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booklet isn't billy sheep 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. at the 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 are frozen ah, 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 humboldt forum in the mid to district. it's

a great location for taking in the side of the city where the conditions are and so ideal to day. 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 overhung by tourists in the summer. and you'll, for example, the what form 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 21st century. the new old palace opened in 2021. it was named after 2 brothers from berlin, the scientists annex sunday, and vin,

him from whom boyce 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 humble 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 they've since been replaced by concrete versions. oh, these are 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 centuries, it had served as the official residents of pression 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 probably made 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 overland. 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 franklin, stella was chosen. 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 form opened to visitors from all over the world. with 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 luke and papa 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 some to model. how do you deal with the object is that we're not required legally? do they stay here or do they get that line here? again, it would be so fortunate if we discover to our research that an exhibit was taken illegally from us. we approach our partner so either through national embassies or through local museums in the other country to ask how we can proceed together. and he came with army by the for, isn't that how many objects here are stolen? how many are not as the clout, if you need? those can be because in many areas that joint research is still ongoing,

kind of the, everything that left the original countries under colonialism is now obviously subject to more intense research false. but not everything from the colonial era was necessarily stolen on context. even at that time, there were instances where items for voluntarily transferred, sold or gifted side. although of course, all that happened against the backdrop of certain power structures, when the motto had stopped. so if it turns out that most of the exhibits were stolen and my museum gradually empty out over time. and that's the only defect, melinda stuff. and also, so suppose the only new, i don't think that was diagnosed. that seems we have a huge collection around half a 1000000 artifact and that's not including intangible cultural acids. you're only seeing 2 to 3 percent of the collection. awesome. so this is a research institute and with some of the artifacts, even though we're transferring ownership, we still need to keep them here so we can research them together. so not everything

is being returned completely. and that's not the focus of discussion right now. one moment give me what about the high profile artifacts like to bono? we know that was taking the lead life. what will happen there for this me see, you have a stablish contact, both with the descendants of the original owners and with the government of papa. and guinea, the government said it's proud to have the boot here as a display of its national culture inside. the community says it wants to recover the expertise to be asked for an invitation to berlin. so they can study it and boots like that, against canada, oregon, the midtown sultani, and has bought bunker. as you can see, the response varies. grey ology, but so visitors are coming soon, bugs perform. mm hm, absolutely replied to have partners come from mannus 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 recklessly under lots of on

the s. my logic recollection 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 onto the little boulevard to the breton burg gate. then i turned left and i'm at the puts them up. that's these sections of the berlin wall serve as a reminder of the decades of german division and the cold war. just around the corner is the german spy museum, one a b james bond for a day. in this museum you can, he can learn all sorts of things about agents and spies in the movies and in real

life. florida and she macowski shows me some of the most exciting exhibits here zoned. athens is one of the most famous chapters that history of espionage. as it was, we have 2 of the fema sonic machines were used by the germans to include messages at. the british managed to break the code during the 2nd world war, 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 delaney coverage between berlin and potsdam. the soviets and the americans use the breach repeatedly to exchange spies they had captured. but espionage is not just a male domain, cuz i think i say that there were always more female agents and the movie suggest might via the secret police and communists east germany actually developed a brock camera in figure. here condos are also update. if the lens was placed here and then also there was

a little hint and the trigger was concealed in the hockey portal. so you could photograph the hand over secret documents. for example, i photograph yet. i also found out that no spice don't drive lamborghini s, but more ordinary cars. this chubby could take photos using, built in infrared technology made in east germany, asking me why is this by museum here in berlin? wouldn't london be more fitting because of james bond and others for having james bondo little belinda center or lose the capital of spies? and that began during the cold war, the when west berlin, surrounded by a 160 kilometers and was, was in a unique positions. can a western enclave right next to the soviet block on my, not perfect for spying stomach. so a lot of secret agents were active here, but berlin is still one of the spying capitals to day. 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, probably more assigned israel, which is where you all the objects on display here come from. do you think we an oxymoron? we find them an option and then 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 mythics and i was all very chaotic gifts. 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 he's going to professor, they look through their inventory to see what they can release. that's come on, got nothing. i technology didn't just stuff the data, the game of came no take. nissan doesn't take us fight at us at the end. another challenge awaits me. the laser maze. i'm not allowed to touch any of the laser

