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ah, ah, mm. 400 kilometer is through the ice and snow in the french alps. we hedge to one of the toughest sled dog races in the world. and will find out just how challenging it is to compete in just a moment. and with that, a warm welcome to the show with me, your host, hannah, remote. glad you could join us. let's see what else we've got lined up for you this time, right? we find out why cut bradley's cheese is stored for months in mountainside, kate and we meet up with a coffee, an artist who creates miniature sculptures from a pencil point de la combed adi say competition has just taken place in the french alps for the 18th time but it's not

exactly your typical race. the star competitors are dogs. the sled dog race is considered one of the most difficult of its kind in the world to partly to the major differences in altitude. we headed to the mountains to meet up with one woman from norway who was competing for the 2nd time. ah, in the french helps the region of savoy host, the dog said race nagondo d. c. sicily. both murmon is one of $66.00 meshes, entering the event this year. she and her team of dogs are competing in the open category. the race spans nearly 400 kilometers, split up into 10 stages. this is karen. he is 4 years old. he goes as a leader, he's not the past his leader, but he is a very safe leader. and there is

a very difficult route that we're going. so it's nice to have a, a safe one. there get born always in my living room. picking cecil arrived from yellow in norway with 12 european slate dogs. she loves her dogs, and that even one her special award as the marshal who took the best care of her team during one of the stages. before racing off, the dogs always get little something to eat, mostly protein. the real feast comes after the race. hulu slid dog races may still often be considered a male domain. but women when several of the top places in the 1st stages of this year's edition. it's generally dominated by men and especially egg ah, in the big glasses on top level, there is still more men, but there's more women coming. i just have to trust your team and the team,

they have to trust me and then it doesn't matter which gender you are really. critics often deem sled dog races, 3 harmful to the animals health, but at le corner the see a 12 person missionary, he takes care of the dogs. the staff examined them before each new stage. and if there is the slightest health concern, the canines are not allowed to race for why you don't seem to medically, dotson, you know, i don't see any signs of animal cruelty in this discipline. that is for one simple reason. what if you just look at the dogs, i get all excited and play around together. they run really fast a beginning and give it their all. they just want to run something or easy, get it here in the winter sport resort, piss evelyn, please. stage 6 is about to get started. the lucas group spends 30 kilometers who the starting and finish line in the same place. system and her assistance, harnessing the excited dogs. ah

and off lego does not holding back these dogs. log on to the sea is considered an extremely tough race covering a distance, an altitude of 12000 meters. this board is also physically demanding for the mushers. they have to stick to the defined route and lay into the curves with the dogs. when they go up hill, the mustard spur, the dogs on going downhill, they break. it takes us about 2 hours to finish the stage coming in 6th. i very happy they were running good. i have a problem that they're going a little bit low enough else, but they just need training that because i have

a very young team so they need to learn to push a little bit harder in the appeals. they were going very strong, downhill. i had to really work to keep lads where it's supposed to be, but oh good then no problems. no, nothing's always nice that a clean scene runs no problem. after the race, the dogs a fit and enjoy a good dose of pacing. love moon and ended up coming in full of rural. but one things clear. she's determined to compete again next year. for our next report, we stay in the mountains, but this time we're headed for neither in spain. that's where cub rallies, blue cheese is made. i have to admit that blue cheese is one of those things that i've always find a bit strange. but after seeing had a famous cab rallies and variety is made and stored. i think it's time for me to give it another go. lu,

this speciality comes from muster use in northern spain cub rallies blue cheese it ages and caves and the p cost out of the mountains. spaniard and connie butter arrow has been producing it for over 40 years and capital cheese is my life. i've always known it my mother and grandmother both made it and i think my great grandmother to cheese is produced and t v. a village with less than $100.00 inhabitants located in the municipality of corporal. this up to 3 types of milk are used from cows, sheep, and goats. that's what lens the cheese, it's intense, sometimes somewhat tart flavor. and she has wheels are never the same. tomorrow's will be different than today's. we don't have a strictly defined routine in the process is natural with an artist and touch that no matter if i'm over. the cheese makers heat the raw milk to $26.00 degrees

celsius and let it sit for a few hours until it thickens. this process is called coagulation. then the resulting curds are put into cylindrical molds, and a low to drip. and carnie produces 12 cheese wheels a day. regarding making cupboard alice cheese takes daily hair from the very beginning to the point, it's ready to be sold. we 1st tend to it here in the cheese dairy queen, and then we have to take care of it in the cave. basically from morning to night. after about 15 days in the drying room, the cheese wheels are stored in the millennial old limestone keys located at an elevation of 700 to 1500 meters. the temperature there is $8.00 to $12.00 degrees celsius and the relative humidity is 90 percent. ideal conditions for cup rallies, cheese performance, characteristic mold. but with amazon we bring the cheese here to store it. you know

