Today im in cologne famous for its cathedral the rhine river 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 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 theres snow on the freeway coming home. By the way it even has a house 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 on to something. The cathedral is a mountain of stone 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. On a guided tour intreated look at the treasury and places that are otherwise 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 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 global 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 once own hard graft one. 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 such means as it always works out what will be will be my comics and you and i change it so thats how i put it and that is thats how it is going to i was to go another important saying is everyones different here. Not at Central Kansas to be that exact important coach i say its the most important of colognes while its still so for most of what makes life good is to live and let live has. So far it seems like the average person from cologne as its really laid back with their. Very own sense of humor and a Group Passion for music cologne is a singing city and not just around carnival time. Was. Mass karaoke concerts are a big hit in cologne cutting hookah cinema are in especially high demand. And current in 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. Because it 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 as 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 and go to a sing along concert its guaranteed to spread a little joy. 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 and milk organic milk or whatever they can know with and have it waiting for you thats really great when you go somewhere often and. I will order out was. Either live or die or 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 indeed. And luckily that includes. All sorts of sweets for the people of cologne their corner shops are best like an extended living room and you have to admit i could very easily get used to this. When theres no great day in cologne and. Yet to. Be. 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 kinds of weird and wonderful things. Ok good morning vietnam didnt very much to cross over to kind of arguments here today and were going to see to believe that there ohiggins glacier. It seems you made it through the end of the kind of terrorist. 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 OhigginsNational 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 the whiskey with glacier eyes. Good morning from kandahar you might see which we already left behind the under way to part of control before weve put forward cross the border. For like about almost every day twenty took two kilometers. And the first sixty kilometers we will walk without our luggage have at the last far the. To take it ourselves because we thought there were of course orders but i guess still they have to do. This so were going to carry a twenty euros each of stuff for about five days. After hiking for about sixty kilometers maybe actually border over there she live. And hes urging to. Go for it to go to argentina. For cardio just gave us the bags he drove them up as far as he could this is there no horses we have to carry them the rest of the way through them and then steves been really lovely and taken some of the weight from my dads five kilometers to be along with all the. This is a real challenge people doing well so far it had spread. When you do it. If you like three backpacks and really bad thank you steve. 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 asian felt full of lovely little shops cafes and galleries. Away. 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 poland. Every neighborhood has its very own brewery at least one and the people will serve as freshly pulled codes are often local institutions 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 breweries right there. Here we go. These men arent to be trifled with the waiters known as compass who served in the brewery pups. 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 with the city should be said thats important. But the fish. For the covers being blunt is part of the job so dont be offended. Probably three broadswords for to share with the lady dont eat it all yourself. Its not those that black stuff cola honey. Youre. On usenet it 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 a coin for every cook. 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. Time to move on from the amount on your glass means you dont want any more on the surprise me. Who im dome is germanys second largest brewery for some eighty waiters from more than thirty countries worked here. On dome doesnt just serve kurdish it serves cologne lifestyle and tradition which ironically is why seventy percent of the customers are tourists most all ya got australians canadians lots of americans grasses and chinese and Many Russians yeah thats also a good thing because russians are good customers 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 come. Steamers. 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 eighty nationalities live side by side in cologne and im going to meet a woman who is at home in this multicultural atmosphere mediumship bobby is from brazil quite has lived in cologne for over twenty five years and shes gone all out to fit in to her adopted hometown. Where that the at the. Museum 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. Because it easier for the mourners 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 them and they kind of people from cologne consider themselves very tolerant and how does that manifest itself. In everyday life. This is an issue thats a difficult question but what is the 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 the people in cologne are more tolerant than elsewhere but they could be even more so. Often that they have 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 yeah its meant to be or 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 a foreign descended 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 there a culture clash. And then again. Is this nice 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 me but i think it takes them longer. Integration is hard and the situation is tough and its something that will take years and generations to achieve so on and think this. Doesnt so clearly so whats and to me. I mean is there are two kinds of to me one would want to ams and those are immigrants the other with one m. People like you for instance who are from germany but. Not cologne 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 the food is coming. And you embody it like no other things are meeting me today was a guy pleasure. Another interesting thing about cologne buildings often transformed into archaeological excavations 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 viewers 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 are. Known. To most of. The. The news. Crews. And. Soon. Could not exist. You said its to train. Is going to go. To new. Jersey. Its good to. Have. 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 a 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 anywhere else in germany pub crawls parties festivals and cologne youll never find yourself short of a reason to go wild. But sometimes alone like this right the more romantic know every july the local swarm to the shores of the rhine river to watch to and at least to and friends a fireworks display. When night falls hundreds of thousands of people flock to the banks and bridges on the line. And cologne bands such as the black food make sure the mood is perfect. In. The am. And then at ten pm on the dot it starts the bank. 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 calling. For. John. Oh wow. Well thats it time to draw some conclusions cologne is a very welcoming thirty 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. That. Its a wild week on. Here everything revolves around our Animal Kingdom and their two legged faith. Hope for sea turtles in case. The biosphere n. G. O. S rescues turtles by moving their eggs to safety and grazing where. They go at africa next long doubling. Every journey begins with the first step and every language with the first word published in the. Nico is in germany to learn german why not learn it simple online on your mobile and free to suffer from d w z e learning course nikos fake german made easy