climate boost green energy solutions and reforestation. the community interactive content teaching the next generation about environmental protection and modes of turning to build something here for the next generation of global ideas the multimedia environment series on t.w. . through. hi there welcome to a new week of euro max your daily dose of european lifestyle and culture here on the w and today special where showcasing the best that germany has to offer is what's coming up. is it the vikings i said who is a unesco world heritage sites in northern germany. north sea adventure take

a walk across the mud flats. and discover book area visit the southern german state which insufficient. for a first german holiday destination was staying right here in the capital berlin has so much to offer that as a tourist it's hard to know where to start every district has its own particular flair and collection of quirky attractions so we're going on a little round trip and start off in one of the city's liveliest areas quite spared which is teeming with autists. but lin has plenty to see. including the cloyd. he'll stand sixty six meters above the city and lends its name to the surrounding district. it's

extremely popular with artists you find digs additions in all sorts of places like kenya inside the former church of syntagma. the finnish gallery shows contemporary art here targeting the younger generation. as if yeah we currently have thirty eight artists on our books all of them making contemporary art many of them come from abroad but now live in berlin. these playful wooden sculptures were made by swiss artist claudia. not far away in the district are shown averred we find one of the more bizarre exhibit a lipstick museum run by makeup artist and writer over in a call here he divulged is the make up secrets of former film divas and other celebrities many left a lip stick kiss instead of an autograph. it was when i got to know her god naif that i became

a serious collector i did her makeup for over thirty years and advised her on fashion and style. one day she said to me that she'd done an advert for lipstick before i was even born it was for the folks left unchecked meaning people's lipstick or vo for short the headline in the popular bill tabloid was the man had v.w. so now the women have video. and this is it here it cost one mark fifty back that. the berlin underworld the satiation maintains a permanent exhibition in a form a storage area off a subway station it documents hitler's architectural plans for the capital he appointed his chief architect and about share as general building inspector. history in the present is a major topic in. and this exhibition is intended to make a small contribution to it whether on a stroll through town or visiting from elsewhere by revealing some of the many

facets that aren't always that apparent. but then has countless restaurants like the sardine bar. deane's and other fish and seafood to serve right from the tin there are more than seventy different types which owner thomas is very proud of . as i got the idea for a sardine bar while on holiday in lisbon portugal. there aren't many tables so if you're interested you best book in advance. you know now to the district to flee some time things here are a bit more colorful than in many other parts of the city walls pose an opportunity for all to let rip there a shop selling handmade clothes and accessories and a textile shop called ocean it or cold cuts if it has ever been i'm a vegetarian so it was quite humorous thing to do and i seem to have captured

people's imaginations it also fits in with the site because things appear to be one thing are in fact quite another face garnishment doesn't. the district of out who are insured housing is a great place to relax and many would no doubt love to live in this bungalow at least it's open to the public it was the last place bauhaus architect we found the whole designed in germany. can a boring district of vice and see is rich in natural beauty spots it takes its name from a lake that's popular for bathing it's a world away from city life though not very fun from the city center. and that's just scratching the surface of this wonderful city our call home so make sure to visit some day now we're headed further north to soak up some ancient history near the german danish border you can get an accurate picture of how

vikings lived over one thousand years ago at the height of settlement and the dawn of act four trips back in the eleventh century these sites were the center of the trade networks between northern and western europe today seven viking houses under a landing bridge invite visitors to experience what life was like back then. viking's life was not for the fainthearted the men hunted for food with bows and arrows. and made clothes in turn off kept them warm during the cold winters. vikings built wooden ships with the simplest of to. the viking settlement of painted blue once numbered among the foremost early medieval trading centers in northern europe. died sure visitors how the vikings went about their daily lives over a thousand years ago tough. it was

a life in and with nature but had an incredibly sharp power of observation they were very well acquainted with the materials around them and knew how to use them to their advantage to build housing ships and wagons and make rope. they made a great many things that we could hardly even imagine today if you and your fortune can. pay to do lies in. northern germany. seven facts two roof wooden houses have been faithfully reconstructed. the settlement was built at the end of the shrine an inlet on the baltic sea. it was a strategic location for trading precious metals weapons and pelt today it's a treasure trove of jests. behind me lies here

of a viking age settlement in the ninth tenth and eleventh centuries well the first glance it doesn't look like much because it's just a green meadow but it's usually in archaeology the real treasures lie underground and here behind us there isn't a square centimeter that doesn't contain archeological finds. we always say hey that was archaeologically contaminated. in the nearby viking museum this is his can inspect many of the original artifacts. it's one of chalets because shine is the most popular museum. over one hundred thousand people come and usually in search of the real vikings. the museum shows the viking is highly developed from the sun still the smiths are not for example all the pill jewelry things that often surprise visit is. a present from the british unlike the classic image of the vikings as warriors what i find after such an intense examination here is that above all they were internationally trading european even somewhat cosmopolitan

