A home grown. Brick and mortar a big birthday at lego london in denmark. And flights of fancy of croatian pensioners who does it all for our store. Paris is not only the city of love it has long been a trendsetter when it comes to culture fashion and cuisine and nothing combines all of these things better than the dini own blog or white dinner which is taking place in the french capital for the last three decades now this is where thousands of participants dressed in all white comes together for a giant outdoor picnic weather permitting of course last weekend some seventeen thousand people took part and we were there too often imitated but never duplicated the french is always a night to remember. Its a dinner with a strict dress code and this year thousands toasted the thirtieth Anniversary Edition of the d. N. A. On blank this time at the plastics in valley. Seventeen thousand guests turned out for what was likely the Worlds Largest culling area flashmob around a third came from abroad. To see you know its unique and almost in his eyes test or a group of friends were all together because we dressed in white its amazing that to leave my blood to to be in a spot where so many people have been so much fun dressed the same. You know beyond the atmosphere is original extraordinary and everyone plays along thats whats really nice im from philadelphia and they have been there every year different places and i think at this time i always want to come to paris so this is the day. The guests only learned where the dinner would be held one hour in advance dining outside with friends and friends of friends thats the idea behind the d. N. A. Anyone whos attended a past dinner in white can invite a new guest. The thirtieth anniversary of the chic picnic was a special affair aeration c. E. O. Has been taking part for two decades. Without it is the same every time every year you arrive at lydney blown knowing theyll be lots of people dressed in light the goodness and suddenly paris is a sea of white one love thats the goal was. Two hours earlier on a boat on the river san. Siro and his dinner companions are making the final preparations aside from the food they put the finishing touches on their outfits subdued or extravagant anything goes as long as its white but there are plenty of other guidelines to follow. With the book with a full that there are lots of. Rules bring a table to people chairs table cloth white dishes and classy glassware. But these very strict rules make people feel invested in the event and of course im the first one to forget my classy glass all my plate but in the end you eat very little. Francoise tusky a founded the d. N. A. On belong in one nine hundred eighty eight the parisian wanted to meet new people so he invited friends to a picnic in the park and told them to bring acquaintances along theyd recognize one another from their White Clothing it was the start of what would become an annual event those at the i do know two of thirty years ago it was a dinner among friends the kind everyone hosts nothing more than that and then it developed the following year the numbers increased because it went so well and the year after that and so on yes its. Now spin off of events are held around the world whether in honolulu sydney. Or new york people celebrate the french way of life in public spaces. To this day francoise pesky is still amazed by the enthusiasm for the dinner party he created. Go for i know for some its like making a baby you hadnt really planned for you have to assume responsibility and hope youll be happy and develop well thats pretty much what happened. To the priestess a person. First serial of chan is still a dinner among friends its just that his circle of friends has grown exponentially hes even learned to love the strict rules. Dont have a. Real gun makes for bigger if i can put it that way sure its rigorous but look at all the happy folks we have spent three nights thomas together a lot of time preparing its great. This is you know. Maybe thats the secret ingredient thats made the d. N. A. On paul so successful its about enjoying the moment but with style just the kind of sample of eva the french are famous for and what better place to experience it than in paris. One of the most popular toys of all time are lego building bricks now their story dates back to denmark in the one nine hundred thirty s. And since and lego has grown into an empire consisting of museums and even a theme park well lego land in denmark is now seller is celebrating its Fiftieth Anniversary so for the occasion we went there to talk to a long time employed to see how these small bricks have inspired big ideas. Its a world in miniature. Those the wild animals on the large size. This is an island infested with pirates all eight of them little plastic bricks its very nice this variance in the style to. Me its because i spend my own childhood in little m. And now my son loves it too so its very nice to make those are everything in a small childs world a little bit different when i was a child i was only the small trains and so on so a lot of things happen. At this hour of the morning a lot of these are laos and its all of those and in lego land. She and four coworkers keep this miniature world in shape. She makes sure everythings in its place in the replica of norways balcony. Minor repairs are taken care of right away on site. Theres a special method for restoring faded bricks. Well with me its like a car like this this one is probably like time trial for years almost so i will take this car to the glass. And well glass past it. And it looks awful when weve done that because the surface is getting very rough and after that was send it to the carpenter and he will paint it with a clear u. V. Paint and the when its painted it just looks like just like a new car. It isnt long before the silence was broken giants invade the little world the village of libya debuted as the first exhibit when the park opened in the one nine hundred sixty eight. Livy translates as a Little Village and it looks like many a small Danish Community would have a century ago. When not to makes the rounds of the park during the day she often stops to chat with visitors theres one question she hears question lot what are you doing in the wintertime so what we do is that we re empty all the walls with bring out all the ships and the trains the cars the people all the houses thing outside by getting things we take them to the storage and we clean it all up and then we take the things to through the most up and repair it if