because that one little use of i had a serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there but much i'm going to. want to know their story the migrants carefully to marvel information. in. this matter needs a whole box of chocolates every day but just for professional reasons that is because corporate long there is one of belgium's top shocker let's get more on that topic let's hear it 1st a very well welcome to new edition of your max let's see what else we have lined up for you in the show. high quality paper from the italian city of florence is still

made concrete by camp and mother child break from britain has not only written a book about funny people but even bruce some minutes and 8. this season skiers cannot always hit the slopes due to the coronavirus pandemic many ski resorts in europe are closed or her for strictures 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 winces fort. this is ski during a sports center has 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 affinia tourers 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 it can be hard or soft or like powder it could be the snow of springtime it's always a different experience. jack off in the french alps near the resort of liaison he saw reviving the sport here as a way of combining 2 passions. 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 were hurt 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.

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 very good. perfect very good. ski touring comes from the norwegian term for ski driving its original purpose was. 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 the great experience really awesome. and

allusion horse here on the left in 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 skiers being pulled by horses but he had to start from scratch. i told myself it was necessary to find a way to ski behind horses that 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 told you if you'll cut your drive you'll cut we don't touch the horses 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 for. the cameras part of the harness protects the driver from the flying

snow. the reins controlled by the handles stay subtle. being the thing about this sport 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 speech or anyone else. 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 all those nice presents. the a chinese 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 this pay for now called florentine paid for. even if the caret or region is mob old pay for it's a very all tick nique 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.

mario. a feeding a family business now in its 6th generation. it's florence's all those marble paper maker and one of the few places where it's still handmade. also holds workshops on how to make marble paper i'm going to to make it to prepare the model paper so. and. just spreading some callers on to the jelly thing gelatine and step by step i will create a pattern at the and i will laid 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 ross the paper making factory the company also specializes in foreign team designs but they've been using machines to print their paper since 1931. in this factory we agree that we have old machines as well. using old machine the same as last century but the renew it with the new technologies these the printing machine can produce 20001500 sheets our. the process

wasn't always so fast this is a original press from the late 19th century could only print certain items one at a time. this is the 1st machine and. the beginning of these company my grandfather and don't you know it will start there with these oppressor printing or some carts putting the peeper here and in this place. laurel patterns in the use of striking colors including gold are characteristic of florentine decorative paper its substantial weight makes a good for binding books creating stationery and covering boxes. these items are popular with both the 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 was used for important documents as a way of preventing forgeries and the ratio today it's copula. it's a gift. people are looking for something that it's handmade and it's unique it's just want to become. and they can have a spirit known for you know colors or do uniqueness of a piece of paper. the techniques for making decorative florentine paper may continue to evolve but the patterns remain steeped in history and tradition. i've just on rep one of the presents and found some they've tasted prairie alliance 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 your house from belgium legends as 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 and we visited chocolatey in brussels to find out more about how they are made. a whole like goals. when i go on holiday i often think this time i won't take any chocolates with me. just yet and then when i've just left i go back to get some . of what has.

gone when you fall in love with somebody you never know why never from the moment i heard tried chocolate i decided to make some myself because it was love at 1st sight and. i just see for they were all day and i'm fed to they got a long day of chocolates here i make railings every day and i make chocolate every day and i eat it every day and i love it. 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 but what you see here is pistachio mars a panel that has all. the new so artisans like us have 2 main techniques for making the premiums. will go buzz. we 1st do the filling.

and then cut it and finally we surround it with chocolate and that's the coating. so. i'm decorating it with a fork. it's on the cool it's a very traditional way of decorating full shit it is over 100 years old. the 2nd steps is the molding but you take some chocolate with or without coloring you temper it and then you put it in a spray gun and apply it to the most you want to make this gives shine and color. just didn't push the fine layer of chocolate here is very important so it can't be too thick or too thin says 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 more bluesy finally the chocolate so but not too much the most and when you heat up railing it's essential not to have too much empty space when biting into a seat it has to be as small a small civil. suit kid. is that we have 78 different kinds of already ladies. as a whole see if railings will raise all that was fresh men's war time the. only thing we also use a lot of spices such as a cardamom. star a nice or tumeric and that mole to be honest i've been eating a box of crayons a day forever to fuel. this here is liquid caramel. and.

more loss of foam to speak the skin it tastes wonderful because you have the crunchiness of the chocolate. and then you have the tasty filling which builds your mouth all along busy a lot of people and then you have the freshness of the raspberries. so. if you have to find a piece 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 is perf you but finding the right one to suit your personal taste is not always easy anyone looking beyond mass produce

fragrances can have their individual sense created by purview me 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. because. fragrances can give you a sense of happiness. fragrances can be appealing. says can change your life. my name is over hashish and to me fragrances mean life love happiness relaxation and passion. in his dresden 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 scent. like using beet root. 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 carlos. an entrepreneur from. he seeks inspiration beside the river. to tell the life story of this colorful

19th century industrialist and perfume collects willow branches. and the willows here have taken in the scent of the meadows along the elba river and that's what we're going to use. there are always different ways of extracting the fragrance. with willow bark. or mass aeration can be used. we use fewer alcohol and we just inserted. 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 perfumes. 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 this is sighing in charge of its preservation commission to move ahead with creating a perfume reflecting the lavish lifestyle of the businessman and. perfume or made 3 different fragrances. the fragrance family is a green composition. the fragrance pyramid results from elba meadows. peppermint candy masqueraded rose bush fresh grass.

and leather in the theater. it's only and i don't see how it's more elegant than the 1st one no definitely you can really picture a ballroom with poppers 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 us into the fascinating world of funky with his award winning work called and tango life how funky makes

worlds did you 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. the. 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 these are a tender fungus or horseshoe fungus humans have used it for sounds of years as a tender material a pump to carry a spark or a co it's also what's known as the vital. it has many medicinal uses. it's antiviral agents have been effective in combating the demise of b. colonies. funkier kingdom of life which is a broader category of animals or plants and we think of mushrooms for me think of

fungal but most funky don't actually produce mushrooms or the ones that do produce mushrooms to spread their spores some mushrooms are a kind of fruit in fact fungi 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 my syria 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 celia 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 funky that 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 grooves that are mushrooms can pop up anywhere he dipped his book in my ceiling 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. the biologist also investigates the phenomenon of fermentation. and sundial and

other microorganisms are key players in this natural preserving method. making. a for men to drink cold beetroot yes i like fermenting in general because i find it a helpful way to. come closer to the microbial world. 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. really 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 next 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 all for this time you can find more on topics about lifestyle and culture in europe on our website there you can also find out how to answer to our current draw and take a stab at receiving our backpacks full of goodies see you again next time until then bye bye and thanks for watching.

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