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today so with that a warm welcome to your remarks where we have a lot more festive topics the time around. the traditional food the people in france enjoy during the holiday season and every year hundreds of santos joined the charity race in brighton england. but 1st we dive into the 19th century with british author charles dickens and his book a christmas carol as you might know the story is about an old miser who changes his ways and becomes a warm hearted and generous man thanks to the spirit of christmas has been filmed many times that once a year at actually comes to life in the dutch town of devant or when the residents get together to reenact dickens iconic novel. there it was really. well. they all look like something out of

a charles dickens novel farmers beggars tradesmen and well to do citizens and they're all here in devon term for a pretty christmas journey back to the 19th century. christmas yeah i like it i love it's nice because the neighborhood is also like this style so much really well and i think that's why many people come here because if you do this in a newly built neighborhood it won't work very nice to see that you do well dressed people so it's still very nice to be here. the very cool family is making final preparations 7 year old frederica's count is a bit tight but you don't have to do the family whose have been taking part in the festival ever since they set up home in the old town to get their costumes from a central wardrobe everything has to look authentic to get different ones every year he just signed up to join as

a neighbor and they give you different cost him said it's really nice every year you are totally new character do you like your costume. nothing that reminds of the century so. same british shoes actually you can to have sneakers or anything oh no watch. the rules are strict mobile phones are brand. so all that's left to do is to go for a stroll and see what's going on in town just like people used to do. it is real take a look at the time travelling doesn't stop at the historical close the 19th century in all its many aspects is reenacted here and david. then as now nobody likes to see children begging but everybody likes tea time in elegant surroundings. young to have a man has transformed his living room into

a period partly. the silver is wrong i think the 5050 to one of the forks nice things like god it's a different role to totally different you can be an all or one outside yourself so it's very nice to do that's the kick we get or the closer you are and the things we do. emmy strict always wanted to bring charles dickens or christmas carol to life she founded the dickens festival in 1900 her father was a fan of dickens and england let me follow it in his footsteps and made her dream come true. i'm just to begin began with shops and then i invited them here and i showed the movie of course to

christmas carol and i said we are going to do that and then that's to most important thing that the people not only shop did it but also the people who lived here. a christmas carol tells the story of the wondrous transformation of ebenezer scrooge from a miser to a model of generosity and friend forrest has played the grumpy christmas seder for 25. here is now. almost on the usual i like this because it's nice to have a bad character or to find yourself beth. the dickens festival indeed ventura is an astounding tribute to the power of christmas through the ages.

now what do i look straight department store and a nightclub have in common you might see in that thing much but here in berlin they do share something namely the architects the cot do a design it's the legendary berlin club back and now they have put their stamp on the famous qadhafi the potman store or at least one floor of it. this couple haven't come to despair lynn luxury department store to enjoy the delicacies. they've given the candy section a new contemporary look. just before the grand reopening the couple give the new counters and shelves one last critical inspection. with a fit of of course you can sense the energy in the people stocking the shelves and opening the section for business. in a few hours the curtain goes up it's like a theater or a movie premiere you know what i'm going to film. the cow faust's this vestments

known as cut if a short opened in 1907 and became a berlin institution it's called my food section is legendary but 1st the combination of specialty food shopping and dining was unheard of today it's a hit and not just with berliners. studio car hard remodel the part of the cut of his 6th floor and 2018 the architects made sure everyone from tradition minded champagne drinkers to adventurous foodies feels comfortable here. a couple have actually been fighting the scottish and the people like out of every race. they said do something people will not notice something we've never seen before. when fear vote of mr v. and. the most famous project portfolio so far is berlin's legendary techno club bear kind. the architects how to convert a former heat and power plant into

a club and designed the interior. but cameras are not allowed inside so no images are available. really for the rule is that. we actually try to avoid design that mesa. sound a bit silly but in this case we really didn't want to touch the building's original architecture any more than necessary for the fleet it's big so we had lots of surface area to work with you can find seating all over the people who go there should be able to enjoy it and still be surprised when the rule there is what happens inside stays inside that. told us cast and alexandra are also a team in their private lives. they got the name of the studio by abbreviating and combining their surnames but love to experiment and. we've collected a really big store of materials here for it always depends on the project come but

