and honestly tried to do the workings 32 hours a week to be better for the assignments and 40. but of course, we shouldn't be 90 the. the living scientists just had subscribed, whatever you listen to had cost. the opulent feast in poland, an entire 12 course meal is served on christmas eve. soft and fluffy. what makes these ducks feathers the most expensive down in the world? and i kind of home. what inspired this british couple to live on a classic narrow about all this and more coming up on your own max the, let's start with a visit to a christmas market. it's a holiday most in germany. these atmospheric markets are known for their arts and

crafts. ginger bread and mold wine are reporter got into the christmas spirit in cologne, year santa, i've been a very good employee this year. for christmas. i'd like to report at a christmas market in germany the time the, the. oh my god. it's a christmas miracle. here at the christmas market at the corner, because these are all, this is the city's most famous christmas market. it's also considered to be one of the most beautiful christmas markets in germany. this year it has 140 stats. that brings me to one common mistake, not dressing warm enough. there is so much to see. i don't want to have to cut your visits for it. and by the way, this market has the rhineland largest christmas tree on north 1st 23 meters high.

as i'm walking around here, there's so many incredible smells in the air. you have candy, not grove, me. and that brings me to our next topic. food germany is known for its wide range of christmas market food. and there's so much to try to, like tulsa perform, fried potato pancakes in cologne, you'll find a special version called cyber cou. served with sour cream, or apple sauce has a sweet favorite thing going on. but you can smell the pungent swiss cheese half way across the market place better that it smells. and the classic sausage, which comes in many varieties, depending on the region. i try metro, west and cal. don't make the mistake of bringing only credit card at christmas markets. a lot of vendors will accept the cash,

only authentic christmas market typically have live music and this one is no exception. but now it's time to try one of my favorite christmas market classic mold wine or blue vide typically it's red wine spice with cinnamon, close lemon, and a bit of and don't make the mistake of drinking too much too quickly. it's so sugary. it goes straight to your head and there are not alcoholic versions to the costs of the drink also includes a deposit for the cost which you get back when you return it. now it's time for our 2nd christmas market. the market of angels set to be the city's hold. let's talk about getting this market has only $0.70. so that still gives us plenty to check out the christmas markets offer many chances to support local artisans and producers. the pyramids are from before mountains in east germany, and i really,

really loved this. this is a great example of typical kind wouldn't handicrafts that you find in germany at christmas markets when light is candles, eats from the candles actually makes the little propeller spins. and these little figures here spin around, so cute. these are the typical, not crackers which are also from the or mountain region they date back to the late 17th century. is it just me or is it time for some sugar? the number of sweet trees you can find and german christmas market is pretty line blowing. here we have a couple of typical ones. these are candy, not all different kinds of varieties. and these big cook and hats, and or gingerbread. hard speaking of lib cook in germany's gingerbread, there's a special kind at this market called clinton. it comes in many varieties. is that

who i think it is? it's samples help or the christmas angel? thank you for your letter. the christmas marketing. that's where you. thank you so much for making my christmas wishes. come true. well, i think we have seen all the christmas market essentials. we've had delicious food modes, wine entered payments suite, and of course, a great atmosphere. the. incidentally, many people in germany eat, potato salad and sausages on christmas eve. that's a pretty simple dish compared to what is traditionally served in poland. a 12 horse feast. but without any meet. let's find out what goes into the menu.

is this the world's most elaborate christmas dinner? all these dishes make up a single meal. it's the color in every christmas. e plastic from poland. does it give you a menu? alicia's family friendly. he wants to say the best part of christmas phone. you know, especially the 12 dishes, were among the most beautiful christmas eve. traditions. i see people when you have a restaurant in warsaw as known for its traditional polish dishes, had shipped sure stuff. kovalevsky prepares the vig delia menu every day. the don. yeah. but the problem is, is this menu consist of 12 dishes that according to tradition, correspond to the biblical last supper. each of the 12 dishes corresponds to a month of the year. in catholic poland, the association with the less separate of jesus and the 12 apostles is especially widespread. this fish is a highlight so that the galia dinner is on the 1st dish. we prepare

a sturgeon cook to lead it was prepared ahead and vacuum cooked for an hour at 50 degrees celsius. now it is hand fried and then put in the oven for about 10 minutes on the fish dishes. are a main stay on the big helium menu. well meat is never sir. this goes back to pre christmas fasting. digging a safe ship. christmas eve comes before the main celebration when you something we and you could say that we have stand for meet in order to save it for christmas day or much. it is our tradition junior hands and heart of our culture. and i did see a quarter to a number of traditions surround the publish christmas menu. many family is only started the gillian meal,

