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. high quality paper from the italian city of florence is still made to you by parents and. mother a child break from britain has not only written a book about funny you can put even bruce in it and. this season skiers cannot always hit the slopes due to the coronavirus pandemic many ski resorts in europe are closed or her for strict on the number of visitors but there are still ways to still have fun in the snow how would you like to be pulled troops know we landscapes on skis by a horse we travel to frogs to take a closer look at an exciting sports. this is a sports center of a originated in scandinavia with reindeer or dogs it was made popular using horses in the early 20th century but in france it was largely forgotten until jacques

finian toilers reintroduced it there about 30 years ago. i'm still passionate about it because we're always out in nature always in an element that is constantly changing because the snow is never the same and it will be hard or soft or like powder it could be the snow of spring it's always a different experience. jack. in the french alps near the resort of liaison he saw reviving the sport here as a way of combining 2 passions. he didn't fit i got into city because i was working for 10 years on ski patrols that monitor the trails and avalanches and take care of those who are hurt if. they don't the same time i had an equestrian center and my horses had nothing to keep them busy during the winter. so i said i needed to find a way to combine 2 things i love. skiing and horses.

scheme during does require some skill participants don't have to have much knowledge of course riding because the animals respond to basic commands through the reins but writers do have to have a certain level of skiing experience. as long as they can skiing people of all ages can take part. and watch the horse. watch the horse watch the horse that's a very good sit perfectly very good. ski jury in comes from the norwegian term 1st ski driving its original purpose was to. transport goods today it's also a competitive sport disco what did you feel while. freedom in the nature of the snow everywhere and silence great experience really awesome. and illusion

horse here on the left and a norwegian fjord are among the 3 horses jack has specially trained for ski joining he wanted to relaunch the sport in france after seeing an old postcard with spears being pulled by horses but he had to start from scratch. it was a focus i told myself it was necessary to find a way to ski behind horses he said but i did the research and couldn't find anything no equipment existed and that's how i started to develop my own equipment . the result of that was this special harness which is mounted on a horse and designed to minimize pressure on the animal go go if you'll take your driving joke that we don't touch the horse's mouth that only happens when i want to give a command the right to go right or left to go left or pull both handles back to break oh yeah. the cameras part of the harness protects the driver from the flying snow.

the rings controlled by the handles stay subtle. leaving the thing about this board that motivates me is the feeling of freedom all the time it's really a grand feeling of freedom or a sense that the horse isn't imprisoned not constrained but you are letting it follow its natural behavior and you become one with him as you glide behind him. that's something you only experience when ski joran. thinks to shock and his horses tourists have yet another way to enjoy the great outdoors in friends. valentine's day is coming once again and because my husband is such a hopeless romantic he sent me all these presents in the studio well actually

that's not true he doesn't even text me something nice on valentine's day but for people who do like to celebrate florence high in paper is just the thing to wrap up all those nice presents. the italian city of florence is the center of arts and culture it's also home to paper making traditions the date back centuries from sheets and cards to book pages and binders handmade florentine paper can still be found in a few places here these pay for is novel cold florentine paper. even if the correct. mob old pay for it's a very all technique of decorating paper but it was used a lot in florence in a book by ending process mostly so always through related to books and printing.

maria called. a feed a family business now in its 6th generation. it's florence is the oldest marble paper maker and one of the few places where it's still handmade. maria also holds workshops on how to make marble paper i am going to to make it to prepare the model paper so. just spreading some callers on to these jelly things gelatine and step by step i will create a pattern and at the and i will lay the paper on till and you'll see what the paper sold they how the paper is that correlated. the process is interested and time consuming with lots of attention paid to detail. from start to finish maria needs about 20 minutes to make one sheet of paper. for each new sheet she has to

repeat the entire process using new colors. the end result is always unique. this is quite different from the machine printed paper which is largely taken over here at the rusty paper making factory the company also specializes in florentine designs but they've been using machines to print their paper since 1931. in this factory we agree there with old machines as well. using old machine since last century but the renew it with the new technologies these printing machine that can produce 20001500 sheets our. the process wasn't always so fast this is

