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yes so if this car is 80 years old and now it's experiencing a revival we can enjoy the landscape very quietly my intention is not to change the climate with my car i couldn't do that but i'm sending out a signal that's come on they're going to be showing people that it is possible to make changes if you really want to. understand. could this become a trend. has developed a business model in vincent not far from hamburg in northern germany old cars are equipped with modern technology each model is individually fitted with the right components such a conversion can cost up 210-0000 euros. chapter enthusiasts who really want to drive fully electric cars but there was nothing on offer except a boring tesla motors which is like a moving i pad that's how we began in 2015 for people who wanted a car that they really liked. all of these models are unique. but not everyone is convinced about retrofitting vintage cars consul a car drives
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a benz victoria from 894 that makes it one of the oldest cars in the world he can't imagine fitting it with an electric motor. it would be more than a sin it would be irresponsible ignorance. and thin it would be showing disrespect for the past simply replacing it with something new with an annoying you would be castrating the vehicle so to speak. for many collectors these cars are an investment and their value is measured by how close they are to the original. post and younger from berlin has created an index to determine how the price of a car should be evaluated. can see prayer in principle the value of a vintage car would sink because it would no longer be historical of the value is only particularly high if a car still boasts the original engine and original gear unit. but doesn't an old
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car with a new motor remain an old car for collectors such as philip but johnnie absolutely not he would never swap the gasoline engine from his 1970 s. b.m.w. . beautiful i think that would be like taking out the car's heart. engine is the heart of the b.m.w. it would be like hauling it out and it would be removing the car's arteries and probably it sold to you. that's how it's done for. him. and he's not worried about the fact that gasoline engines might eventually. thank god it's making its if the cars with gasoline engines are banned and i'll just let it stand somewhere. and it will be of cultural value and just stay in one place. would. be hard so i'm not molecules that's what i like about old cars is that they represent a certain period in time and i can experience the history firsthand because i'm not
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in a museum i can really feel how it was at the time just would not support you don't need to rattle the engine but you can still feel how it was to drive with the springs imprecise steering and the way it looks to. the engine no longer has to rattle it can simply perk thanks to the motors even vintage cars can be state of the art. time now to take a trip and europe is great for weekend getaways but how do you decide what to do when you only have a couple days to sightsee well leave it up to me to give you some tips on my latest perfect weekend away i visited iceland capital reykjavik and its surroundings now aside from discovering amazing landscapes and even going horseback riding i
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discovered some pop up surprises ends well. yoga in the middle of reykjavik it's very cold but that doesn't stop icelanders or me from heading outside after we won in welcome to my perfect weekend in reykjavik. now i'm feeling energized to see what reykjavik has on offer iceland's capital is located on the north atlantic ocean in the summer time the days are long but the temperatures rarely exceed 14 degrees celsius no wonder icelanders love their wool i absolutely need a warm hat and for that i go to the hand knitting association of iceland all the items here of course are net by hand i'm curious as to how long this takes i think i can make a pair of socks like this in $5.00 and
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a sweater is 15 i think i also try my luck with the knitting needles but at this rate i would probably need a whole year for a sweater. i did. my shopping to for a souvenir is something needed from icelandic. now a mormon up from my city strolled passing by colorful houses i reach a landmark of reykjavik the hound group. it was built over a 40 year period finished in 1986 the norse explorer lay for attics and stands tall out front this modern sculpture known as the sun voyager also stands for the discovery of new worlds another modern structure on the water is the harp a concert hall designed in part by danish artist alias and. fresh fish arrives every day at the harbor this is also home to the oldest restaurant of the city the coffee wagner and or the coffee wagon because that's how it began in 1935 this is
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where i'm. up with head chef jenny we're not start here for lunch she recommends caught from the pan. i'll say this most popular in iceland because we fish it here in the sea close to and it's the best place that we can get the freshness as this is my calling area to try and some of the icelandic fish caught in the waters just outside because the rest know somebody that means enjoy your meal in icelandic. day 2 starts off raining i rented a car because today i want to explore the countryside around reykjavik i head to the east says star farm with its icelandic horses riding instructor if a good man's daughter has picked out and exemplary horse for me. he says start off 1st half or full day riding tourist to explore the rugged landscape and info
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demonstrate the unique state of the icelandic horses. this is the tolls as you can see the rider is sitting very nice and comfortable in the saddle and this is because the horse has always one wolf in the ground so it makes it very nice and smooth to. icelandic horses have up to 5 gaits compared to 3 for other horses. this is my activity to a perfect weekend in reykjavik a ride on an icelandic horse. yeah. i traded my one horse power for something a little stronger in my journey continues on the so-called golden ring this road leads to one of the most famous natural wonders of iceland the gold false waterfall these are glacial waters that flow into the heavy toll river.
