Thanks. Thanks. Today im in cologne famous for its cathedral orion bever and of course for its carnival celebrations with over one million residents its the biggest city in the state of north rhinewestphalia. Rumor has it that there are people who think of cologne as too loud too cheerful and too wild and then there are those who love exactly that about the city today i want to get to know the famous cologne way of life that either puts visitors off or fascinates them and see what it does for me. We visit one of the citys traditional brewery definitely one for everybody else to do list. Our weekly email takes us on a trip to World Heritage sites around the globe. And we check in with globe trotters steve hamish as he travels around patagonia. Is much more than just a city landmark it symbolized the city like nothing else it can be seen from miles away and lets the locals know even when theyre still on the freeway coming home. By the way it is number. But its a magnet for tourists to the cathedral isnt just colognes most visited site it holds the record in all of germany six million visitors every year they are on to something. The cathedral is a mountain of stone weighing one hundred sixty thousand tons its more than seven hundred years old thats almost how long it took to build it. This has been a unesco World Heritage site since one thousand nine hundred ninety six. Entry to the treasury in places that are otherwise inaccessible to visitors. The tours are sold out months in advance. But its also nice just to sit inside the cathedral and let this. Space work its magic on you. You can also go to the top of the tower. Was the nicest rooftop terrace in cologne and good weather you can see all the way to bond the former west german capital you can also see just how narrow the city streets are. And when youre Walking Around you notice how relaxed everyone else is crowded and loud but the locals take it in their stride and to protect their chilled out reputation they came up with their very own constitution a list of famous local quotes to remind people of the cologne way of life you know. In the name of you know what the cologne constitutionis is carsick alone constitution. I dont know not one so hard after. I tell you always works out i could use. So i said my meaning you know what will be will be its good to be a good head the minute that french maid as it always works out what will be will be my comics and you and i change it so thats how id put it and that is thats how it is going to i was to go another important saying is everyones different. Not such all kinds of stick just be that exactly important coach i say its the most important of colognes as well its still what makes life good is to live and let live has. So far it seems like the average person from cologne has its really laid back with their. Burials and the viewer and a great passion for music cologne as the saying city and not just around carnival time. Was. That. Mass karaoke concerts are a big hit in cologne cutting hookah cinema are in especially high demand. And current including some things easy on here all i have to say is lets link comes and it takes two seconds more is my ion elsewhere in north rhinewestphalia it takes quite a bit longer and. Now i want to try something with you always works perfectly hearing. Was ok. With. Me. Cologne is a great city for singing and making music any time of the year the concerts are always sold out in no time at all. Just get into it its fun here we go. Whether you speak german english or coach the cologne dialect anyone can join in. Was. The Group Experience is a cross between karaoke and choir. Was. Just. Sometimes its great fun and relaxing. But its ok thats cologne ive never seen it anywhere else. So if you want to experience colognes happy go lucky spirit first hand go to a sing along concert its guaranteed to spread a little joy was. In. Cologne and its corner shops a love story there are more than one thousand around town. This one plus a lush house is called kun kiosk and its famous all around town for its groundbreaking concept here you can get anything your heart desires from beacon snacks. To the best coffee in the city but close corner shops are much more than just a place to get an emergency packet cigarettes their Meeting Point for the entire neighborhood. When the family. Our loved ones know just what you want if youve been here three times the fourth time they know that you want cappuccino with my actos free milk organic milk or whatever they dont know with and have it waiting for you thats really great when you go somewhere often and. I will order out cause you have these allow. For your cigarettes or newspaper you chat a bit and you get to know each other and thats whats really so nice one can say i was there should they i knew decides she really runs her kiosk with you love. You have everything you need here. If you want to talk if you have a problem and not help from someone you can find it all here. In this yes in. And luckily that includes. All sorts of sweets for the people of cologne their corner shops are its like an extended living room and you have to admit i could very easily get used to this. When things get out great day in cologne and. Yet you. Get. Well every city is quirky and its own way and i think my colleague and travel expert would agree with me on that he comes across all kind of weird and wonderful things. Morning vo he didnt very much to cross over to