on our website, d, w dot com ah ah ah, ah, well come to this new edition of checkin. this time we check out 3 popular ski resorts in the european out 1st, lucas steger heads to st. morris in switzerland, the fashionable time in the angle in region is considered the birthplace of winter sports. then lucas moves on to escape in austria, where fun is guaranteed,

both on and off the peace and later chickens. nicole freely explores the sites and slopes in germany's ganesh patton. kin got your willies packed 1st. stop switzerland. i'm almost there. all that's left. is this mountain pass. this time i'm going to be pretty high up in the angle. dean. that's a velli in the swiss alps, and it's my very 1st time winter always arrives a little earlier in the year here. the mountains and the angle dean are already covered with snow. the lakes located about 1800 meters above sea level, have not yet frozen over my destination as saint moritz, a place that stands for winter tourism like no other. ah, any more. it used to be

a simple farming village, but today you see massive hotels and shop windows with luxury items. it is still pretty quiet before the destinations peak season. tour guide leave the place to go explained to me that winter tourism was the result of a bed between the hotel owner, you 100 spotwood and a group of forest summer travellers from england. when they made a field, he said come to saint moritz in the winter, and if you don't like it, i'll pay for your trip from london to saint moritz and back. and if you'd like it, you can stay at my hotel for free as long as you'd like live. and needless to say, he want the bed. and as a result, st mertz became a popular trouble. destination in winter time to 5 luxury hotels are spread across the alpine resort, which is told to about $5000.00 residence. by the way,

there is also a leaning tower in saint moritz, the remnant of the st. maricia church stands on an unstable slope and has to be secured again and again. the st lawrence consists of 2 districts and escalator takes you comfortably from xact movie, stalls or village down to the movies, spot or boss. on the on the walls, you can see photos with motifs from winter sports history. the news international competitions take place with mountain town regularly. even the

st. mary's lake is used in winter for a rather unusual event. a polo tournament. this lake is guaranteed to be frozen over every year so that horses can walk on it. yeah, yes. if we're out in december, we need about a week of minus 30 degree temperatures every night. i ideally without any wind and then it freezes over nicely. it'll be covered in about half meter to one meter of snow. the ice isn't too slippery since there's snow on top it so far, it's always been cold enough. like today it's quite briskly shut. your eyes are tearing up from the cold. well if cla thank you very much for taking the time today. is it my pleasure? come back any time

will i noticed st more it is a pretty cold place in winter? so exercise is required. and right now i'm going cross country skiing ish named it as there's the slightest, the 1st i'm going to take your holes away so we can start off together and come here in switzerland. we say that every one always has a chocolate foot by $11.00. that's a bit better than the other, which is yours. so this is done. should i say the right one, that is the right ones in with and then we'll put on your left ski. so. okay, on that now you're more or less fully attached to me. the heal remains free and cross country skiing. i'd put i am long low. hm. oh, being careful with the extended leg. yeah. or do a good rests. right side. bend your knee and ankle, boy, and then let yourself fall forward like a board on to the left skin from g. first step is the

hardest. oh no ha. again bent down on the rider. look ahead not and let yourself fall forward level and loss. very good. when that's cavity now i'll give you these 2 rings to hold and you'll keep looking at her horner on. then when the lensky moves forward, the right hand comes up on tarzan will. can take really small steps at for lie. none. should it then lift oh, but lift her and give her the thermally ah ah, ah, ah mon! if you for me, i don't understand why this is so difficult is all i have to do is stay in my lean font. excuse me.