when the 1st star appears in the sky representing the birth of jesus. this is followed by another tradition. the announcement pinkney should tell you one, especially beautiful custom is the breaking of the host to be always in it. that is the white bread, the way for a symbol of christ who was born in bethlehem. but today in bethlehem means that house of bread them when we break the host and wish each other joy and love and kindness and those to me worse. but it is also a symbol of forgiveness. before we sit down together at the beginning, a table, we forgive each other of you, you need to go. so for about time able for us to some of the restaurants, jeff is preparing one of the deserts, the canadian volume. another dish we're preparing today is begin the eclipse. yes. a week putting a mark on the boiled poppy seeds and mixed them with cooked wheat. and then we add various other nights. so thomas on and honey and g email. it's no coincidence that's poppy seeds are used in the desert. the poppy is pollings,

national flower tended seeds are a staple of the closing time to serve the meal. the head chef takes a seat across from the restaurant manager to gives us a brief description of the dishes, get some cubs them a futile just couple songs about the 1st course is herb to mushroom perot gigs, which followed by hiring with mushrooms. the cream herring should be done and herring and linseed oil on a warranty. on them add to vent the sturgeon salad pills, dumplings, various soups and deserts, to polish families. all these dishes on christmas eve and a restaurant or at home. don't those things too. i count myself extremely lucky that my wife trained that a catering school zone. that's why we always cook for our selves at home. so that's the goal only is i'll stick with the taxes. absolutely,

i cook everything myself because my children know exactly what dishes they want to use, and you pretty much expect them to call you and say, go help it all my mazda computer. my mom rarely lets anyone else cook. she likes to do it all herself. i mean, it's always delicious and family friendly. she's my brother is coming with his wife and kids and my sister that other fund. if you find yourself in colin's before christmas eve and wants to get into the best of spirits, you can also enjoy the sumptuous menu at a restaurant. does your country have a special christmas meal to the feathers of these dogs are among the most precious in the world to soft down costs more than $1000.00 zeros per kilo. for centuries, people in iceland had been harvesting the down of arctic either ducks without harming them. it's beneficial both to humans and the animals. see for yourself

the northeast, iceland, rugged fjord landscape. oh, love for our station is the islands most experienced either down farmer. every summer he spends a few months on his remote farm. every year one of the world's largest either ducks locks returns to breed. here. the black and white males and brown females lift throughout the arctic north. but in iceland, the sustainable ancient tradition of eiderdown harvesting is still practice for headphones. i always like being around the ducks, but i have no idea what they see in me. a question 1st had run through that. i've lost, at least they haven't left me so far, so the that i have not yet most of the they seem to like coming back either. so here's the the ducks get up there, said there's and are protected in return. ducks of numerous predators like fox,

they've been martin's rain is another of the 1st concerns. the quality of the down depends on how drive the next day during the breeding season. the odor ducks live side by side with humans for 6 weeks without their protection, only 10 percent of the hatched checks would survive. someone has to keep watch around the clock on the for his wife. johan, that takes the 1st watch. the farm has its own look out tower. do you need experience? i've been doing this for more than 20 years, and i've learned exactly how the ducks behaved when foxes, for example, or nearby every year the farmers build up to 100 nesting places which the ducks readily adopt as protection from wind and weather. some of the structures are real masterpieces made from driftwood, the $6.00 oh $2.00

especially if and when you have a total. i don't really know why the ducks come here school. so i only know that there, while homeless and uncontrollable, it says they don't see me. can they come when they're ready to breed and leave again when they're finished, i say i am a product or peter of you. i have no control over that is on that for all i can do is build a place here where they can nest and be safe from wild animals. for a few weeks later, it's harvest time on oliver's farm. it takes up to 80 next to produce just one kilogram of pure either down over and his friends and family have collected $320.00 kilos. a good harvest the that's when i send them to you the ducks give us down and we protect them

up on a just like when people of the you always have to give something good. the doctor you have to pay rent is just like we pay rent for an apartment. oh, but the park out but ducks don't use money of course for us. okay. so they pay their rent with down for the month or the after cleaning the remaining 100 kilograms of usable down will sell for around a 1000 euro is a key low. but iceland also has a tradition of working the find the clean down is sent to the workshop of rag. now osh kosh daughter and her daughter for further processing, they use the down to make the world's most valuable, exclusive and warm is with costing up to $10000.00 euros each. their customers include princesses, the dalai lama and others. what makes their

