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is he. the latest in science and technology. the future. if you're taking your first trip to russia you'll probably be more inclined to pack a fur coat rather than a bucket and spade but if you have down south to the chrism of the region you'll find long sandy beaches and hundreds of kilometers

a beautiful coastline literally millions of people flock here every year proof that while russia may be famous for its snow and skiing there's plenty of sun sand and see here as well. this is the longest developed abutments in europe fourteen kilometers of it and in the middle is this lady a white bride resent the hopes dreams and beauty of feature. and it's a stunning place the results are framed by the background of the caucasian mountains and on a sunny day the seascapes can rival anything you might find in the greek islands and if you want to see the area in its full glory you just have to jump into a cable car. is the easy way to do it on this hike. straight up instead.

you get a pretty good view on the way up here but i want to go just a little bit higher and also it's an excuse to this affair. up here you can find the black seas equivalents of the london oil although admittedly this is a little more retro. going to the most technologically advanced roy this one. is a big. minutes to get to the top. if you. manage to cling on you're in for a treat. this is the highest brought on the and saw a black sea coast meters above sea level. discos incredible. maybe a little bit windy that will probably. be able. to

restore to arrive here in april when the season can continue and. attractions in the area are geared to appeal to the whole family i want to check out one of its newest success stories. people come from all over russia to visit the black sea coast but if you're looking forward to multiculturalism it's probably a pretty good place to start. to farm boy names here this is simply called old park bench lee it's not very old it'll take a walk around and you'll soon get a picture. well who needs a foreign holiday when you can come here you got the pyramids of egypt. and even a roman billion dollar less strong than it takes you to. architect i would. open the park back in two thousand and four with an ambitious plan in mind.

we were out to get together many cultures within the narrow space or east west caucasus or russia. these architectural structures are filled with substance and as you look around you begin to realize that the culture of humankind is a simple system of many cultures hoarded as embrace is the whole period from ancient designs all the way to modern architecture. alexander has areas dedicated to more than ten different cultures i was alone moved to be paid all respects to zeus and we found ourselves in ancient egypt. it may be a little smaller than the pyramids of giza but it's based on and it's certainly boasting some foreign acoustics.

here for some gold roll was listening to impress with all singing as it probably began to rain. it was a perfect moment lou to head indoors and visit the park's medieval town and there's a bird's eye view of the grounds. oh here we are james this is our territory that you're stuck with our aim is to build a space where architecture and nature so merge into the harmony where we all want to be. if your fortune has something to do with it's probably a pretty good place to start and if you go there early enough it will be plenty of fishermen setting off for the morning catch. one of the best things to me about coming to the coast is the tells the press see so that's why we're. going to take the place we can collect sit down there. and sam.

will work from the stir. so game his crew a muscle an oyster famous they've only been breeding the tasty mollusks for three years now they're already proving very popular. that yes i can tell you that as far as r.c. franson is concerned this is a budding market. traditionally people here ate shish kabob. and now there's a great demand for seed who are not only locally but also in moscow st petersburg and elsewhere there were no shelf asian oysters in the menu bar the restaurants only local people like to cook shellfish for a very long time. so there's palma examiner is an oyster diver and once they've arrived at the beds his job begins. the boats all. the boys. were in the right place at the.

once everything secure the catch has to be loaded into the robots and that's where the hard work begins. if you know to find of dirty jobs this probably isn't for you each will pretty much guarantee easy was the water show on sawing fingers and plenty of unwelcome guests. little crowds in there as well as going to stop because about all. of us does themselves can be surprisingly hard to find. so this kind of reading program apparent doesn't yield too many oysters they're quite rare so you see we've got tons and tons of mussels but only one or two oysters hidden among them. it's more like. one even a needle in a haystack. game his crew off the system a huge demand for fresh mussels locally and in moscow and there's definitely no shortage of them. so this is going to be one of the biggest seafood buffy's you're

ever likely to see we've got a right under twenty muscles appearing bathing crabs in place and of course the old press is oyster it's not often you get to eat seafood when it's this fresh unfortunately on course to boot there's no shortage of experience as. most of us are ok so i. may not be the first roman success it's where i would have nature's great aphrodesiac you don't get much fresher than this. not to mention extremely tasty. so i have my long journey over water but i'm not sure that even the most generous marine biologist would count as all muscles among the small system called screeches swimwear that is intelligent animals pointed. out when you're behind a black sea and tough to find. them. it's

