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a strange thing. i don't welcome to your own max we'll return to that later but 1st let's take a look at what else we have for you today. more and more fashion labels are offering free repaste and weinstein sounds. young also but is it both scallop in germany and how it's full delicious and unusual ingredients. our report that handle a developing found the next european record for serious you're up to the max and this time he went up a mountain so intimidating even mountainy is didn't dare climate for a long time and like made his way up in a train which started in 1912 and goes to the highest train station in europe. it's known as the roof of europe and one of the world's most. iconic signs they

yearn for you and this was outs. and that's where i'm going today i'm climbing almost to the top of the ufo but without eyes again climbing rope i'm taking the train to the highest train station in europe. it's always been a dream of mine to travel through this snow we all pine landscape by train here we are on route to the famous mountain trio the eiger nuns and young folk it's around 80 kilometers from switzerland's capital back to the young for your station the cop will railway has to send some 1400 meters during the final stretch. conductor court cannot says this is his favorite route a large park goes right through mountains in a tunnel it took 16 grueling gears to cut through the eiger and the men's at the beginning of the 20th century finishes hard to not miss and it still amazes me even today that got that look at how the entire tunnel is natural there's no cement so

rock star you can see the drill holes. monthly the weather sticks of dynamite when we last mile that in wollongong. after half an hour we arrived at the young failure of europe's highest train station located at 3454 meters inside the mountain. the young star railway has been taking visitors to the top since 1912. beyond being europe's highest train station it also has the best view. i couldn't wait to see it so headed outside 1st and gazed over the swiss mountains and to college glacier the largest glacier in the alcs and the unesco world heritage site. to me building a railway line up here seems like a crazy. idea back inside the building complex and there's

a vis told me it was even more crazy back then he's been working here for 30 years and knows the you for your inside out including its history. he explained how dangerous the railways construction was 30 workers lost their lives to these duties surely you can see how tough all these manual labor was back then. after every knock that quarter turn the drill and then a colleague would knock it again and that's how they knocked these drill holes about 80 centimeters deep into the rock. and then fell then when it was deep enough that put dynamite inside and blow it up competently. done with the. weather is unpredictable at the young for you and can change without warning the annual average temperature is at minus $7.00 degrees celsius. and you feel a bit like a king with you really are above europe up here at 3500 meters height informed me

that around and with these extreme winter conditions it's like being at a polling station with a cold and windy cold them in so. so you need a thick skin blow through and warm guys. so the. temperature wise it's definitely more comfortable in the restaurant crystal here you can order a typical swiss fondue melted cheese served with bread or vegetables for dipping. for men or just the 3 restaurants and a bar on the door for you all for every year more than a 1000000 visitors come here by rail on day trips article came to percent of visitors here come from asia the middle east india china the brave ones or the cheese fondue because they've heard of it but they're often surprised when it arrives especially the japanese huge part with warm cheese that's pretty strange for someone from japan it's a miracle. before taking the train back down i revisited the best part

of view. if you have a bit of luck with the weather it's really breathtaking of you but without the train i would have never been able to come up here. and you can find the complete europe to the max serious on a you tube channel including handling stops lead right and the night stand in a swedish ice will tell you fast fashion may be inexpensive to buy but it comes with big environmental costs which is why more and more design is choosing to produce slow and sustainable fashion they work with a certified tech starts and make long lasting clothes and a growing number even offer free repairs and warranty. these clothes come with a warranty the label next purchasers on sustainability is based in berlin

