of fancy of croatian pensioner who does it all for the stork. 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 d.n.a. on ball 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. it's a dinner with a strict dress code and this year thousands toasts at the thirtieth anniversary edition of the team a all this time at the plastics and valleys. seventy thousand guests turned out for a special affair parisian sheelagh a little chunk has been taking part for two decades. without it is the same every time every year you arrive at lived in a lone knowing they'll be lots of people dressed in light of the goodness and suddenly paris is a sea of white one that's 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 it's white but there are plenty of other guidelines to follow. all the book with a full that there are lots of rules that bring a table to people chez tablecloth white dishes and classy glassware. but these very strict rules make people feel invested in the. bent and of course i'm the first one to forget my classic last hold my plate but in the end you eat very little more. francoise tusky a founded latine a home 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 they'd recognize one another from their white clothing it was the start of what would become an annual event those at the idea no 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 off the debt and so on yes it's. now spinoff adventure 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. not go for i know for some it's like making a baby you hadn't really planned for you have to assume responsibility and hope you'll be happy and develop well that's pretty much what happened. to the priscus a person. first serial. is still a dinner among friends it's just that his circle of friends has grown exponentially he's even learned to love the strict rules. don't have a. rhythm makes the bigger if i can put it that way sure it's rigorous but look at all the happy folks we've spent three nights thomas together a lot of time preparing it's great it's if you've got a. maybe that's the secret ingredient that's made the d.n.a. on blank so successful it's about enjoying the moment but with style just the kind . several of even the french are famous for it what better place to experience it than in paris. when 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 themed park well lego land in denmark is now cellar it is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary so for the occasion we went there to talk to a long time employee to see how these small bricks have inspired big ideas. it's a world in which. those the wild animals are merely life size. this is an island infested with pirates all laid of little plastic bricks it's very nice this very nostalgic. feeling it's because it's been my own childhood it all up and then we take things through through the mulch up and repair it if it gets broken. the parts nearest attraction is in the western town of lego read oh the flying eagle. it's the first season for the road a coaster. the wild west in town is one of the park's most populous sections. close by is chief long is village for thirty four years has been welcoming children 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. tried if you look at my g.p. the insurance related a bone made of legal and my job term is made available a good show and the children like to see they like they like the idea of india and playing indian. and american indian camp was at the opening in one nine hundred 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 she's 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. the couple stalked my lane awaits every spring for her partner to return to croatia from africa and. it's a romance that without the help of steve convoke which would never have come to pass in. my first thought was also it means a lot to me to see that i'm able to help someone what else am i to do i'm a pensioner and it's a way for me to relax but financially it's overwhelming. the retired school caretaker lives in the small city of slovyansk he brought in the eastern part of croatia. during the spring and summer it's a popular breeding area for stalks 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 stephen bocage has been doing that for her. the pensioner spends most of his monthly stipend on feet. tall all business of eating them is the hardest part i can't fly and catch grasshoppers and frogs which is what they need to nature so i feed the meat instead dive fish and they come. every day. on the bank and fishes for hours. it's always been an activity. that flows what 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. closer to near africa. at home my wife just said would you bring that back for. i thought that way no when healed she'd fly over the. last old age. that was twenty five years ago the beginning of a remarkable friendship. that money has made catatonic arrive nine years later. together they have now raised sixty seven chicks. now the words of your school know the truth the two of us will send a lot more of your children off to africa with little bullets were fired up look really. good. should it be. allowed to. come in and capital famous intro and show some final send pictures others have written plays there even mascots for front of mineral water. but none about how to step on to pay the bills. and it's getting more and more expensive to feed the storks and. start to sort of. what should i do i couldn't leave them even if i got a hundred bridgette bardos in return. so if i leave her in the woods the functions will get her i've always said as long as i can still call all rob a bank i'll do what i can to help them. to keep things from going that far chip invoke which is now trying to find sponsors for the young storks. your mom's has acquired and you've got child. everybody say hi to max he. will 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 didn't 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 us even a stroll through the village is an emotion in aren't large format photos are installed throughout the quaint cobbled streets. for the fifteenth time this year the village in brittany has been turned into an open air gallery. german photographer a young schlegel is exhibiting here for the second time. it's 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 it's 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 jack will shake back in two thousand and three he's the son of french entrepreneur eve rushing 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. for more than he 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 he'll know through. like a cd has since turned into one of the largest. talk of the festivals in europe. works by over three hundred different artists have been displayed in the villages streets and alleys since the event began. to do you media if we wanted to make art and culture more accessible in rural areas and the attempt somehow succeeded. now hundreds of thousands of people come here every year especially people who live in the region. of his you've done it before and he was important to us to reach as many people as possible if you like says he would go alone. though there are no entrance fees the event generates six euros of income every year old the organizers invest but the additional income isn't all that matters for the four thousand people who live here. so. i've been coming to this area for fifty years 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 here. but. those of us who live here who really look forward to when they get up the first gallery is it makes you feel like spring has arrived. it's like being here is split up now it's 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 we're talking in the time of globalization so i'm i'm fat i'm really fascinated by. by the concept of i do see as festival. unlike many european villages of its size. is not threatened by the population on the contrary it's true on more than three point three million visitors to brittany over the last fifteen years. and other towns are following its lead this summer bob and 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 for centuries the william shakespeare for example wrote about it in a winter's tale but there's probably no other place on this earth where this flower is celebrated more than in austria every year a deaf adele festival takes place which draws in tourists from as far away as asia but we were also on hand for the festivities. on. iraq. and our old. and the snowman in spring they're just some of twenty four figures decorated with daffodils floating on lake out as they in austria. it's one of the venues for the country's biggest flower festival the highlight of the year in this region. some twenty thousand visitors come to watch the annual spectacle. i've never seen like this poster in my life and i've come in for longer than you know how large it is pelvis to have in all kinds of the north of really the most in the world was the first experience of my life. in the that's 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 i'll see a land south come a good region is carpeted 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 up 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 piece and i found it 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 they'll turn brown but that is really the 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. east seventy percent daffodils this year a pool harvest prompted organizers to relax the rules so often blossoms like daisies a natural materials like moss could be used to swell. the participants in the bald i'll say patch and i'm 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 sky's the limit. what matters is winning over the public and the twenty member jury. as we thought it would be at them scott the book there is an evaluation catalog comprising seven points including the def it will stick ness the overall impression and the size of the seven different points so you can weigh up how well the float will do everything with sort of on the blocks you don't want your kids. in the contest for the best it's a runoff between the raku the owl and the clown. rounded shapes give contestants an edge with the judges because they're harder to cover over with blossoms but that's just part of the. mind's by st thomas ares 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 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