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Best of the sun in north east scotland and the northern isles, but it will be turning windy across many northern areas. Temperature wise, around the mid teens to around 16 or 17. Overnight that rain band pushes its way eastwards and grinds to a halt across the east, some heavy bursts of rain likely and the met office have yellow weather warnings for this rain across the eastern side of the country through sunday, as we could see some localised flooding. It will slowly improve for scotland but will stay quite wet across parts of Eastern England and turn windier, as well, later in the day, but we will see brightness pushing into Western Areas. Top temperature 17 degrees. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Protests continue in hong kong as demonstrators respond angrily to a ban on wearing face masks. The government indicates it could clarify its new brexit offer after the eu called for fundamental changes. Senior democrats in the us demand the white house hands over documents for their impeachment inquiry into president trump. Prince harry begins legal action against the owners of the sun and the mirror over alleged phone hacking. Hard times for the high street, as new figures reveal more than 1,600 shops have closed as a result of restructuring deals since the beginning of last year. The travel show now and Christa Larwood is in greece as Acropolis Museum marks its 10th anniversary. This week on the travel show. I am in greece with a team of archaeologists, uncovering the long lost city of tenea. We take a dive into the life of a travel vlogger. Is it reallyjust one long holiday . You may not have heard of youtuber burnout, but it is real. Plus, im going into battle. Finding out what it was like for the crew of an ancient athenian warship. We are heading to athens to uncover greeces ancient treasures, and the more modern ones. For more than two millennia, the temple of the parthenon has been towering over what has become the bustling capital city of greece. Dedicated to the goddess athena, it is the centrepiece of the rocky acropolis hill, and it is the countrys most visited monument. Nestled at the bottom of a hill, the modern Acropolis Museum houses most of the artefacts found in the area. Including some of the famous parthenon frieze. And this year, it celebrates its 10th anniversary. This museum replaced an older building that had become too small to house the sheer number of antiquities found on the hill. Its ten times the size with a unique collection and as you can see from the queues, it is rather popular. Almost 15 Million People have passed through the doors of the museum since it was opened a decade ago. Hello. Im christa. I am angelica. Nice to meet you. Good to meet you as well. And to mark the anniversary, a whole new section has just been opened to the public underneath the building. So what are we looking at here . This is part of the ancient city of athens which is at the foot of the acropolis hill. It is actually a residential neighbourhood. There are houses and workshops, bath, private and public buildings. We are excited that we can show this site to the visitors because it is a very nice roman and early byzantine site that is not usually uncovered to such a great extent in athens. It is quite important. The Acropolis Museum was built on top of this vast excavation site, a challenge for any good architect. But a source of great pride for angeliki, who spent almost two decades here uncovering the homes of ancient athenian. I can see a tiled floor in the middle there. Would that have been a room . This is the Central Court out of the house of a middle class house. Quite big one, maybe 360 square metres. An open air courtyard. And looking at that we can say that this is a wealthy person . Definitely. This is a nice pavement. They can afford to make it a bit fancy. They could afford to make it a bit fancy. While archaeologists here have put down their shovels and brushes for good, there are enough forgotten treasures around greece to keep them in work. Greece is like heaven for history geeks like me and if you know where to look, there artefacts around every corner. I am driving to one of the most exciting ongoing excavation sides about 1. 5 hours outside athens. Last year, greek archaeologists announced to the world that they had located the lost city of tenea which until then had only existed on the pages of ancient texts. The city is believed to have been built by prisoners of the trojan war and last month the excavation continued. It is considered one of 15 of the most important excavation. Tenea is a city coming out of myth. 0edipus was supposedly raised here. Agamemnon brought trojan prisoners all the way from try all the way from troy and established them here. So here we are excavating ancient tenea, its cemeteries, its ancient houses, roads and slowly by slowly comes to life. Elayna leads the team uncovering the ancient city, believed to have housed some 10,000 people, and she is