me to. the journey from hamburg to heligoland takes 3 and a half hours a catamaran takes me there no other boat is faster. and. already on arrival the holiday mood kicks in. all the passengers initially have the same route. everybody passes the colorful up starts. and walks along the problem not somewhere here is my hotel. and most of the tourists who arrive here go back in the afternoon there are more or less 3000 visitors here every day but i would like to stay overnight so i have more time at no stress to discover this small island. they must own heligoland is a visit to the seals. if you like it well you're in for the punk festival. and there is another holiday video of the week this time it's from australia. my 1st walk takes me into the countryside all the way up to the. route along the edge of the rock that forms heligoland leads around the island the cliffs pass. watch your watch your best far as the eye can see the mainland is 50 kilometers away. i passed the the tall and up this free standing rock is the landmark of heligoland everyone hopes that it can withstand the wind and the waves for a long time. and i continued to germany's smallest nature reserve says the rock of the guillemots it is the nesting ground of many sea birds but it is named after the guillemots in june these small feather balls take wing amateur photographers wait for them to take their courageous plunge. but there are not many places in europe where you can get so close to wildlife. birdwatching isn't the only thing you can do here over there is the do and off shore island and even smaller than heligoland germany's largest. lives over there and you can join a guided tour to get really close to those animals. so models have got it figured out by lie on the beach all day busking in the sun cool off now and then with a quick dip in the sea. life and heligoland is generally tranquil and unhurried. do not island ranger make sure it stays that way. combine for more and more guests coming to see helical land and want to benefit from the high seas air but more and more animals are coming as well and they do you know rangers are here to make sure we can all live together and get along all right people can ask me questions and enjoy the beach in harmony. katherina tilly's area responsibility is just 7 tenths of a square kilometer the island of dude and a couple of dunes is about all it is. enduring to do you know ranges are only found here because this island is called tuna and i mean a ranger. once a week pelican lands visitors have an opportunity to tight along with the ranger and explore do not islands on an organized nature to. the enemy and if you find something and think it looks exciting pick it up and take it along well have a look and i'm sure we can figure out what it is also. somewhat rare and not easy to find the red flint. and mother i have homes in 3 variations but it's always some shade of red or not rust colored and not orange you can find it in yellow and several variations of that but the red flint is what's unique to helical and. for most of the visitors here the true stars of the island are the c.e.o.'s. of the birthing season begins around november and almost as soon as a female's given birth she's able to mace again. so 2 weeks later the 1st bulls are back trying to get at her again. as cute and harmless as the seals may look they're not necessarily cuddly. the gray seal is germany's biggest predator and it can move at 20 kilometers per hour so it's not a good idea to get too close to them even if nothing's happened so far the possibility is always there i can't read their minds. but she can count the honorables. monitoring the population as one of her routine tasks along with showing visitors around. to see the sardine sun surf for man and beast alike. although this island is very small it has an incredibly eventful history and you can learn more about it in the helical the museum you have one pleases the boss here he tells me that this island used to be a pirate's nest a navy fort and a trading post in the early 18th century it was just as important as the international port of hamburg is today heligoland was once part of denmark then of great britain it was not until 1950 ireland became german a fiercely contested piece of ground. when was the most dramatic moment in the history of the island. the most dramatic moment was definitely the end of world war 2 and the great bombardment. everybody had to be evacuated and then came the big bang in april $947.00 resulted in the complete destruction of the islands buildings . the british occupying forces once tried to destroy all the islands military facilities with 6.7 kilograms of explosives never again should it be used for military purposes for many years heligoland remained on inhabitable. 954 the population began returning to the island and tourism immediately started appearing again 1st they slept in 10 some dinner because there was no place at all to stay here on the island there were no houses or anything so they stayed a little tense and do not stand sold whatever they needed to pass through and buy little souvenirs and people came in droves to see heligoland again. soon to risk a mass it's not because of the beautiful nature but to buy duty free liquor and cigarettes. or how did the island endure this i just imagine 10 or 12000 visitors here on this really small island it was terrible it must be said there was no room between all the people that we just heard of past the shops and through here shoulder to shoulder. we might see something nice and one of the shops he didn't stand a chance of getting to it to buy it was just pushed on ahead by the crowds and so you ended up back at the ship and at the sail home again and how come prices are so cheap on helical and. that's a privilege we had from our time with britain and it's been preserved through all the changes and rules it was taken on in the treaties so we've always hotter judean tax free status here. it still exists but today the tourists come here for the nature almost as it used to be when heligoland became a seaside resort in the early 19th century at 1st people came here for the good air it was the beginning of helical lands tourism. this island is so small you can easily walk around it and it just takes one or 2 hours hello go and it's pretty popular with tourists and we will show you why. henniker land starts getting crowded every day of around noon you can almost set your watch by it that's when the excursion ships arrive from the north sea coast and hand. visitors a ferry to learn from the ships in jolly boats known locally as burton boats in 2018 they were listed with unesco is intangible world heritage. when a seaside resort was founded here an $827.00 we didn't have any harbor no breakwaters or piers we had nothing at all when the 1st passenger ship arrived a year later they had to drop anchor somewhere and our fishermen and pilots went out in our fishing boats and brought the guests for the 1st time ever to land in a boat a boat. over the border. eventually the harbor was built and ferrying passengers was no longer necessary. soon after the ships couldn't be destroyed in malls for visitors still come to shop duty free. they generally have 4 hours before the ship sails again. the tours that time so that the day trippers can go along to the bank or to a brings them some 25 meters deep inside the red cliffs. this is where the heligoland is sort of from the