an l o two it's a. bit of here is a story. is that the sun will. say hello to zurich so you know three beautiful vocal nosed dolphins they've been living in before me here the dolphinarium for more than ten years and they've begun something neat down to a for an old house. but this is probably the best quickest way to make friends i think so i don't. feel. this one is greedy. it's theirs is the best way to get quickly fed. happy to share their breakfast. with the ladies clamoring for something bigger do. they go. in

a row the fights i've won the week it's a. big rivalry. and. laurie is missing. senior and around two hundred fifty kilos and zurich tips the scales are over three hundred but fortunately there's plenty of food for everyone. so the girls eat sixteen kilos based on their names or it goes through a scene. can you imagine how many of these that is yeah i know me is still graciously hungry and that means that he's quite happy to run through his room seems there's a reward on all for a look at first i'm sure to have tried this attention and then you saw it. go remember who it was and exactly that come on.

oh. ok now we know the whole over. the course of the season hundreds of people come to see zorak and his girlfriends every day and practice a certain inmate face. i get the feeling he's disturbed. by. this is the first saw i might have to chose. james gets ready to take and it was best i could possibly imagine.

going to be one of the most amazing experiences. of my. much of it doesn't mean that nothing ever will. go this amazing feat. although i could do the less gracefully exit. and the beast way. look at my gym and. thankfully peached don't thin is a rare black sea coast where you can find quite a few on welcome additions to the shoreline. unfortunately like many other resorts around the world the black sea coast has its own problems with but as they say

sometimes one man's trash can be another man's treasure for in this case treasure first. she run to waste from polypropylene stacks production and some bottles here you can see waste from show's production work just like you was. born into lynn and used x. seven years ago a name in the can for of a gave up this is a doctor to become an artist and environmentalist. recycling is still rare in russia and the scarlet letter is a common science. has opened the whites to try and draw attention to the damage the waste is doing to the local area. it's always a pain to see the earth turn into a garbage can i try to collect some of the rubbish but of course my efforts were in vain the trash was not getting smaller many people just don't understand me i don't

know how to explain it to them my idea is to make people remember my work and everything that i have taken care of before the litter i want them to remember my beloved lexie and the fish it'll be great if they begin doing such things even better than me i mean or offer to give me a quick lesson in how to make plastic fantastic but i think they're let's make a fish ok come on we're making a little addition for his biggest installation a sculpture that's intended to represent the whole of the black sea monsters first let's get rid of unnecessary stuff here is the fairmont gun take a look it's not clear if with a fish yet but now we're going to shape it and look here is the tail. and now we are going to color it and it will become absolutely fabulous start with. brian that's right.

yes. and no you should shake it a little bit to let the pain spread sort of out only to let me run let the pain forward. please show what breed of fish we were creating it was pretty colorful and once the finishing touches have been added it was ready to take its place in the gallery forward we go james and here is here to make this work now you have your own place in the back seat of that draw you into the sea find a nice place behind hope she'll have a happy life. to me and i think we can transform this rubbish and something really rather beautiful hopefully the people who see it i will think a little bit more before they chuck away that next plus. we're taking a look at the sculpture of the black sea reminded me of another thing i haven't quite have the time for us. i've been so busy here in the textile was speaking

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called touch from the i.q. zaps to. the faulty light on the good. video on demand keys my old costs and says feed now in the palm of your. question. so far on my trip or have a chance to meet a few of the black c's merida mills but i've heard that up there in the hills there were plenty more who prefer drawing lines the least most of the time this isn't just an old mary's or it's a rescue under its own sense for injured addicts performing animals. enjoying her early morning. full report with some of the more than sixty different species a momentum with his keeper. until he started working here three years ago because i was a hunter but it seems like the animals don't really crunch. let's go. this is

the himalayan bandit mold you want to see how long that you want to have fun and once. he's only ten months old he's growing like a weed. now but when he gets big. it's going to be about a hundred. and i think he's a. great i'm having fun and biting everything in his meat. every careful. and if you think to lose a handful went to the link is friends next to you. is a good moaning baby. with a spate of recent births the zoo now has around three hundred animals and they've set up a new baby pig cats and we get along like this. my dream the most news of becoming a delicious treat and just

