See whats coming up. Here that and happiness featuring the danes special attitude to life. Playing games by german ball games the popular all over the well its. Kind of vinyl vine to entrepreneurs invite you to listen to entire records. We kick start the show with a great philosophy on life if you speak more than one language youll know that sometimes there isnt a direct translation for what you want to say is some languages was just dont exist and one example is the danish what hugo you just come translate it but it basically means enjoying life Simple Pleasures be that spending time with friends and family going for a walk or simply looking at the wind blow of a candle they all signify. And since the day is a usually a ranked highly among the happiest people in the wells way thought wed get a lesson in how to live a more needy life. Surveys indicate that danes are among the happiest people on earth in fact the uns World Happiness report regularly puts denmark at the top of the list. What is it about the danes that makes them such happy people. Might be king has written a book about all this and he believes he knows the answer. He has to do with togetherness it has to do with the art of creating a good atmosphere its about equality its about saving Simple Pleasures i think we also see something inherently danish i think we see it as part of our National Identity the same way the americans see freedom we think of something as part of our d. N. A. The word who get means being comfortable and contented often while enjoying the simpler pleasures of life. Here are a few examples. Its having of kabul for show or wont he and some these kids at some and the talk. A little bit deeper than the chilling on the couch talk. To you. Can pull yourself. Is also maybe watching a film or reading a book and brutal isnt. Mike beekeeping is the c. E. O. Of the Happiness Research institute in copenhagen he says that the danes unique attitude towards life plays a major role in their sense of well being. And weve been curious about why denmark does well in the. Happiness rankings and weve looked at the political system and thats big part of the explanation you know high level of trust your Social Security and those with health care but that also explains why the other nordic countries do well so we wanted to understand why does denmark do better than than sweden finland iceland and and and norway. Spending quality time with family and friends or enjoying homemade cinnamon buns thats. The danes really love christmas time Traditional Apple tarts are on sale at Christmas Markets throughout copenhagen. So is brook or danish mulled wine. The tip of the Amusement Park is decked out with a sea of lights might be king says winter is the peak season for good. Is practiced throughout the year i think for the winter period it becomes almost a survival strategy its a way of getting the best out of a time of year which is doc and cold and wet and were forced into forced. The best place to experience here is in danish homes the danes have more living space per person than any other european country and they make their surroundings as comfortable as possible. Light is important too. Theres a reason why we use twice as much candle wax as number two in europe which is australia because we enjoy lighting that is at the low end of the temperature scale so we enjoy warm mortify soft diffused lights to create a nice the atmosphere in a room. The danes also like to have nice things around the house Northern Europe is known for its Design Concepts like lamps by poisoning cent and chairs by cops and corpulent but do these things actually make people happy the notion or the concept of hickeys something that for dames is just. Words or describes a situation and or a state of mind more than a design i dont think you can say that its a sign is a decider is. Doing something to create but i think its something thats more ingrained or maybe internalized in our culture a simple walk outside can also be good it doesnt cost anything and makes you feel good he shouldnt be about consumerism you could also use. As the get out of jail card if something is too expensive if you walk into a restaurant its too expensive you could say should we find a place thats more than you for us or yet lets find a place thats more so you should be inexpensive because its about equality and its about simple precious. Danes call that special cozy christmas feeling. And the focus is not on expensive presents its on being together with family and friends thats the true spirit of christmas and not just in denmark. Taking care of your well being is something that more and more people are becoming aware of these days luckily there are activities that we can do take the mind no matter whether one of the latest craze is adult coloring books theyre said to help relax and focus the mind and scottish artist johana basket was one of the founders of this trend. Ninety six pages of detailed drawings of plants and animals and secret garden also has labyrinths to discover patterns to complete or entire drawings to color in its a template for Creative Ideas drawn by john abbas for. She lives and works in scotland the main job is creating illustrations for packaging the idea for a coloring book for grownups came by accident. Coloring for adults was a child that is now i so unless they were like well why not here are. Five pages of this effort that to that i need to collect yeah thats the thing. Coloring books for grown ups are booming at the moment and the bestsellers arent verisign pirate spot books like secret garden. Is on the nonfiction buying team for britains leading bookstore chain were seeing bad coloring books are selling much better than. That and. Crossword books which used to dominate the category so be interesting to see if people start to meeting and coloring and. Coloring in pictures is said to be relaxing while also improving concentration the versions for grownups are just somewhat more complex female bands are especially enthusiastic about this rediscovered pastime sometimes its hard to find any any time for myself to actually think that what me say this is the way that i can just sort of think about me and its something for myself to. Johannah bastards first book