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with the final stop is vest talent, the largest town on it. from here i plan to explore the island with the north sea. island of zeus has an almost legendary reputation, the endless west beach, the often rough sea, and then this promise of freedom and adventure. but the island is suffering more and more from the consequences of tourism. i want to find out more about that and what you can discover here, despite the covert related restrictions, let's go, ah, we take a look back at suits golden age as a hotspot for jet centers and celebrities. on the neighboring island of fur, we see how today's tourism is displacing the locals. and with present the

winning video of our final vimeo campaign, it takes us to south america. ah . like in the summer of 2020, there's a lot going on in. so this year most of the islands, hotels, and holiday apartments are right here. invest island in this 2nd summer of the pandemic, many germans have opted for east vacation instead of traveling abroad. ah. com, where are you from? from kosler. why have you come to suit much because it's nice and it's germany. it's wonderful. here you have to see that there was there, like we always come here. everything special nature waves. everything is of a thought on. but germany has quite a few islands. why is it no idea?

like maybe you know? yeah, it's been does from the horn. yes. and i've been coming here since childhood. it started when i was 3 and i came with my parents up and as i got hooked back, then hound like entity at the zillow top, zillow has such amazing variety, well, there are so many ways to have fun fi on on this. yeah, i live all of germany is represented here of life, no, from business, every one ranging from street musicians to the super rich this summer. and they all get along somehow, you know, on the alas, what makes it so special to swap the median that i tulsa is, is i still, you're always ready to go swimming? yeah. like today for sure. i love you have fun. thanks. enjoy yourself to bug its own me

even if you can hardly imagine it now. it was mainly fisherman who used to live here, and captain swift retired on the island. the 1st travellers came in the 19th century, in 1855 vis the land became seaside resort, but it only became famous in the 1960s. when celebrities discovered this island in the late 19th think seas sons, we invented itself, developed a wild night life. attracting celebrities like playboy and his acts as a regular aguilar hadn't done so. and good to zach's invited you. you'd go to the bar and wait there and wonder. well then there were the girls there and it was very relaxed. one by ok. and i loved mingling with that society and hanging out with celebrity so, and it was pretty interesting until sunday, actually industrial fortune gone to sax, held wild parties at night and caused disturbed by dang images. and i'll pay

a v with this guy. he had this b, m w with a box arranger or done with wearing a helmet, wasn't yet mandatory fleet for name ser talking. he had long hair, leather motorcycle goggles lit well done, and then hi dominic and sign autographs. that wound up hunter was a great guy and fantastic sham baskerville. i. what do i enjoy? everything here. the see the girls lazing around without a care in the world. i live up. everything is beautiful. ah, the north sea island offered holiday make his a unique chance to get up close to the rich and famous. ah, does it should it should take his seat at a table. and then after a while,

you'd notice some celebrity next to you just sitting there like every one else and not making a fuss is really, you know, and they wouldn't want to fuss. encounters with celebrities was a daily experience for the locals on sent by for p and job years ago who'd off shot the opera singer came to 0 hobby mom. he had an apartment and competent and went to walks and cato, i was driving a bus full of elderly women. and as we went through kai to him, i recognized him and said, mister shock is taking a walk there. and some of the women were close to 80, but they were jumping around like young girl one. and when we got to her, no one of them said can't we go back? i want to see hold off shock again. be that kind of thing always happen. it oh yes, image is a place with a permissive, wild and light hearted lifestyle. not with the nazi. i meant the yes. i want to travel as sustainably as possible over what?

so i rent a bike, like lots of vacationers answered. most of the cycle passed on zillow. go through the do lance, away from the road at because the fee is never far away on this narrow island. i stop for a swim. ah, let's get into the water. the north sea is pretty chilly and refreshing. ah. and the sent out

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ah ah oh oh, the suit of yesteryear may be long gone, but the magnificent freezing homes of waiters and captains overlooking the water and seek have re master. this one's really beautiful. take a look at this house at the mud flaps while m o i'm in cattle. this was once the main town of zoot and it's still sort of the heart of the island. there are no more capitals living here, in fact, not even many local to date freezing houses like these are covetous s holiday hopes . ah. like many other

popular holiday destinations, zip also has a problem with mass tourism and above all, with the disappearance of affordable living space for the people here. we will show you what the speculation with real estate and the conversion of living space into holiday homes means for the locals, using the example of the neighboring island offer. ah, since it po norma schultz is thinking about her lovely native island 1st. but things have changed here. i'm gonna to include that when you come here. now you can see that there's a differently entail called the prices have risen dust and that's attracting different people. come on the light, i understand why people like to come here. but the danger is that too many houses will be built and stand empty to beaufort. this means the people who have always

