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tv   Check-in  Deutsche Welle  April 8, 2023 9:30am-10:01am CEST

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ah sir loam superstore with changing su, sector akina with a few chips in 45 minutes long day w. ah, what people have to say matters to us. i am. that's why we listened to their stories. reporter every weekend on d. w. ah, ah, ah. ah one square kilometer off red rock in the middle of the north sea. this is hello
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land. germany's only high seas island enjoying nature, letting the wind blow all around you and relaxing. that's what many people who come here want me to the journey from hamburg to hell. i go land takes 3 and a half hours. a catamaran takes me there. no other boat is pastor tom are already on arrival. the holiday mood cakes in all the passengers initially half the same route. everybody passes the colorful lumps the huts and walks along the promenade. somewhere. here is my hotel most of the tourists to arrive here. go back in the
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afternoon. there are more or less $3000.00 visitors here every day, but i would like to stay overnight, so i have more time and no stress to discover this small island. i a must done helical land is a visit to the seals. if you like it loud, you're in for the punk festival. we bought our thoughts and there is another holiday video of the week. this time it's from australia. my 1st walk takes me into the countryside all the way up to the over lagoon. a route along the edge of the rock that forms helical and leaps around the island.
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the cliffs path water, water. as far as the i can see, the mainland is 50 kilometers away. i passed the lena, anna, that tall anna. this free standing rock is the landmark of helical land. every one hopes that it can withstand the wind and the waves for a long time. and i continued to germany, smallest nature reserve the lumen fez and the rock of the give the months. it is the nesting ground of many see birds, but it is named after the gillmet in june. these small feathered bolts take wing amateur photographers wait for them to take their courageous plunge. there are not many places in europe where you can get so close to wildlife bird watching isn't the only thing you can do here over there is the dunes, an offshore island,
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and even smaller than helical land. germany's largest grease your column, he lives over there and you can join a guided tour to get really close to those animals. some animals of got it figured out by lay on the beach all day, basking in the sun and cool off now. and then with a quick dip in the sea life and helical unders generally tranquil and unhurried, but do not island ranger makes sure it stays that way where i'm at charters? sure, yes. so come mindful, more and more guests are coming to see hello land and want to benefit from the high seas air that more and more animals are coming as well done. and the dealer ranges are here to make sure we can all live together and get along. all right. people can ask me questions and enjoy the beach in harmony. i'm got to read a tilly's area responsibility is just 7 tenths of a square kilometer. the island of dune and
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a couple of dunes is about all it is immune range. do you know range? is there any found here because this island is called dina, and i medina, range a 100 once a week, halligan's visitors have an opportunity to tag along with the ranger unexplored juna island on an organized nature. to read the muffin, if you find something and think it looks exciting, pick it up and take it along. we'll have a look and i'm sure we can figure out what it is said to them. often both of is somewhat rare and not easy to find is the red flint sword us and mother i behind 3 variations, but it's always some shade of red. 5 you ought not, ross colored and not orange as you can find it in yellow and several variations of that. but the red flint is what's unique to helical land. ah, for most of the visitors here, the true stars of the island are the seals available up north,
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the birthing season begins around november and almost as soon as a females given birth, she's able to meet again also name. so 2 weeks later, the 1st bulls are back trying to get at her again won't um, as cute and harmless. as the seals may look, they're not necessarily cuddly. middle of the gray seal is germany's biggest predator and it can move a 20 kilometers per hour as being mom. so it's not a good idea to get too close to them. and even if nothing's happened so far, the possibility is always there. i can't read their minds even come flying, but she can count the animals. monitoring that population is one of her routine tasks, along with showing visitors around it . you see this on the sand and surf fit for man and beast the like?
