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book complete with isn't really cheap umbrella. it's wet, great and cold. typical winter weather in berlin. what's there to do at this time of year to day, i have a few cool and hot tips for you. i had to the tropics, get a sense of spring in the botanical gardens. i turn up the heat. i'm going to try a red hot version of a traditional snack and extreme chill out. even the glasses in the berlin ice bar, or frozen climb in berlin. as you've probably noticed, and i'm checking out the news, viewing terrace in the german capitol. it's on the roof of the home. what forum in the mid district, it's

a great location for taking in the sites with the city. weather conditions are and so ideal today, but we're making the best of it. berlin is actually always worth the trip. well and the advantage in winter the city is relatively empty. so now you can see many of the attractions that are overrun by tourists in the summer. at your, for example, the hood forum or should i say the berlin palace. it was severely damaged in world war 2 later, blown up and only recently rebuilt. most of the facades have been rebuilt. true to the original but on this side, the building is more at 21st century. the new old palace opened in 2021. it was named after 2 brothers from berlin, the scientists, alexander, and vin,

him for whom boyd inside it looks contemporary. the homewood forum is a modern museum building with a variety of exhibitions a little to for you at mission to the humbled forum and most exhibitions is free. you can get your ticket on line or at the counter on arrival. i'm going to start my tour in the palace cellar. here you can still see the old wooden foundation piles that used to support the building. they've since been replaced by concrete versions, o fees or the old castle foundations. it's origin stayed back to the 13th century. first it was a monastery. later, a palace. it's been part of berlin cities gave for centuries,

but its reconstruction has been the subject of much controversy. ah, on september 7th, 1950. the war ravaged berlin palace was demolished on orders of east germany's communist rulers. it didn't fit with communist ideology for over 2 trees, it had served as the official residence of prussian kings and german emperors. now, the landmark building in berlin center was history. in its place, the communist authorities built the palace of the republic. it housed the east german parliament and was a center for arts and culture all that came to an end with german reunification in 1990. the building was immediately closed as it contains large amounts of asbestos

. a debate began over how to redesign the area some thought to keep the palace of the republic and a woman against some of the others. wanted to see the old prussian residence rebuilt even erecting a tarpaulin, depicting a full scale painting of the building in the summer of 1993. a possible 3rd option of building something completely different was dismissed from the start. on july, 4th, 2000 to the german parliament voted in favor of rebuilding the old berlin palace. the communist palace of the republic was torn down, and architects were invited to submit their ideas for the new building. the design put forward by italian architect franco stella was chosen. ready the outward appearance stuck closely to the baroque original, but the facade on the eastern side was a modern building. in june 2012,

the work finally got under way. the federal government contributed 590000000 euros a further 100000000 euros for reconstructing the baroque facades, was raised through donations. 9 years later, it was complete. in the summer of 2021, the humboldt forum opened to visitors from all over the world. with ah, the humboldt forum has many exhibitions i've chosen to visit the ethno logical museum. it has artifacts from africa, from the south seas, from south america. they are the source of a lot of controversy and has hit the headlines repeatedly because many objects come from former german colonies. so the question is, did they come to berlin lawfully,

or were they stolen by the colonizers if stolen, don't they have to be returned? one prominent example is a sailing vessel from the island of loose and poplar new guinea. it is the last of its kind. how do you build such a boat? the knowledge was lost with the people who became victims of violence perpetrated by german colonialists in 18. 82, i have a few questions for the museums director from tim are or how do you deal with the object? is that we're not required legally? do they stay here or do they get sent that? and here, what are the needs which reveal guns or forcing, or if we discover through our research that an exhibit was taken illegally from us . we approach our partners with either 3 national embassies or through local museums and the other country. you have to ask how we can proceed together became with on with why the, for the isn't and how many objects here are stolen, how many are not efficient? because when we finish, those can be, as we can say, yes. and because in many areas that joint research is still ongoing and cannot,

but everything that left the original countries under colonialism is now obviously subject to more intense research are false, but not everything from the colonial era was necessarily stolen young context. even at that time. there were instances where items were voluntarily transferred, sold, or gifted or side. although, of course, all that happened against the backdrop of certain power structures went up. some moto, this was like a fun assist, that's it. so if it turns out that most of the limits were stolen and so might the museum gradually empty out over time olson, this is lucille me to take my lead hazard gave up. and also this was the only new i don't think that will house out of i've seen we have a huge collection around half a 1000000 artifacts blunder. and that's not including intangible cultural assets yet. so you're only seeing 2 to 3 percent of the collection auto center. this is a research institute there class and with some of the artifacts, like even though we're transferring ownership clouds, we still need to keep them here so we can research them together. good my them,

