there is much more on our website that's d w dot com. ah, i have you ever day dreamed of living in a medieval castle. we set out to discover what it was really like back that some of us could use a bit more color in our lives and interiors, even show nika has some ideas for that. and in spain we find out where to enjoy traditional topics with beer or wine and sometimes free of charge. all this and more coming upon your own mac. ah ah ah ah, germany is famous for its majestic palaces and castles, but is it like a medieval fairy tale to live in them a modern day and lord gave us a tour to show us just how wonderful it could be despite the challenges.

ah imagine waking up here, gazing out of the window from one of your many towers and surveying the surrounding forest in the morning sunshine. today i might book ed's castle to find out what it's really like. miss castle has been inhabited by the same family for over 800 years. so they seem like the best people to ask, move the out. stanley have managed to keep the castle in their hands over the last 8 centuries through careful diplomacy and smart marriages. mm. workouts was built in the prime of medieval castle construction between the 11th and 13 centuries, deliberately near the moselle river. historically, one of the most important trade routes in germany nowadays, whilst it's obviously beautiful, i think living here could come with its challenges. count yeah, called fun. and so ed took over the castle,

ownership from father in 2018. he has another home in the area regularly spends time here at book where he grew up. this castle certainly has a certain atmosphere of course. is that something that you still experience, especially once people have left in the evenings and it gets quiet and you're in nature it has a very, very special atmosphere and, and there's also kind of a sense of belonging here. gateway for some reason. i just feel totally at home. so the bed is a lot larger than it looks. it's about one me to 80 wide and to me to 10 long. okay . and the reason for that is because the whole family would sleep in there. so it would be the both the parents as well as the children was in order to preserve the heat. that's why you have the captain's and that's also wise built up because he wanted to catch the rising heat. that's why back then people usually climb into bed

and today we usually fall into the in the theme painted across the bedroom walls is a playful one. it's phillip phallic and fertility symbols. ah, are the most visually attractive things are the 2 tapestry said hanging here? no tapestry is evolved in the 14th century or even earlier because you would put cloth up in order to make the room woman more comfortable in. so this is one of about 40 higher places in the car. so with about 80 rooms that means every 2nd room had a fireplace, which was an extraordinary luxury time. yeah,

i can imagine and it will hind iron or cast iron backs which heated up. and once there were hot, you could pick them up with certain tongues and bring them to next room, which didn't have a fireplace, and that would give off the heat. mm hm. so a castle like this probably requires quite a lot of upkeep on my right. oh, it certainly does. we're constantly renovating repairing. there's always something that needs to be done all the time. it takes a lot of energy and also a lot of finances, which is why we're so grateful for our guests. because without them, none of this would be possible with those is one of my favorite pieces as well because it's, it's a big wooden chopping block. and we measured it and the chopping block fits neither

through the window nor through the door. so it must have been here when they finish this room. wow. so this is probably one of the oldest pieces in the car. absolutely. mm hm. mm. well there you have it. life in him and evil castle. it has a certain flare, right? maybe it's not quite the fairy tale lifestyle that you might expect, and sure it would be cold in the winter. but wouldn't it all be worth it just to have this whole place and the whole surrounding area all to yourself? ah, let a little color interior life. that's what textile designer, eva shown ica has in mind with her west african inspired interior decor. she brightens up drab, european living rooms and makes the space the more cheerful place. make in life

more colorful is what london designer eva show. nike has set out to do, and she takes an approach all her own africa, really at my court. everything that i am is reflected in these designs, and it's such a great feeling that people respond positively to it. e fish annika launched her 1st collection in 2010 and scored an immediate hit. renounce stores carried her luxurious home textiles and accessories. now her designs are available, world wide recent achievements include collaborations with so home, the home furnishing line of the exclusive club. so whole house hotel and luxury designer, bathroom makers, c. p heart, eva nike study journalism and felon to design more or less by accident that couldn't find the designs that i wanted. so i for like, why don't i design them myself? because in my head, i knew exactly what i wanted, but i couldn't find

