hey mrs tate up at w. news from belinda is more on our website d w dot com ah ah, ah ah summer sun, the sea and the zoot. i am on my way to germany biggest north sea island. this can be easily reached by train. the last few kilometers of track passed through walt natural heritage site. the unique warden. c with the final stop is vest olandt, the largest town ons it. from here i plan to explore the island

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 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 will present the winning video of our final v mail 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 a stay cation 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's, there was there, like we also come here. everything special nature waves. everything is of addiction, but germany has quite a few islands or why is it no idea maybe, you know? yeah, it's been doesn't good. yes. and i've been having here since childhood, it started when i was 3 and i came with my parents up in his i got hooked back, then hound. like in 50 yet,

though tut zillow has such amazing variety one or there are so many ways to have been fired on thursday i'll, i'll get all of germany is represented here, offload no phone booth. every one ranging from street musicians to the super rich law. and they all get along somehow on the last. what makes it so special, the spot, everything that i tulsa is, is nice and you're always ready to go swimming. yeah. like today for sure. well, if you have fun, thanks. enjoy yourself and budget. so me even if he can hardly imagine it now, it was mainly fishermen who used to live here and captains who have retired on the islands. the 1st travellers came in the 19th century in 1855 vesta lung, became a seaside resort. but zoot only became famous in the 1960s when celebrities

discovered his island in the late 19 thank sees sons, we invented itself developed a wild nightlight, attracting celebrities like playboy and his acts hasn't been good as aguilar hadn't done so. and good to zach's invited. you, you'd go to the bar and wait there on monday. and then there were girls there and it was very relaxed. run by ok. and i loved mingling with that society and hanging out with celebrity. so it was pretty interesting until sunday. and to an industrial fortune, going to sax held wild parties at night and caused disturbed by dang image. and i'll pay a vague with his gay had this b m. w with a box or ranger or done with wearing a helmet wasn't yet mandatory, leaked for names or tong. he had law, hair, leather motorcycle got really well done,

and then her dark eyes and sign autographs that window hunter was a great guy. and fantastic. hm. let's get well i what do i enjoy? everything here. the see the girls of lazing around without a carolyn world. i live up. everything is beautiful. ah, ah, the north sea island offered holiday makers and unique chance to get up close to the rich and famous. ah, does it, should it take a seat at a table? and then after a while, you'd notice some celebrity next to you. it's just sitting there like everyone else and not making a fossil, you know, and they wouldn't want to fuss. hum. encounters with celebrities was a daily experience for the locals on sent by for p and job years ago who'd

off shock the opera singer came to 0 happy mom. he had an apartment and competent and went for walks and cato, i was driving a bus full of elderly women and as we went through kite, hm. i recognized him and said, mr. shock is taking a walk there. he had the, some of the women were close to 80, but they were jumping around like young girl, one court and when we got to her, no one of them said, can't we go back? i want to see would of shock again be that kind of thing. always happened it? oh, yes, image is a place where the permissive wild and light hearted life style with the nazi i'm in to be yes. i want to travel as sustainably as possible over what so i rent a bike, like lots of vacationers answered. most of the psychopaths on good go through the do landscape away from the roads

at because the sea is never far away on this narrow island. i stopped for a swim. ah, let's get into the water. ah, the north sea is pretty chilly, and refreshing. ah, ever sent out. i just love traveling, especially to south america,

and that's why i'm particularly happy to announce the winning video from our last year campaign. we asked you to send us your holiday videos and we like the one from his lane tom, on, from switzerland best, a south america tour as a selfie video. very inspiring. ah. with ah.

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the suit of yesteryear may be long gone, but the magnificent freezing homes of whalers and captains overlooking the what and seek i have re master. this one's really beautiful. take a look at this house at the mud flaps while i am now. i am entitled this was once the main town of zoot and it's still sort of the heart of the island . there are no more captains living here. in fact, not even many locals 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 holmes means for the locals, using the example of the neighboring island of fur. ah, since in a po norma schultz is thinking about her lovely native island 1st. but things have changed here. i'm one year to include that when you come here now you can see that there's a differently entail is 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 about for it. this means the people who have always lived here won't be able to afford it any more situate. well, i spoken lou. lou falcon faulting was born and who does zoom on fill 10 years ago. he still had 15 neighbors. now just

one gig tracking reba, z and z are there. you can see a house that's occupied by 2nd home owners when they're there wasn't but that is rare. since my, you these, this whole that house is in the hands of outsiders and nobody lives there either. jesus holes. oh, it would be fun 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 of given 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 islanders kept everything together excepting and little this man is one of the few who still speak the north phrygian language areas. we're