thrilled with their recent findings. This is the place for storage and also for conservation and study. Can i ask about this one here . This is a unique vase. The shape appears only in tenea, so they would put elements like herbs in here and it was phase for an important child burial we found. This is totally unique in greece. And here i would like to show you one of the skeleton from the burial we have found. This skeleton in excellent condition came from an hellenistic grave. Male, 25 years old. His teeth are in good shape. They are very good. So he was wealthy. We know that about him. He had good health and good food. Back on the excavation site, an army of volunteers from all over the world are busy digging, sweeping and carrying mountains of soil. Unearthing objects from our distant past is hugely rewarding, or so i am told. So lets give it a go, and miriam is on hand to show me the ropes. So this is the spot to sift. I will hand you these gloves and then you will be on this side, i will be on this side and this is our pile. So grab the scooper and dig in for a pile of dirt. It is like a lucky dip. Exactly. Hopefully we will find some treasure. That is pretty good. Put it down, pick it up and then we will go back and forth in this kind of a motion and i think were ready. Lets set it down and then use your hands to spread everything around and look for ceramic pieces. So Something Like this. Exactly exactly, perfect. And you can see a bit of the decoration. Yes. Maybe a glaze. We would have to wash it to see in more detail. Wow. I found an artefact this site must be incredibly rich with different artefacts because we literally just pulled this. It is. There is pottery everywhere. They have found drainage pipes, ceramic drainage pipes, yeah. Greatjob. Yes, two 0ne one more . Yes, sure, lets go for it. Tourists and scholars will soon be able to explore the excavation site in a Virtual Museum through 3d animation. In the meantime, theres still some very practical work to do. Less than 5 of tenea has been uncovered so far. Digging up the past should keep archaeologists busy here for many decades to come. Itsjust the beginning. It will continue. Without me, but i will always be here from somewhere looking at it. Just casting an eye over, you know, making sure everyones doing the right thing. Definitely. Still to come on the travel show. I get a taste of life in the galleys by rowing the only replica in the world of an ancient athenian warship. I think im going to have very good abs after this. Yes, yes. Dont go away. While i was in athens i really wanted to show you this place. It may be not at the top of every tourists hit list, but its really worth a visit. If youre a meat lover, then this is the place for you. For more than a century, this section of the citys Central Market has been supplying athenians with some of the finest cuts of fresh local meats. And if the sight of fresh beef loins gets your taste buds going, then this unassuming eatery is the place to get your fix. Its called epirus and they specialise, unsurprisingly, in meat soups. This is our kitchen where we cook all of our soups. Wow this is the goat soup that needs a long time to become tender and come out, ready to serve it. 0ur goat soup. And the tripe soup, one of our most famous soups, very good for the stomach. This is the stomach of a cow, but people eat it a lot. Epirus is popular with locals, but some Celebrity Chefs have also paid a visit. Well, ive got Anthony Bourdain and jamie oliver here as fellow customers. So there must be Something Special about this place. My father was, he was one of the most famous chefs of greek traditional food. He gave me the chance to have all his recipes so i keep going and people feel like home here because, you know, we make them taste the greek recipes that mums and grandmas recipes. You know, fantastic for junk food, fantastic for nouvelle cuisine, but greek traditional food, is this one. Fantastic. Next up, for many of us the idea of being a travel vlogger sounds like being a dream job. In fact, isnt one long vacation . In the second episode of our series about travelling differently, we hear about the reality behind those exotic travel posts. Travel feels like sometimes it feels like the purpose for living. Everything about travel makes me so happy and excited and ifeel like im alive and that is what life is about. Im alana fickes, and im a travel vlogger. Hi, guys im in dubai, wearing a. Wait, what is this called again . Hijab. And a. Abaya. Abaya. Im wearing a hijab and an abaya, and im going to go out and hang out, because when in rome, or, in this case, dubai. Hello welcome back to my vlog today, im in santa monica. Its beautiful and every moment by the beach is perfect. I have experienced a lot of preconceptions about being what a travel vlogger is when i tell people thats what i do. Theres a lot of shame around being an internet personality. I mean, people can think youre really shallow and narcissistic. They think they just want to see yourself for