expensive down in the world, and i conic homes. what inspired this british couple to live on a classic narrow about all this and more coming up on general macs 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 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 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 stats suffering, which one common mistake, not in dressing warm. and there's so much to see. don't want to have to cut your visit towards. and by the way, this market has the lime lines 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 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 car tulsa pool, fun fried potato pancakes in cologne. you'll find a special version called i have a clue. serve with sour cream,

or apple sauce. has the sweet favorite thing going on that 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 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 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 lines face 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 getting this market has only $0.70. so that still gives us plenty to check out. 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 is candles, sheets 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. or 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 mind blowing. here we have a couple of typical ones. these are candy, not 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 who i think it is? it's samples help or the christmas angel. thank you for your letter. the christmas market and that's where you thank you so much for making my christmas wishes. come true. well, i think we've seen all the christmas market essentials. we've had delicious food

modes, wine entered payments, sweet, 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 feast. but without any meet, let's find out what goes into the menu, or is this the world's most elaborate christmas dinner? all these dishes make up a single meal. it's the color in every christmas eve classic from poland. the gillian menu, alicia's family friendly. he wants to say the best part of christmas to 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, 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 the galia dinner is on the 1st dish. we prepare a sturgeon cook, so 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, but it's 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 a part 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 house and to be always in it. that is the white bread, the way for a symbol of christ who was born in bethlehem. mcclay and bethlehem means that house of bread them when we break the host and wish each other joy and love and kindness . and i know excuse me, will, but it is also a symbol of forgiveness. before we sit down together at the gilly a table,

we forgive each other of you and i go so true about time able for us to assume that the restaurant chef 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 boil poppy seeds and mixed them with cooked wheat. and then we add various other knots. so thomas, are in huntington g email? it's no coincidence that's poppy seeds are used in the desert. the poppy is poland . 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 cods them. i'm a futile just couple of things about the 1st course is herb to mushroom perot gate, which followed by harring with mushrooms, the cream herring. this should be the and herring and linseed oil. all i already on

them. add to that the surgeon cell, it builds dumplings various soups and deserts. ready to polish families all these dishes on christmas eve and a restaurant or at home. don't those things change? 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 knowledge i computed, 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 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 kayla. for centuries, people in iceland had been harvesting the down at the 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 either down harvesting is still practiced for headphones. i always like being around the ducks, but i have no idea what they see in me. profit in 1st had run through a lot, at least they haven't left me so far. i have no ship nashua. they seem to like coming back of the little push button on those little ducks get up there. said there's and are protected in turn, ducks of numerous predators like foxes and martin's rain is 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 chicks 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 lookout tower.

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 master pieces made from driftwood the $6.00 oh $2.00 especially if you have a total. i don't really know why the ducks come here as well. so i only know that they're while homeless and uncontrollable itself. they don't see me. can they come when they're ready to breed and leave again when they're finished? i 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 safe from wild animals eat them. 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 iron down. the clean down is sent to the workshop of rog. not osh kosh daughter and her daughter for further processing. they use the down to make the world's most valuable, exclusive and warm is will 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 oh punches. 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 expand secret pulse of it. and when it's hot, it contracts up the most and doesn't insulate as much to this package,

hit the lift and to make it good. and so the centuries old tradition of eiderdown 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 how spell it. 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,

pay the mortgage 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, said she sold a house and bought a boat and is the best thing she'd have it done, and we thought, wow, this is something that we could maybe really seems like, think about it, get to an age and 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 was cold moaning, so you stepped from the stand straight into the gallery, which is the best lie out what you think for us. and then you step into what is known as the guy that's on the boat. because we can sit and have friends around, we can play cards, and this also converts 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 effects the gas. because ro tv from the house and the sound of the home. we'll 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 basin and a compost toilet bin for the battery, which you may think is really small, but it's bigger than what they had on our last narrow boat. i mean that the folding for small double size bed. what it does pull out is what king size budgeting quite is of the amount. so just take seconds. paul is an artist and former magician and anthony is as an ogre firm. they also run their own youtube channel long narrow boat living before steam power boats narrow boats were used to transport goods along the u. k. is extensive, waterways narrow boats plate,

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? how about like this $1.00 cost around $200000.00 pounds? well, that's because it a brand new bo, it's 60 feet long, and it's got sky light. so he's got a full size open and it's electric propulsion. well, 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. 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 boat 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. a stops. were dropped to say about to. yeah,

well didn't weigh about 40 pounds of them full. it's 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 event you didn't. yeah. yeah. own gibson and no regret. best thing we've ever done in that. 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 ice and on the case, can somebody even have a fault about with the people that live with me on our troubles on the was about this in a while you haven't fallen anthony are classed as continuous cruisers or 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 did your 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. if you're doing 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 in recognition for years. the hotel marked us indiana has been built as austria's 1st social hotel. oh, i am on there and this sort of 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 angela. 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 leave 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, uh, 2nd one shelter, baltimore q 4 looks 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 up cycled. so what many people don't realize is that this plays 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. abdullah is 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 homage sizing. we weren't permitted to speak to the employees about why they flip their countries. but of dollar 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 i didn't use these 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, i'm 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 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 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, yet they don't speak the language to 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 a 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 channel. thanks for watching and joining us again next week. we does in by the

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