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oh, although this island is very small, it has an incredibly eventful history. and you can learn more about it in the head, legal at museum jak and blaze is the boss here. he tells me that this island used to be a pirate's nest, a navy fort, and a trading post. in the early 18th century, it was just as important as the international port of hamburg is to day. elegant was once part of denmark than of great britain. it was not until $1890.00 that the island became german, a fiercely contested piece of ground. when was the most dramatic moment in the history of the island to the indian? i had at a modest the most dramatic moment was definitely the end of world war 2 and the great bombardments and young other men, everybody had to be evacuated into and then came the big bang. in april 1947 resulted in the complete destruction of the islands buildings. not the british
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occupying forces once tried to destroy all the islands military facilities with 6.7 killer tons of explosives. never again, should it be used for military purposes for many years. hello galant remained uninhabitable. busy a fuel pump to come to the phone in 1954, the population began returning to the island, and tourism immediately started appear again on money off that 1st they slept intense. undo because there was no place at all to stay here on the island. there were no houses or anything. so they stayed a little tense and donna and stan sold whatever they needed call we could pass through and buy a little souvenirs and people came and drove the c hellig land again. he had celine . soon tourists came in masses, not because of the beautiful nature, but to buy duty free liquor and cigarettes and annoying um for the long toys would be. and how did the island and your this, or i just imagine 10 or 12000 visitors here on this really small island as while 40
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there was terrible. it must be said, it was no room between all the people from the one that we just heard had passed the shops and through here shoulder to shoulder and florida. here we might see something nice and one of the shops be didn't stand the chance of getting to it to buy it, which is pushed on ahead by the crowds until you ended up back at the ship and at the sail home again upon. mm hm. and how come prices are so cheap on helical, and i at us and we believe that's a privilege we had from her time with britain. and it's been preserved through all the changes and rule on does it was taken on in the tracy's. and so we've always had her duty and tax free status here. now it still exists. but today the tourists come here for the nature almost as it used to be when helical and became a seaside resort in the early 19th century. at 1st, people came here for the good air. it was the beginning of hellig, lance tourism this
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island is so small, it can easily walk around it and it just takes one or 2 hours helical and is pretty popular with tourists. and we will show you why pentagon lance dance getting crowded every day around noon. you can almost set your watch by us. that's when the excursion ships arrived from the north sea coast and handed the visitors a fairy to land from the ship's in jolly boats known locally as built boats in 2018 . they were listed with unesco, intangible world heritage. it's afternoon, as humans found when the seaside result was founded here in 1827. we didn't have any harbor, no break. waters appears. we had nothing at all notes. and i just, when the 1st passengers ship arrived a year later, they had to drop anchor somewhere. and our fishermen and pilots went out in our fishing boats and brought the guests for the 1st time over to land in their brought
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a boat smooth and he guessed 2 of my brother go come on, my lamb, give them eventually the harbour was built and ferrying passengers was no longer necessary. soon after the ships put in the pedestrian malls, philip visitors still come to shop duty free. oh, they generally have 4 hours before their ship sales. again. the tours are time so that the day trip has can go along to the bunker to it brings them some 25 meters deep inside the red cliffs. this is where the heli galandes sought shelter from the bombings. it's the only remainder of a once vast bunker complex running through out. hello god. and what is the time to be at the park? we're in now came through all the bombings in and after the war on damaged the last . bombs fell in february 1952. so it's important to us chuckled many halleck,
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landers, especially older ones, older lives to whitland out recalls the item from id number to leave. the lobster hats are typical of helical land. that few people know they were built here in the 19 fifties and sixty's as part of a plant city. it's a little 1st, of course the cliff was here and a huge bunker. the english blew up in 1947. when did the english as the more fits is that led to the formation of the lines now called the mid lantus, midland and stanton? or? and the last a hot saw now essentially a retaining wall for the loose rock offered us out. we look at the english dime an architects competition was announced for the reconstruction in 1951 over a 1000 architects to part their task was to find the optimum use of the limited space while orienting the houses favorably to the sun and wind.
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every detail was thought up down to the paint. it was limited to 14 callous to day heyliger land is like an open air museum of the 19 fifties and sixties building style. almost every house is listed as historical a closer look at hellig land quickly reveals that it's full of fascinating stories and where the longest stay or even a return visit ah, i want to do that to get on the boat and go around the island. it takes 45 minutes. the excursion boats only put out if the waves are no higher than 2 meters. ah, thank goodness ah,
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in the slipstream of the island, it is still peaceful. but as soon as we clear the tip of the island, the rocking starts almost to meet her waits. all you need now is a strong stomach and occasionally something to hold on to nobody get seasick. we all have our sea legs, water, wind, and waves. that's what our weekly v mail is about as well. our viewer johan is from singapore, loves traveling just like me. he's been to the other side of the world to australia and heres his holiday video.