the time yourself all the time and want to just make videos about yourself. When in reality, the videos youre making the content youre making is about your audience. Hi, guys im here with asha. Hey . At the indian holi festival which is the indian new year celebration and were in los angeles, california. What . They celebrate it here, too. Yeah, there are indians everywhere. All i want to do is travel, so if i can get that to get that free or pay me to do it, wow, what a dream. But the reality is travel vlogging doesnt really make that much money for most people. So you get creative and you make money through other avenues, or you partner with brands and you try to get more money through different specific things. A common way to make money is working with a brand, and brands will start reaching out to you once you have a certain amount of views or subscribers. Theyll start reaching out to you and usually you get a lot of free stuff, which is fantastic, but free stuff doesnt pay your rent. This picture, ok, this is a love hate picture. This was from a brand deal i did with a drink company, but i didnt get them to sign the contract that they were going to take my video no matter what before i went on this. And i went to this really cool place and it was such a fun day and the whole video was really about this drink, were holding it in our hands in every shot, i brought it back to the brand and they said that location is too religious, so we wont take it. And i didnt get paid. Im like, you you learn and you grow, i will never do that again. Hi, welcome to day two, day one official, in mexico. This is a really cool day because we are at the pyramids. A lot of spiritual people such as my dad have told me how there is all sorts of great energy here, and it is like an energy vortex. Ancient places are like that, blah, blah, blah. I know it sounds kind of weird, but, i dont know, these things excite me. If you havent been on youtube in a while, you may not have heard of youtuber burnout. But this is a huge thing thats been going on. When youre on a platform like youtube or instagram, even, theres an algorithm and you have to keep up. You have to post videos at least once a week, if youre good you are posting two a week, three a week, more than that. But if you miss a week, it changes the algorithm and your videos dont get seen as much. Everything works against you and thats rough. Nobody wants that, thats really scary. I mean, the burnout is real. In an extreme version, it really creates issues with your whole family, and hopefully in a smaller version you just recognise that youre drained, your creativity isnt there, youre not finding new things to make videos about anymore, youre not excited about doing it anymore. Youre not enjoying the process. And if youre not enjoying the process, when it comes to making videos that are about connecting with another person, the video isnt really connecting to another person. You need to take a moment. At this point, committing to my channel and putting everything on my channel and having it become my life, as it has to for you to run a proper channel, would make my relationships suffer. It would make a lot of aspects of my life suffer. So my system is to take breaks and my goal is to take shorter breaks. I mean, obviously there are difficulties, but its still my dream. I love doing it. To end the show this week, ive come a short distance outside of the Athens City Centre to the coast. And this place its whats become known as the athens riviera. There are plenty of cool cafes, ritzy new hotels and plenty of course, plenty of luxury yachts. Moored close to the modern yachts, a different kind of ship is ready to go out to sea. The trireme 0lympias the only life sized replica in the world of the athenian battleships which dominated the naval wars from the fifth century bc until early christian times. This amazing looking galley belongs to the greek navy, and every year, groups of lucky people get to go aboard and actually row, just like ancient athenians did. This year, im one of those lucky people. So, i better get ready, i think its going to be quite hard work. It took 20 years of passionate research to work out a design for this trireme, as no remains of the wooden boats could be found. She was constructed here in greece in 1987. The important thing for the rowers of the boat, is that they were free citizens. It was a great honour to be a rowerfor trireme. And in such a small boat, we have so many people in. They are the machine and they help the boat to move. I think it sounds like a fantastic lot of fun and hard work. Yes. Will you show me how to do it . Yes, of course. Wow look at this. Wow, this is amazing. This is the normal way to go down. This is the naval way to go down. Definitely. This ship carries two small sails, just like in ancient times, most of the propulsion comes from the 170 oarsmen staggered over three levels below deck. Its quite tight in here. As i told you. Here we are going to fit in there. So, you sit in here. Whats your technique . The technique must be like that. Lift it up out of the water. One, two. Pull. Yes. Wow i think im going to have very good abs after this. I will give you the orders. Yes, absolutely. Thank you so much. Youre welcome. Well, my fellow rowers are starting to arrive. Ive picked a plum spot, right in the middle of the action. Im ready for ramming speed. Reaching speeds of about nine knots, or 17 kilometres per hour, this boat was considered pretty quick in its time. And its manoeuvrability won out on some decisive victories and its manoeuvrability won athens some decisive victories at the time. The bronze ram served as the main weapon to puncture enemy ships and sink them. We get a break, every so often. 