ah, but later this must look totally stupid. very nice. a after i finally get going, i can't help but challenge hines. a little bout a little race ethnic i get with the trail also serves as a training route for young athletes. this

is so exhausting. i'm sweating so much that my clothes are soaked but once you get the hang of it, it's a ton of fun gliding over the snow, especially with a backdrop like this. ah, i feel like, oh, oh oh, soon i'll hit the downhill slopes, but 1st it's time for a break. and some refreshments. gangadean is also renowned for its sweet treats. the master confectioners, from the ang adeep, have made a name for themselves as far as venice. ah, i troy

a piece of the famous anger, the nut cake. it's made out of short crust pastry and filled with roughly chopped care. m a list. walnuts. ah, it's tasty. and the perfect way to refute with our 2nd destination is oscar in austria. oh god. god, oh, fun fun with this is a song by voice gun. i'm both. it's like the unofficial austrian winters sports anthem. well, and even though the songs and german,

i only understand half of it because it's sung an austrian dialect, but i definitely understand what he wants to say with the song she fun. well, skiing is the most beautiful thing you can imagine and, well, this could be the motor for my trip, right? i'm in austria on my way to escape into your old school. if it's skilled sounds familiar, it might be because the village hit the headlines at the start of a pandemic. as a super spread a resort, lots of people got cove it in the app risky bars here. now, the resort has reopened for tourists. the puts known as skill ski. yes. is one of the largest in the alps. i definitely be the selfie there. with the sun blazing here at 2300 meters,

a bit of sunscreen is highly recommended. i was told that there are a lot of the easier blue labeled slopes here at the eat up station just right for a beginner like me. i came down this slope and i didn't pause. i asked her a lot of fresh snow in the last few days. the slopes are in excellent condition. it was that bad, right?

i'm not the only one that's decided to use this sunny day to go ski. there's a lot going on at the mountain station. will come way from switzerland. i'm from romania, but i live in germany. berlin, western germany, even i'm from slovakia, where are you from? i'm from walter down the netherlands. we're from belgium passed away the main in the south straightness fara north. but what the ski mean to you personally on freedom fun. we love to party here. it goes amazing in how do you feel about app risky? is that part of the experience? a buyer? yeah, definitely. we started lunchtime. huh. what happens after skiing app risky time her

very good. you both of the don't does. it varies to guess what? there are some in our group that don't drink at all while they're skiing with others who do treat themselves to a beer when they take a break. and then they head to the bar afterwards to relax a bit more and then spun. india ok, relaxing means drinking more. yeah. okay. but if you're going down the slope with alcohol, isn't that little danger? you saw there we are. i was way at him. rarities with as i'm here in the alps, i'm keen to get out into nature and leave to trouts behind. so i've signed up for a walk with snow shoes. what's on there? a guy is going to take me on a tour in the mountains. a snow shoe hike is especially beautiful

if it snows heavy lead the days before. you can't really slow down and relax. ah, what's ross? deeper here? oh, what's happened to you? oh you ah . i think i like this better than skiing. but i'm glad to have an experienced guide with me. i can't help feeling a little anxious. no, there's no need to worry home. i don't know. what's the front of me? i'm a bench at worst. lang. oh, oh. first you're a bit unlucky. it's like quicksand. what oh,

where did you end up? oh, i have to dig my way out. know the red if you need to take a step back backwards in. adequate and there is not again of i shall remember. well, just imagine you were out without any snow shoes on break because howard it's us. i think oh your shoes, come off the shoe wake. oh, i didn't even notice my snow. she was gone with madonna monotony which i noticed. how does he know shifted somehow and then there were creepy noises . how dangerous is that is a guide necessary guide?

you did that i little see that i yes, it's wise to take a guide. i rented some by for a few fall down somewhere and it was stanley. she shes out. there is also the risk of avalanches. sony again to or you go into a valley and have the slope towering over you. i don't. and then it's suddenly all comes down on you and it's dangerous and convinced you have to be able to gauge how great the risk of an avalanche is really rises here. i'd only continue if i was sure of anita and also at the end of my tour, robert wants to take me to a good vantage point. he's happy to finally be back working as a mountain guide and ski instructor how does every sky work now, an issue with all that drinking and partying? given the pandemic restrictions with my vaccination certificate, i can get in no problem. i've chosen one of the classier api sky bars, the champagne hot. hey,

i was told the music wasn't that loud anymore and you also needed seat. but what else? well, there is no shortage of champagne. i have gump up the hat of a champagne hot. make sure of that with ah, with wasn't that, am i? what do you think makes epsky so special? my i push up race ski is what we had before the pandemic. i double, but because of covered done,

