as a small boy she dreamed of the stars. as a pilot she flew no matter how dangerous. to go to the pole. as an astronaut he took part in the greatest adventure story i want my. part. i'm. more i'm strong starts july 20th on t.w. cut. one square kilometer off red rock in the middle of the north sea this is how it will end germany's only high seas islands. just enjoying nature letting the wind

blow all around you and relaxing that's what many people who come here want. me to. the journey from hamburg to heligoland takes 3 and a half hours a catamaran takes me there no other boat is faster. than already on arrival the holiday mood kicks in. all the passengers initially have the same route. everybody passes the colorful ups the huts. and walks along the problem not somewhere here is my hotel. most of the tourists who are right here. go back in

the afternoon there are more or less 3000 visitors every day but i would like to stay over night so i have more time to discover this small island. a must on heligoland is a visit to the seals. if you like it you're in for the punk festival. and there is another holiday video of the week this time it's from australia. my 1st walk takes me into the countryside all the way up to the. route along the edge of the rock that forms heligoland around the island the cliffs past. water as far as the

eye can see the mainland is 50 kilometers away. i passed the tall and this free standing rock is the landmark of heligoland everyone hopes that it can withstand the wind and the waves for a long time. and i continue to germany's smallest nature reserve says the rock of the given months it is the nesting ground of many sea birds but it is named after the guillemots in june these small feather bolts take wing amateur photographers wait for them to take their courageous plunge. because there are not many places in europe where you can get so close to wildlife. birdwatching isn't the only thing you can do here over there is the do and off shore island and even smaller than heligoland. largest greasy okami lives over there and you can join

a guided tour to get really close to those animals. some other walls of got it figured out by lying on the beach all day busking in the sun and cool off now and then with a quick dip in the sea. life and heligoland is generally tranquil and unhurried. do not island ranger make sure it stays that way. combine for more and more guests coming to see helical land and want to benefit from the high seas but more and more animals are coming as well and the dean of rangers are here to make sure we can all live together and get along all right people can ask me questions and enjoy the beach in harmony. katherina tilly's area responsibility is just 7 tenths of a square kilometer the island of dune and a couple of dunes is about all it is. in 19 a range is only found here because this

island is called tuna and i do you know ranger. once a week visitors have an opportunity to tiger along with the ranger and explore do not islands on an organized nature to. if you find something and think it looks exciting pick it up and take it along we'll have a look at them so we can figure out what it is. so what's rare and not easy to find is the red flint. and mother i've got homes in 3 variations but it's always some shade of red or not rust colored and not orange you can find it in yellow and several variations of that but the red flint is what's unique to helical and. the flora and fauna are interesting too for most of the visitors here the true stars of the island are the seals. one of the birthing season begins

around november and almost as soon as a female's given birth she's able to mace again. so 2 weeks later the 1st pulls up back trying to get at her again. as cute and harmless as the seals may look they're not necessarily cuddly. the gray seal is germany's biggest predator and it can move a 20 kilometer per hour so it's not a good idea to get too close to them even if nothing's happened so far the possibility is always there i can't read their minds. but you can kind of steer animals. monitoring the population as one of her routine tasks along with showing visitors around. to see the stars in the sun don't surf for man and beast alike.

although this island is very small it has an incredibly eventful history and you can learn more about it in the helical the museum and leases the boss here he tells me that this island used to be a pirate's nest a navy fort and a trading post in the early 18th century it was just as important as the international port of hamburg is today heligoland was once part of denmark then of great britain it was not until $890.00 that the island became german a fiercely contested piece of ground. when was the most dramatic moment in the history of the island and. the most dramatic moment was definitely the end of world war 2 the great bombardment. everybody had to be evacuated and then came the big bang in april $947.00 resulted in the complete destruction of the islands buildings . the british occupying forces once tried to destroy all the islands military

facilities with a 6.7 killer tons of explosives never again should it be used for military purposes for many years heligoland remained on inhabitable. before 1954 the population began returning to the island and tourism immediately started appear again 1st they slept in 10 some dinner because there was no place at all to stay here on the island there were no houses or anything so they stayed a little tense and do not stand so whatever they needed to pass through and by little souvenirs people came in droves to see heligoland again. soon to risk a massive not because of the beautiful nature but to buy judy free liquor and cigarettes. or how did the island endure this i just imagine 10 or 12000 visitors here on this really small island it was terrible it must be said

there was no room between all the people there were just here to pass the shops and through here shoulder to shoulder. you might see something nice and one of the shops he didn't stand a chance of getting to it to buy it was just pushed on ahead by the crowds and so you ended up back at the ship and at the sale home again and how come prices are so cheap on heligoland. that's a privilege we had from our time with britain and it's been preserved through all the changes and rules it was taken on in the treaties so we've always hotter judean tax free status here. it still exists but today the tourists come here for the nature almost as it used to be when heligoland became a seaside resort in the early 19th century at 1st people came here for the good air it was the beginning of the lands tourism. this island is so small you can easily walk around it and it just takes one or 2

hours hello go and it's pretty popular with tourists and we will show you why. heligoland starts getting crowded every day about noon you can almost set your watch by it that's when the excursion ships arrive from the north sea coast and hamburg. visitors a ferry to learn from the ships in jolly boats known locally as billeted boats in 2018 they were listed with unesco's intangible world heritage. some of the most from when the seaside resort was founded here in 1000. 7 we didn't have any harbor no breakwaters or piers we had nothing at all when the 1st passenger ship arrived a year later they had to drop anchor somewhere and our fishermen and pilots went out in our fishing boats and brought the guests for the 1st time ever to land in a boat a boat. eventually the harbor was built