a regional press from the late 19th century could only print certain items one at a time. this is the 1st machine and. the beginning of this company my grandfather and on your we'll start the with this is a presser printing or some carts. putting the people here and in this place. floral patterns in the use of striking colors including gold are characteristic of florentine decorative paper its substantial weight makes it good for binding books creating stationery and covering boxes. these items are popular with both tourists and locals alike. marbled paper is said to

have originated in japan around the 12th century it came to europe during the 16th and 17th centuries and with use for important documents as a way of preventing forgeries and a ratio to doing it popular as a gift people are looking for something that it's handmade and it's unique it's just one of a kind and they can have your spirit known for you know all colors or do uniqueness of a piece of paper that. the techniques for making decorative florentine paper may continue to evolve but the patterns remain steeped in history and tradition. i've just on record so one of the presents and found some they taste prayer lives we don't know who invented them some say it was a german chef back in the 17th century others believe it was a pharmacist draw nor house from belgium let's say he was trying to find

a way to make his medicines go down easier with talk that but whoever invented them today they are a treat belgium is famous for world wide as we visit it chocolate brussels to find out more about how they are made. also behold. when i go on holiday i often think this time i won't take any chocolates with me. and then when i've just left i go back to get some.

new all in love with somebody you never know why the number is from the moment i heard tried chocolate i decided to make some myself because it was love at 1st sight and let's. just see how they were all day and i'm fed up a good long day of chocolate i make grayling's every day and i make chocolate every day and i eat it every day and i love it isn't so. it's chocolate is very simple it's not complicated there are 2 or 3 ingredients cocoa mass for dark chocolate with some cocoa butter and sugar. you see. the way you get up at them what you see here is pistachio mars a panel that is all for the new so artisans like us have 2 main techniques for making green lanes. and all of us. we 1st do the filling.

and then cut it and finally we surround it with chocolate and that's the coating. i'm decorating it with a fork. it's on the cool it's a very traditional way of decorating woodfull shit it is over 100 years old. the 2nd steps is the molding and you take some chocolate with or without coloring you temper it and then you put it in a spray gun and apply it to them i want to make this give shine and color. that's being pushed the fine layer of chocolate here is very important so it can't be too thick or too thin so if it suits and it breaks if it's too thick it's

unpleasant. and then from the home you know we're filling the molds with caramel salted caramel and that's done with a machine that machine the whole piece it fills the mold to about 90 percent to leave a bit of space solar moon placea finally the chocolate but not too much for most or when you eat a prey it's essential not to have too much empty space when biting into a seat it has to be a small a small civil. suit kid. is that we have 17 different kinds of prey and i mean it. was a whole sea for aliens with a zone was the pressure men's war time the only thing we also use a lot of spices such as a cardamom. star a nice or tumeric. mole to be honest i've been eating a box of crayons a day forever to fool. you know this here is liquid caramel.

or most of all the secrets that it tastes wonderful because you have the crunchiness of the chocolate. and then you have the tasty filling which fills your mouth all along busy a lot of booze and then you have the freshness of the raspberries. so. you have to find peace it's like smoking a good cigars i know that's not good but you have to take time to smoke a good cigar you have to enjoy it otherwise it's not worth that. amount of popular valentine's day gift per few but finding the right one to suit your personal taste is not always easy anyone looking beyond mass produced

fragrances can have their individual sense created by purview me move it hits he does his magic in the city of paris in east germany we watch closely as he makes an exclusive perfume from natural ingredients. this can give you a sense of happiness if. fragrances can be a healing. and says can change your life. my name is over hashish and to me fragrances mean life love happiness relaxation and passion. in his dress and perfumery move a hellish stores thousands of fragrances all made from natural ingredients by

distillation for instance of blue spruce needles. sandstone can be extraordinary too. and earth can contain unique fragrances as well. there are other ways to get this earthy sent. like using beet roots. and that's how you can make connections and tell a story that's. sells his perfumes to customers around the world including european nobility elaborate perfumes can cost up to several $1000.00 euros. and there aren't many perfumers in the world there are actually fewer perfumers than astronauts. when you're good at it. people will come to you. kalish has been commissioned to create a perfume in remembrance of carla. an entrepreneur from. the 6 inspiration beside the river. to tell the life story of this colorful 19th

century industrialist in perfume collects willow branches. willow. fragrance. and the willows here have taken in the scent of the meadows along the river and that's what we're going to use. skipped. there are always different ways of extracting the fragrance. with willow bark. or mass aeration can be used by. alcohol and we just insert it and the alcohol will absorb the essential oil. where basically making an extract could last. up to 150 of these extracts are used in one perfume. also creates custom made one of a kind of perfume.