it gets broken in. The parks nearest attraction is in the western town of lego read oh the flying eagle. Again its the first season for the road a coaster. The wild west in town is one of the parks most populous sections. Close spiny is chief long is village for thirty four years has been welcoming children the around his campfire why do they like his so much when it seemingly has nothing to do with logo their legal brakes it matches everything even in. Your view be tried before look at my g. P. The entrenched relate of bones made of legal and by joe term is made available a good show and the children like to see the like they like the idea of india and playing indian. And American Indian camp was at the opening in one nine hundred sixty eight. So too was a safari. Generations of children have taken courses at the driving school. Then jaago came to lego land in twenty sixteen here you can slip into the skin of an interactive the most important part of this really class it as we pass by large screenings fighting villains with lightning fast moves its not the only interactive attraction on the brick snowed on. Reyna by themselves i think when the new technologies that are interesting to children its good for us to try to take advantage of them also in the experiences that we did live or so i think the brick will always be cold maybe land where were standing now will always be the heart of maker man but then we try to develop with new technologies and new types of rights on time as well. No matter what crazy writes may come for real lego fans many land will always be reason enough to visit. Turning now to an Unlikely Partnership that has blossomed into a beautiful friendship some twenty five years ago a female stork name a line that was rendered lame due to a gunshot wound so a School Custodian decided to rescue her over the years he became her saving grace and shes gone on to have numerous offspring in the meantime now even though milan is caretaker had good intentions the work has become overwhelming still their story is one to remember. Two lovebirds in one big happy family. And the criminal stalked my main awaits every spring for her partner trip to town to return to croatia from africa. And its a romance that without the help of convoke it would never have come to pass. For starters also it means a lot to me to see that im able to help someone what else am i to do im a pensioner and its a way for me to relax but financially its overwhelming. The retired school can take a lives in the small city of slovyansk he brought in the eastern part of croatia. During the spring and summer its a popular breeding area for storks but molina has to spend the winter here as well a gunshot wound left her unable to fly which means she would never be able to forage for her chicks. But for the last twenty five years steven bocage has been doing math for her. The pensioner spends most of his monthly stipend on fiend. All. Business of eating them is the hardest part i cant fly and catch grasshoppers and frogs which is what they be to nature so i feed the meat instead. Of the middle school. Each day step on makes about ten trips to the roof of his garage to care for the growing stalk family keep on his wife died eight years ago and just children have moved out so hes able to lavish all his attention on my lena and her family and all this beyond words will follow their father to africa. Told only last thirty years are gone you its worse for me than when my own children leave him alone still i spend every minute of the day with them. Getting their feet together is difficult when theyre small theyll eat meat. But later they only eat fish. And organizing a five kilos buckets of fish every day is a lot of work. On an odyssey every day driving fifty kilometers to a good spot on a summer river. Quickly they dive fish and they can. Every day. Sits on the bank and fishes for. Its always been an activity. That flies were born i was fishing when molina was shot by hunters. So i put her in the car because i knew that out in the fields the foxes would get. Through without you near africa. At home my wife just said would you bring that back for. I thought that way no when healed shed fly over the. Last olympics. That was twenty five years ago the beginning of a remarkable friendship. That money has made clear britain arrived nine years later. Together they have now raised sixty seven checks. And know the words they want your sport the two of us will send a lot more of your children off to africa with little boomlet for grew up with the little. Girl to it. Should it be. Done in an capital a famous introduction of some final send pitches others have written playing there even mascots for front of mineral water. But none of that helps to plan to pay the bills. And its getting more and more expensive to feed the storks. Star to sort through. What should i do i couldnt leave them even if i got a hundred Brigitte Bardot in return. So if i leave her in the woods the functions will get her ive always said as long as i can still crawl all rob a bank ill do what i can to help them. To keep things from going that far. Is now trying to find sponsors for the young storks. Youre nuts has acquired and you got child so. Everybody say hi to maxine. Be keeping an eye on him right now is a wonderful time in europe to attend outdoor concerts or other cultural events for example in france is brittany region the small village of la gussie transforms. Into a huge open air Photo Gallery here alleys gardens in the size of houses become free exhibition spaces for International Photographers the annual event attracts some four hundred thousand visitors during the summer months and i didnt even catching on in other parts of europe we met one of the participating photographers to find out what makes this festival so special. In like i see a stroll through the village is an emotion in ont large format photos are stored throughout the quaint cobbled streets. For the fifteenth time to see at a village in brittany has been turned into an open air gallery. German photographer a young schlegel is exhibiting here for the second time. Its about four hundred thousand people that come here to look at you and your work richard this is quite amazing. But also you know the whole concept of the exhibition off of the festival you know with mr strong focus on nature on our environment on identity young globalization issues like this this insect you know we gonna lose their. Legal makes some prints of his insect photos its a laborious and demanding developing method