lived here won't be able to afford it any more efficient. well, i can lou lou fall could felting was born in new to zoom on fil. 10 years ago he still had 15 neighbors. now just one gear, creaking reba, z and z are there. you can see a house that's occupied by 2nd home owners when they're there. i was in, but that is rare. since my year these, this whole, that house is in the hands of outsiders and nobody lives there either. jesus holes . so it will be found in this house down there where the flag is waving. no one lives there either. so it's all been sold. there's been a huge sell off, give, using hulu. houses being built everywhere, mainly by people not from the island. they pulled down the old phrygian houses to construct new holiday homes. the old village community is vanishing,

volunteer firefighters road services clubs. for centuries, the island is kept everything together. except in little this man is one of the few who still speak the north phrygian language. in many areas were just tolerated. the list. yes. who does them as caput. if it's the witnesses of the past are gone. fulton. it's partly self inflicted but it's also been imposed. gary. ok. yes. hoot . assume has sold out in the vic timothy i, alternately, it's the locals. but when it comes to money it was all shabby. people will do anything for the right price woman under to for started at a gold air. it's a gradual process. his effects are plain to see. it's been a long time since children played here in neighboring ne bloom. 80 percent of the houses are holiday homes. the may i try to see the positive side for

a tahoe that is buildings with their thatched roofs india. it's great that we still have them. how song does hit the locals probably wouldn't have been able to afford the upkeep of chron one. no one person who can afford it is martin, have us with these are needless and so renovating an older building such as the one you were looking at cost, it's about a $1000000.00 euros in food. so either someone comes and pays for it or that doesn't happen and it falls into disrepair. of course, the obvious disadvantage is that the prices to the places that have been done up are unaffordable. ah, it's a market in which the islanders can hardly compete. delegates a house or if you inherit a house, for example, like me and my sister, then it's impossible to buy the other person out so as to keep the house and that will likely lead to the house being sold to cough. you split the money,

but you don't have anything else here. and that means that it gets more and more difficult to come back here is of it must really gone. ah, or beck answered katerina. chris is familiar with the problem of real estate. speculation that is displacing local residence. she takes me to one of the many construction sites and restaurant this billing will mainly have apartments for holiday guests. right around the corner, we see renovated fusion houses that announced 2nd homes. and mostly empty katerina has joined up with others from zoom in a network called megabytes or meg that has had enough to receive you with the mega dice initiative. why has method had enough of bone life method? crisis answers. i'm flores on a monitor. i isd is a group of pro active locals from zillow and friends of the island who say that the

sat out of the island has to stop. and that building in every open space and creating traffic, gridlock by bringing more cause has to and we say less is more now. what exactly do you want to achieve? i, if a local india looked to commit an answer and play, and we're trying to start a conversation with various actors on the island. we approach the locals, the politicians, the investors, the realtors, the state municipality. we're trying to start a dialogue that could help solve the current problems or given impetus, and also make people more aware of this is or mine for awful sensibilities young. this is an initiative. you can talk to people, but you don't have power. and is it? we're not the politicians with citizens representing our interests until one wardrobe retired, the group. we won't be a public involvement and seal selves as the citizens council. tribal government says that democracy has to be active in alive and that we should be included in

projects and have the right to participate in decision making. but he thinks shouldn't be decided over our heads by some back from investors to mazel, but citizens should be included so that things can be decided through collaborative dialogue. and i'm good my job to kinda look at thing. and she, nevada, my got to be honest. if i can earn more money with a holiday apartment, then with a permanent one, then i'll go for the holiday apartment. how can you prevent that has been done? and we want the municipality to define permanent residence in life and make it harder to turn them into holiday rental, home die, or 2nd, homes visits. so what's wrong with the 2nd dogs? as often that this is if people buy a living space on zillow, but they then only visit a couple of times a year. that means the homes remain empty most of the time, and it blocks them from being permanent residences. so this destroys community life on the island route it. what did you wish for your zone in the future? ah, i'd like my children,