down so special is it's one retention all consumers and the magic of either down is that it clings together. it does a separate o eval humphrey there. what is in the air in the cold, it expands a pulse of it. and when it's hot, it contracts up the most and doesn't insulate as much to this package, hit the back end to make it good. and so the centuries old tradition of either down farming lives on an iceland, a tradition in harmony with nature, helping both humans and animals they're up to 22 meters long, but only around 2 meters wide, so called narrow boats. they were built for the narrow canals in britain where they

used to transport various goods. nowadays, many of these unusual vessels had been converted into house boats. what's it like to live on a floating home? it's no secret that our physical surroundings affect our happiness. home and anthony sold their house to cruise the waterways of northwest england full time. is it cheaper than living in a house? and why did they make such a radical change? so i've got trucks in this race of let's buy a house, paid them, we'll, we'll get you off. so what else could we do to enhance our lives? i guess me um we used to hire a small boat every year for about 13 years and just for the day and we bought the dog along the canal pumped into a lady who said she sold a house and bought a boat. and it's the best thing should have it done. and we thought, wow, this is something that we could maybe really seriously think about. i think you get to an age in your life where you realize what you know, what is important in life. we have friends and family that were passing away. we

thought this life is an address we have, so we need a bit of adventure in our lives. let's just do something different for welcome. this is done with our bo, it's 60 feet long. it's 6 foot 10 wide, and it's just over here. old. the boat was cold moaning, so he stepped from the stand straight into the galley, which is the best layout. what do you think for us? and then you step into what is known as the die, and that's on the boat because we can fit in half of friends, right. and we can play cards. and this also can this into a double bed. and then you step into what is known as our living area on a boat is called a silly. and then we've got an l shaped sofa that converts into a bed to guess. because roll tv from the house and a sound of, you know, we'll settle down even in a bunch of film. we've got quite a compact factory, but it's got a full 5 shower, got a really nice basin and a compost toilet into the bedroom, which you may think is really small, but it's bigger than what they had on our last an hour ago. and we've got a bed folding, so a small double size bed for the to pull out is

a king size bed. and it's quite easy for us. so i'm not say just take seconds. paul is an artist and former magician and anthony is a sin algrove for they also run their own youtube channel on narrow the living before steam power boats narrow boats were used to transport goods along the u. k. is extensive, waterways. narrow boats played a key commercial wave from the late 17 hundreds to the 1st world war colon. and then he started living on a narrow boat in 2020. so how much does it actually cost them about like this $1.00 costs around $200000.00 pounds. well, that's because of the brand new bo, it's 60 feet long, and it's got sky light, so he's got a full size open. um, it's electric propulsion. what you can pick up a really decent 2nd i'm bo, for about 5060000 pounds. and you know, it's like a new house, isn't it?

a lot of those snags have been, i am now. and we say to people, if you look into by boat, we definitely recommend 2nd to the costs come be cheaper. i guess it's the maintenance because people say boat stands for bungle and under the 1000 and you come to expensive to maintain a vote on it. so about a 100 pounds a month. yeah. license probably just less than a 100 about 8 pounds a month. and that's probably insurance. yeah. that's we'd up to say about to yeah. wouldn't weigh about 40 pounds a month full. it's countable to $220.00 pounds a month for it was. it's all about the lifestyle. we didn't do it to save money at all. we did it the event you didn't. yeah. yeah, i'll get something and no regret. best thing we've ever done. yeah. except nowadays, there are around 35000 barrel boats and the u. k. since the pandemic, the number of little board boats has increased the icing on the cake. and so i'm thinking another fault about with the people that live with me on our travels and

the of the votes as well. you haven't fallen anthony or class task continue with cruisers for ccs, which means they move their boat every 2 weeks. this way they avoid home warning fees because of anthony's job. they don't travel too far. you're considering a huge lot style change and definitely think the research, it wasn't something we did on a when we, we saw a plunge, we put things in place to make it work for us. and if you did any, something like this, the maybe higher boats to make sure the documents for you cuz it isn't for everybody. but for poland, anthony, it was definitely the right choice. next, stop. another unusual place to stay. it might look like a normal hotel which offers its guests a cozy and safe harbor, but it also offers its employees the same. hotel,