just tolerated. the list. yes. who does them? as caput is, it's the witnesses of the past are gone for it's partly self inflicted, but it's also been imposed already. ok. yes. who assume has sold out in different timothy, ultimately it's the locals. but when it comes to money, it was all the shabby people will do anything for the right price under to forestall and at it. i gold here, 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 tries to see the positive side for ada hoisin english fielding's 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 $1.00 0, $1.00 person who can afford it is martin,

have us who's on the line is and so renovating an older building such as the one you were looking at cost, it's about a $1000000.00 euros. 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 if you inherit to 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 a cough. you split the money the you don't have anything else here. and that means that it gets more and more difficult to come back here. is it a must really gone? ah or beckon's

it 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. around the corner, we see renovated freezing houses that announced 2nd homes. and mostly empty katerina has joined up with others from zoom in a network called meg advised, or meg that has had enough to risk if you with the mega dice initiative. why has met it had enough of bone life? metal crisis answers i'm floss. foreign metalized is a group of proactive locals from zillow and friends of the island who say that the sell 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 this is more now. what exactly do you want to achieve? isaac, therefore, local india,

i looked to comment in iceland clay. and we are 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 those letters or mind for awful sensibilities young godaddy, an initiative. you can talk to people, but you don't have power. if it were not the politicians with citizens representing our interests on to one look at the tiny group, we won't be a public involvement and seen selves as a citizens council. triplicate government says that democracy has to be active and 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 collaboration dialogue in i'm gonna change. i've taken the, i 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 to home or 2nd, homes visits. so what's wrong with the 2nd homes? as of 3rd, that 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? so could ah, i'd like my children might be able to experience the beautiful nature here. i thought guessed the locals to mingle without tension. 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 as though that's how i thought it would be. oh, but for 2 hours i was in the water or with bumps and scrapes on my legs. and by and muscle cramps muscular kaba, and i wasn't getting anywhere. this under shadow. i gave up to jim, how did my my calmer on, and i called the american who had delivered it to me and said, shit man, i'm sending this back. if it's the fact it wasn't filled 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 reader, the golden rule, and windsurfing as to always stanton, sail with your back to the wind. i wish so i should. good. yes, come round. we'll stand here. oh, always crawl up on to where it's widest do that please give me your mass hand on the hand that holds the master has to hold it really tight. does he 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 surface greeting. so that's where it comes from. now i finally know when the people in the photos always go like this. well, 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. but 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 pull the sale right in close on the and that's how you start flying over the water. pretty good. let's keep it, relax your death. my. you can start by going back and forth and ending up where you started from your blog. that would be a big success it afford. i'm oh, concerned with guy for ya of fallon se balance balance. that's right. refusing to hold the sale in history and then look ahead on my, on the term sheet. good. rounded john. john, from whom am i been told the sale over the back of the board or

ok to start over again. go. yes i did. all this done. god is in oh. 6 6 ah no, it's great. turn it around, room dog and out of the mothers over doors on his voice exhausted my respect for all those who already mastered windsurfing. it was fun. and i think it was 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, insert is accompany me. oh, to see the scene it. why do i have to come here with you? why can't i walk alone in this beautiful landscape in a month? enviva you? because we are in a nature reserve and it is the oldest in shenise, they conch time it was founded in 1923. why does this landscape, these dunes neat protection? it is a height that drew near preserving the geniuses possessing the island necessary. it really is the case that the island has shifted east and it was disappearing off. i didn't do anything about the marvin. i've heard of that. it's why it has become consensus over the years. but if we can keep the genes in place and protect from, have i not letting people run around on them when people the sand would be blown away? as on the island of can be protected, done is the integral 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 handle was on us. oh, right back on the opposite. not so special about it. let me do this for me. 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 as fast. yeah, i would like to turn it into a museum. veal mine, 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, scan immersion, and to be caught up in ice tension and enabled people to experience. sit here. oh, that's what i find. so special annual dispos onward upon the migrating dunes of dirt 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, he 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 it. 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 a typical feature of the is this kind of beach restaurant. you'll find them all

over the island. somehow you can always find a quiet spot, no matter how crowded the island is. ah, me. i love when i can be out in nature so much like on the island of the. you don't need a car here. the bike is perfectly fine, don't be afraid of had 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 islands will deal with the problem of mass tourism in the future. we'll see, bye bye. see you next time here on check in. ah ah ah, ah ah,

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