so not everything is being returned completely. and that's not the focus of discussion right now. the only woman it is a ppo, meaning what about the high profile artifacts like the boat? oh, we know that was taken illegally alive. my what will happen there? if we see haggard was don't assume we establish contact both with the descendants of the original winners for and with the government of papa and you guinea, the government said it's proud to have the boot here as a display of its national culture. and so i'm, the community says it wants to recover the expertise. if he was up there, they asked for an invitation to berlin, so they can study it tonight and build boots like that again, can all doesn't go on that with you and functioning as board banker. as you can see, the responsibilities great ownership. but so visitors are coming soon, focus perform. mm hm. mm hm. absolutely replying to have partners come from manas from the lift community, which will lead to book building projects. there we and we hope we can be there when the boat is reconstructed, the sports reconciliate the and lots of on yes,

my logical collection is just one of a total of 6 exhibitions in the home of forum. so if you want, you can spend several hours or even days here. i continue my tour on an e scooter. i can't be bothered to walk in this weather. i am riding along the wanted a little boulevard to the brandenburg gate. then i turned left and i'm at the pots them up, that's the sections of the berlin wall serve. as a reminder of the decades of germans, the vision and the cold war just around the corner is the german spy museum. one of the james bond for a day in this museum, you can teach and learn all sorts of things about agents and spies in the movies

and in real life fluency. mikulski shows me some of the most exciting exhibits here though. and this is one of the most famous chapters like history of espionage, as it was, we have 2 of the famous on enigma machine used by the germans to include messages at the british managed to break the code during the 2nd world war that which historians believe shortened the war by 3 to 4 years. after the 2nd world war came the cold war, hey, day for secret agents. here you'll find the recreated version of the clean coverage between berlin and potsdam. the soviets and the americans used the bridge repeatedly to exchange spies. they had captured but espionage is not just the male domain. that's actually how say they were always more female agents and the movie suggest right mahan, via the secret police and communists east germany actually developed a brock camera in figure. second off to opt out if the lens was police year and then also i didn't, and the remote trigger was concealed in

a pocket photos. so you could photograph the handover of secret documents, for example, a photograph you i also found out that no spice don't dr. lamborghini s but more ordinary cars. this chubby could take photos using built in infrared technology, made in east germany as chemical wise, the spy museum here berlin wouldn't london be more fitting because of james bond and others for thinking. james bondo little banana center or lies the capital of spies. and that began during the cold war, the when west berlin, surrounded by a 160 kilometers a wallet, was in a unique position, scanning a western enclave right next to the soviet lockhart. am i not perfect for spying tama, so a lot of secret agents are active here. but berlin is still one of the spying capitols today. what i did of germany is very important. internationally, a few of the german intelligence agency is no back in berlin assigns. if we have a 160 embassies here too. so there's

a lot of agents activity going on here. there's at least as much as in london, we're probably more assigned israel. what is, where do all the objects on display here come from? do you think we are of oxygen? we find them. i'm that when we get them collectors and former spies, an agent high school, i'm pretty sure when the nice german secret police disbanded some 2 devices with mexican, i was all very chaotic. so now we get coal saying that this or that, and the seller and would be be interested once we think that we also work with the foreign and domestic intelligence services today, the future professor, they look through their inventory to see what they can release, what's come on got none of the night, technology didn't just stuff to take data. the more cam lawyer techniques are, and i something fast fight at the end. another challenge awaits. meet the laser maze. i'm not allowed to touch any of the laser beams and i only have 2

minutes to cross the room. tonight i'd like a little dad. oh, oh, i was almost there. i can't quite compete with james bond, but that was fun. now it's time to get back to nature from puts them up lots. i can take the s bond line one directly to the da them

district and the botanical gardens the right is just half an hour. 2 hm of course, in summer you can wander around the large outdoor grounds. now in the cold season, 15 glass houses are more inviting. ah, i'm starting in the tropical house. it's a ball me 22 degrees celsius. i'm here. perfect. it's so warm here. i don't want to go outside i'm with an expert guide francisco who is going to show me a few highlights. yes, this is a giant bamboo, the not just bombay. still. there is this. is that the highlight here and foremost if, if i one of our highlights,

it almost touches the ceiling in the tropical house. it's 22 meters high. so it's bank with this is a palm tree known as the sea cope. not the seats came to us from the same shelf. it has the largest seats in the world. and it also looks like a storm is exactly like a large town, and that's what the palm grew from. ah, and here's a blossoming liana. as well, i won't touch it, but can i smell it? nothing blue the cactus world is also fascinating. oh, this is the golden ball cactus. it's over a 100 years old. isn't

