if the equipment. is a big pole you. could just stop swinging now that would be right. it takes room five minutes to get to the top and if you manage to cling on you're in for a treat. this is the highest roy on the black sea coast . is above the sea level. discovers incredible. maybe a little bit windy and a bit wobbly. to restore to arrive here in april when the season can continue into october. attractions in the area are good to appeal to the whole family and i wanted 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 for a different sort of multiculturalism it's probably a pretty good place to start. new flamboyant names here this is simply called

old park. it's not very old it's old but take a walk around and you'll soon get the picture. who needs a foreign holiday when you can come here you got the pyramids of egypt. the temples of ancient greece. and even a roman pavilion all in less time than it takes you to scrape. architect alexander of open the park back in two thousand and four with a membership plan in mind. we were out to get together many cultures within the space or east west caucasus russia. these architectural structures are filled with substance and as you look around you begin to realize that the culture of humankind is a synthesis of many cultures races the whole period from ancient designs all the

way to modern architecture. alexander has areas dedicated to more than ten different cultures and we. paid all respects to zeus and we found ourselves in ancient egypt. it may be a little smaller than the pyramid of giza but it's based on but it's certainly boasting some fine acoustics. so. he. was listening he can't have been too impressed with all singing as it probably began to rain. it was a perfect moment lou to head indoors and visit the punk's medieval town and there's a bird's eye view of the grounds. here we are. this is our territory. is to build a space where architecture and nature into the harmony where we all want to be.

bunts if your fortune has something to do with the docs are probably a pretty good place to start and if you go there early enough they'll be plenty of fishermen setting off for the morning catch. one of the best things to me about. so that's why we're. going to take the place we can collect down there. sam. will work from the stir. so his crew will muscle and. they've been breeding the tasty mollusks for three years but they're already proving very popular. i can tell you that as far as he is concerned this is a budding market. traditionally people here ate and fish and now there's

a great demand for seafood not only locally but also in moscow st petersburg and elsewhere there were no shellfish an oyster is in the menu bar the restaurants only local people like to cook shellfish for a very long time. so. there is an oyster and once they've arrived at the beds his job begins. so they were in the right place. but once everything secure the catch has to be loaded into the robots and that's where the hard work begins. if you know. this probably isn't for you each will pretty much guarantees you a seawall to show on the fingers and plenty of guests. little crowds in there as well as going to stop. them soon

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 muscles but only. hidden among them. on a bit of a needle in a haystack. this still huge to my muscles locally. and there's definitely no shortage of them. so this is going to be one of the big. lightly the c we've got a twenty muscles appearing bathing crabs in place and of course. it's not often you get to eat seafood when it's this fresh unfortunately on an oyster boat there's no shortage of experience because. or. may not be the most romantic thing to try one of nature's great. you don't get that

much fresher than this. not to mention extremely tasty. so i have my long journey over. but i'm not sure that even the most generous marine biologist would count muscles among the small to screech is. intelligent animals pointing. well when you're behind a black sea tough to find. hello to. say hello to zurich. three beautiful. they've been living in performing here of the dolphinarium for more than ten years. beginning technique down to a fine old. but this is probably the best quickest way to make friends i think.

this one. is the best way to get quickly. doesn't mean having to share their breakfast. with the ladies clamoring for a ghost. in a row the fights i've won the. rivalry since. around two hundred fifty kilos and zurich tips the scales over three hundred but fortunately there's plenty of food for everyone. so the girls eat sixteen kilos of fish for they. can imagine how many of these that is still.

hungry and that means that he's quite happy to run seems. to attract his attention and then you throw it. if.

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but you can. but as they say sometimes one man's trucks can be another man's treasure or in this case woman's treasure. what are the whole she rather wastes probably in sacks production and some bottles. you can see waists from shoes production just like you was. still in and used sacks seven years

ago. gave up her practice is a doctor to become an artist and environmental list. recycling is still rare in russia and is a common sight. to try and draw attention to the damage the waste is doing to the local area. boy it's always a pain to see the earth turn into a guard which 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 black sea 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 stick that isn't there let's make a fish ok come on we're making a little addition for biggest installation a sculpture that's intended to represent the whole of the black sea the first let's

get rid of unnecessary stuff here is the fairmont gun take a look it's not clear if it's a fish yet but now we're going to shape it look here is the tail. and now we're going to color it and it will become absolutely fabulous. yes beautiful. perfect and no you should shake it a little bit to let the paint spread. over. exactly sure what breed of fish we were creating but it was pretty colorful and once the finishing touches had been added it was ready to take its place in the gallery for what we go james and here is here to be the now you have

your own facing the back seat that's right into the sea find a nice place behind hope she'll have a happy life. it's amazing to think that you can transform this rubbish into something really rather beautiful and hopefully the people who see it maybe they'll think a little bit more before they chuck away that next plastic bottle. but taking a look at that sculpture of the black sea reminded me of another thing i haven't quite have the time for us. i've been busy here in the country to go about my favorite thing to the seaside. and it is up here.

more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean thomas discovers flight makes antarctica so special and attractive for many. and for the. expedition to the bottom of your.