that was common back in the nineteenth century. The goal of the festival is to challenge views on the relationship humans have with nature. Internationally renowned photographers show here every year this time american William Albert alate has come. To photography festival was initiated by mayor shaq will shake back in two thousand and three hes the son of french entrepreneur eva shea who was born in like a scene. The cosmetics giant he founded still has an Industrial Site near the it did acknowledge on the africa. Call more you did it was my wish to use the village as a backdrop for photographic works as a setting for discourse on social and environmental topics you feel you dont want to. Like a cd has since turned into one of the largest. Top of the festivals in europe. Works by over three hundred if an artist have been displayed in the villages streets and alleys since the event began. To do you media we wanted to make art and culture more accessible in rural areas and the term somehow succeeded. Now hundreds of thousands of people come here every year especially people who live in the region where this is where all of history run the best think it was important to us to reach as many people as possible if you like this you can go alone. Although there are no entrance fees the event generates six euros of income every year old the organizers invest but the additional income isnt all that matters for the four thousand people who live here. So. Ive been coming to this area for fifty years and we always took vacations here and the festival has developed wonderfully the organizers have done magnificent work. And the photographs really make you reflect on the future. But. Those of us who live here who really look forward to when they got up in the first gallery is it makes you feel like spring has arrived. Its like being here is split up now its a pretty festive festival and post festival season and. I always tell the organizers of the festival the whole bill should see this because this is what what what were talking in the time of globalization so im im fat im really fascinated by the biter. By a concept of i do c. S. Festival. Unlike many european villages of it science. Is not threatened by the population on the contrary its true on more than three point three million visitors to britney over the last fifteen years. And other towns are following its lead this Summer Bargain in austria is hosting the french festivals twenty seventeen exhibit. Two small communities showcasing big photography bents until the end of september. Devils are a delicate flower and have been the subject of Writers First centuries the William Shakespeare for example wrote about it in a winters tale but theres probably no other place on this earth where this flower is celebrated more than in austria every year a daffodil festival takes place which draws interest from as far away as asia but we were also on hand for the festivities. Iraq. And our old. And a snowman in spring theyre just some of the twenty fourth biggest decorated with daffodils floating on lake outers the in austria. Its one of the venues for the countrys biggest flower festival the highlight of the year in this region. Some twenty thousand visitors come to watch the annual spectacle. Oh no its in like this past two in my life and ive come in for longer than you know how large is the overthrow of in all kinds of the north of really amazing the rebirth was experience for my life is similar thats the i thought the animals dressed in later hosen and traditional costumes were very very funny and very enjoyable and this is a ruthless yards. In fact a great deal of effort and tens of thousands of daffodils each figure. Often the sculptors work through the night. Every spring ill sell and south come a good region is competent in the fragrant see a flower as the white poets not as a spoon is here from it may to mid june the daffodils for the floats are picked by hand this does no damage to the flowers it actually helps them reproduce for the next year to keep the process fresh the participants have to handle them very carefully never an employee has and i found its very important that they be picked up no more than three days ahead of time they have to be refrigerated and kept dry because if they get wet theyll turn brown that is really preparations are in full swing lots of volunteers help thread the flowers they take three to four daffodil blossoms tie them together and stick them through the next hole which gives them ideal support. Normally the floats must consist of at. Seventy percent effort to list this year a poor harvest prompted organizers to relax the rules so other blossoms like daisies a natural materials like moss could be used as well. The participants in the bald ill say patch and im making the most of it this is where all of the figures animal fantasy are presented to the public when it comes to creativity the skys the limit. What matters is winning over the public and the twenty member jury. Is prepared to be at them scott the book theres an evaluation catalog comprising seven points including the death it will stick ness the overall impression and the size of those are the seven different points so you can weigh up how well the float will do. And we sort of on the plots you dont want to see if youre. In the contest for the best its a runoff between the rock the owl and the clown. Rounded shapes give contestants an edge with the judges because theyre harder to cover over with blossoms but thats just part of the. Minds by using school as ours i can tell it has to be funny something good natured the whole thing has to make a good impression of a compass down so i could sleep. In the end the biggest winner is always that daffodil itself and this whole the breathtaking mountains and lakes of austria. And with that we wrap up another week of your own max dont forget to check us out on facebook or instagram for more on the program and of course you can always go to our web site to see the reports again from me and the rest of the crew here euro max as always thanks for tuning in and well seeing him soon. From. The brief. Few. Goob. The big. The big. Movement. The be. The be. The be. The be. The be. Will the north korea us some a happy little poker game move to silence me have to overcome decades of hostility. Stoked by an unpredictable us Foreign Policy and a family of detail. United by one obsession. Getting their own atomic bomb. The kim dynasty plane thirty minutes spontaneous w. The flame. 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