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park ranger house get you on send tells me how the waterfall was saved from industrial use. it is an interesting story so you've heard. fault for protecting the waterfall from hard to roll lots of energy production so yeah our city was going to jump into the water because. she wanted to protect thanks to the courageous sigrid or the waterfall stands protected today my next stop on the golden ring is the great geyser iceland's oldest known geyser it hasn't been active for years on like stroke or every 5 to 10 minutes this is my excursion tip a trip to gulf os and stroke or. iceland's natural energy sources are also put to use at the fun thomas spot bread is baked directly on the beach with geo thermal
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energy manager sigi hello my son shows me how this works. it will have to go in a pocket and we leave within the 24 hours and then we usually have a perfect right for it. and this unique bread baked right in the ground is actually quite delicious. and finally i wrap up my trip with some rest and relaxation this is my specialty immersing yourself in the geothermal waters of iceland not everything here is as cold as ice and. want to learn more about european lifestyle and culture. when you come to fight for. your romance trying to. take the plunge into a stretch. trying to win flavor crazy joints a race to destroy. your romance you. subscribe so
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you don't. the works of legendary women their books films and even their clothes are well documented but what about simpler facts like what coco chanel ate for breakfast probably not much since she was a well known smoker but still such routines interested one photographer and a food stylist now they took a look at famous names from around the world of film and fashion for a more realistic approach now the result of their research has been published in a book and we met up with them in france to find out more. tell me what you eat and i'll tell you who you are a french court may once said it provided the inspiration for a book by the norwegian food stylist mom yana pfeffer yang a doll and the polish photographer claudia paris. it features 14 significant
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women such as queen marie antoinette or mexican artist frida kahlo and their favorite foods. the english writer jane austen had a liking for roast pork. italian actress sophia wren is a fan of traditional italian cuisine such as parma ham pasta and pizza. we came up with working with famous women and then working with porches combining died with food and it's more complex. concept of a book because people like is it about the women is it about the food it what is the what's kind of combination is this but then it's a perfect way of time travelling than you imagine someone's life and you get to know them through the food that they ate and it says a lot of who we are and what time we live and. the 2 even slipped into the roles of some of their for calculus to try to really get to know them not just their food
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preferences. cloud your parents dressed up like the swedish children's book author astrid lindgren. lingering like going to the countryside with their family on the weekend to eat should pull off for meatballs. and mariana did their research and read all the books of us really and then and highlighted. where the food was appearing and so we picked. those recipes of course and their recipes and our traditional swedish so meatballs our tradition. swedish national dish that everyone loves. astrid lindgren spent almost all of her life in stockholm but tried to have as much contact with nature as possible. the french fashion designer coco chanel preferred urban life and wasn't a great fan of cooking. she only had
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a small kitchen in her paris apartment. getting a doll and eager parents were very interested in her style and especially as well as her daily habits. she was working for so many hours every day and she was smoking in shoes drinking coffee and then she had sweets to this on the side so she liked to khalid small delicate things and we made stuff that could fit her her brand but also that is consequent french dishes next to spencer. both from the advertising industry the 2 spent 6 years on this project working in their free time. in addition to making the dishes themselves they knew just how to create the perfect setting for them. one thing that the 14 women in the book all have in common is that they were ahead of their time. eager pears and forever young your daughters cookbook pays tribute to food and great women those of
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yesteryear today and the future. and you can see more about how to make a straight lin grins favorite dish on our facebook page next up when you think of italy has may not be the 1st thing that comes to mind but did you know that a very small region in italy is a major hub for hat production and they're sold worldwide like the pts. these hats come from market now mark a has been home to dozens of manufacturers for hundreds of years so has this one look on me but i think this one's probably more my style anyway we visited a few of these hat manufacturers to find out more. the countryside is a picture perfect italian landscape with hills topped by many evil villages city
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woman's talents dipiazza. months tourism hasn't discovered the region of marquet yet. the locals don't live only from agriculture cultivating crops sound all knaves but also from millinery. there are some 60000000 is within a 7 kilometer radius. they export their huts all over the world. these might be made of felt or school. coach evacuees family has been making hats here for quite a while. it depends on we've been making hats by hand for 3 generations that began with my granddad and then my dad and now me when so about 150 years dedicated to this marvelous product i mean you know so. many of the villages in the display to adele capello will have to strengthen up beautifully restored sentence
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must have had money as a historical games with dates back to the 14th century. for much of a key it all began with straw hats. there were only ways an abundance of wheat in this region people might store hats to protect themselves while they were working in the fields. at the heart of the district is known to porn with someone tells in 700 inhabitants. the local museum shows visitors how hats making traditions have to develop since the 17th century. originally only straw hats were made but then people started using other materials to. film director federico fellini his favorite hat also came from want to put in a. making a hat by hand is very time consuming delicate work and must ask you when he shows
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her granddaughters how the work is done what she was growing up she had no choice undergone no luck ah so that's when i was a small child and came back from school i was allowed to play a little after lunch maybe but then my parents would give me a bundle of straw like this and say that i had to make a straw plat before dinner and wished i had to do it because it was our only source of income at the time that only good is to accept a chit. marco so bad he likes to get around one to pony on his best but. he likes the view of the landscape. its factory on the edge of the town is one of the biggest in the region. some 250000 tents in the camps amaze here each year. about 60 percent go aboard. days with the sabbats he laid.
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