the 2 megs up up to the mid afternoon. does our pearson men is useful or is that i'm was moved to it gets expose, go to lunch. when you find out about all the story info, migraines, reliable news to migrate wherever they may be. the daniella is a bit tv is now officially the awfully s man in italy. he's proud of the title and we'll find out why. hot crispy and really tasting why fries are the most popular street food in belgium. and are they boring or daring? what's the average german like in the evenings after work? find out that and a lot more now on your own macs. the

we'll start off in italy in a cute little town about 250 kilometers north of rome. she'll become here. people don't care about the world wide view, e craze. loveliness is celebrated. how refreshing. and if you don't believe it, take a look. of the title, this man bears is the envy of virtually no body. she's italy's ugliest person. the rather dubious sounding distinction is awarded in pico a tiny mountain village in central italy. chapter 13 the camel. joe, my name's daniella, is it pertaining to pick names? toto? and i think it's at least a police person since 2019. okay, that's an appeal. i'm proud of this session and i want to keep it. then i think of going into the club to the association of ugly people was founded over 100 years

ago in po to go into the lease market region. in 1879, it became a kind of marriage agency and then a match making agency. in the 19 seventy's, the members turned it into a protest against the craze. anybody whether ugly or beautiful can become a member? currently, membership members are around 35000 worldwide gianni luigi is the clubs, the vice president with a know some of our multiple goes ok, this is a virtue of beauty of slavery, but let's just give it to go into trouble. if we oppose the beauty credit is that discriminates against the not so beautiful so that i so far and have to struggle the price is hard for me, it's all about external appearances. but even found against that, we believe in other values like interview, intelligent said, amiability, village. and so i think but the yeah, yeah, you're fine. i'm just totally,

truly ugly from the from i can't do anything about it and i'm proud of. it's the worth a lot. anyone who wants to challenge me for the title. come on and step up and then have a hard fight. the issue that a there's something here major, 50 year old daniella is it the teeny didn't own. we've looked this way in the early 19 ninety's keywords in a serious car accident. he had several operations on his face and a leg amputated while you're from getting out any time or so. and i'd like to keep the title, italy's ugly as person. yeah. because it's fun. okay. you'd be available. maybe 3rd, my life has gotten better since i have one to tell you to the one to on. i guess around a lot more. yeah. maybe a military sho, get invited to tv shows and events and parties like kind of guiding because people want to learn more about me to get to know me a better sense of what a manual. this is. number one, almost everyone in pico newton. the other piece of village celebrity no,

he's not have the views he comes from within one another. seizes where you to go a month to absolutely nothing to me. he's not talking. he's got a wonderful song every year in september because celebrates it's festival of the ugly, with music dance and a healthy dose of humor. the ugly and beautiful come together. no one here takes themselves too seriously. the 3 day festival includes plenty of good food, like fuel because typical polenta at the high point white smoke indicates the election of a new president. and the winner is the current and vice president. johnny luigi, the new king of the ugly, san francisco. it's about the weakest about inclusion for everyone. not just the

only ones for the, for example, homosexuals to everyone else who is excluded that were there for the move. and the ugliest is the 5th. when for daniella, is that the tv but then this year he was the only entry this time nobody was brave enough to go up against me. and i'm happy to have been chosen next year i'll be running again . what i want to be elected for 10 years running, i don't want to say one thing. come to p up because we're all doing just fine here . thanks and kisses to everyone. he dreams of one day becoming president of the world association. for the potatoes, lice is deep frying fat. add a pinch of salt,

you don't need much more for really good french fries. but in fact, belgian fries are considered the best in the world. here's why. let me introduce myself to french fry, colors, fries for short. most people do just a simple little stick potato, humble root vegetables. take pat towards a crispy faint. it's sometimes hard to believe, but i am actually belgium's favorite st. food. christy on the outside to we on the inside. that's what we strive for. i don't really like to talk myself up, but people do seem to enjoy my company. it's amazing. is the best for i have ever tried matt. christy. not to greasy. not saki know? yes. just right and always on sunday. last. okay, quite a bit, chris. here the spanish ones got pulled up here in belgium. the best price problem

is around 22, not the perfect price or in belgium. most if we price a lot. my home is the french price stand chipping. this is just one of some, 5000 around the country behind the counter is his domain was oh, hello. glad to meet you. my name's steve pitts is. i'm a 500 north brussels and my little stand as you can see here, get on the come with what? life as a free to at least isn't easy. but steve got the hang of this, what he job deck. his weapon is cooking oil. fuel define oil, that's how they everything we work with. be fun. that's not fissionable. oil is be fun. gives it more. flavorful isn't the 1st 2. deep fat friars are for parking at 150 degrees with thing, and then i get out the fries and let them sit here. it's very important to let them sit, was able to get the dental come out of the 2nd frame. nice and crisp. of course the all frag twice but not too hot. that's how the belgians do it. when it's been long