we start out by putting together a new way of materials. and let me gain the reputation of this club architects but the couple also designs apartments. medical practices such as this dentist's office. and restaurants like this burger bar. the 2 architects are willing to take on just about any challenge. it's great that there's such a variety to just limit ourselves to clubs would be to narrow. the joe has a regular employees occurrence major contract is for the interior of sony music's new berlin headquarters and they feel every bit as much at home remodeling an iconic department store. isn't really the kind we're big fans we've been going to

the store for years and we knew right away what had to be done and how we'd go about it and. a few days later the back in the form a department the county section is finished the architects make sure everything is in working order. fine materials organically contrived surfaces it's playful an area but it all comes together into a homeowner's entity they're both highly satisfied. for me i'm glad to see something worked out well that we planned out of the drawing board and it's always very theoretical when it's free and now we can see that not only does it work in practice but their customers like it to be there for you alexandra out on thomas cost and would like to do some bros in your themselves but sadly time doesn't permit so they make do with a little treat as a reward before heading back to work.

during the christmas season some color in the area classics an absolute must however here in europe people in each country enjoy a very different treats we have already shown you some of these specialties and are your make serious traditional christmas fare and in today's episode we find out what the french it's during the holiday season. the main course is stuffed caban with potatoes and sweet chestnuts. and for dessert to boost in no way a sweet christmas tree log traditional christmas treats in france. delish up in bordeaux southwestern france is actually named after its specialty cape cod and the restaurant can be found in the old town near the opera house. through but also what i'm sort of the head chef at the shop on friday i'm going to

show you this traditional french christmas recipe a stuffed capon i'll need a 3 to 4 kilogram bird walk up to. a cape and is a rooster that's been castrated at 12 weeks old and then fat and. no been spared only one grain so that it puts on lots of muscles in france after $45.00 days we think it's miller going to dish into the ground. or sit in order. for the stuffing stage rick will be nice so tastes shallots and garlic in butter and the glazers with white wine. and then he adds bread soaked in milk to the chopped liver of the cuban and parsley insult and pepper to the mixture. once you cut off the wings he can begin stuffing the cape and. none of them have to trust it up well so the stuffing more troops out there gives

it a nice shape. now the stuff cavemen is covered in for oil and roasted for one hour at $190.00 degrees celsius. meanwhile head pastry chef medea alcudia works on the boost in. the boosh was the you. the logs that guests would bring to help warm their hosts house. only thing friends who eat the bush at the end of the year of christmas and on the 1st of january there is a black forest style bush for the off. the sponge cake mixture is made up of cocoa powder flour sugar in eggs 1st the eggs and sugar are beaten together with a mixer then the sifted cocoa and flour mix is added to the mixture is poured out on a baking sheet in sprinkled with chocolate chips the right up until bridger is crucial

. makes it 180 degrees celsius for 6 minutes no longer urging me to try to. debate strips of cake are spread with cherry jam. we put the mascarpone cheese into a bowl and then the liquid cream into a little and melon to even out the somewhat strong flavor and then react just a little sugar not too much of. the strips of sponge cake are laid out in a mold filled with a mark upon a cream covered with more cream and another layer placed on top. the last comes the chocolate covering heated to no more than $35.00 degrees celsius. back to the cape and dress over there you know it's part of the oven for an hour

and i will peel off the fore. you know we're going to take it another hour or 2 a little golden brown will also get closer to following the potatoes or browns and butter with time and bay leaves as a side dish for the cape and the sweet chesnuts and parsley also go in the pan. the more gentle coming there finally i said going over a little gravy to have a little color on the grill and flavor. because some people don't want to particular and merry christmas in the decision that i mean i think. you can find this recipe as well as lots of other tips for christmas tree it's on our facebook page. the center run as

a tradition that began in britain some 20 years ago the participants were caps like this one every year thousands of people compete in the races to raise money for charity the run in brighton post a new challenge for report on next meryl and made a holiday highlight for our series. brighton and a beautiful city beside the sea just south of london it's well worth a visit even in winter. just before christmas some fascinating characters appear on the scene once a year hundreds of sounds as young and old come to town christmas in the u.k. it's all about how many good time after all it's called a merry christmas and one of the quirkier customs during the festive season is the sum to run and the most beautiful one is quite possibly held here in brighton. although i didn't feel too good after the race. but let's start at the beginning