beams and i only have 2 minutes to cross the room. i like a little dance. 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 let's i can take the s bond line one directly to the dahlin

district and the botanical gardens. the right is just half an hour. 2 i of course, in summer you can wonder 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. so or 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 largest bombay specific areas. this is that the highlight here in football is different. if i one of our highlights,

it almost touches the ceiling and the tropical house is 23 meters high. so it's big country. ah, yes ma'am. this is a palm tree known as the sea cope, not tide. the seats came to us from the thank 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. oh, i won't touch it, but can i smell it? oh, nothing with the cactus world is also fascinating. ah! 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 all back mass morley flowers. that said japanese camelia is a sata, and are these flowers so special that they get their own glass house. i was vicki so i yes. like they draw a lot of visitors in winter potash. it's nice to have blossoms here. we're renting outside it's winter, but it spring from january through to april. you have a mass after hours as a civically to tyesha with take a look around it. spring in berlin, in the middle of winter. ah, wanted check in. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. what are the best

places to go? europe during the destination, right? follow our travel guide on youtube. most romantic spot check. best tip for foodies. check. as well as the coolest culture. 1000 years old and in the world heritage site. d. w. travel on you to like this way. ah. time for a bite to eat, i have come to us last ross in the district of bidding to a courier worse stand. that is supposedly the spice is in 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 a breath worth sausage with curry sauce. it's sometimes hot, but really,

really hot. and i love spicy food here on the washcloth that 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 7700000. schofield. oh man, is lives really mean long speed runs the snack bar. okay. if the whole isn't likelihood, and now i really love it. it's quite addictive somehow. so while trying to come up with a name for the stand, i decided curry and chilly fit. well, and that's how it all started tuesday or from your 10 sauces level 10 must be incredibly hot. have you tried it yourself? i thought there was no problem. i've tried them all. now have you out the door if you didn't. how was the 10? well, it's not for everyone. the same life with the 10 is just fine. got got central, mike, 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 protective function. we don't telling you to stall foot letting you knew that it gets i'd aside from that's enough. reason smith and what about customers from mexico or india were used to hot food, which much do they laugh at your saucers? ha! then also genuine. last year, when it's not when they get to level 10, i think 5 or 6 is okay. but after that it's extreme, even for them. all 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 junior. like you said, it's addictive sure of. i found that out, you know. and so what level would you recommend for me for fear when i'm to said it would dissolve, 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 low as to start slowly and add more space if it's too mild an event. it's america. we are not okay. okay, i'll give it a try. morrow. enjoy. hello. hi. i'll take a peek in sausage with sauce number 5 for free. yep, humming up. yeah. i, i can't go wrong with mediums vice can i? but maybe i'll risk a bit more. do you have to say that it's got number 5 on it and separately i've given you some of the aides and the 7. okay. i am

a little afraid ah no me do this is number 5 is all right, so i think i'll continue with 7 and 8. ah . is 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 alec send up, that's 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 guess if they tell the story of the honda, a german explorer ship that was sent to the north pole, the late 19th century will become stuck in the ice dime i speaking to believe that most of the bonfire crew had to leave the shit. laughing, they camped out on the sea ice and drifted through the arctic ocean for $200.00 a day that argued, but if not calamity, him true story of the up a whole tree of ms. putnam, we tell the story here. so here we go. that's her father. daughter i can pull in there, i know the year is 1869 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

spawn 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. by the way, the original expedition had a happy and the true made it to greenland, and later returned home as heroes of the hands on to the honda of danza. what a long day from the tropics to be 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

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