i'd be able to experience the beautiful nature here. even i'd like guests and locals to mingle without tension. i have an easy going time for every one would be lovely. good luck to go. yeah. oh, i figure if i'm on suit, i have to try surfing the island as well known for windsurfing in. there are several schools where you can learn this sport. your how often are you on the watercolor? as often as possible? who i tried to get people into windsurfing to bring we brought us with how was your 1st time? you just went out on the water and it worked and stuff. that's how i thought it would be. all right, but for 2 hours i was in the water or with bumps and scrapes on my legs. under bye and muscle cramps, muscular kaba, and i wasn't getting anywhere. this under shadow, i gave up the gym. how did my my calmer and i called the american who had delivered it to me and said, shit man, i'm sending this back. if it's defective hustled soon. and then the 2nd day went

fine up and then it went perfectly, it worked perfectly. and so my mistake was practicing in a gale, not a light. well, on the 2nd day i had light winds and i got the hang of it over color. schmidt is a surfing legend on suit. i want him to show me how to get the hang of it as a beginner. gordon the golden rule and windsurfing is to always stand and sail with your back to the wind. i think so i should. good. yes. come round until stand here . oh, always crawl up on to where its widest do that please give me your mass hand on the hand that holds the master has to hold it really tight. just in your sheet hand on the gentle hand holds the sale and keep its size mom like that. excellent piano. so yes, piano. so you know the shock assign the middle fingers go down and that's the surfers greeting over time. that's where it comes from. now i finally know when the people

in the photos always go like this one. yes, that's right. what do you think is the greatest speed you can reach and windsurfing of the world record god for 50 was almost a bit more 102 kilometers an hour. this is the, this is the fastest mano hall sailing vessel in the world. when does, and that's just because you create this flying state to come, you can call the sale right in close on the and that's how you start flying over the water. pretty good. let's keep it relaxed or death my. you can start by going back and forth and ending up where you started from coupon. that would be a big success it afford. i'm oh with i just, i 1st. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. a balance balance balance. that's right. for if you do the whole the sale in history and then look ahead

learn under i'm soon. good. no, randy from john from them or my bone bull the sale over the back of the board or hoping to start over again go yes. our vision daughter soon. oh. 6 ah, when it's read, turn it around green dog and older than others. oberon, his voice exhausted. my respect for all those who already mastered windsurfing. it was fun. and i think it wasn't the last time i tried it.

my last speech takes me to the north of the island. i've heard there is something really rare here on suit migrating sand dunes. oh, since they are in a nature reserve, you can only enter as part of a guided tour. that is why christina kolinski from the forces of nature experience center here ensued is accompany me. oh, to see to seen it. why do i have to come here with you? why can't i walk alone in this beautiful landscape, an immense enviva you? because we are in a nature reserve and it is the oldest in shenise they constantine. it was founded in 1923. why does this landscape, these demons, ne protection did a height that drew near preserving the geniuses preserving the island necessary. it really is the case that the island has shifted east and it would disappear if i didn't do anything that the my vinegar food. that was why it has become consensus

over the years. that if we can keep the teams in place and protect from, have i not letting people run around on them with the sand when he blown away as on and the island up can be protected, done in the goose shoots as well. let's talk about the dune for a moment. it's of course beautiful. but in the end it's just a heap of sand. what's to ask him about it, but as the odds of his anger. ah rochester gonzo. bizarre, not so special about it maybe for me, but it's the fact that it is one of the last remaining symbols of how dynamic this area is, how it's always in motion with us last year. and we'd like to turn it into a museum vilma. but that doesn't work unless we live higher and the tourists come here and admire it. and that's a contradiction here calmed us into the us. on the one hand, this huge dynamism that's part of nature also do not. on the other hand is enduring and static aspect that humans wandered, scanned immersion, and to be caught up in ice tension and enabled people to experience it here that

out. that's what i find so special and you told us because on with that on the migrating dunes of the it can be seen best from this outlook point or it can get really crowded, uncertain the main season. but if you prefer some peace and quiet, you should take a trip to the northern tip to the so called elbow of the island. ah, the trip to the northern tip is well worth. ah, ah ah, that's what i was looking for. no umbrellas, no beach chairs but

lots of north sea and a beach that seems endless. ah, another typical feature of it is this kind of speech restaurant. you'll find them all over the island. somehow you can always find a quite spot no matter how crowded the island is. i love when i can be out in nature so much like on the island of suit. you don't need a car here. a bike is perfectly fine. don't be afraid of head winds and you should bring a liking for the chilly north sea with you. then you'll have a good time. i'm curious how the island will deal with the problem of mass tourism

in the future. we'll see. bye bye. see you next time here on check in with ah, ah, with

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