how much like after a few days, we turn over the wheels and moisten them if necessary to dignify it. after 15 days, we turn them again and check if they need more moisture you mind and we keep going until they're ready for sale. it can take for 5 or even 6 months with a face. oh, cabral. as cheese can only be produced in this municipality. and 3 neighboring ones . it enjoyed world wide fame and has won the prestigious world cheese a word several times. i get that ease is perfect, wanted blue on the inside, okay. carpet alice, please always has to be even light blue inside this and it has to have the very soft consistency so you can spread it and it has to taste good. that's the most important thing. there are about 20 mountainside caves and co brothers, and some are open to the public loop. in the ascii

nod to he con, a traditional shop, the specialized and hand crafted gourmet products from a studio for over 60 years. corollas cheese is a real hit. it gets leg, gabriella. so capital s, cheese stands apart from other blue cheeses. good through its intense, somewhat tight flavor then. so we'll go because don, it's a very characteristic taste that is because i wanna move the cheese as easy to combine. austrians liked appear, it was pretty sweet. tastes like jam or cider. per kilo of cabral is retails for between 25 and 40 euros isn't bitter cheese. i like a lot. i like strong creamy cheese. we always eat it at home. oh no, it's okay. covered i, los cheese is an ancestral thing. here in astoria south america, every family always has a piece of it in their fred show, but it can be used as an appetizer or as a desert. oh,

but i bought it from your students. point of view. could brothers cheese is a tradition that will last forever. ah. yeah. okay. i think so with more facilities but yes, this tradition must go on. what would cover unless div without capital lest cheese ricardo ah lit course just arrived in the mail. a post card from your max reporter hendrick felling. apparently there wasn't enough room on the card to write more than best wishes from and then the name of the small village that he was staying in. and no wonder, because that village and wales has the longest place name in europe. i'm not even going to try to pronounce that. i'll leave that to hendrick. he took a look around and asked to local what the name actually means for our series europe

to the max. ah, welcome to fun liar put quin give go get a clearance. dropoff fantasy leo coco. go really. what a tongue twister i am here in the town with the longest name in all of europe. 123, it's one word with thousands of letters and no spaces. 758 letters. actually i'm convinced that this name is just a collection of characters randomly put together. but that's not true at all. there's a reason for this name and it even means something. and that's what i'm going to find out now them, but we'll learn to pronounce it correctly. well, we'll try,

sam via per square gage. go care clairmont road frontage, and we'll go go, go. that's a totally different story. i'll stay right on the heels of alan murray. he used to be a counselor for this town, and he's lived here since he was a little boy. to get here, i've traveled to the western edge of britain to the isle of anger. see at the north western tip of ways. oh, that's too long. so we'll use the official short version aside from a few sheep, only 3000 people live here. and since i'm mainly interested in the towns off the wall name alan murray takes me to this church. ah, this is the church of saint mary. they start off with, with the church and via that's where the name of reaching is. tom means church and

via mary. so it's ton of value. so this is the church of saint mary fan by it force quick gate called gara aquarium drop off to sylvia cocoa gorse. what is the name actually mean the church of saint mary's in the hollow of the white hazel's near for the rapid whirlpool. the church of sicily and the red caves and all the paths together. it forms a complete picture of the village. most people here speak well sure. it's the 2nd official language here after english. a good place to practice a little would be where half the town gets together, the local top. and i thought that maybe a beer would help to lose the time. is that an option? so if you were not, yes, there's nothing for it. but to practice,

i'm glad it comes out of one by it was bring your school get it. but i'm good. oh and we have also like a gym with a name on it. right. how to how to spell when i maybe to say yeah, but why the name is so long. his best answers by alan murray don't come in and he was contrived fire at taylor in 18. 69. wanted to attract visitors to come in to the the latch off to one go see and i think that said, you know, with a 150 years or so. busy more on from his days, and i think that his benefits are still being read by the amount of people that have a city the village. you know. so it was essentially a marketing ploy meant to draw attention to both the town and the language

the people in here, i thought that the welsh people, i think they're very sort of a how can i say it? i think very proud nation. and we're proud of our heritage, we proud of our language and we want that language to carry on into a future generation. well, what can i say? small village and a very long name and very friendly and cheerful people over here. and oh, definitely did not forget this visit until and know how to pronounce his name correctly. hunger bush. go good. by the way, you can find all the episodes of our series europe to the max on our youtube channel . and in this pick, it features a 111 extreme places in europe that you shouldn't miss. now, would you pay upwards of $400.00 euros for a pencil?