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ah almost 1500 people live on the elegant and the sea is part of almost every one's lives. most of them have ancestors who were sailors or fishermen, maybe even pirates. oh, see shanties and sailors, songs are part of the cultural heritage. oh, i'm here for a rehearsal of the head within that cock thinkin shanty choir. oh, a song you just sang. it was that a regular sailor song or a shanty, judith,
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what did know that was actually our theme song? it has nothing to do with either. the can and it was in hollander, the fusion dialect and, and it just means the cock fin canal. great guys. no more than that. you're told the girl isn't reminding me that there are shanties in sailors, songs. what's the difference? he does, he must be dead. the sailor songs are simply romantic songs. they used to sing, but the shanties were the work songs for the seamen of earlier time was agreeable. it was hard work on the shapes of a dog, one of them a call, the tune and the jobs and the choir would answer and do the work. the lead singer never had to work, and it's just the same with us was i'm was doing when they got widened us was born can logo, who's lead singer forcing today the lifting his home. he sings the song of hold off move. can you, can i sing a shanty like that or your show we can do that and now like i said, the lead singer hoff. he'll sing the dinning or can we jump in when you can just sing along the thing, the thing doesn't matter. i've much like so i go mad. i'm ah,
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a oh no bail no her bay. oh oh oh i don't i oh i, i go a long time very long
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a so oh, i was really good to go. so really want to join the cock thing. have to meet 3 conditions, be a man, live on how legal and, and be able to sing. they have strict rules, but they are friendly guys. oh, my. every spring because you have an important job. they opened the punk festival warren, who boots are thought here, a helical land with their shanties, 3 days in a row, bands from all over europe gather here on the island. o evans, the festival here on calico land. ladies and gentlemen, the car thinking,
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oh mm. with a half hour of si shanties, everyone's had the amenities before and likes to sing them over a beer shanties and punk actually go together him mm. the storm batch at sea gulls face an invasion of odd birds. we can get to flock to dina island for the rock and roll, but a thought which means something like booze, cruise to necessities are good weather and better beer. 7 12 kegs have to be put away and nothing changes faster on hillagada and then the weather. by the time the 1st rays of sun appear on the dina restaurants terrace, the 2nd grog has disappeared. ah,
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no, they didn't have any guns just gets has beer morbid and a party ship old their own nanny good and is hosted their 1st pung fest in 2003 with mixed feelings. as the former mayor recalls. i'm yes at 1st. the gave the decision makers here in the town hall, a little shock when they heard the words punk festival. they couldn't see it happening on dina with the nature reserve new to some people over 70 years old. and then here comes punk rock hancock. how could it work? no matter how you do it, it wouldn't work. then a little administrator voice piped up and said, well, we can give it a try before we on the 150 fans at the 1st one quickly grew to over 1000. the bands even played for free just for the atmosphere, the see the applause and what the fans would give her. now bands come from all over this end of europe for the rock and roll, but i thought they play and party till midnight. then the fans will crawl into
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their tents unless the wind has swept them away. in the meantime, the lobster house by the harbor are a good place for a snack. these used to be warehouses for the fisherman to day restaurants have moved in they mainly offer seafood dishes, for example, helical and can hipa crap pincers crab. what under spectrum. but the cutlery is strange. by an ad, right. it's only with an ever media is with a hammer. ok though up, we have to break it a little like this. not cracking. sound done calmed us here. i think my colleagues, the finish would love this. our globetrotter always tries the local food on his travels all around the world. and this time steve has been to cuba and here's his
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new video. ah, havana is the capital largest city major port and leading commercial center of cuba . the city has a population of 2100000 inhabitants and attracts over a 1000000 tourist annually. when you are in our 1st, you need to go on a tour with a classic car. so we're doing exactly that for 3 hours. going around around havana and seeing all the spots old havana, la habana via was declared a unesco world heritage site in 1982 with
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a today have something very good very with low visit to have on is complete without experiencing life music. actually it's hard not to as music is happening everywhere throughout the old town. ah, ah, with
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me it's evening on hellig a land i am on the cliff path again. the best place to wait for the sunset. you can only experience that when you stay here over night or a day trip is nice, but it's better to stay 2 or 3 days on the island that makes it a real difference, because then he can experience the perfect the celebration. so just give it
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