a textiles. so i started off designing myself. it was the best decision ever to start my own designs, because that's how i can exactly express my kind of our creative story. eva, embarked on her creative journey in fryeburg, in southern germany, where she grew up, the daughter of nigerian parents. her father is an art historian, her mother, a pediatrician, travel, and visits to museums developed her interest in art and design. that was really from an early age, interested and interior design and in textiles and patterns of his leave, west africa and the west african narrative arrest african vail life is for me at the core of my work. but it's also a structured, very organized, which is, i think, the german elements which come in to then i think the combination of these 2 elements makes it a think so versatile, that people from different backgrounds and, you know, different parts of the world, kind of resonate with it and,

and like the style. one of her inspirations is nigerian boutique and textile artist, chief nico davies. o'con die, both our ethnic europa, a west african ethnic group with a highly rich culture. this includes the typical idea a fabrics made using indigo di techniques. these are also reflected in even designs . so i think traditionally there's a lot of meaning and storytelling, and african textiles and in the african narrative. and i try to do the same. i mean, i'm not designing traditional african textiles, but i'm trying to tell a story with my textiles. i think then my journalist background comes in as well. the designer tell stories from her life in her creations. she draws inspiration from experiences she's had along the way. she doesn't tell these stories in words, but through colors and shapes starting with the colors. when i'm in,

nigeria often take pictures of everything that inspires me think that i see maybe a embroidery on address or anything. and i think that's all kind of captured in somewhere in my brain and that i sketch and i just let it go and flow and sketching as a long process from the original sketch to the finished design and can take several weeks. you know, we have to make a lot of tweaks and everything a sketch and black and white 1st. once i'm happy with the design, then v introduce the colors that actually before into that design, eva has no doubt that she's found her true colleague, that everything she's done and has experienced over the years, her childhood, her background, her experiences as a tv producer and fashion journalist has led her right to where she is. now, this is more than a business. this is like an extension of myself. and i think of self love and to

self and freshen and sharing this obviously with other people. it's not just that i do it for myself. i could sit at home and you know, like do it all day about sharing this with the world and i'm seeing the appreciation and the love that i'm getting read it keeps me going, gets me out of bed. every day, my story telling is as old as human kind, but how we tell stories varies eva show nike tells them through her african inspire designs a great way to get to know what country is to fall in love with a native. but how easy is it to find that special, someone in germany? what should you consider on a date? we've got a couple of tips for those looking for love. this episode of meet the germans is the one about passion, relationships, and love in germany. that's big german about it. and so with some numbers, 2 thirds of germans believe in love with the size,

the average age getting married is 33 gay marriage at the needles in 2017 nice people in germany still meet their partner through mutual acquaintances, but online dating and apps are not far behind. somewhat unromantic lee. the german word for a dating site is singer buzzer the singles market. there are various specialist markets and offer to like ones for vegan goths was wagons. but what about when they're actually on the deck? so other than he updated one job and i thought i'd bring in some dw colleagues of mine to get a more rounded picture. i am idleness and i come from syria and louisa and i'm from the u. s. my name is dana, and i'm originally from israel. my name is fred's i come from wanda, i'm leah and i'm from australia. i think that in germany it generally takes longer to get to know somebody. i don't know. you can call you to try your friends or something once you're there. i think you really integrated completely in their lives. freeport take actually time to even tell you the chi box when they say it,

they really mean it and they don't say it nearly is often they're not in your phase or like very aggressive which makes me feel far more relaxed and comfortable to go out on a date with the germans all with like you have to find appointment and then you expect like it's going to be this week or the weekend after maybe allen has giving you appointment for next month on wednesday at 3 p. m. and i'm like, i don't know what i'm going to eat from lawyer or, or the dating rules different in germany being punctual. it's like rule number one . i think death tapes, dont rush take it for i wouldn't exactly say that chivalry is dead in germany, but i do often have the feeling it's gone missing. sometimes nobody uses their real name or like facebook or they don't have what's app because it's too open. you have to expect that you have to pay your bills and for the weight it will come up to you and they'll ask you because i'm or a good friend and then also will come from the german guy like get around and i'm like, ok, how do you know, if the germany sounds like competing of a joke,

