and say you desire nature's grace, adaptive, and nothing's be to your 3 south jenny reset on dw 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 jerome x 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 mode wine, a 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 concrete, 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 $140.00 stats sufferings, each one common mistake, not dressing form, and there is so much to see. don't want to have to cut your visit for and by the

way, this market has the lime lines, largest christmas tree, a norman for 23 meters high. as i'm walking around here, there's so many incredible smells in the air. you have candy, not grilled 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 cut, also telephone fried, potato pancakes in cologne. you'll find a special version called cyber cool. serve 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 than it smells. and the classic sausage, which comes in many varieties, depending on the region, i try, metal lift 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 markets 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 it 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 cost 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 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. these pyramids are from before mountains and east germany, and i really, really loved this. this is a great example of typical kind of wooden handicrafts that you find in germany at christmas markets when light these candles heats 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 17 century. is it just me or is it time for some sugar? the number of sweet trees you can find a german christmas market is pretty line blowing. here we have a couple of typical ones. these are candied knots, all different kinds of varieties. and these very cool hats in or gingerbread. hard

speaking of lead cook in germany's gingerbread, there's a special kind at this market called clinton. it comes in many varieties. is that oh, i think it is. it still does help or the christmas angel. oh, 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 molds, wind entertainments, 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 course beast, 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 cold in every christmas. e plastic from poland. to give you a menu, alicia's family friendly. he wants to say the best part of christmas to you know, especially the 12 dishes, are among the most beautiful christmas eve, traditions as to the home, and you have a restaurant in warsaw as known for its traditional published additions, head ship, sure stuff. kovalevsky prepares the vig delia menu every day, dani all fucked up 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 last 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 cooked to sylvia. 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 gillian menu. well, meat is never sir. this goes back to pre christmas fasting, digging a safe shit christmas eve comes before the main celebration when you something we and you could say that we have stain from me in order to save it for christmas day or much. it is our tradition junior hands and heart of our culture and tablets here at quoted 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 hopes to be always. 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 was. but it is also a symbol of forgiveness. before we sit down together at the gillian table, we forgive each other of you and i go so much. i'm impressed with some of the restaurants. jeff is preparing one of the deserts, the canadian volume with another dish. we're preparing today is beginning a crew chess a week, putting a mock on the boil poppy seeds and mixed them with cooked wheat. and then we add various other knots. so thomas are in hunting and g email. it's no coincidence that

poppy seeds are used in the desert. the poppy is poland. national flower tended seeds are a staple of the cuisine times the serve, the meal. the head shift takes a seat across from the restaurant manager to gives us a brief description of the dishes different cubs. i'm a futile just couple of things. about the 1st course is herb to mushroom perot gigs, which followed by hiring with mushrooms cream herring should be done and herring and linseed oil on a warranty. on them, add to them 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 found 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 kids. 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 citizens. but if you find yourself in colon 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 too? the feathers of these dogs are among the most precious in the world. the 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 practiced. for headphones, i always liked being around the ducks, but i have no idea what they see in me last name 1st had run through a lot, at least they haven't left me so far. i have not yet nashua. they seem to like coming back as the host, the ducks get up there. so there's and are protected in turn,

ducks of numerous predators like foxes and martin's rain as another of the 1st concerns. the quality of the down depends on how dry 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 1st wife, yona now takes the 1st watch. the farm has its own look out, tell her 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 $100.00 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 to my only know that there while homo and uncontrollable itself, they don't see me. can they come when they're ready to breed and leave again when they're finished, to say on the bottom? well, if either 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 saved from wild animals for a few weeks later, it's harvest time on older 1st farm. it takes up to 80 next to produce just one kilogram of pure iron down over here and his friends and family have collected 320 kilos of good harvest the that's the son of the ducks. give us down and we protect them little.

oh, it's not funny. just like with people. you always have to give something along the script. the doctor, you have to pay rent, but it's really just like we pay rent for an apartment of the park, but ducks don't use money of course for. okay. so they'd pay their rent with down the middle, the after cleaning the remaining 100 kilograms of usable down. we'll sell for around a 1000 euros a key low. but iceland also has a tradition of working the find the clean down is sent to the workshop of rug. 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 warm to retentions. oh, punches. and the magic of either down is that it clings together. it doesn't separate all eval humphrey there. what is in the air in the cold, it expands, pulse of it. and when it's hot, it contracts up the most and doesn't insulate as much. does 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 have 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. poland 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? but so i've got trucks in this race of let's buy a house, paid them, we'll get you off. so what else could we do to enhance our life? 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 seems i 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 that one hour ago. it's 60 feet long. it's 6 foot 10 wide, and it's just over here. old. the boat is 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 sit and have friends around, 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, then we've got an l shaped sofa that converts into a bed to guess. but go our own tv from the house and the sound of the home. we will settle down the butcher film. we've got quite a compact factory, but it's got a full 5 shower. we've got a really nice base, a on a compost toilet. been to the factory, which you may think is really small,

but it's taking them they had on our last an hour ago. i mean that the following, so small, double size bed for the to pull out is what king size bed is quite easy. so on that. so it just takes seconds. paul is an artist and former magician, the anthony is a snob. refer, they also run their own youtube channel on narrow boat 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 lead 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 it's a brand new bo, it's 60 feet long, and it's called 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 ironed out and we say to people, if you look into by boat, we definitely recommend 2nd. for the costs come be cheaper. i guess it's the maintenance because people say boat stands for bone going into 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 a pound of them. so and that's probably insurance. yeah. the dots were dropped to say a volume to. yeah. well, don't weigh about 40 pounds a month plus countable to $220.00 pounds a month for it was sold about the lifetime. we didn't do it to save money at all. we did it the adventure didn't. yeah. yeah, own gibson and no regret specing me that i don't, isn't that? yeah, we have some nowadays, there are around 35000 narrow boats and the u. k. since the pandemic, the number of little board boats has increased the ice and on the case can

something they never fold about with the people that live with me on our travels on the boat. this way you hadn't fallen. anthony are classed as continuous cruisers for ccs, which means they move their boat every 2 weeks. this way they avoid home warring fees because of anthony's job. they don't travel too far. you're considering a huge lifestyle change. and definitely think of research. it wasn't something we did on a when we, we saw plans, we put things in place to make it work for us. and if you didn't use something like this, the may be 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 stuff, 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. my desk has been getting refugees, work and recognition for years. the hotel marked us in vienna has been built as austria's 1st social hotel who i am on the spot to give me a 2nd chance. it's been, i'm for reba and i feel at home here. service hm. awesome. hello my name is a villa . this job has changed my life for the day. i'm here the mag, this hotel indiana. 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 leave their countries another chance and access to the job market and hold off

a little bit 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 a 2nd bunch show to about more careful look like in ukraine. she feels protected here and says if it works 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 upside gold. so what many people don't realize is that this place house catholic priests for more than 50 years. and one indication 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 baptism 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 tutor and sizing. 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 it 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 property of languages and culture. 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, um and what is behind the 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 joe thermal proves 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 mountains hotel in 2016, after which he completed an apprenticeship as a hotel specialist. his colleagues, a funny buckle, allow me from afghanistan, started as an apprentice in 2022. the everybody sees their difficulties, yet they don't speak the language to don't know 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 say this hotel is a small way to make your contribution for this is a great opportunity for cultural exchange. and that's all from your max this week. but you'll find more exciting stories from around europe on our social media

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