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ah, feel the magic discover the world around you. subscribe to d w documentary on youtube. ah, ah, the mediterranean was once a major crossroads at the heart of the ancient world. today it has become a barrier separating europe from africa. is there anything left of a passion once share and what do today's distinct cultures have in common?

journalists, xena, l moss. rock and joe power abdul karim, travel the coasts of the mediterranean, in search of answers. do you see yourself as a to me? yes. all the rights and responsibilities. how can you afford to fill these animals with god? help with join us to get to know the people and their dreams, a mediterranean journey it said that the waters of the southern coast of cyprus are the birthplace of love . according to mythology, this is where the goddess aphrodite emerged from the sea. site press is a mediterranean melting pulse of civilizations. the ancient greeks egyptians romans,

the ottomans and british imperial forces all came here and to day it's my turn. my journey begins in the picturesque village of took me who has you. i finally made it a site for a single combat for my not guessing here was quite an ordeal. i can't wait to see what's in store for me. i'm going to grab a shower as i'm drenched in sweat or dan, it's time to go exploring the deckles trauma ah sigh. personalized where europe, africa, and asia converge. its position in the eastern mediterranean has influenced the islands history since ancient times. ringback in 1974, the independent states was divided. the south became a republic led by greek cypriots. while the north was occupied by turkey. is mike, i found this magazine has well come on about put

a great way to stop my trip. yoga blood leafing through it, i found this article unless terrorists and christina, they had this great idea of creating a new wine from an old, great variety. it's as we to sugar. i meeting them both later. and when i came down, we set off down a very winding road leading into the heart of the island. the climate here is ideal for wine growing left terrace. maria marcus is a vintner and lives off the beaten path with his wife, christina, and their 2 children tucked away here in the true dost mountains. they're making their dreams come true. no, honey. hello. oh, hello, looking for you. yes. oh, expert of sweet story, i'm you for your story. and what is their sweet story? the greek cypriot couple produces a dessert. wine based on what just might be the oldest wine in the world, nama, and its successes. i was making wine always of studying grace. i've been working

several, linus and greece, new zealand, argentina, south africa. when i came in cyprus, i've noticed and cut diamonds, which is monday. i'm actually from cyprus, i studied abroad and lived and worked abroad for quite some time. and i, when i met life there, is it everything just kind of made sense and everything kind of fell into place. and because we had so many common interests and especially when it came to work. and that was to create something of our own that had our own identity. christina and left headed live and work by the motto, quality, before quantity. and they're, a nama concept, is paying off, produced with traditional methods and in small batches, this mind has been sweeping up awards. i says, are relatively new. why only 5 years old. for us as a baby. you can see other movies different on the coloreds will be after

another 5 years. it will stay in the moral with the dark cala hill. wow. oh, very intense. her young. so young battle, the only difference to the one that it will be is the same thing. with an architecture that he sees, ah half builded building, we cannot understand what he will become just by looking. and this is a good part of being a one major. you have a reason to toast is so sweet and i taste honey 1st before the way worse on drying, the groves is making it so gentle and would not have dominant are almost we'll have a complexity. who is you make a quick sun drying process. here you destroy the r o mother complexity of the wine, you work together as like capital as a couple however, i challenge in cuz they released it very fun. i. it took us quite

a good few years to actually separate um ah, our duties within, within the company within the brian and kind of said, right, okay, this is where your boss and this is where i am boss, christina, a trained goldsmith and left terrorist and acknowledges founded their company in 2009, and they don't only care about their wine, but also the packaging. this is my workshop, my design room, where we make our, all of the song, all of the labels and where i do a lot of the design work. okay. it was most of it actually goes on in here. and when the wine actually starts being produced, we have 4 products at the moment and every product has a different label. all of our muscles are numbered. it says here i've bottom number $282.00 of the total of a $1678.00. so that's how we number bottles on selling silver button. we have the lever that goes on the top. that works as a seal. obviously for sustainable reasons, we didn't want to use a plastic,

so i sat here with my, with my lead leather and my throat for many, many hours a day. i trying to figure out a way to um, to securely keep her qualcomm every single. but every single thought, all the grapes are dried on the vine for up to 60 days before harvesting, so they're already extremely sweet. sunlight might be vital for grapes, but i prefer the shade. oh, it's very, very hot side. don't understand how you can work here live here in a little very hot fun every day i. this is the reality. we live in the fields. we work in the field, we may wear, i'll shoot and go to presentations, some big events, but it's not exactly where we are. we, a lot of people offer all on there. the biggest percentage. so for the qualities made by nature who and the rest is a shame on thoughts time to leave the mountains and head to the coast of cyprus is the 3rd largest island in the mediterranean after sicily and sardinia