i think always through the eyes. if they give you a special look, maybe germans are not the greatest at communicating the fact that they are into you, they don't tend to the whole maybe the excitement that not if they flirting, it's not clear. have you been on any unusual dates in germany? i think like your follow so i'm standing there is really weird kind of activity. so want to date the house to get naked in germany. awkward. so i know germans are lay quaid fit and they're interested in all kind of like outdoor activities, which is nice. but maybe i'm not into like bouldering on the 1st time we meet. sometimes people just say, you know, let's take a walk or let's meet of the pack for i've. it's not romantic to be in for 2008, couple of been coming to this bridge in cologne, to leave a padlock as a last and symbol of their love for one another. there are well over a 100000 padlock from the bridge. i think an estimated 50 tons of weight. other

cities around the world have begun removing locks from their love bridges, exciting health and safety concerns, but at least for now love has won the day in cologne. things were in calais. we should probably talk about the rhine lands my bomb or may treat tradition in the night leading into the 1st of may and number. john gibbons, traditionally, guys, of course, go in such a birch tree. transported by whatever means necessary. decorated with punted scream, isn't enough hot and tight to lumps outside of its home. for the more modern romeo there were even may treat and misery services. now, in the sweet stuff, it's time for us. so how open the gym and when it comes to sex musta endorse. shun calabi, i think most people in germany are still very preserved in shy. sorry. my name is latina 21 and i ran an erotic shop for women in cologne for 25 years. at 1st it was really tough. no one wanted to sit next to me at choir practice once they found out what my job was. but for them, what were your best sellers?

wouldn't county. so he essentially lived off vibrator sales, peanut shape one that weren't all that popular and kind of didn't, is more secretive. it's all you need. it can be really small. or and how old were your customers up from about 50 to 60 years old. one time a significantly older lady came in and said, my husband has been stroking his way right past the spot for 20 years. i've had enough and i'm buying a vibrator. it's called community poto. it's time for me to love you and leave you . but before i go, here's a little love related wisdom from gemini, navigate to us in mocking. the way to a person's heart is through the stomach. that's heads out that someone to bargain in germany you day while you're hot on your sleeve, but on your tongue. oh and i had to leave oak all stiffness, old love doesn't ross in spain, they often come with beer and wine without even being ordered. top us are

a welcome one, come, went to a drink and they come in a great variety. ah, we have a few recipes as shown to us in madrid. ah, spain without toppers simply inconceivable. these little appetizers are found and seemingly endless varieties across spain. but what do you need to know about spanish top us? here's a look. oh, last hi, i'm berlin, cortez, and i'll show you my 3 favorite top as in how we spaniard, like to eat dominant. first up, gum bustle, helio or shrimp, and garlic oil. this consists of shrimp, garlic, olive oil, salt, cayenne pepper, and corey under. briefly stir fry the shrimp with the garlic. when i run bethesda made thing for good shrimp and garlic oil is to leave the

shrimp half ra, and let them finish cooking in the pots own heat. for then let them simmer in and they'll be spectacular again. that way. and where in spain, do people eat top? us know, what are the places where we eat up us are very loud there. usually informal places where people go to chat, they some place they can get to on foot. that that's typical for madrid's top, as far as the mighty this tradition is in most of madrid, the aussie on o re de los venus, tavern dates back to 19 o 9. it offers more than 50 kinds of top us tapia and spanish means go to each top us. it has a long history in spain. when i already had the, let that, but there are many versions of tap as origins, cns. but as a, if the ag lacking, but they say that when people went for a glass of wine and they put lives or a top as on them, so they wouldn't fill up with fly as well yet. and they could chat and drink in peace. you've been my been

a library. i next up regalato the to rito for this you lead little chunks of oxtail. bell pepper, boil red wine, an onion to bay leaves dough salt with stock cranberry sauce, sesame seeds and flour. you coat the chokes of oxtail and flour. and fry them and don't forget the carrots, add them to the meat stock with the union, unread wine. no lacking, but vent has got the most important is to cook the meat for 4 hours over low. hey dan, it's susan s allen's uses and ends up very tender monday by yet in the say, eat get a when i got the course on. the cranberry sauce is mixed in with the meat drippings to make the sauce cut the meat thin slices and wrap it in sheets of follow or flicky pastry don't done you. deep fry that and garnish it with a slice of bell pepper. oh yes,