and ferrying passengers was no longer necessary. soon after the ships put in the be destroyed in malls for visitors still come to shop duty free. they generally have 4 hours before they ship sails again. the 2 is a time so that the day trippers can go along to the bank or to a brings them some 25 meters deep inside the red cliffs. this is where the heligoland is sort of from the bombings. it's the only remainder of a once vast bunker complex running throughout heligoland. what is the time to be the part where a no came through all the bombings in an after the war on damaged. the last bombs fell in february 952 so it's important to us many helen glanders especially older ones older lives too it can forbid. the love still hurts the

typical of heligoland. that few people know they were built here in the 1950 s. and sixty's as part of a planned city. let us 1st of course the cliff was here and the huge bank of english blew up in 947. as the movie that led to the formation of the lions now called the mc law and. order and lobster hearts are now essentially a retaining wall for the loose rock. and wish time. an architect's competition was announced for the reconstruction 951 over a 1000 architects to pass. their turns quest to find the optimum use of the limited space well orienting the houses favorably to the sun and wind every detail was thought up down to the paint it was limited to 14 callus. today

and it's like an open air museum of the 1950 s. and sixty's building style almost every house is listed as historical. a closer look at heligoland quickly reveals that it's full of fascinating stories and worth the longest day or even a return visit. i want to do that to. get on the boat and go around the island it takes 45 minutes. the excursion boats only put out if the waves are no higher than 2 metres. thank goodness. in the slipstream of the island it is still peaceful. but soon as we clear

the tip of the island the rocking starts almost 2 metre waves. all you need now is a strong stomach and occasionally something to hold on to. nobody get seasick we all have our sea legs. watch or wind and waifs that's what our weekly v mail is about as well. our viewer hundreds from singapore loves travelling just like me he's been to the other side of the world to australia and here's his homemade video.

almost 1500 people live on the legal land and the sea is part of almost everyone's lives most of them have and sisters who are sailors or fishermen maybe even pirates . and sailors songs are part of the cultural heritage. i'm here for a rehearsal of the head will end up coxing in shanty choir. that's the perfect song you just sank. is that a regular sailor's song or a shanty you know what i mean no that was actually our theme song it has nothing to

do with either they're going to it was in the friesian dialect and it just means they can't think in our great guys no more than that lives and we are going to get here i shanties in sailor songs what's the difference he does the math you know the sailor songs are simply romantic songs they used to sing but the shanties were the work songs for the seamen of an earlier time it was hard work on the ship's doctor one of them would call the tune in the jobson the choir would answer and do the work the lead singer never had to work and it's just the same with us was going on with their money and doesn't fall into that mold whose lead singer for the today the lead singer as a whole if he sings the song of hope and often will can i sing a shanty like that your question oh we can do that like i said the lead singer for he'll sing the beginning when we jump in and you can just sing along and it was going that thing on my so i'm going which is like i'm going to die.

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it was really good to. see those who really want to join the cox have to meet 3 conditions be a man live on heligoland and be able to sing they have strict rules but they are friendly guys. every scream because you have an important job they open the punk festival. i thought here available and with their shanties 3 days in a row bands from all over europe gather here on the island. who opens the festival here on heligoland very different gentleman.

comes out of sea shanties everyone's head amenities before and likes to sing them over a beer shanties and punk actually go together here. the storm battered seagulls face an invasion of. weekend guests who flock to dino island for the rock n roll which means something like booze cruise. to necessities of good weather and better beer 12 kegs have to be put away and nothing changes fast on hilly good and the weather by the time the 1st rays of sun appear on the do you know restaurants terrace the 2nd grog has disappeared. you. know they don't have any guns

just guitars beer more beer and a partition all their own they had to go to and is hosted their 1st punk fest. well in 2003 with mixed feelings as the former mayor recalls. yes i 1st gave the decision makers here in the town hall a little shock when they heard the words punk festival they called the see it happening and doing it with a nature reserve nudists people over 70 years old and then here comes punk rock how could it work no matter how you do it it wouldn't work then a little administrative voice piped up and said well we could give it a try you know. the 150 fans at the 1st one quickly grew to over 1000 the bands even played for free just for the atmosphere the see the applause and what the fans would give. now bands come from all over this end of europe for the rock n roll but have fun they play and party till midnight then the fans will crawl into their

tents unless the wind has swept them away in the mean time. the lobster huts by the harbor are a good place for a snack these used to be warehouses for the fishermen today restaurants have moved in. they mainly offer seafood dishes for example heligoland crypt pincers. but the cutlery is strange. and often i'd like to tell you. that however with how much ok. so. you have to break it a little like this crack it sound done here. i think my colleagues the finnish would love this all globetrotter always tries the local food on his travels all around the world and this time steve has been to cuba and here's his new video.

this is the capital of largest city major ports and leading commercial center of cuba the city has a population of 2100000 inhabitants and the trucks over a 1000000 tourists on yearly. i don't know about the 1st. with the classic car where you're. doing exactly that street i was going around going around and seeing all the spots. old tunnel the how banoffee i was declared a unesco world heritage site in 1982.

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seems to. me that. tells me. it's even ing on helical that i am on the cliff path again the best place to wait for the sunset you can only experience that when you stay here overnight. a day trip is nice but it's better to stay 2 or 3 days on the island that makes a real difference because then you can experience the perfect the celebration so just give it a try bye bye see you next time somewhere else in germany. a

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