well, perhaps you might, if it was sculpted into a masterpiece. it's one thing to create larger than life figures out of marble or stone. but sculpting one on the tip of a pencil is something else entirely. one, both the an artist is considered to be one of the leading experts in the world. at doing this, he conjures up the most spectacular motifs and his motto, the smaller, the better. ah pencil is so much more than a writing implement. it can also be carved into delicate masterpieces, like these crafted by bosnian pencil artist here. thank who george of ich what city bomb it must it, john i will show volume scope tools up those art forms. i like sculpture based on your law because it's 3 dimensional. do it. all of that on, of course, creating one on a pencil led what is very complicated, the naval queen does,

but it takes you to a higher level. and that's precisely what fascinated meal about. this kind of art with the artist has already produced more than 200 pencil sculptures. his motif include the world's tallest building, due by butch khalifa tower and an interpretation of edward monks. the scream. through his work hole, pencils become trains, passing through tunnels. yagi shall be, i'm a dealer craze. so normally i choose things that are right around us, our morality. sometimes i also work on objects that come from pop culture article to it. but in most cases, i choose motifs from my immediate surroundings. with even us, i accrue in his home city of to la. he's already immortalized numerous tourist attractions, in graphite, like the statue of king for it called the 1st of bosnia,

or the former gate of my dresser, dating from the 17th century and a public fountain built in moorish style. yes, ankle, georgia, which has already found his next motif always the last year i read because what's behind us is a replica of the old salt well towers that we used to mine salt. you know, it was like this is known for salt. violence is the name to surf, derives from tooth, the turkish wood for sold the vouchers for georgia, which miniature pencil sculptures have been attracting attention for a decade. now. he is presented his art at more than 30 exhibitions around the world, and recently at a gallery in paris, georgia which can now live from his art. the prices for his pencil sculptures start at $400.00 euros and depend on their complexity.

he needs between 5 and 10 hours to ref, out the design, but it can take days to refine it for his miniature tower. he uses numerous scalpel blades as well as needles. log, alexia, nodded. love, nicky, mckeever, deeper. earl's cook is much easier to work on. subjects like the human body. we can correct the shapes. so few things while you were working. he's privy to doc. good. where's buildings have strictly straight lie on seaman. that must be followed precisely matter. romilly, iniquity. similar to his custom. yes. thank o george of which puts the finishing touches on right in front of his subject. here it's the tower struts that make for the most intricate work. it requires his full concentration and dexterity to enjoy the graph. i doesn't break before the artworks finished. lucky with you totally was because unequal for many of the sciences of

tesla have already been captured. in photographs and paintings. douglas, i want to use my skill and this kind of i'll for you to still, to present these motifs in a new way. i will respond to the other day with you about guardian, nickelodeon, ashton, after several hours his work is completed, two's last salt, while tower has been cut down to size and fit on the tip of a pencil. ah, no, i'm not trying to make contact with aliens, believe it or not, this is actually a musical instrument. not that you'd be able to tell by the way that i play it. the ferryman produces different science through a magnetic field, german musician, catalina icc, plays it unprofessional level. in fact, she's considered one of the best ferryman players arrived. so i'll leave it out to

her to explain how it works. oh. 2 do you play the ferryman without touching it? if he wasn't in even the yeah and, and then slow to went around hand. so i can play a note here. your spirit or here is a here or here. oh harold, lena, i numbers among the world's best theorem. in players, she's an echo classic award winner and performs regularly as a soloist the world over here in concert with the brussels philharmonic. she also plays electronic music. she wrote herself

ah. 2 the chairman sets up an electro magnetic field tech me influenced by the human body that in turn changes the sound. double this upright antenna determines the pinch. to me when i move towards the antenna, the pitch rises blue. and then this loop continue on the innocently to control the volume. so if i move further away, the sound gets louder. lou, lou rush. this is, this is leanne thurman unveiled the instrument in 1920 some of the musicians and bands who have experimented with it since are the beach boys led zepplin. tom waits, and john michelle jar. the movie going public is familiar with the sound of this

for bare of the synthesizer from horror and science fiction films. it's still used occasionally on soundtracks, even now the time this tradition came about because when the therapy was developed, musicians played with lots of vibrato, even on the violin and other instruments. ah, the men as if you apply that to the fair amenities as exams of its beauty. kara lina, i got her very 1st ferryman at age 7. she learned to play from among others, the inventors own grand nice age 16. she developed a new technique that's now in general use world wide. it allows the musician to play with far greater precision. the instrument reacts to every slightest movement lou lou

than i so much is freedom that changes the sound of the telephone. so to play very precise, now it was filled with, i have to say completely cell aladdin. but if i play notes more freely in an experimental performance, for instance pharma, i can move my entire body of monitor being rude ah. 2 the ferryman was one of the 1st electronic instruments. now, 100 years after it was invented, it still sounds futuristic. who's and that brings us to the end of today's show. but just before we go,

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