feet. so far i'm much more have the chance to meet a few of the black seas marine animals but i've heard that up there in the hills there were plenty more. the least most of the time this isn't just an ordinary zoo it's a rescue and the retirement for injured performing on the most of them is enjoying her early morning paul. full report looks after more than sixty different species i met up with head keeper. until he started working here three years ago because i was a hunter but it seems like the animals don't generally crunches. let's go buddy

this is blue the himalayan band both mellow don't you want to say how long you want to have fun and once he's only ten months old he's growing like a weed he's a fairly. there when he gets big. he's going to be about a hundred. and i think he's. right i'm having fun and biting everything in his meat. every careful. that's it but. then if you think blues a handful weightily meters friends next door. being baby. with a spate of recent births the zoo now has around three hundred animals and they've set up a nursery for their baby pig cats why can't we all get along my place. my genes in my shoes are becoming a delicious treat and just a few months ago they welcomed one of the world's rarest animals this little is

adam a baby i want tiger. and the son of two confiscated tigers so he really is a little nervous. and you can already see. that it's not going to be too long. before. he's going to turn into the world's biggest cat and a bit of a killer and i'm hoping he's going to be gentle with me. here have been rescued from poaches or from circuses but some come from rather more unusual backgrounds. this is grigori he lived with her grandmother in know what i see he was living in a simple flat for a long time is more than ten years old grandmother 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 that grandmother is just too old to look after him.

i'm just going to bed living in a granny flat now. in a big spare room with me. i've never seen such a bond of trust with so many different creatures it was like being around a real life dr doolittle and hopes that the fountains of visitors who come to the park take a new appreciation of the animals away with them. more a visit to the safari park good morning cuts and bruises i figured it was time to visit one of the black seas more sedate tourist attractions and maybe get myself something to eat. one thing you learn quite quickly about the russians is that they love their bread whether it's brown growing it pretty much comes with everything but we just call it strange that in the two years i've been traveling around this country i've never seen. it's a ripple 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. eight hundred ninety five it was nationalized in one thousand eight team. in the one nine hundred thirty s. it was renamed sickle and hammer and wasn't 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. but it really is a timeless bit of engineering. by the wind power and that energy. is then converted down here by these wheels. and this one is part of the original century mechanism still running today. which made these two parts up into the grinding. and we get flour the

same way it's been produced. and making it is a really simple process so. now follow me. here is the receiving bunker. this week here. now the process is already underway plenty of kneading and baking later it was time for a snack. ok so i've heard of a ploughman's lunch but i'm guessing this is a miller's lunch just milk. and some fresh bread and they were there are. very good. 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 the pier 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 one thousand city on the recent coast the greeks who settled here and named their city after samarian king and its ruins cover around forty is it still possible to wander through the so is of great houses and you can even discover the citizens favorite tipple i bet that this would have been one of the most popular places back in the days of give because it's the remains of an ancient winery people would have crushed the grapes here the juice then would have come down these forests and into these enormous votes. show you. down here. unfortunately. well we've got now of course it is rain water but back in the day this would have held the equivalent of falling

for hours and. you may have been long since deserted but the descendants of its greek 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 about to meet the people who make some of the best. these are grapes yes and this is a very important one of you. and his family are almost ready to start making the latest batch of their famous runs. so much depending on the use of stretch i will set you back around fifty dollars but this much of grapes went destined for. my father.

oh yes. bring in the harvest he likes to have a few friends and the old greek tradition. goes to the cellar where it's. there was a pretty big power of grapes to crush so it seemed to take the plunge. 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 my reward from the ending of. that so i think. we definitely deserve a drink thank you very much. yes this used to. continue

into the evening but i wanted to take a stroll across a number of the region before i called my plane back to moscow. when it's this windy even plenty of warning won't keep you warm. and his son max can run a t.v. tours along with. him off the tackling the dunes it certainly beats walking back to the hotel. it may have been getting chilly but as a born and bred seaside town boy i was sad to be leaving the black sea coast it may not boast the infrastructure of some of the famous mediterranean resorts but with months of sunshine relatively low prices and no troublesome visa received news is easy to see why millions of russians come here for their summer holidays it's a place to relax bring the family and enjoy the warmest blue water that russia has to offer.

denies other catastrophic data and i believe the bailout bunch of people in turkey once harbored dreams of joining the blog have begin to think we're reporting that. meanwhile the same fears about the international economic forum has been discussing how to avoid another global economic meltdown and encouraging major firms to take a fresh look at the new horizons for investors in russia. and around we'll bring you to the end of their town targeted at the most start of the russian orthodox church though it had a place you'd least expect. international news life in moscow this is us he with me thanks for joining us economic turmoil in

the eurozone is turning up turkey from joining the european union opinion poll suggests that the country was so keen to join is having second thoughts with its own economy booming while the e.u. is in chaos his term bottom explains why taggers gone cold on the idea. if you talked about turkey in the e.u. ten years ago turkey's hopes of joining would have been inseparable from joining the euro not any more turkey's attitude in short can be summed up very simply very glad we're not part of the year right now took on the streets seem to have a wide range of opinions on the euro but the country's doorstep europe's economy is worse now turkey's is improving turkey is improving in all fields but europe is going backwards so we don't need. to fish people i. using the year as an investment to earn mine and yours are more reliable than turkish money people don't want to save their money in the euro. few invest in euros you get more than leave the euro

is also stronger than dollars having said that i don't want to risk investing. but academics analyzing public opinion have found a common logic in decisions about the euro people polled don't care about wider economics but about their own personal finances so my pocketbook or economy is actually beyond the important factors that make me euro skeptic or euro file the public opinion analysts keen to point out that further economic integration into europe doesn't just mean money and that people shouldn't only think about their pocketbook economics they have to take into account the freedom of movement of labor the freedom of service you know women of service these are all integrated any other so it's not only you know exchange of money or turks turkish new living turkish lira thing you're all one thing everyone does agree on is the mess the euro .