secret garden has sold more than ten million copies worldwide she draws by hand with pen and ink she gets her inspiration from a castle in scotland where her grandfather was the gardener. As really inspired by the castle garden. Its just a really beautiful place to play when youre a child and just a lovely setting that it be really imaginative so the pics of inspired by that childhood and this mammoth cave and then the second back in time and thought it best takes its inspiration from the forestry that was behind my grandparents house. Chanted forest was published in twenty fifteen and became a bestseller and shes since published on their own twenty ebook editions of her work so far this is one genre that still works best printed on paper. Well as where and chill out mode today we wanted to show you this fabulous hotel in the mountains of the Czech Republic the building is an old t. V. Tower the ten years to build initially is now filled with character and doubles as the main of this popular Winter Sports region on a clear day theres a great view of the city below as well as parts of poland and germany but when we visited winter was in full swing. This is yes ted mountain and on top of it the famous ninety four metre high t. V. Tower. Which houses the u. S. Did hotel. The building in the czech city of liberates is an impressive site provided the weather is on your side in winter the tower is often shrouded in fog. Taking the cable car up is almost a mystical experience in the winter a special atmosphere pervades the mountain. No one knows this better than whos worked at the hotel for years. To come on your. Games and in the winter like another seasons you can enjoy stunning views from here come on its wise for us with the eleven year old daughter sometimes you get to experience this kind of snowy Winter Wonderland were having today as he tells me and i dont mean to marry him. Scenery that many guests appreciate from behind observation windows. Which been really impressed by all this the weather in particular a shame we cant enjoy the view today this is a belief that there are no cars and no traffic only nature do not to look. The snow the wind you know it is friendly people everywhere. And the. You know like cloud nine its great defense or good. The hotel has one thousand rooms on two floors and two of them still have the original nine hundred seventy s. Furniture that was created by interior designer or to carbon are. The other rooms were redesigned the look of the hotel reminiscent of a space ship or an airplane was preserved. By night at the us dead hotel starts at seventy euro. The futuristic tower opened in one thousand nine hundred three after ten years of construction it was a sensation at the time partly because of its unusual construction materials. Porcelain was used in the hallway. And a wall in the lobby is made of exposed concrete and bohemian glass art. Is to proceed from from this hotel was unique example to me working here is not just like working in a hotel but also like being on a gallery on board and i know you know i know. Chairwoman of the gifted seventy three club wants to preserve the hotel as it was she works closely with the original interior designer hes drawn up plans to build reconstructions of the furniture. And lights. This was the small lounge forty years ago and today refurbishing it took a year and cost twenty two thousand euros. After that the bar was refurbished soon the exterior of the tower will be renovated its exposed to extreme weather conditions at a height of one thousand meters. A fish that has special at most here at these people who spend a night here they say so and. Which is for me the most beautiful a situation where you are above the clouds you are in the sunshine but deliberate on the whole republic. And then you feel like in a spaceship. Just outside the spaceship lies the czech skiing region of the user of mountains. Feels nice and feels like home and you really mean it and also the tower its really famous and when its plus the year does he if there are too many people here or i feel tired i can take the cable car to the hotel and have a coffee in the child or or take a break to our maimane or i know both of us. Covered in snow and ice the us did hotel doesnt lose any of its appeal in fact it looks even more mysterious in subzero temperatures. Interior design at its best check out our you tube channel interior design stunning design ideas spectacular buildings and d. I. Y. Tutorials on home decoration well take you inside the most beautiful european homes show you the latest in furniture fabrics accessories subscribe and dont miss out see you on youtube. That sent me the time of year its become easy isnt it in winter theres nothing i like more than to be warm by the fire with family around me and a board game like many people i spent a lot of my childhood playing clue monopoly and then later trivial pursuit when Computer Games and consuls became popular though board games ended up on the shelf just gathering dust and tell recently times changing again a bowl games are enjoying a revival certainly in germany anyway and that is thanks in part to innovative concepts like this one. It. Is the name of the game its about taxes and commodities. Its a new board game developed by. The players are the royals theyve got to build statues to themselves this is one of about fifteen hundred games released in germany each year. A lot of people play them. Games are a deliberate way for the players to sharpen their focus. Their completely. Think about the next week and what they have. On the job they have to be totally focused on the. Has been making a living inventing since two thousand and ten. A year and a half one hundred test rounds to create the prototype for. The moment comes in when you realise youre no longer playing and its just plain fun. Because you get the feeling you might never touch it up a bit here and there but for the most part the game is ready to go. By. Himself. His father. Created katan. Its even hop hiller with a dot com crowd of Silicon Valley who use it to get away from the monitor even facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admits hes a fan board game experts. Say the secret to germanys boardgame success in its