the surprises i was shoving and i'm ready to dive into the hands of human to you. have you have a window quote on that. we've got a response on the on expected side to side. 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 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 . 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 $140.00 stats sufferings, each one common mistake. not in dressing warm enough. there's so much to see. you don't want to have to cut your visit, of course. and by the way,

this market has the line line's 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 tulsa fried potato pancakes in cologne, you'll find a special version called cyber cool. serve with sour cream or apple sauce. has the 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 in cal. don't make the mistake of

bringing only credit card at christmas market. 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 honest, 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 the christmas markets offer many chances to support local artisans and

producers. these pyramids are from before mountains in east germany, and i really, really loved this. this is a great example of typical kind of wood in 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 candied, 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've seen all the christmas market, essentially. we've had delicious food moles, wine entered payments. we 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 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 tradition as to the home. and you have a restaurant in warsaw as known for its traditional published additions, head ship, sure stuff, kolowski prepares the vig delia menu every day. the dani are fucked up. grab 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 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 gillian menu. well, meat is never served. this goes back to pre christmas fasting. digging a safe shit, christmas eve comes before the main celebration. we need something we em. you could say that we abstain from me in order to save it for christmas day or much. it is our tradition virginian hands and heart of our culture. but i did. yeah. i clicked on 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 to go with 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 gillian table, we forgive each other of you and i go so true about time we propose to some of the restaurants. jeff is preparing one of the deserts, the canadian volume. another dish we're preparing today is beginning a crew chess a week, putting a mock on the boiled 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 seats are a staple of the cuisine 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, different kinds of material. these couple of things about the 1st course is herb to mushroom perot. gates that followed by hiring with mushrooms cream herring. this should be the and herring and linseed oil, all i only on them add to that the sturgeon salad pills, 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 too. i found myself extremely lucky that my wife trained at 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 that other fund, if you find yourself in poland 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 like being around the ducks, but i have no idea what they see in me across that and 1st headed run through a lot, at least they haven't left me so far as well. they seem to like coming back to the left. there's the 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 owner. first 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 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 602. especially if 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 there. oh, 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 either down. over and his friends and family have collected $320.00 kilos of good harvest the that's the end of the year. the ducks give us down and we protect them little

oh, it's not funny. just like when people are off, you always have to give something good. the doctor, you have to pay rent out of it and i just like we pay rent for an apartment of the parking lot, but ducks don't use money, of course for us. okay. so they pay their rent with down the middle, the after cleaning the remaining 100 kilograms of usable down will sell for around a 1000 euros the kilo. but iceland also has a tradition of working the find the clean down is sent to the workshop of rag. 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 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 power, most of it. and when it's hot, it contracts 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 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 house boats. what's it like to live on a floating home? it's no secret that our physical surroundings affect our happiness. colon 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 radix to change it? so i've got trucks in this. so right. race of, let's buy a house, pay the mortgage off. so what else could we do to enhance our lives? i guess 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 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. i think you 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 do you think for us? and then you step into what is known as the dine, 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 about is called a silly. and then we've got an l shaped sofa that converts into effects the gas. because roll 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 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 an hour ago. and we've got a bed folding to a small double size bed, but it doesn't pull out into a king size bed. and it's quite if or not. so it just takes seconds. paul is an artist and former magician and anthony is a sin algrove for. 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 played a key commercial wave from the late 17 hundreds to the 1st world war colon anthony 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 a 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 ironed out 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 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. stops. were dropped to say about to yeah, well, didn't weigh about 40 pounds a month 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 to the event you didn't. yeah. yeah, own gibson and no regret. best thing we've ever done isn't 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 travels a news 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 in vienna has been built as austria's 1st social hotel who i am on their end. this sort of gave me a 2nd chance issue. 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 well that 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. olga,

i'm from nova, 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 q for 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 baptisms. come back down at the hotel bar of dollars finding his way around the coffee machine up don't also flight his home country of somalia because their personal stories are often tutor and ties inc. we weren't permitted to speak to the employees about why they flipped their countries, but of delta 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, you know, 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 do 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. gabriela zone 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 the very also 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 z i'd rep is from syria. he came to the monitors hotel in 2016, after which he completed an apprenticeship as a hotel specialist. his colleagues, shiny 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 saying that this hotel is a small way to make a contribution for this is a great opportunity for cultural exchange from europe max this week, but you'll find more exciting stories from around europe on our social media

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