enough and the deep sadness doesn't work, steve gets sick. even though do you hear the winter themselves? they sound like that's what you'll hear. it's when they're done this morning where the sound is much higher pitched no. can we always say the front seat? i'm truly a fast food. all the belgians know me as more than i reliably feel like side dish. and never, never boring. adventurous souls love my passing topics. my goodness, maine days and to lose summer really pepper. politically big, trying to catch up with the american american spicy shift to push people g, but has presented with pineapple garlic dallas cocktail talk, mama, small, jumpy, and many others. if you all know, go down,

you'll find the 1st and all across belcher from what lonia flanders. whether it's linda, she'd go to photo alone in suite to chippy as a place for everyone. a place to get off the streets, a place to get together. refuge troubles life. difficult to go to a nice little bag of friends with main names. it's always a joy. let me go. so that's part of our cultural heritage. you know what? to go on. then we go for fries after a soccer game and on the national holiday for fitness for them. for jo, kia, it's a culture you find almost everywhere in belgium houses, and we get fries in a little village under the same. it's always a perfect moment. also in the us, we don't have the same as susie as them for fries as in belgium. so we might be able to avoid this victory to the belgians. so i'm only given costs between the front, french on one side and the belgians on the other. and they fight over my origins. one thing is certain. i started out as an ordinary star to potato, but in belgium,

always a fresh one and never frozen. my feel for research preserved results. you see the cool thing about you when you don't, victor, i started cooling and continue talking to potatoes at 4 am. so no sex and they started deliveries at the 8. we're talking about the this is how i get fresh potatoes every day to 2 days from pitts. this fun, ryan, to see you later. how are you? how is your vacations lucky. ok, they can go. i see my customers is one big family one, and i think for many of them it's the same. they're like, they're steve like specially let's go to steve for years. these are steve's pricing . what sort of like that is more than just a shipping is my loyal companion in the daily struggle against hungry valleys. if you were to put me in an office at a monthly summary of 3000 bureaus,

a company car and a computer, i wouldn't be happy if i stand here. i'm in touch with my customers. what else do i need? just this the way it is. i'm from so hard to imagine life without me, steve. so tell no job. okay, but no fries, no way. no worries. now. i'm not going anywhere. i'll be by your side till the next a crispy adventure. in our new series on the average german we'll find out which cliches about germans can be statistically proven. our average durham is called me out in the and is 43 years old. in this episode, we secretly follow him around to see what he does me evenings. so far we've watched messiah wake up in the morning, and we've joined him as he commutes walks and flats his way through a day at the office for what's next.

so now the what side of the way, what does michelle get up to in the evening? does he have any hobbies? well, just yeah. so you're gonna get a little tipsy. let's find out the year. and that way. it's friday, it's full. so 2 pm and me says finish what for the week? looks like yourself to play some football. this is me say of friend lucas lucas asked me say and how his day was and like 70 percent of german. he says it was typical by contrast for it's like me, a more likely say it was good the all those the most germans, the reasons for doing for

a not rooted in will be sizes. most germans do sports to stay healthy and to optimize the physical strength bit. hi. michelle, you find a note from his neighbor, probably caps then there's a noise that someone in the building is having loud sex. germans report also being annoyed by cigarettes. a loud music and d r y, the gentleman lovell fed with bridge knows no bounds. yes, even off to bread for breakfast. bread for lunch. you guessed it, the most common? what say jeannette is bridge. loan is awesome. job on top bread with sliced meat, cheese chop i

think we sail since he's a drink, but which one the germans are the full, heavier strength is in your and t g. i s michelle's having a be yes . timmons, and then love hiking, according to the gem and free time on this, the most leisure activities actually take place indoors. germans enjoy watching tv, listening to music, browsing the internet, and being alone with the thoughts the sale. so like spending time with a romantic but what the germans wish they were doing. the

72 percent of germans, which they had more time to be placed on the 9 pm and says on the way, 6 nights a basically the pub maintenance is friends. the germans drink coffee to 90, to disappear som or any of the alcoholics every day. like 56 percent of germans. michelle is stressed about spending his free time with people he doesn't like. we'll find for in the

german sit relatively low on the kids, on drunk scales, average german messiah gets drunk, almost 11 times per year, which is considerably less than the $26.00 sized. so yes, the average australian get strong. but judging by the twinkle in miss sales i and looks like tonight could be one of those 11 times the . 2 13 percent of germans have written an east go to walter, and luckily, michelle is an average shipman, so he refrains. looks like haul michelle is going to have

a sole head tomorrow. what's he going to do with the rest of his weekend? how does he supply from the shop suppose on sundays? and when we have a text julia back like can subscribe to efforts, german we'll stay here in germany and move to the south of the country where our reporter rachel stuart is on a road trip between noise launched on and this way the announce rachel explores this scenic, cultural and culinary highlights of southern germany. and there are plenty see for yourself, the easy. there's not a lot southern germany because the people here are so warm hearted, like the temperature. finally, the good wine here by the food here is a very tasty ok. and there's a culture too many southern nice states, a buyer, and then an english for various unbuttons with a max pay of 2 of the biggest states making up nearly a 3rd of germany's territory on population. most states have

