimes you get to experience this kind of snowy winter wonderland we're having today as it was from the information.

scenery that many guests appreciate from behind observation windows. been i'm really impressed by all this the weather in particular a shame we can't enjoy the view today this is a bit shorter but there are no cars and no traffic only nature. you know to look. the snow the wind you know to friendly people everywhere. and the. cloud nine it's great if. the hotel has one thousand rooms on two floors. and two of them still have the original nine hundred seventy s. furniture that was created by interior designer or to carbon are. the other rooms were redesigned the look of the hotel reminiscent of a spaceship or an airplane was preserved. by night at the yes hotel starts at seventy euro. the futuristic tower opened in one thousand nine hundred three

after ten years of construction it was a sensation at the time partly because of its unusual construction materials. and. porcelain was used in the hallway. and a wall in the lobby is made of exposed concrete and bohemian glass art. from this hotel was unique example to me working here is not just like working in a hotel but also like being on a gallery on board. chairwoman of the gifted seventy three club wants to preserve the hotel as it was she works closely with the original interior designer he's drawing up plans to build reconstructions of the furniture and life. this was the small lounge forty years ago and today refurbishing it took

a year and cost twenty two thousand euros. after that the bar was refurbished soon the exterior of the tower will be renovated it's exposed to extreme weather conditions at a height of one thousand metres. a. special atmosphere at these people who spend the night here they say so and. which is for me the most beautiful a situation where you are above the clouds you are in the sunshine but liberal arts and the whole republic is under the cards and then you feel like in a spaceship. just outside the spaceship lies the czech skiing region of the user a mountain is.

close nice and feels like home and you're. also a teller in the military was injured when a spouse yet does he if there are too many people here or i feel tired i can take the cable car to the hotel have a coffee in the tower or take a break in to our members or until i know both of us. covered in snow and ice the us did hotel doesn't lose any of its appeal in fact it looks even more mysterious in subzero temperatures. cheerier design at its best and check out our you tube channel interior design stunning design ideas spectacular buildings and d.i.y. tutorials on home decoration we'll take you inside the most beautiful european homes show you the latest in furniture fabrics success stories subscribe and don't miss out see you on youtube. that sent me the time of year it's

become easy isn't it it winter there's nothing i like more than to be warm by the fire with family around me and a board game like many people i spent a lot of my childhood playing clue monopoly and then later trivial pursuit when computer games and consuls became popular board games ended up on the shelf just gathering dust and tell recently times are changing again i'm ball games are enjoying a revival certainly in germany anyway and that is thanks in part to innovative concepts like this one. is the name of the game it's about taxes and commodities bluebloods. it's a new board game developed by. the players are the royals they've got to build statues to themselves this is one of about fifteen hundred games released in germany each year. lot of people play the.

games are a deliberate way for the players to sharpen their focus. completely. think about the next week and. they have to be totally focused on the. has been making a living inventing since two thousand and ten. a year and a half a hundred tests to create the prototype for. the moment comes into. play and it's just fun. you get the feeling you might never touch it up again here and there but for the most part the game is ready to go. by. himself. his father. created kat-tun.

it's even with a dot com crowd a silicon valley who use it to get away from the monitor even facebook founder mark zuckerberg. boardgame experts. say the secret to germany's boardgame success in its diversity. game is the american see it. like clockwork not much luck is involved. where players don't get tossed out of the game too early or the conflict doesn't mean pitting military units or spaceships be hordes against each other. since two thousand and thirteen the pair have been presenting board games on their you tube show hunter and they post a new episode daily. either and welcome to our channel.

find everything about board games card games children's games and other stuff and. to present new releases review games and invite other you tube to their board games . to them more games are more than just a pastime the backdrop for culture. is. then it can become the pursuit for adults and young adults on a farm with watching movies reading comics and playing computer games. so it's only natural that a whole hunter would grow up around that. board and computer games are no longer mutually exclusive either many publishers make the instructions available on the internet. and shuffle all the cards except a lynx card and deal thirteen cards to each player each player picks up their hand

so the other players are unable to see them. for some board games there are even digital aids for the classic scotland yard for instance and op can help players track down the elusive mr x. . game cafes and libraries have also become popular like this one in berlin patrons can choose from a library of two thousand games and play them for a euro an hour. it opened the cafe in two thousand and six. after a long and rocky start. interest has soared. it's beautiful it's not on the t.v. and cafes are an alternative to pubs movies and clubs as we've got a lot of majors are playing old games here and then move on to the clubs. in the middle for good right it's a. game of the year award is presented annually in germany

a kind of oscar for board games giving them a platform for international recognition. taking the time out to play a ball game is good for the mind body and spirit in fact taking the time full stop is a great way to appreciate life that is what the danes said at the top of the show and it seems that the philosophy is catching on around europe i mean when was the last time that you sat down and listened to an entire music album and really listened to it well the opportunity to do just that is spreading its way around germany. back in the days when vinyl was synonymous with records many people listen to

l.p.'s from start to finish those days seem long gone. but mocking in the heart and still remember them. they founded a company called play time. can run for sixty or seventy minutes today listening to an entire work is a unique experience. reintroducing got to people and culture was our original idea . when is the play time is on the billet a german cinema has here at the babylon movie theater in berlin visitors pay five euros to listen to a record in the company of others this evening's auditory treat is bob dylan's double album. the idea of consciously enjoying something without distractions is catching on. that's what playtime is all about

taking time to press play and just listen to him music played out its own term partners without pressing skidmore fast forwarding or being seduced by other opportunities other songs that are just one click away and click and fan since to just abandon yourself to the music from start to finish and. listening to an entire album requires time and leisure these days few people make the effort. and today we're barely able to perform any activity for a long time we live into our cycles every two hours there has to be a new impetus whether it's going to the theater the center. visiting friends or having dinner everything sinked to this to our rhythm guitar then we need something new noir time seems to be running away from us it's a plague of our modern age yet this feeling isn't soon you know. even two

thousand years ago. it's like the roman seneca were preoccupied with this phenomenon. back then he figured and there's applies to the present to look at a third of our time was taken from us the third disappeared on noticed and a third slipped away and others have and. the longing for life to slow down is growing people are doing lots of things to escape stress visiting sponsors taking holidays on farms and leaving their cellphones behind when they go on a hike. this desire for things to slow down has become a trend. as a serious note certainly still a nice trend but i think it'll become more important as people are already noticing that many things in our time change too quickly perhaps the multi option society of the last few decades has overtaxing us to quite before dark games back into babylon

cinema and berlin the album is about seventy minutes long not including the forces needed to change the record yet none of the visitors leave before it's finished. to the vision the citric pleasant to listen to an album of the cinema and also it's very nice to be able to do it at the right value. at home you sit down and get distracted by some screen your mobile phone or whatever you're using to listen to the music. here you just get to listen to the music moods and i think this brings back an idea of music that we need to keep alive. is super interesting. the play turns into play time is a seventy minute break and doesn't matter when it happens morning noon or night it really is that a break in what is this new pope. playtimes inventors plan to present the concept

in other major european cities they want to keep the wheels turning but not to fox . well i hope even watching the show today has helped you have a break for about thirty minutes and the way seats are for our last session so the weekend tell then take harry's house is. on the next special edition of your own max and i see adventures on the norwegian archipelago spitzbergen. past tourists walk through iceland's second largest glacier. and the winter getaway in the swiss result of double. bass and more coming up tomorrow on the euro.

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