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how do you go may shift keep coming up with new and exciting ideas and find rare and exotic ingredients well some work with so-called food scouts over in the u.s. food scouts have been around for a while but it's a new profession here in germany. is one of the 1st. what does it take to be a food scout do you need to be armed to the teeth always on the hunt hardly much more important our sight smell and taste. as food scouts has a few scouts i look for extraordinary projects here on franconia my very own for us to use in our goal my restaurant alexander hamilton. you're the asphalt will sometimes travel several 100 kilometers a day to scout we 1st followed him to visit sebastian solomon who breed sturgeon's and produces caviar a. little bit but it would be about possible to his tasting a very special version of this delicacy whites to golden caviar from albino

sturgeon's. the food scout was impressed. circulars at 3 euros per gram albino caviar is about 3 times as expensive as black caviar. that it's pretty rare which is why i'm very happy it works so well on sebastian's and yet it means we can offer these regional caviar in a restaurant and that's very special to. us. next the food scott went to sebastian nida my ass farm in bam back in southern germany it wasn't a restful visit to the paradox up one metre long roots from the soil trying not to damage them that we've now got lots of juice in them and the more you damage them the more juice comes out that's a sign of quality and if i want to follow that and hold them out but i rip them

that i need to start from the beginning again i'll do it all but the only extraordinary specialties warrant this much work what the 2 men are after are licorice roots these are usually found in west asia and are used for making licorice. but how does licorice root fit into gourmet cooking your asphalt brought his freshly secured treasures to the restaurant to head chef to b.s. baits for tasting and quality assessment 1st the albino caviar. there. it doesn't have much flavor yet because it's so fresh. and. both agree that the sturgeon roast still needs to develop its full flavor so should be left a few more days. next the food scout and head chef brainstorm ideas for including licorice on their menu. for this series holds its i can see the lakers featuring in

some type of dessert this time it may be combined with chocolate and fruit. and that's exactly how it was served licorice and chocolate were combined in a black truffle which was finally shaved onto a plum sorbet. the team in the gourmet restaurant has already won 2 michelin stars. there is also a fine castro kitchen which serves carefully composed dishes. your scouts and finds ingredients for both bistro and restaurant. exotic fruits tend to lose a lot of flavor on long haul flights so the food scout gets them locally at cline eden palm house and. a fruit safari for star cuisine woman i'll be there on an answer but today the hunch is for spice it's so far it's the air we've got to live in while chilly and down there is a type of charlie chaplin was a tie to the know your cost vault isn't only here for the chili's he's also after

their leaves. at 1st the head chef is baffled. as off most of the greens are often just caught off but found some mistake here with the chili foliage it makes sense to keep them with. well you say you again saw something no one else would do is the good and the leaves chips gibby's chips they're just nice the photos by sea to the trip through the chips the leaves are tossed in temper a batter and then deep fried in hot oil. next to b.s. baits coats the green chips with a fiery chili paste. is it surprising that good suburb of spicy but sensational you've really come up with

something special here. caviar from the albino sturgeon licorice roots from a farm and bam back and spicy chips made from chili leaves. and with that food scout you're of asphalt heads off on a new journey there's still a lot more to discover. designing and building churches has probably always been one of the most challenging feats in architecture to hopefully it is from france and he's a devoted churchgoer of those not so much because he's religious he visits them as a traveling photographer and he's always on the lookout for new subjects. for me it's the for me the architecture and the power of this modern architecture through the 20th century. they always have a central point of view and that the churches are always empty.

so my goal is really just to create the sort of. feeling so that people can you know immerse themselves in the architecture. work for years seeks out modern churches around the world for his photo series sacred spaces. like notre dame to try in paris it's original it's different from anything you could have seen and also it has this visual impact with the difference of materials with you know the wood the steel the lighting is very very interesting and in presenting the . you know the workers of that era so it also has a very emotional. impact i think on the whole neighborhood. this perspective presents the architecture in the best possible light.

and yeah you see in this one what's really beautiful is that the pillars are you know all aligned so you really want them to be you know popping out of the photo so in that way you know the architecture speaks for itself there's no destructions it's always the same the same angle and when you put them all you know next to each other they're all very different but you get a cohesive. feeling of you know all the different churches. t.-bone portrayed lives in paris he discovered his passion for modern churches 4 years ago since then he's photographed 36 of them in europe and asia. the most difficult part is finding them. because. when you start the series basically you start from 0 and there is a few that are kind of famous but most of them are not so it's it's mainly finding