kind of the humans here today and were going to see to believe he did ohiggins glacier. It seems who made it through the end of the kind of there are still. The ohiggins lake is shared by chile and argentina and has a surface area of one thousand and thirteen square kilometers its the deepest lake in the americas with a maximum depth of eight hundred thirty six meters near ohiggins glacier. The glacier is located in the Bernardo Ohiggins National Park and is one of the biggest in the southern patagonian ice field. So what do you do when you are in the glacier with me here for whiskey with glacier eyes just. Good morning from kandahar you might see which we already left behind the under way to part of control before we prefer to cross the border. For like about almost every day twenty two kilometers. And the first sixty kilometers we will walk without our luggage have at the last farther. Have to take it ourselves because we thought there were of course orders but i guess theyre out there today so were going to carry a twenty euros each of stuff for about five days. After hiking for about sixteen kilometers maybe through actual border of where she lives. And then hes going to. Go for it to go to argentina. For carter just gave us the bags to drive them up as far as they occurred since there are no horses we have to carry them the rest of the way through my son steves been really lovely and taken some of the weight from my dads five kilometers is going to be along with all of. This is a real challenge people doing well so far it had spread. When you do it. If you like three backpacks and really back i guess the. After spending a night at the southern shore we hitchhiked the remaining thirty seven kilometers to elcho ten nowadays its argentinas trekking capital and one of the most beautiful hiking areas in patagonia. Well be in touch from there next time. Choosing where to live in cologne is also choosing a lifestyle hipsters are drawn to the bar of ale unfaired full of lovely little shops cafes and galleries. A little. But even filled was a working class neighborhood and its still very much visible all means new around here and that makes it one of the most interesting boroughs in all of. The. Every neighborhood has its very own brewery at least one and the people will serve a freshly pulled coast often localizations in their own right so much so that ive heard its advisable to find out a little more about them in their jobs before cluelessly stumbling into one of these traditional berries i read that harry got. These men arent to be trifled with the waiters known as compass who served in the brewery pumps. Going to market idea the top waiter in an ordinary restaurant is far from being a good purpose. We dont just pour wine we have to be lively be quick witted always have a snappy comeback in the city should research thats important. For the species. For that purpose being blunt is part of the job so dont be offended. Probably three broadswords for to share with a lady dont need it all yourself. Its about those that black stuff cold or honey. Youre. On usenet isnt an ice cream parlor dont like it youre supposed to drink it youll get a warm up. Being a compass is a business they work on commission buying beer from the barrel of a coin for every coach then they earn it back by selling it to the customers thats why you dont order beer here you just tell them when youve had enough. Family and the amount on your glass means you dont want any more on the ship and. Who on doma is germanys second largest brewery and some eighty waiters from more than thirty countries worked here. Doesnt just serve kurdish it serves cologne lifestyle and tradition which ironically is why seventy percent of the customers are tourists. From australia and. Canadians lots of americans grasses and chinese and Many Russians thats also a good thing with good russians are good customers and they eat well and tip well you know. These waiters need to be in good shape on an average saturday they serve around fifteen thousand customers. Round about midnight the tapster empties the last barrel then the waiters working day comes to an end and thats three hundred sixty four days a year the breweries only night off his christmas eve. People say the rhine brought culture to cologne and they are absolutely right the river has brought goods and people to the city ever since it was founded nowadays a one hundred and eighty nationalities live side by side in cologne and im going to meet a woman whos at home in this multicultural atmosphere. Bobby is from brazil but has lived in cologne for over twenty five years and shes gone all out to fit into her adopted hometown. Where that. Plays an active role in colognes carnival at the emmys its all at the show presented by immigrants for all the people who live in cologne any problems with multiculturalism are simply left off i want to talk to maryam about how tolerant her hometown really is. Good. Because it easier for foreigners here than elsewhere in germany is coming more from ana how i can only speak from my own experience i find cologne and credibly open city twenty five years ago i met a colombian who told me. Miriam cologne is an island in germany i didnt understand at the time but now i do as they i do think people are welcomed more quickly here. I dont call the kind of people from cologne consider themselves very tolerant how does that manifest itself in everyday life. Is this an issue thats a