0h, here we go again. Dramatic strings music. Im looking around. Its honestly possible to imagine what this mustve been like for the people here who rowed these kind of boats. And to be in battle, three layers of different people all sweating, trying to ram another boat in the open sea. I mean, its unimaginable given how pleasant and lovely this is today. Fortunately, this trireme is now being used for less ferocious purposes. For now, the 0lympias is going back to the port for some pampering, it will be spruced up for new visitors in 2020. A lot of hard work with all that rowing, but a good bit of fun, too. Thats all weve got time for this weeks travel show. But coming up next week. Mikes underwater in turkey to see if sinking old planes can really provide a safe haven for local marine life. And he meets the 96 year old woman who spent three decades fighting to save the countrys endangered loggerhead turtles. Some said i was mad, others said i was a spy. So, join us then if you can. In the meantime, dont forget to sign up to our social media feed so you can check out what were up to out on the road, and share your travel stories with us and the rest of the world. Until next time, from me Christa Larwood and the rest of the travel show team here in athens, its goodbye. Or, as the locals would have it, ya sas hello, there. Its been pretty unsettled this week, particularly across england and wales, and this weekend is continuing on that unsettled theme. Today looks like most of the rain will be towards the west of the uk, a bit brighter further east, and on sunday, its the reverse, with some very wet places expected across eastern areas as this front stalls. Its this front im talking about, pushing gradually in off the atlantic to bring increasing cloud and outbreaks of rain to parts of Northern Ireland, western scotland and western england and wales as the day wears on. But further east it should stay largely dry, a bit of hazy sunshine around. Probably the best of the sunshine will be across the north east of scotland into the northern isles, i think shetland doing very well with some clear skies and sunshine, temperatures around 11 degrees, maybe just one or two showers around. Winds will be picking up from the south south east through the day and we will see that rain piling into western scotland, turning wet and windy here. Same, too, for Northern Ireland and also into western parts of england and wales. Could see a little bit of light rain and drizzle ahead of the main rain band for wales and the south west but it should stay dry in the midlands eastwards, top temperatures around 15, 16, maybe 17. So thats how its looking through the day. As we head on into the evening and overnight, that rain continues to spill its way eastwards, pepping up to be quite heavy in places. You see the brighter colours there, dont be surprised if you hear a rumble of thunder or two in places. It will turn a little bit drier behind it by the end of the night, just one or two showers. Nowhere is going to be particularly cold, temperatures in double figures. This ridge of High Pressure pushes into Western Areas to settle things down but the rain band stalls across the eastern side of the country as it bumps into that area of High Pressure. So quite a lot of rain falling throughout the day across the eastern side of the country. Met office have yellow warnings in force for eastern scotland and eastern parts of england, and we could see some localised flooding by the time the day is out. It does look like the rain will slowly pull away from scotland, leaving a few showers, with most of the rain affecting the eastern side of england. A little area of low pressure developing here. Winds will pick up as well across parts of the midlands, southern england and into the south east. But we should see the best of the sunshine further west on sunday. Top temperatures around 17 degrees, mid teens further north. Into next week, very autumnal weather, it will stay unsettled with areas of low pressure bringing wet and windy weather at times, but there will be some sunshine in between, as well. This is bbc news. Im geeta guru murthy. The headlines at 11am protests continue in hong kong as demonstrators defy a new ban on wearing face masks. 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