from the. very minute after. the handcraft with very highly developed and that indicates they were not just worry is definitely a culture i'd say are. the down of a near hay to do is another significant archeological site from the viking age. it consists of earthworks walls and trenches which in some thirty kilometer. fortifications date back some one thousand g. is they can best be explored by bicycle. and the down a vehicle was built to protect the just land peninsula against invading. the donovan was the longest lasting border of the middle ages and the best preserved in its various phases as we see it here the. guns waldemar small for example was

a very innovative construction for the time. they had already gone to build with bricks in the twelfth century. the site gives us a unique insight into how the vikings lived. the archaean. fines indicate this was once home to a global trading power. here in haiti but we found mercury holes that came from western afghanistan. of brass and were brought here from the white sea. and so as a trading hateable was something like the major ports of hamburg in rotterdam are today. in the gun someplace where all kinds of wares and trading groups came together and dispersed again we had. paid to build proofs that the vikings were not just. strangers and people who lived in harmony with nature.

always stay in northern germany for some wonderful nature just a little further southwest from our viking site you can go on a very special hiking tour through the wardens see every six hours the tide changes drastically their use of the ebb and flow of the tides it's then possible to walk far into the mud flats when the tide is going out hiking directly on the sea bed. high no bearing is taking his guests on a special kind of to. he's going to show them how to land become sea and the sea land. now we're headed out at the water and seeing its low point for we're going now later this afternoon the water will be about this high above our heads. nobody knows the mudflats around the north sea island of houston like heino bearing his father before him was also a mudflats guide and whenever he was ill hina have to take the first time was when

he was just eleven and that was almost six decades ago. all in the mud now if you look back there you'll see a whole sticking up on the horizon you see you that's where we're headed it's going to be interesting. they walk nearly two and a half kilometers out on to the mt flats. above the water's already rising we have to make sure we arrive on time and go on. to high no one sees guests to save at this strange place and see how fast everything changes. this is the water and seas deepest point. in the time it took us to get from back there down here the sea level has risen about forty centimeters back there you can still see a little patch of the mud flats that was visible as a much larger island it was a few doors off. if we were out there on it now we'd be entirely surrounded by

water. now the water is pushing in our direction we'll probably see another always on the horizon it's changed again it changes from minute to minute wherever the water isn't rippled it's moving fast. how much water would you guess has to flow in per minute between order ny and used and between work i'm used. to submerge this vast area of the mudflats only reason going about that in here definitely well give us a preview if that happens three or four times a day it was low tide just a moment ago and now here comes the high tide. we decided the tides move such a mess. of amount of water in here from the north sea and in six hours and twenty minutes i can cover an area of months eleven caves in that direction i was twenty one over there and thirty case and not direction to an average of between two meters forty and two meters. that's a gigantic mass of water. unimaginable it shows the power of

a tidal ebb and flow no let's move on to higher ground. and now all the way to the left move off down through the water now it's going around and you can see how it wobbles and rushes. do you see. yes. ok get funds evenin changing from minute to minute we can't stay here much longer let's go over to the other side of the law and when you go through the water in the east walk like a story of us are singing along don't try to push your way through or the water will start running over your boots oh you know what this is still flat enough that i can get over there easily. but you have it now all draw a line well move look up and you stand behind it looking in that direction. well. then good i'm glad i can see the water coming straight towards you the man who then

just knew by the time i get across this entire area will have gone out then your wife but i will be safe here you can see the way. and be quiet as a mouse a gun can you hear the water flowing or stand still it's not hard to hear the incoming tide music. it looks so peaceful that many visitors underestimate the speed of the approaching water the situation can swiftly become life threatening. now we can go to accurately across here to the other side so we can have a look at. the good quickly zigzags they way back to the island high no knows

exactly where the ground is saif. al to move in the hollow right behind me. don't go up higher to the left will have to walk through the water a little movement in those not have only once again the high no bearing has brought everyone safely back before the time reaches the island. well now that we've explored the north let's venture south to the state of area most people associate it with the annual october fest with down goes and later hosen big brass bands and hearty meals but even outside the beer fest season very attracts tourists with us mountains lakes and councils now to anniversaries have prompted a special celebration one hundred years ago the free state was founded and two hundred years ago the state's constitution was written to mark the double