that so this is a camelia house that you can see and smell the notch. blossom is like this one old back mass more the flowers. that's a japanese camelia is a sata and are these flowers so special that they get their own glass house. i was vicki, so i yes, politically. drawer lot of visitors in winter time. it's nice to have blossoms here . we're reading outside it's winter, but here it spring from january through to april. you have in the mass of flowers, of the civically to tyesha with take a look around it, spring in berlin, in the middle of winter. ah, want to check in. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. what are the best

places to go? europe, the journey, the destination right? follow our travel guide on you tube. most romantic spot check. best tips for foodies check. as well as the coolest culture. 1000 years old and new medical world heritage site. d w. travel on you to like this way. ah. time for a bite to eat. i've come to us last ross in the district of wedding to a courier worse stand. that is the supposedly the spice is the town. take a look of that. men are allowed to drive. carrie worst is a typical berlin, fast food that can be found on every corner. it's brad for a sausage with curry sauce. it's sometimes hot, but really,

really hot. and i love spicy food. here on north west author. they offer sources with 10 different levels of spiciness rated on the scoville scale. at level one, it has 11000 at level 10, it's 7th point 7000000 schofield. oh man is live really me wrong speed runs the snack bar. okay. if the hose and light hearted and now i really love it, is quite addictive somehow. so while trying to come up with a name for the stand, i decided not korean chilly fit well. and that's how it all started tuesday or from just 10 sauces. level 10 must be incredibly hot. have you tried it yourself? i thought there was no problem. i've tried them all of you out of doors didn't. how was the 10? well, it's not for everyone. the same life with her, the 10 is just fine. got god since your mom has there ever been

a case of someone overdoing it and having a physical reaction? yes, they can affect your heart rate and blood pressure. but the most extreme reaction is when your body cramps up, so that it's difficult to move your hands and legs bite. it passes after 2 or 3 minutes is the body's protect to function without telling you to stop. letting you know that it gets i'd aside from that's enough. reason smith and what about customers from mexico or india that we're used to hot food? which much do they laugh at your sauces. hunger then also genuine. last year, when it's not when they get to level 10, i think 5 or 6 is ok. but after that it's extreme even for them. or that i exactly. i love how to, who to go, and i'm always happy to get an extra chilly oil or flakes with my meal. ginny, like you said, it's addictive sort of, i found that out to, you know, and so, i mean, what level would you recommend for me? it's very imperative when i've seen it. buddhism, i'd say start with 5 monopoly,

right? you can always add to it above in at all. once you've got it in your mouth, that's it. then it hits you as it is to start slowly and add more space if it's too mild an event, it's america. we are not one. okay, okay, i'll give it a try my own. enjoy. hello hi. i'll take if he can sausage with sauce number 5 for food. yeah. humming up. yeah. i, i can't go wrong with mediums vice can i? but maybe i'll risk a bit more of the food that i've got. number 5 on it. and separately, i've given you some of the eights on the 7th. okay. i am

a little afraid. ah no. mm hm. this is number 5 is our ride. so i think i'll continue with 7 and 8. ah. it's getting warmer and that's a good thing in winter and now number 8.

0, good. well, i'm enjoying it, but at the same time it's kind of painful. ah, and it's getting worse right now. that's it for me. others can try number 9 and 10. i quit ah, after a short break, i had for my last stop for the day. the ice bar near alexander puts the manager is expecting me in the bar videos of

a boat trip or projected on the walls. definitely unusual. be a thing. yeah. i know if, if they tell the story of the honda, a german explorer ship that was sent to the north pole in the late 19th century, we become stuck in the ice dime i speaking to been mostly to bonfire crew, had to leave the ship laughing. they camped out on the sea ice and drifted through the arctic ocean for $200.00 of days. that argued, but if not, we'll ami. i could see him true story of ya, whole tree. how can we tell the story here? so here we go. it's her father go, i can pull it off with the year is $1869.00 as we bought the honda. 4 before long we are informed that our ship is trapped in the arctic and being crushed by masses of ice. we have to jump ship but not before putting on warm

clothes. and that's when we enter the ice bar. you can see it, but i can feel it. it's really cold here. minus 10 degrees celsius. a cool tip also for the summer. ah, by the way, the original expedition had a happy end. the crew made it to greenland and later returned home as heroes of the honda to the honda of john. that what a long day from the tropics to the eternal ice. i had it all. those were my berlin winter tips for you. i hope you had at least as much fun as i did. well. bye bye. see you next time. ah ah, ah,

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