. my next istation is ion napa, a beautiful little result with the european union's eastern most port. i'm meeting dr. louis had you on and the marine biologist is tracking a new intruder in these waters. climate change has made the mediterranean into an attractive living space. hello everybody. i lou, what might look like a some a cruise is actually a research expedition lewis and his colleague carlos work for analia food as a nonprofit organization for marine conservation. and their research is best done under water isn't i don't,

we've had it out today with a grain teen joining us. i to divers who have lots to tell us about the problem. that line of fish i pop from nima. it's like they came from the road, see who we are. not sure how. yes, but it's possible that they have some of the eggs was through this was john and the follow up with the viral with eyes they find free with . i do love to dive in with them and see what's going on down that time to get to exactly i'm

diving into the deep blue is no mean feat a to research is a working on an e. you funded projects aimed at calling this than in the past. they have to find and count them. louis expects to find many around the building here. the rocky reef stuff had plenty of nukes and crannies to heighten. since lions, they have no natural predators. they've been able to spread to practically unchecked with each female laying up to $2000000.00 eggs per year with what are you doing another, are we at the moment? what are these dive we just did? we are trying to understand the behavioral reliance trying to figure out how we behave, probably something with the other fish actually to

strive maybe with life. well, it's kind of late with grades it o one with if it were up to lewis, these non native fish would be caught and sold to eat. all this talk has got me thinking about food, time to head to lima. so on the islands southern coast, i'm surprised by the modern architecture of cyprus is 2nd largest city, and especially impressed by its splendid new marina completed in 2014, a good place to come for fish. quite obvious, i've got a very exciting day ahead of me. not only do i have to go out and buy fish, i'll also have to prepare it myself. thankfully,

i'll be getting expert help from my new friend, rudy, or a movie. dom honest is a chef and he sells me to pick up to guilt head. sabrina, i don't speak the language, so i have to get by with hand gestures so far. so good with what i believe he's a scaling them here though hard to wash off the scales when they're stuck to you and we've got a fabric to do. one thing we ever had in store had is okay for you by the future. you can buy many people appreciate good food and drink that goes for the cypriots tube. in his restaurants, tapia, takia ruddy, demolished breeds new life, inter traditional dishes. i can't wait to see what the author and crossover chef

has in store for me. so you are very, very kind enough as to bring us 2 beautiful, beautiful fresh la they from a fish market to a officially gonna do baby potatoes. i said yes. style goes on one of my favorites . my grandmother's recipe are okay, so that's what we're gonna do. let's get going, i think what yeah, yeah, absolutely not all the way in just through the skin so that the flavor can get into it. we're gonna do a lovely bright green so such is going to be lots of fresh, parsley, beautiful, superior to an oregon. know which i adore bay leaves and of course garlic and you make sure that all of the flavor go into the belly. yeah. okay. and goes into all of these crevices tag. i see how you will prepare the fish. i remind me, am on our side in morocco, and it's called shamela. okay, good. i would love you to like how we make,

and i love this kind of shamela who passed one on the american people. they look at me and with that we have no time cultural immediately looks to run with the panels. so them and normally we put it also in flock. so tom said you hello, this is to have somebody else cooking for me. i notice that i cooking i a few professional coach and i tell you that i have a problem with a lot of my friends. okay. now they've learned. yeah. but people use the excuse that they scared to cook for me to put it on the plate. i very curious what you say now, i'm looking so forward to it, to be honest xterra,

i love it, i love it. i love him with delicious. no, thank you. what in greek was saying, yes, i said yes. so which means a blessing on your hand. ah, what will you want to do now? the last thing is just the pencil and mortar. if you don't my over here and we've got some coriander, hook commander to see that. exactly. exactly. so just crept them but just pack them enough so that the flavor comes out. okay, so now we want to make sure i bake these in the oven in white wine and olive oil. so now what you want to do is just cover them. ok. i love to be here because the so i was this we do is to have to come, which is that but my love, this is what i'm like because you know, each one of us feel that our mothers food is the best and our grandmothers food is

the best, but it's not particularly that it's a culinary a delight, but it tastes magnificent to you because it's from the hands of the person that loves you. doesn't this or tasty. so look how beautifully with her mouth. okay. oh oh oh, it's ever interested because i don't like a boiled garlic, but here is perfect hotel. yeah, i love it. i love it so much. good. the name of brody's restaurant to pia takia means little plates and its walls covered with plates from all over the world. i feel why play it from her? no. wow her exactly where i'm grow up. next time i have to bring a play from oracle, that would be fantastic because i don't have one from it. okay. thank you very much