anniversary an exhibition called the myth of the varia explores the low and legends behind the clichés. images of the very end straight out of a coffee table book traditional costumes and customs and stunning scenery those are the things people associate with ovarian and they've helped make it one of germany's most popular vacation destinations tourists never tire of this state and its people its fairy tale castles and the varian lifestyle not to mention its famous. shorts good very good looking specially the al fit with the strap with. well i don't know what you call it a costume but it's good looking the barry is such a beautiful area in this and all the street and all the houses a lot of people so fantastic really enjoying. the woods and

mountains and a king's dream that's the name of an exhibition at the center of that they were in history which explores but there is legendary status. two hundred fifty items are on display here to show for instance how hunters and lumberjacks cultivated the inhospitable landscape. farmers often lived from what they could reap from the forests was vital as both a construction material and an art but it was landscape painting. in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the turns but there is forests lakes and mountains into dream destinations in which was fine for the lower of bavaria connects the pine region with a certain lifestyle and his connection was markedly far beyond germany's borders. with all the city images generated still stick in people's minds to this day. feast . house of the royal family of bavaria contributed to local

pride and patriotism mountain pen around as folk festivals traditional costumes and beer steins came to symbolize this southern german state leader who is now in particular became to appear to me at the national costume the very it was portrayed as an it like place to spy on various mystic status was created by man not by the gods you know some other myths claim it's the only thing in the bulgarian myth that did not come from humans as the mountain and they play a big role in that everything else is added to them the lifestyle the shoe popular which developed from accounts for singles into apartments and to top things off logic the second fairy tale castle only. the famous king is still fundamental to bavaria his image today he built noise council the state's most famous structure it attracts some one point four million visitors a year then there's october fest every fall some six million revelers come to raise

a toast to vary in style. the very is also famous for its corps. and its soccer team byron munich germany's most successful soccer club has fans around the world. but these alpine meadows near. are far away from the hustle and bustle of munich down to earth very and soon would like to get away from it all. can stay at a mountain then like the five i am. here over a local beer and in good company you can use over the nature of the quintessential the very end. of a very and cannot be transplanted someplace else or he's at home there and he's ground up there chicks oak and alexander phone home when he was in south america he

said he would never take up a very in mountain guide with him because they got homesick. at the many ends in the valley tourists can discover more of a very interesting like the shoe clapped out a traditional style of folk dancing that still practiced here. visitors from around the world are welcome to join in. memphis nothing we try to show people what life is like in the hospitality and we try to lift their spirits so they enjoy their holiday we care about our roots there's nothing better than bavaria gift of making this. very the place where dreams come true it's an image kept alive by tourists and the very end so like. a final stop on today's tour of germany sees us take a very special train ride in the heart of the country it goes straight through the

hearts mountains the highest range in northern germany at an altitude of more than one thousand one hundred forty me says the block on its highest peak and chugging up the mountain some of the last few steam locomotives here in europe which is still in service while the passengers sit the stokers sweats so all aboard for our nostalgic trip with trusty tank engines that have been running for generations. this train is hard to miss the broken railway in the hearts mountains when you see thick plumes of smoke rising you can be sure it's on its way for the past one hundred years it has snaked through the same fantastic landscape every day and scaled the highest peak in northern germany the broken. inside the engine room it's

hot and dirty it's fuel with coal that needs to be shoveled into the one thousand five hundred degree furnace it's no easy job but make out gessner loves his work he's been working as a stoker for the narrow gauge railway since last august. i heard on the radio that they were looking for stokers so i decided to apply and was lucky enough to get picked. up on the train might be from the nine hundred fifty s. but it runs on a modern timetable and several times a day it climbs up the broken manton to the peak at an altitude of around eleven hundred meters in the winter the peak is often covered in snow. this makes it a special treat for passengers even if they're sometimes greeted by a snow storm at the top they just have to make sure to bundle up.

at each stop the crewman regularly carry out inspections whatever the weather. the worst part is the wind and when the snow freezes it feels like needles pricking your face and when you get off the train you almost get blown over. fifteen minutes later the train trundles back towards the valley the next stop is very good order where guests now lives. the colorful town in the hearts foothills has plenty of curiosities to see like the croaky tires that tilts even further than the leaning tower of pisa all the finished house that's not even three metres wide. actions also spend some winters here in venice go rhoda. but the city center is not all there is to see the old costs are rising above the hills is another must see in the

nineteenth century it was home to count. today it's been turned into a museum. bob me here guess not has no time for that now he's already on his way back up the broken into the snow. will be back tomorrow with another trip through another european country. join us for next special edition of your a mexican a trip to italy visit to the italian capital. of venice museum pays tribute to the famous latin lover casanova. and the city of naples is the birthplace of the pizza joint. in the next year an expression.

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