difficult question what is tolerance is it enough to say hi nice to see you does it mean that you take someone home and care for them as well i think people in cologne are more tolerant than elsewhere but they could be even more so. Often than they had in their best on new years eve two thousand and fifteen there were a great number of reported sexual assaults against women here in cologne most of the perpetrators were said to be immigrants did that change colognes attitude. And not out and im going. To be yes i see a difference im afraid to go out at night like in rio where i grew up. I was always checking over my shoulder when i went out on. Him i think that most people in cologne of foreign descent have their roots in italy poland or turkey and have been either born here or lived in germany for a long time because of the refugee crisis there are more and more people from syria afghanistan and iraq coming to the country are they also welcome with open arms or is their culture clash. And then again. As this next its not easy if youve been forced to come here thats a completely different story i came because i wanted to get people who are forced to who are torn from their homes their friends and family. For meat i think it takes them longer. Integration is hard and the situation is tough but its something that will take years and generations to achieve. So and thank you. Doesnt so close so whats and in me. I mean is there are two kinds of one with two ams and those are immigrants the other with one m. People like you for instance are from or germany but not cologne even then how does an immediate im a real cologne or is that even possible. That there are no rules its really just a feeling i cant describe it any other way. Its coming. For groups and you embody it like no other things are meeting me today was a guy pleasure. Another interesting thing about cologne Building Sites often transformed into archaeological excavation if you dig youll find remains of the middle ages roman times recently construction workers came across the ruins of a synagogue cologne is over two thousand years old and built on layers of history. Cologne would actually be the Perfect Place for our viewer out up from argentina she the history buff and as with a great unesco World Heritage sites all over the planet and on her last trip she took a video for us and our. Own. To myself. But. Thats another story in the. News. Quiz. So well. Could not exist. You said its free. Its good. News. Is good. We want to know your favorite place to go on vacation send us your video so you can upload them at d. F. W. Dot com slash travel. Theres no way around it if you want to understand cologne you need to party with the locals maybe thats because of the huge number of cafes and bars in town there are over three thousand three hundred more than n. Where else in germany pop crawls parties festivals and cologne youll never find yourself short of a reason to go wild. But sometimes cologne like this right the more romantic know every july the local swarm to the shores of the rhine river to watch her and friends the fireworks display. When night falls hundreds of thousands of people flock to the banks and bridges on the rhine. And cologne bands such as the black foods make sure the mood is perfect. The a zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero zero zero then at ten pm on the dot it starts. Fireworks are shot into the skies from two ships on the rhine. And for half an hour the banks of the river are ablaze in color. Thank. God. For. China. Well thats it time to draw some conclusions cologne is a very welcoming city the locals make it easy for visitors to feel at home which is something not every city can say of itself the place is amazing and the people even more so so stay put cologne definitely back. Hong. Kong and. Let. Me thank you. Thank you. Thank thank. You. With swaggering suit wearing swimmers. And fickle frequent flyers. Species endangered in germany. Its hope that the marsh and the vulture. He survived. Was freed from his torture chambers after. Now massud has escaped to germany and hes hunting down terrorists on his own something. Is a. List from victim to terrorists. Close up starting october sixteenth on. Every journey begins with the first step and every language of the first word i would think of the co hes in germany to learn german. Business just why not with him. Its simple online on their own mile and for a. Soft. D. W. B. Learning course goes weak german made easy. Something nice when i ask him for jurors or dealing with anyone at all they killed many civilians with him in the us coming including my father why the things that i was a student i wanted to build a life for myself. But suddenly life became elish kind zob. Providing insights global news that matters d. W. Made for mines meet the germans new and surprising aspects of noise and culture in germany. U. S. American good news a take a look at germany it is increasing use of the traditions of everyday lives and language i can just come out of my lungs and eyes are so im young groucho. Nickersons big guy a d w dot com the germans. This is the w. News live from berlin iraq takes a step closer to civil war celebrations and care cook as a rocky forces seize control of key sites in and around the kurdish held city the operation comes weeks after kurds voted to declare independence from baghdad. Also come
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