all the all the churches in the remote spaces so you would maybe never passed by and you would actually not imagine what this is like maybe offices but not really. maybe a museum. this is no short time to lash to learn young. church on the outskirts of paris what the church is can very very radically and i think the reinterpreted what a church is. with the architecture because the church is fairly basic and it's huge to know there's. a central park that's always there and then basically people sit around it and. she goes approach is always the. same he looks around chooses a point of view and takes a single shot. that's it. at home he makes only minor corrections to the image most of the work is already done to mo is actually an

interior designer and for him photography is just a hobby yet his photo series have attracted attention around the globe. like his project sleeping in venice from 2018 he was able to capture almost surreal looking images of the city on the venetian lagoon. venice without the madding crowd. since 2015 probably has also been taking pictures of libraries around the world this photo series is his most famous work to date. it's a specific space that everybody understand you know libraries or churches everybody's been there at least once in their lives. and they were made for a specific reason and so what i really find interesting how these architects have you know created. you know these different buildings but with the say the same

purpose. one of his favorite churches is notre dame do not sell it in paris he feels that the round concrete structure emanates a sense of tranquility. i guess i'm a pretty cool guy i mean i like it when i'm alone in the spaces because you actually get to experience the architecture in a very different way you know you know. it's just for it seems like it's been built just for you when you're there and you can witness it for you however you perceive it. and in the photos people can imagine themselves in in the picture. people poor his photo series sacred spaces a testament to faith in the power of modern architecture.

if you're visiting the netherlands in the next weeks you may also want to stop by the city saval that's where europe's biggest ice sculpture festival is taking place until the 1st of much artists from around the world come after $500.00 tons of ice and snow into beautiful scotus which takes us on a journey through time. from the dinosaurs to play a part. to the vikings. and the industrial revolution this year's ice sculpture festival in the dutch town of let's visitors travel through time people flock to the festival from all over to marvel at the statues which are made of around 550 tons of snow and ice. bundled up against the cold bay take photos of the sculptures and enjoy the magical atmosphere. now for over

a very pretty when coming from the tropics and to see these under the roof from having these ice sculpture a solution might be for this i didn't think it was possible yeah calderon's to take photographs after you know mark knopfler. it's amazing if it's a big goal because it's ok. i'm here for 1st time i'm shooting off a picture of. some 40 ice carvers from all over the world descended on smaller they spent 2 weeks carving the sculptures out of ice and snow he has spent more of it's from germany is working on a statue of shaka zulu one of the most influential zulu monarchs. if you know. to make details is a good enjoyable part because if you do everything right you see everything grow through dead or if you are. striving for artistic perfection is not the only challenge the carvers face the temperature inside the hole is about minus 10

degrees celsius so it's hard to stay warm the blocks of ice are up to 2 metres tall and it's a tough job to sculpt them using shop chisels and chainsaws. it's hard to go work at the end of the day everybody if you have the shoulder or arm got the chain and the 3rd man in danger a good record player. one of my friends drive your driver injured you've broken down. most of the covers are professional artists they travel the world to sculpt ice and snow but they also work hands traditional stone sculptures graffiti artists . the ice sculpture festival is always a highlight of the year. this is more of a fun thing to do coming to europe and and working on a big scale that you don't get to do the this kind of thing normally go quickly. once the carvers hard work is completed visitors can enjoy the giant works of art

complemented by colorful lights and atmospheric music. this year's theme a journey through time allows visitors to see important historical figures and with newspaper don't moments in history are close. just like previous years we're always looking for a theme that's familiar all around the world for all ages and with all these stories throughout the time it's a perfect fit. your hands might get cold but the dutch ice sculpture festival is definitely a heartwarming event. just about everyone knows fear iliza the piece is one of german composer lutie from beatle from smokers famous and this year marks the 250th anniversary of his this to

celebrate we ask you to played for us and we've already received a lot of entreaty. so please send us your version until january 31st you can use any instrument you like just upload your video to our website for a chance to win our drawl it trip for 2 to beethoven's 5th place on the right and that's all from me for today see you next time back.

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