diversity. Game is the american see it as a mechanism that interacts like clockwork or not much luck is involved. Where players dont get tossed out of the game too early or the conflict doesnt mean getting military units or spaceships be ords against each other. Since two thousand and thirteen the pair have been presenting board games on their youtube show hunter and they post a new episode daily. Either and welcome to our channel enter and call. Where youll find everything about board games card games childrens games and other stuff. To present new releases review games and invite other you tubers to their board game. To them more games are more than just a pastime theyre the backdrop for culture. That is. It can become a geeky pursuit for adults and young adults on a par with watching movies reading comics and playing Computer Games. So its only natural that a whole culture would grow up around that. And the. Board and Computer Games are no longer mutually exclusive either many publishers make the instructions available on the internet. All the cards except building scarred and deal thirteen cards to each player each player picks up their hand so the other players are unable to see them and. For some board games there are even digital aids for the classic Scotland Yard for instance an app can help players track down the elusive mr x. Game cafes and libraries have also become popular like this one in berlin patrons can choose from a library of some two thousand games and play them for a euro an hour. It opened the cafe in two thousand and six. After a long and rocky start. Interest has soared. And the coffee. Cafes are an alternative to pubs movies includes not a lot of maintenance or play or games here and then move on to the clubs. Were going right at some. Big game of the year award is presented annually in germany a kind of oscar for board games giving them a platform for international recognition. Taking the time out to play a ball game is good for the mind body and spirit in fact taking the time full stop is a great way to appreciate life that is what the danes said at the top of the show and it seems that the philosophy is catching on around europe i mean when was the last time that you sat down and listens to an entire music album and really listened to it well the opportunity to do just that is spreading its way around germany. Back in the days when vinyl was synonymous with records many people listen to l. P. s from start to finish those days seem long gone. But mark and heart and we still remember them. They founded a Company Called play time. We. Can run to sixty or seventy minutes today listening to an entire work is a unique experience. Reintroducing that to people and culture was our original idea and. Whenever playtime is on the billet a german cinema as here at the babylon Movie Theater in berlin visitors pay five euros to listen to a record in the company of others this evenings auditory treat is bob dylans double album blonde on blonde the idea of consciously enjoying something without distractions is catching on. Thats what playtime is all about taking time to press play and just listen to him music played at its own term partners without pressing skidmore fast forwarding or being seduced by other opportunities other songs that are just one click away and click and fence and on to just abandon yourself to the music from start to finish and the. Listening to an entire album requires time and leisure these days few people make the effort. Is. Harder today were barely able to perform any activity for a long time we live into our cycles every two hours there has to be a new impetus whether its going to the theater the center. Visiting friends or having dinner everything sinked to this to our rhythm then we need something new noir time seems to be running away from us its a plague of our modern age yet this feeling isnt so new. Even two thousand years ago the loss of like the roman seneca were preoccupied with this phenomena. Back then he figured and theres applies to the present to that a third of our time was taken from us the third disappeared our noticed and a third slipped away and all of us have and. The longing for life to slow down is growing people are doing lots of things to escape stress visiting spas taking holidays on farms and leaving their cellphones behind when they go on a hike. This desire for things to slow down has become a trend. Thats a serious note certainly still an issue trend but i think itll become more important as people are already noticing that many things in our time change too quickly perhaps the multi option society of the last few decades has overtaxing us to quite before dark. Back into babylon the cinema and berlin the album is about seventy minutes long not including the pauses needed to change the record yet none of the visitors leave before its finished. The its from the citric pleasant to listen to an album at the cinema and also its very nice to be able to do it at the right value to the arms of a home you sit down and get distracted by some screen your mobile phone or whatever youre using to listen to the music. Here you just get to listen to the music moods and i think that this brings back an idea of music that we need to keep alive. Is super interesting. To play times and play time is a seventy minute break and doesnt matter when it happens morning noon or night it really is that a break in that is the. Play times inventors plan to present the concept in all the major european cities they want to keep the wheels turning but not to folks. I hope even watching the show today has helped you have the break for about thirty minutes and he way say its a ride for a loss special so the weekend until then take harrys house she is. On the next special edition of your own max and i see adventure on the norwegian aki pella goes spits back of. Class tourists walk through iceland second launches. And when to get away in the swiss resort of dolphin. Baths and more coming up tomorrow on your imax. Celestial be. On a spiritual messages. When they come from. Choir they depict the human form. And quietly this week its. The angel chronicle. Fifteen minutes d. W. Images from an isolated country. 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