i've been up since the crack of dawn getting ready. of course today is just about taking part really but on much travels i faced a lot tougher challenges than running 5 k. so today i think i'm going to try and win it even though i haven't really trained much or i don't for that matter but maybe my competitors haven't and well. a few people have actually been up and running before me they're even doing a little warm up race before the real deal kicks off in less than friendly conditions we all live in the elements we've had conditions monch wasn't nice if he's writing this so it's a barely on their bodies by the time i come back nobody advised me maybe to try anything without even trying to read it well that would be friends testing how competitive it is the board if i think there's always people at the front that are going to want to wait is not competitive with. a rock. people turn up their dogs

with a bug pushing the children in the buggies so it's just about i mean having a good time with your equipment you bring up the other your good child should a pretty fair every participant gets a costume one size fits all and i'm having a tough time just getting it on fighting a losing battle with the when. the struggle is real. least i'm not toiling to unload but most run is he looking to win. so 1st time to run then we should know better yeah i'm in it just to make it to the end with all my colleagues someone that i would just get a guy for and say maybe half an hour and 25 minutes that would be a major victory and he got on a certain time you want to be or you want to be one of the monkey. can you run faster than it. just tears and have fun then i got my eyes on the price front of the queue set.

up a 450 people are taking part the 1st half of the race takes a straight into a fierce headwind on the way back the conditions for a fall festival i find myself neck and neck with the super mario. there's not much left in the tank by the end but it's enough to finish 35th out of hundreds of runners mind. i was really exhausting. i'm surprised krypto along. the way there was so difficult we were facing the wind on the way back. it all felt a lot better. but to so much to do trying to run when there's no wind and no chance of that in brighton i didn't get a win but the 35th isn't bad considering i didn't train anyway to the real victory 3 and a whole 1000 pounds were raised for the local children's hospital next time i visit

brighton i hope it's a tad. you can find more quirky customs like cheese rolling on our you tube channel. when you think of the alps normally images off hiking are sticking spring to mind but when german photographer stefan his fellow goes there he's looking for something completely different he is fascinated by abandoned buildings so-called lost places his photos cannot save them from dk but at least he can preserve the memory. ruins in deserted places have always held a magical fascination for people. they make us wonder who once lived in them and what happened to them. stephan halfling explores places like this with his friend felix who said in looks

into their histories. of the superman perfect here you can clearly see the roof is caved in the windows are broken it's a sense of the plaster is crumbling from the walls this is held together it makes for some beautiful photos. tooth. built in the 1920 s. it served as a summer camp it's almost as if we can still hear the children laughing and playing who spent their summer vacations here until the late night team seventy's. if mr bowden i want my pictures to reflect what i feel when i enter places like these but there's a little scary i get a queasy feeling or hearts pounding i get a shot of adrenaline and it's exactly this feeling i'd like to reproduce in light and shade i want people to see that in the photos in the story they shouldn't even

leal it but rather have more atmosphere like in landscape photography shot the structure still. carefully travels the world as a professional landscape photographer he brings back images like this one of the grand canyon. and the jungles of hawaii many of his pictures have won awards he's widely recognized as one of the world's leading landscape photographers. heavily has been fascinated by abandoned houses since childhood he's published his discoveries in a book of photos. once splendid villas. first world war bunkers. hidden chapels. and factories where no machine has operated for decades. the even. he doesn't say exactly where he finds the abandoned buildings so they won't be

overrun by visitors also many of these buildings are indicate and hazardous and most are hard to reach. staff. in heavily never works alone. it's fight as much as often it might spread or to go in with someone even when i'm just photographing my landscapes if something were to happen or if someone broke a ford or suffering the ankle it's safer but i'm lucky that it's never happened to me no major injuries but it's better to have a good pair along those able to help you. 33 year old stuff and have fillet belongs to the generation of urban explorers who go looking for deserted and forgotten places and all he leaves behind him are footprints respects for these aging sites is important to him.

finding motifs takes some effort and detective work one of her family's methods is to scan satellite photos on the internet. months into your postings from here you can see the places abandoned doesn't even have a roof. it can be just that simple if it's harder you can browse certain blogs on the subject and you can find for lots of those that still intact roofs and are still nice on the inside and there's nothing more to see here or you happen to pass by and find something by chance. stephan have always photos document traces of civilization that time is gradually a raising his works are a kind of monument to abandoned places. 2020 will see the 250 s.

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