we can't have the loud parties like we used to use it because allows people aren't allowed to dance just needs done some in john. we have to make sure they all stay see them. it's just different. but on the whole is yeah, you can hear the music isn't loud, was it doesn't matter. but after a couple bottles of gen, people start to get into the spirit. anyway, due to the fact that with do you think that the bible will come back? i'm convinced of it, it's just a matter of time and how soon, hopefully, next year already. but it's impossible to say that at some stage now it'll go back to what it was before. thank you of that's enough. and finally, we had to picturesque damaged pattern cation in germany, where nicole freely went exploring before the crone of virus pandemic, charming, painted houses and no cap mountain. i'm in the barrier on my way to the to expect

them with . today i'm going to check out kill extreme ceremonies, highest mountain, and i think orange all of it in and around one of the country's most popular destinations for a winter sport scottish pot. and, but the thing i'm most excited about is right behind me, the nude silk spits cable car. they'll take me to the top in no time. here i am at the foot of the duke's bit excited to board the brand new cable car, which went into operation in december 2017. the new state of the art cabins can hold up to 120 people. it's hope that this will reduce waiting time in line, especially on weekends with

and in just 10 minutes, we reached the summit at a breathtaking 2962 meters. on clear days, you can see all the way to switzerland and even italy. it's a panorama that draws more than half a 1000000 people here every year. so where are you from? i'm from russia. okay, what brings you to the took spitzer today? emotion, fantastic emotion. this is my 1st time in dirt landed. this is my 1st time on this to cuz looks pizza. it's so fantastic on the amazing, fabulous view. what do you think of that? so this is your 1st time. it is my 1st time i love it. it's the 1st time i've been in a glacier ball, so this is very exciting. but what you're glad for the day you're, you don't want,

but i think we're going to style pair. hudson, beth, and i knew the german thing. right? yeah. yeah. was bear with me if you don't look like you're going skiing. declined on looking for. we're going sledding, we'll take the cable call down and go sledding on the toboggan, robert to bunch with the fun lou. but a lot of people do come here to ski and if you haven't got equipment of your own, you can rent it right here. ah, ah . ski resort was established in 1949, 5 different lifts. give you access to 20 kilometers of slopes. ah

ah ah ah mm with ah, i'm now at the pot a mountain river fed by the melt water from the soup spit that over the centuries the river eroded the rocks and left behind a deep gorge. ah,

i'm meeting who i've asked now. he's been custodian of the pot enough gorged for 18 years. i think after all these years you probably know the gorge better than anyone and garnish pot and kitchen, or even the whole world. what so fascinating about the partner orange them out. is it for you? lama the gorge has a different ambulance in every seasons i saw the food and even at different times of the day. and that is if you're here at 7 in the morning, it's not at all like 230 or 3 in the afternoon, almost died, but i and some of the sunshine and the birds are singing on earth. i like the light is reflected on the legend anymore. and when i'm here at 7 am all alone, it's just wonderful. this interview been, he's only the aaron gonzalez. i like the fact that it's always different. who is at nicholas. i just i see emma on the 5th. but when do you like it? battenberg? i'm fairly honestly windbreaker when it was just below flood level dog stall could

even if after it's been raining hard and the park now is full to brimming. a nature takes over thought, responded, then you're really in wild, pristine nature. that's when i like it best. ah the city of damage pot and cation was once to separate communities. the towns where joined in 1936, but both still retain very individual identity. patton kitchen is the older of the 2, situated along a trade route from venice to outs, book. it was founded by the romans over 2000 years ago. patent cations, ludovic strasser, with its historic facades, is that central showpiece founded about 800 years later,

gar. ms. isn't as old and grand, more like a quirky little sister, with lots of pedestrians, owns shops, and restaurants to connect with . and what better way to end an enjoyable visit to god miss patton kitchen, there are loads of tab friends that serve delicious german cuisine. i decided to go for a class. he's a bit slow with a bit of traditional folk dancing on the side with

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