marked us has been getting refugees, work and recognition for years. the hotel marked us indiana has been built as austria's 1st social hotel. oh, i'm on there and this photo gave me a 2nd chance. it's been i'm for reba and i feel at home here service. hm. awesome. hello. my name is adela. on this job has changed my life over there. i'm here the mag this hotel in vienna. now this may look like an ordinary place to stay, but if you take a closer look inside, you will see that this hotel has a very unique story behind. it operates like any other hotel, but this particular establishment is supported by the catholic carried tests, relief, organization, hotel monitors. his goal is to give people with disadvantage backgrounds who had to flee their countries. another chance and access to the job market. over and over from ukraine is one of the employees here. the single mother came to vienna in 2022

when war broke out in her country place for me it's like the 2nd one shelter. baltimore can you for not like a new crew. she feels protected here and says if it weren't for this job, she may have had to go back to you frame the attention to detail in the individual rooms is noteworthy. these hangers, for example, were hand woven and these glasses were cut from wine bottles. many of the other items were also up site gold so what many people don't realize is that this place house catholic priests for more than 50 years. and one indigo. ringback sion of that is that on the 6th floor, there is a small chapel, right, this way about 50 people can fit in here comfortably. and it's used today for weddings, funerals, and baptisms. come back down at the hotel bar of dollars finding

his way around the coffee machine of don't also flight his home country of somalia because their personal stories are often to to monetizing. we weren't permitted to speak to the employees about why they flip their countries. but abdullah is willing to tell us how this job has helped him the he tells me financially and there's like a lot of people here who like to help in different places. like if you need to make a passport. yeah, they help a lot. i need to tell me a lot, i don't know exactly where, but it's going to help me because i'm still new and the id used as possibilities yet. so there's 2 open for me. 16 nationalities are represented here. i've just been here for a short while, but already just walking around,

i ever encountered people from mexico, afghanistan, syria. it's a real hopefully, of languages and cultures. gabrielle is own lighting. there is a hotels managing director. her background is in both the business and social sector and our the guess aware of the mission of the hotel when they come here on the 1st side, not because they book via booking or website. and we look just as a normal hotel. we want to look like a normal hotel, and what is behind a very of experience when you talk to people, when they read or stories and know approaches and then to discover or we have a 2nd reason why we are here. gabriella also explains that they wanted to have a space for greenery, so they turn the former parking lot behind the hotel into a garden with geothermal probes that heat and cold, the restaurant and rooms many of the 40 employees here have some sort of refugee background and various levels of training for an office manager,

the ad rep is from syria. he came to the montes hotel in 2016, after which he completed an apprenticeship as a hotel specialist. is calling a funny buckle, allow me from afghanistan started as an apprentice in 2022. the everybody sees their difficulties. if they don't speak the language to those are the catch up. but we want to kind of focus on the contention and the deputy for travelers who are mindful of the challenges facing the world today, including the displacement of people saying this hotel is a small way to make a contribution for this is a great opportunity for cultural exchange and that's all from europe max this week, but you'll find more exciting stories from around europe on our social media channels. thanks for watching and joining us again next week. i'll see you guys in

by the

it denies this ties the international celebrities from back to the hotel to the us to is casey overbearing attention, samantha. and i know from the teenage hub forbes to create role models here. hotel and the engines on pop culture coming up on the w. k. queen, queen, don't have to be royal to carry yourselves with pride and grace. the queen has

travelled from history carrying lands, leaning. today. it's the celebration of the top. i didn't to see and community that's exactly what we're looking at. welcome to the show, the 77 percent in 30 minutes on the w, the surrounded by talented. com, oak trees. and they use they to great adaptive. you're it's of threes. golf january good dw, where is mohammed?

i'm looking for my nephew. give me a decent meeting. we don't know what's going on. well, i'm at start off, fled from north any rock. and he became one of hundreds of my miss suzanne is every year. somewhere in no man's land lines between batteries, i'm clear if you choose become pools in a cru, see a political conflict with oh you she does on the run starts december 18th on dw, the frankfurt a how board international gateway to the best connection, solstio road and radio located in the heart of europe, you are connected to the world experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and strongly always services. be our guest at frankfurt and bought cd,

managed by front bought the . this just need to be news of these are our top stories muslims in syria. i have celebrated their 1st friday prayers since the collapse of the assad. rashid brows gathered in damascus today earlier the leader of the forces that toppled the sod posted a video congratulating the syrian people urging all to celebrate what he called. the victory of the revolution francois by root has been appointed. as francis knew, prime minister, a centrist ally of.