plus. there's nothing more intimate than perfume you wear it directly on your skin and it even enters the skin it doesn't get more intimate than that why would you use a mass produced perfume i think a good fragrance should reflect your personality. legacy to the people of dresden was this palace the society in charge of its preservation commission to move ahead with creating a perfume reflecting the lavish lifestyle of the businessmen and. perfume or made 3 different frank princes. the fragrance family is a green composition. the fragrance pyramid results from elba meadows. means peppermint candy masqueraded rose fresh grass.

and leather and the theater to all. its island and i don't think it's more elegant than the 1st one no definitely you can really picture a ballroom with a couple who were actually in the ballroom right now so that's fitting couples dancing yes exactly. at the palace they've chosen the more sporty elegant version and it's already experimenting with fragrances for his next project a perfume that will help you concentrate. how about something nice to read for valentine's day we met up with one man whose latest book is currently a best seller in britain off merlin sheldrake invites into the fascinating world of punk with his award winning work cold and tango life how funky makes.

didn't know that song essential for all life on earth to find out more on the topic we met with the charismatic young author in london. london based biologist merlin sheldrake is out hunting for specimens it's part of his job as a mycologist a scientist devoted to the study of fungi and fun guy are far more than meets the naked eye so it is a tender fungus or horseshoe fungus humans have used it for thousands of years as a tender a material a pump to carry a spark or a co it's also what's known as the vital. it has many medicinal uses its antiviral agents have been effective in combating the demise of be calling us. from here a kingdom of life which is a broader category of animals or plants and we think of mushrooms and we think of

fungal but most funky don't actually produce mushrooms or the ones that do produce mushrooms to spread their spore some mushrooms are a kind of fruit in fact fun guy are everywhere in the ground in the air in our bodies and they're indispensable for all forms of life in fact they make life possible on this planet but how do they live exactly the most fun to live most of their lives as mycelium which is the name given to branching fusing networks of jupiter cells which is how funky feed my celia can be microscopic existing only as tiny mold fun guy on specks of dust but they can also be huge one of the world's largest organisms is a network of my celio over 2000 years old in oregon in the united states it covers an area of more than 9 square kilometers 33 year old sheldrake says fun guy can change our minds and shape our futures in his book titled entangled life how fun

guy make our world i want to talk not just about mushrooms and mushroom forming funky but also the fun you don't for mushrooms that are harder for us to notice. yes but which had played such key roles in the story of life and so i spend a lot of time thinking about the networks of funky which directly perceivable to us and yet make up so much of the world that surrounds us by means of an experiment sheldrake proves that mushrooms can pop up anywhere he dipped his book in my seat and grew oyster mushrooms on it as they grow the sounds they make are recorded by using electrons his brother used to the recordings to compose a song called entangled like. the mushrooms go right out of the book and into the frying pan and then he enjoys them. going to. the biologist also investigates the phenomenon of fermentation. fund i and other

microorganisms are key players in this natural preserving method of making. a film meant to treat cold beetroot us. i like fermenting in general because i find it a helpful way to. come closer to the microbial. and understand a little bit more intuitively what is taking place in a much more complex environments like the soil. sheldrake explores various avenues to better understand and explain the complex world of fun guy he regards music as a point where art and science meet and provide new food for thought. pretty hard to understand what life might be like for a fungus to have bodies and their environments that challenges the opportunities are so different from ours so i've really had to explore different metaphors

different ways of thinking about what it might be like to be a fungus of course i can never know. but it's worth trying i think it's good for our human centered nest to try and put ourselves in the shoes of other organisms even if with destined to fail. his book has become a bestseller and won several awards as merlin sheldrake introduces more and more people to the fascinating world. that's also this time you can find more on topics about life style and culture in europe on our website there you can also find out how to answer our current draw and take a step at receiving our backpacks full of goodies see you again next time until then bye bye and thanks for watching.

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