a quick stop to see the acropolis and parthenon before heading to theirfinal acropolis and parthenonheir final destination, santorini, crete or rhodes. this man is a young entrepreneur who started a business with family members and friends. they manage property forforeigners members and friends. they manage property for foreigners who bought bargains in greece after the financial crisis. athens residential property fell 46% from its peak in 2008. the flats rented to short—term holidaymakers using online services. about nine years ago, the property you market went down, but then again the tourists, the people who visit greece for vacation, have been going steadily up. last year we had 27 million tourists, and now we have around 32 million. of course, people coming in and buying up apartments does create issues elsewhere if they rent them out online to short—term holidaymakers. it means by definition, there's less supply, and that's bad news if you're a native athenian or someone who lives and works here, because if you need a longer term lease, they might be a little bit more expensiv

doffing all around them the pillars of the temple of jupiter are three times as high as those of the parthenon in athens. this is the roman past in today's arab world what was then the province of asia the inscriptions cut in stone were intended to last forever. but more than any inscriptions it was the buildings themselves that were intended to spread the fame of the empire and its rulers temples in honor of the gods were raised to glorify their imperial build as to who sought to outdo each other in their architectural legacies. why maims of heliopolis that is like being returned to those ancient days two thousand years ago when the masons perform their staccato chiseling labors they visit continued on this vast building site for more than two hundred years. construction of the temple of jupiter alone took fifty years the entire lifespan of a mason for fifty years the blocks of stone were cut the penance smoothed to shape the capitals caught from the stone. this is the largest human stone on us it weighs close to a thousand times it's within sight of the temple but probably older than the roo

a quick stopover to see the acropolis and parthenon before heading on to their final destination, somewhereepreneur started a business with family members and friends. they manage property for foreigners who bought bargains in greece after the financial crisis. athens residential property fell 46% from its peak in 2008. the flats are rented to short—term holiday—makers using online services. about nine years ago, the property market went down. but then again, the tourists, the people who visited greece for vacations have been going steadily up. last year we had 27 million tourists and now we have around 32. but of course, people coming in and buying up apartments does create issues elsewhere, if they rent them out online to short—term holiday—makers. it means that by definition there is less supply. and that's bad news if you are a native athenian, or someone who lives and works here. because if you need a longer term lease, they might be a little bit more expensive. it might mean that you have to move to a different district. 0ne you didn't call home. in these apartment blocks lives christ

between the life size replicas of the sphinx and the parthenon the government's propaganda is regurgitated by all. the shorter look the new silk road will fuel the economy culture and got stronger me the city of leisure will become more attractive as will be improvements of dams . and little of the less one sit on the new silk road is a collective and therefore political project that's very promising and was muck and who'd have thought in light of the stagnating economic growth that official figures say it's seven percent but in reality it's four percent the chinese government needs a new impulse to prove that it's in control of this major project one. of the the world's second largest economy china is in reality a colossus with feet of clay and threatened by uncontrolled social developments. only an economic success story benefiting the entire country can keep it together. but this growth is based on the export of products that are made in china and these seriously declined since the global economic squeeze china has to change its economic model and that means it has to develop its. masti

the finale of the wild pigeon, but for a very brief period, they ruled the waves, they were our parthenon, our cathedral and my goal was to recapture this error that will never be seen again of american clipper ships and it's been an absolute, wonderful journey to write this book and thank you very much for being here tonight. [applause] what i hear tonight leads me too be a little skeptical or even, the yankees versus the baltimor baltimore. [laughter] what can you tell me about the clipper ships and the city of baltimore. >> that's a very good question. the baltimore clippers were camped out in the early 1800s. these were relatively small schooners that have many of the features of the later china clippers, they had sharp bows and bottoms and these ships were built, the very much like the opium clippers were built by the british and the americans. these ships were built of privateer, smugglers, sadly a lot of them were also used in the slave trade, they were arguably the fastest sailing ship of their time. i think the pride of baltimore which is a replica of a baltimore clipper, she cou