but then it is the dish represents the bull fight. the meat wrapped in puff. pastry represents the bull dog loaded off by islam with whoever is the bow fighters, rat cloth. but i think when i got back, he lies that and these are his fears yesterday. my bad, but the vast selection of top is available in spain raises the question about what drink goes best with the last that was i can find empty, but at our place, the top us are mainly served with a canyon, a small beer and it gets that pretty up that has to be very cold. so in my son or else people drink vermouth on top from the barrel in the la tampa. your white red or rosy one bardeen thought or saddle. all those go very well with happen. i'm liam by the band. we wind up with a classic waiver serrato's or broken eggs for this one. you need ham potatoes, eggs, fried peppers, oil unsolved. ah,

a 2nd. i thought, oh, the secret of waybill as it ought to us by the potatoes, said the potato has to be boiled. why so that when you break the egg over it, the exotics into the potato and makes it super juicy? huevo serrato's, one of the most popular top as in spain, eggs and potatoes of the basis. but other ingredients like fry peppers, cut off a variety blanket as is bar serves, its top is with serrano hum in. we've brought that very importantly to our, the fried pud drawn peppers. it's typically spanish will not be summer spicy while others are not depending on where in spain you are the top as may be served, free of charge or not. in the drill, do you generally get a simple toppa with

a drink, but you can select it yourself. you have to pay for whatever top as you order that may take a bit more preparation. not quality i, i can't imagine my life without top us or top as bars without going from one place to another. if y'all, in some remove is customary in others, it's beer or wine that's simply ideal. around 6000000 tourists visit the greek capital athens every year, most head straight to the acropolis, the ancient citadel, towering above the city with its renowned temples. but athens has more to offer than pillars and statues. also competing for some of that attention, are the cities elite guards? oh, the famous acropolis is one of the most photographed landmarks in athens,

if not all of greece. another popular subject for photos are the guardsmen in front of the greek parliament building every hour, 365 days a year in scorching heat or freezing cold the f. so ness performed the changing of the guard. this event demonstrates the pride of a highly trained military unit. the presidential guard almost like the v where the body and senescence stand completely immobile for a fairly long time. florida to many observers are surprised that the strange way they walk over these expansive paces served primarily to get their circulation going again was and ensure that all their tendons and ligaments are strategy to wednesday, elastic other to go. that's very important, but i want to view the presidential guard is made up of over 150 men.

the hourly changing of the guard is prepared behind the barracks. there an elite group of soldiers specially selected by this will be out of paper that he selected to become an absonette. you have to be at least one leader, 87 tall, a member of the greek orthodox phase, and in perfect psychological and physical condition disorder. and you have to believe in the values of the apps zonati moment. the training takes 5 weeks and covers physical fitness and correctness, and standing absolutely still. 10 taylors and seamstresses work constantly behind the scenes. making sure every soldiers button is in place. they're the only ones who know precisely how to put together the traditional uniforms, painstakingly doing everything by hand, while photo share. so modeling this dublin is embroidered using a special technique originally employed by wealthy private firm hinojosa. we

adopted this skill in our mirrors of all see us here. you see the for melly. so as we call the absences white wolf jackal, 2 halves, and you can hardly even see the fabric for all the embroidery pulls up like the lights practically overlaid with the rush. the fuzz mathus, the process of getting dressed, presents a special challenge body of them. it's very important to keep to the correct order even down to the garters that have to sit just right was otherwise the uniform won't fit in the end until the end of this procedure takes up to 45 minutes and has to be repeated every hour. today's uniform was introduced over 150 years ago. nothing about the fabrics, patterns or colors has changed to this day. the ritual dawning of the 20 odd individual pieces is so complicated that another soldier has to help out. at one time, the f, so ness founded in 1868 were the royal greek body guard. every part of the uniform

symbolizes the history of greece. though florida in the corolla, the cap is red and the long tassels black let the color red stands for the blood spilled in battle and black for the grief and tears gather the data, and all the symbols are important parts of the uniform as good as i could before they march off to their post the f, so ness are inspected from head to toe and not just the uniform. the soldiers themselves have to smell pleasant and shade before they begin. only when everything is perfect, can they perform their duty which is representing the dignity of their country in very broad steps. and that wraps up another edition of your max. don't forget to follow us on social media and tune and again, next week for more from the world of culture and lifestyle.

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