a few months ago i welcomed one of the world's rarest animals this little is adam a baby i want. and the son of two confiscated tiger so he really is a little nervous. and you can already see. it's not going to be too long. before. he's going to turn into. a world where he is kept on a bit of a killer and i'm hoping he's going to be gentle with me. most of the animals here have been rescued from poachers or from circus is that some come from rather more unusual backgrounds. this is grigori he lived with her grandmother in our streets he was living in a simple flat for a long time is more than ten years old ramel or has brought him here some three years ago she was a very old woman she brought to bear here in a car without any cage just using a leash she cooked

a big delicious cake for him i think that grandmother is just too old to look after him. i'm just trying to imagine a bad living in a granny flat now and he had. been a big spare room. but never seen one such a bond of trust with so many different creatures it was like being around a real life dr doolittle a nickel i hope for the thousands of visitors who come to the park take a new appreciation of the animals away with the. obvious void of my visit to the support and minor cuts and bruises i figured it was time to visit one of the black sees more sedate stores to tractions and maybe get myself something to eat. only you learn quite quickly about the russians is that they love their bread whether it's brown black roy pretty much comes with everything but we just call it strains in the two years i've been travelling around this country i've never seen one of the others. it's a router of

a mill that was grinding flour in this area more than a century ago and with the help of a few modern improvements it's back in business. the history of this company is fairly typical of russia founded in eight hundred ninety five it was nationalized in one thousand eight hundred. four in the one nine hundred thirty s. it was really in sickle and hammer and wasn't service until the early one nine hundred sixty s. . a few years ago the original mill was stripped transported and rebuilt here and the old gears were given a new lease of life. there are some new parts to this window but it really is a timeless bit of engineering vertical axle turn by the wind power and that energy. is then converted down here by these wheels. and this one is part of the original nineteenth century mechanism the windmill

still running today. which moves these two parts up into the grinding stone. and we get flour the same way it's been produced. and making it is a really simple process so. they get. no follow me. here is a receiving bunker. this way here. now in the process of how already underway plenty of medium making little time for some. ok so i've heard of a ploughman's lunch but i'm guessing this is a miller's blog this milk. bread and they were all. of our stuff this mill may be an example of the region's recent history but they're

all relics along the shoreline that date back to antiquity. this is the ancient city of gold was home to thousands of people until it was destroyed in the third century a.d. and it's one of the best preserved examples. of the dates and city on the recent coast the greeks who settled here names their city after a samarian king and its ruins cover around forty and it's still possible to wander through the so is of great houses and you can even discover the citizens paper temple i bet the this would have been one of the most popular places back in the days of good because it's the remains of an ancient winery people who cross the grapes here do stand would have come down these forests and into these enormous buckets they're still year. down here. unfortunately. all we've got now of course is rain water but

back in the day this would have held the equivalent of hours and littles. may have been long since deserted of the descendants of its creek settlers are still in the area and they still have a passion for the grape. this is russia's wine country around sixty percent of the crop comes from around this area and on about to meet the people who make some of the best. these all you grapes i believe yes and this is a very important sort of you. and his family are almost ready to start making the latest batch of best they must stretch out. the price tonight so much spending only you distress i will set you back around fifty dollars but this much of grapes. let me introduce to my

father. oh yes the beginning. of a once. this is bringing in the harvest he likes to have a few friends. the old tradition. goes to the celebrates. its there was a pretty big power of grapes to cross so it seemed to take. you supposed to get everyone stomping away in a nice uniform rhythm but lumia greek slipping around on fifty kilos of grapes takes some doing. and i was about to get more from them in the for. and so i think off the rolls we definitely deserve a drink thank you very much. yes this is

a bit of you know. she was six continue into the evening but i want to take a stroll across a number of the regions nine months before i call my plane bikes in moscow. when it's this windy even plenty of warning won't keep it warm. for say viewers would cost him his son max and run a t.v. tools along with him. enough that cycling the dunes and suddenly beats walking back to the hotel. it may have been getting chilly but as a born and bred seaside town boy it was sensibly leaving the black sea coast it may not boast the infrastructure of some of the famous mediterranean resorts but with months of sunshine and relatively low prices and no trouble some geezer is used it's easy to see why millions of russians come here for the summer holidays it's a place to relax bring the family and enjoy the warmest only water but russia has

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