bombings it's the only remainder of a once vast bunker complex running through out helicopter and. the part where no came through all the bombings you know after the war on damaged. the last bombs fell in february 952 so it's important to us many hella glanders especially the older ones older lives to it and for the number of lives. the love still hurts the typical of heligoland. that few people know they were built here in the 1950 s. and sixty's as part of a planned city. a look at 1st of course the cliff was here and the huge bank of english blew up in 947. minutes more that led to the formation of the lines now called the mid-latitude. or and the lobster hearts are now essentially a retaining wall for the loose rock. and bush time. and architects competition was announced for the reconstruction 951 over a 1000 architects to punch. their turns quiz to find the optimum use of the limited space well are hinting the house is favorably to the sun and wind every detail was thought up down to the paint it was limited to 14 callus. today heligoland is like an open air museum of the 1950 s. and sixty's building style almost every house is listed as historical. a closer look at heligoland quickly reveals that it's full of fascinating stories and where the longest day or even a return visit. i want to do that to. get on the boat and go around the island it takes 45 minutes. excursion boats only put out if the waves are no higher than 2 metres. thank goodness. in the slipstream of the island it is still peaceful. but soon as we clear the tip of the island the rocking start it's almost 2 metre waves. all you need now is a strong stomach and occasionally something to hold on to. nobody gets seasick we all have our sea legs. watch or wind and waves that's what our weekly v mail is about as well. our of your you 100 from singapore loves travelling just like me he's been to the other side of the world to australia and here's his homemade video. almost 1500 people live on the legal land and the sea is part of almost everyone's lives most of them has ancestors who were sailors or fishermen maybe even pirates. sea shanties and sailors songs are part of the cultural heritage. i'm here for a rehearsal off the hague will end up in shanty choir. doesn't fit a song you just sank. is that a regular sailor's song or a shanty you know what i didn't know that was actually our theme song it has nothing to do with either you're going to he was in hell under the friesian dialect and it just means the canal great guy snow morgan that autoworker lives and we only get here i shanties in sailor songs what's the difference he does a month you know the sailor songs are simply romantic songs they used to sing but the shanties were the work songs for the seamen of earlier time it was hard work on the ship's doctor one of them would call the tune in the champs and the choir would answer and do the work the lead singer never had to work and it's just the same with us was going on with their money and often formed can model who is lead singer for the you know today the lead singer as a whole if he sings the song of hope the hoff will tell you can i sing a shanty like read your question or we can do that like i said the lead singer for he'll sing the beginning when we jump in and you can just sing along and it was going that thing on my so i'm going which is like so i'm going with i. may not be you know not often moving through here. so i know i sound barrier. to her own the. way a. lot of. the north side. of the o.l. . it was really good to. see those who really want to join the cox have to be preconditions be a man live on heligoland and be able to sing they have strict rules but if they are friendly guys. every scream the car have an important job they open the punk festival. thought here available and with their shanties 3 days in a row bands from all over europe gather here on the island. since the festival here on heligoland ladies and gentleman. comes out of sea shanties everyone's head amenities before and likes to sing them over a beer shanties and punk actually go together here. the storm battered seagulls face an invasion of. weekend guests who flock to dino island for the rock n roll which means something like booze cruise. to necessities of good weather and better beer 12 kegs have to be put away and nothing changes fast on hedegaard and then the weather by the time the 1st rays of sun appear on the do you know restaurants terrace the 2nd grog has disappeared. you know they don't have any guns just guitars beer more beer and a partition all their own they had a good and is hosted their 1st punk fest. well in 2003 with mixed feelings as the former mayor recalls. yes i 1st gave the decision makers here in the town hall a little shock when they heard the words punk festival they called to see it happening and doing it with a nature reserve nudists people over 70 years old and then here comes punk rock how could it work no matter how you do it it wouldn't work then a little administrative voice piped up and said well we could give it a try to be on. the 150 fans at the 1st one quickly grew to over 1000 the bands even played for free just for the atmosphere to see the applause and what the fans would give. now bands come from all over this end of europe for the rock n roll but how far they play and party till midnight then the fans will crawl into their tents unless the wind has swept them away in the mean time. the lobster hearts by the harbor are a good place for a snack these used to be warehouses for the fishermen today restaurants have moved in. they mainly offer seafood dishes for example. crap pincers. but the cutlery is strange. and often i'd like to tell you. that number made us wonder how much ok though. you have to break it a little like this crack it sound done here. i think my colleagues the finnish would love this all globetrotter always tries the local food on his travels all around the world and this time steve has been to cuba and here's his new video. has been is the capital of largest city major ports and leading commercial center of cuba the city has a population of 2100000 inhabitants and the trucks over a 1000000 tourists are nearly. burst. with the classic car so what you're. doing exactly that street i was going around. and seeing all the spots. old top on to the how about of a have was declared a unesco world heritage site in 1982. would. have been to have something very very different. just. b.c. . you. know visits you have on is complete without experiencing live music actually it's hard not to as music is happening everywhere throughout the old testament. it is a get. me. it's even ing on heligoland i am on the cliff path again the best place to wait for the sunset you can only experience that when you stay here overnight. a day trip is nice but it's in better to stay 2 or 3 days on the island that makes a real difference because then you can experience the perfect the celebration so just give it a try bye bye see you next time somewhere else in germany. because . they've been taught the ideology of neurosis. trained to fight. here to kill. hundreds of european children have become innocent victims of ohio. they were taken to syria by their own the want will become a mom children a job. in 15 minutes on d. w. . we know this is a scary time for the coronavirus is changing the world changing our lives so please take care of 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