. my pleasure with the next step is the toombs of the kings near partials. but this isn't a royal burial site. it's where local aristocrats were laid to rest. the greek roman and ottoman empires of old left them are com site, press. one very visible reminder of its past the by kia pasha aqueduct ninana co. geographically speaking, site press is closer to asia, but politically, and culturally it's part of europe. ah ah, the division of the island is between the republic of site pressed in the south and the turkish controlled north in 1974 lead to the creation of a demilitarized buffer zone,

guarded by un peacekeeping forces. this so called green line separates the 2 sides. it's not any dotted with ghost towns. this bitterly contested demarcation line, also cocked straight through the capital nika, thea. here in no man's land is where i'm going to meet marius antonio. he's part of the organisation cyclists across barriers switch off his unique bike to was that crossed the divide while renault here, where they leave at our pilot buffer zone, about to head north in the thirty's occupied area. and this was always throughout the years of the sofas division. there are a check point of, of remained open after presenting our passports at the check points, no malice. he quickly kicks in again, things are a little different here though. the majority of people hear a muslim not christian,

they speak turkish, no greek. they carry different ideas and have a different government. so this warfare a 1000000 quarter over time. and all these lyrical houses look at this when we're here. it's like a russian fire. you a little, but these were the prime properties or for the more affluent, the armenian, you pull of a community over here. so then across here must that plan which primarily used usaid funds are fixed monuments but so hey streets. but they always only fix just a sad oh, the building, most of the buildings in the street are upkeep, but many of them have never seen any renovations, even on the facade since the early 2, thousands,

or when the anacostia master plan fixed up this area, maybe when we come back again, i suspect that this one will have collapsed. okay. we have to look at another with there are many beautiful building. oh, let's go with the left, we have the armenian church and straightforward. we have at the catholic church, the catholic church. the entrance is in fact on the other side of the buffer zone. now we will head back to go see one of the mosques of the c o makalya next election. okay. okay. ah

ah. * how he see he's a morse good was built as a mosque. no. well, my thing is because when the ottoman entered into the cathedral, when the concrete cypress, they turned all catholic churches, all the time came to mosques. therefore we have mosques right over here that look like kathy draw through. so we have here a classic the mosque with one main dome and 4 half dawn around it. and then 3 doors in the front. he was see how elaborate the work on the line stone on the nina is. it is really for the fact you learn. ah, ah, ah, an eventful day on site, chris straws to

a close to morrow. i'm heading to the beach. cypress boasts $300.00 days of sunny year, an average temperature of 20 degrees celsius. countless cultural treasures and 620 kilometers of beach is attract tourists from around the world. in 20142400000 visitors came here. 2019. that number had reached 4000000 but more tourists also means more plastic waste. the conservation organization at d is battling against the growing problem of trash on the beaches and its impact on the environment. one way they do this is by raising awareness that schools during the summer school kids on site pris, carry out speech cleanup every year we do on the 4th of this month

on cyprus, we are trying to encourage and it's quoted them to actually see the problem it's a hands on experience for them. they see what's the problem and for these experiences get more than just in the class telling them okay, listen, it draws the plastic long on metal. maybe because they're too lazy to walk, a walk back. oh, i me see a daughter from the organization for a stroll along the beach. oh you it's missing. i believe you, joe. we take

a little more. it has his points out one company in particular, it's difficult to spots because it's barely visible amongst the sounds. very rarely letter. how can you see it over there? they're always at the beginning of the course of funding, etc. we have the that's a bug with michael leslie. yeah. like you show me over there and yeah, it never, it never by the grades. so it's always in the environment. become smaller and smaller and much more difficult to connect feature they contribute with food. and then they start the thing, it was the problem with the feeling they it's and they

come out of the accident that yeah, i mean, do you have some cooperation with the region? yeah, yes. i mean, we have martin luther cyprus and in this project, which is a by coming in on the one where trying to use modern live, there was a problem we held borders, essay based building to, you know, that will bring that to community or together. very simple, and they're good at least when it comes to cleaning up trash, the north and the south. i mean agreement. ah, i mentioned i maxim incredible people here with great ideas,

great ideas for preserving cultural heritage while bringing it into the here and now i'm looking forward to the next leg of the journey. but now i'm off to enjoy the coast of cyprus a little bit longer. i soon bye. ah ah. ah, ah, with

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