a relatively young population, very low unemployment. and hyatt. oh, how do you tell the difference between these 2 pretzels, this one with consistent slickness all around is a book. it's a from the barrier. and this one with it's to skinny, um, is i believe, so from this wavy and part of the button button that this, the view is, is a metaphor of how the 2 southern states have a lot in common. but if you look close enough, you can tell the difference is also a metaphor for how but very often steals that. i'm not take traditional dress, for example. there are lots of different types of tasks, boat clothing on eva gemini, but the most famous internationally made of all isn't the dental which technically belong device to very about and looking at no doubt you've heard of unix october 5th, the biggest folk festival in the world it's name locally as these and rather confusingly, it actually begins to come back. and it was founded in 19 tenant really did beginning on tape, but it was seen before to make the most effective weather conditions. love area is

the most visited german state by foreign and domestic, tory, recognize this type. the fairytale style noise sponsored on castle is one of the most popular tourist attractions enduring, which wasn't quite the original plan. can you look this? the 2nd at the diarrhea had no intention of opening his prize project to the public, but his novice plans go him deep into debt, not on off the die, the cost of those will open in order to help pay the bills. germany's largest state also has germany's highest peak that suits bits, a 2962 images the various most low is me us on. yeah. which translates to we all who we are used to convey a sense of pride and a will to succeed. that's got some move, a copy or a to help us visit with the locals glue. scott said it was, you can say that either as a greeting or to say good bye up to them of to let someone know that all is okay. fast to, i know it's time for some traditional bavarian grub. the whole site is on the perfect the company meant any bavarian meals. yeah,

we got minutes. so then it doesn't matter if you live in the city or in the country side and bavaria beer festivals there everywhere you can be. i think there's always a very nearby in the who lives in the aisle when i was an 8th grade. we did a great or a school trip. i feel most bit much that you kind of have a connection to be, are in berries and still the new. and i say, i don't that so often we'll go to the south, west of germany was split into 3 states. they would then bundled together to phone, stay to the bottom, looking back in 1952 more for practical economic reasons than any real sense of kinship. visa is a cultural divide, is still particularly clear between the regions of 5 minutes with you. the stereotype of this problem is straight life is connected to a bit since the name for inventing the calve of that kind of pushy cleaning rates with a shed building. and the mission in life is supposedly help the shop of course, nobela work, work and build a house. the bad know are often seen as more relaxed and open minded. another well worn phrase is the bottom left these on the spot and that is the sun. lastly,

the buttons, the world last out, sweet view, the grain of curious and not is the bottom is the warmest region of germany that makes it a great spot for vineyards and the most important region in gemini for scribbled window opening while one. once i passed anything sway be a has a behind is in the kitchen, it's way be in specialities are among the most comforting on a shipment menu. molar cash and they're kind of ravioli, needs something i know sometimes cold have specialized for them or little gold. cheetahs legend has it, monks invented these little pest apostles as a way of hiding neat from the old lights when they were supposed to be fasting. but the absolute king of slavery and because he has got to be fed to the specified spec, we make it you, that's what gravely trusted in the plan with a bit of butter or as case, especially with cheese and case management. and only been one of the special air rise to the surface, then they're ready time. so the case suspects, the shipping cleaning and dewy incident. enjoy with the

now want to move gary a and it's capital. sophia, one of the oldest cities in europe. the metropolis has a very unique charm. soviet architecture from the 20th century meets ancient thermal springs from roman times. a vibrant city with rough edges, and lots of surprises. the welcome to my home town. ok, saffir. my name is vanessa. i'm a travel blogger, and the youtube are, and i'm looking forward to showing you my favorite spots. so the my hometown was marked by its social in this past. because for more than far as the

case bo guerria was under the very strong influence of so his union, it was, it's closes so satellites. so when you walk around sophia, you'll see lots of buildings. that's our grey, monumental built in this typical stalinist architectural style that is meant to last forever the, the the so if you want to know how ordinary bulgarians used to live back in the eighty's when bo guerria was at the other side of the iron curtain, the time of gorbachev and right then you're welcome to the red. it's in the center of the field. so you see young people mostly foreigners who have

never experienced this area. they have only heard about it. they just want to come here and to see how people used to live. what was their life to experience? what socialism looked like. i want to show you the most is the grammar both place in my hometown. just look at this, this is the cathedral alexander next key, and just look at those, those. they're covered with pure gold and they're shining like yellow sun across all the city, the when you're in sophia and your thursday. this is the place you need to be the, you know,

my home town has it got hot springs and the city and my con, my used to come here almost every week from the other parts. and so she used to bring lots of because she was sure that this water is magic for the best to repeat this got the most imperative strength is sophia, the n on the other side. and we've got the milestone vista, so after which this tooth is named. vince scott is a busiest rates. and sophia, there are lots of shops, confess, and restaurants here. charles to describe boulevard, and enjoy yourself the

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