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The worst idea ever is now that I am going to have a go with a proper

team, who you can probably see behind the are really good at this.

-- me. Hello and welcome to the Travel

Show. We are coming this week from Andalusia in Spain. This region is

known as a golfer's paradise, but it is also the HQ of a lesser-known

game called Bossaball. It is played on a trampoline. In the meantime,

here is what we have coming up. 80 years on from the launch of an

airship that made headlines, we travelled to Germany to climb on

board a modern take on the zeppelin. We get a taste of creole cuisine in

the Seychelles. And our global guru is here with advice about flying

into Florida and tipping etiquette in New York.

This is Germany's largest lake on the Austrian and Swiss border. It is

grey and overcast now, but in the summertime it becomes Germany's

Riviera, with everything from beaches to Vineyards and orchards.

In -- and this town will always be famous in world history for one

thing. With Germany's new zeppelin just completing her first trip, this

picture is her with her sister ship on a flight over Burley and, when

their combined engines drowned out the noise of the traffic. Rio, LA,

Leningrad, Cairo, it went to all those places around the world. It

was a step of incredible innovation. All things and all

materials were new and unproven. Like early space exploration in the

60s, the first steps of man in space. In the 20s and early 30s, a

flight on a zeppelin was the height of glamour, and the airship travel

the globe, even flying as far as Tokyo, but then disaster struck. The

crash of the Hindenburg, an airship destroyed in less than half a

minute. In 1937, the Hindenburg zeppelin, the largest ever aircraft

in the world, exploded on a transatlantic flight to New Jersey.

The Hindenburg disaster was the first aviation crash, the first big

disaster in front of a moving camera. Here and the Zetland museum,

there is every creation of part of the doomed ship -- zeppelin. This is

what it would have been like to get onto the Hindenburg. Even the

toilets are here. I will show you the caverns. You have a small

wardrobe. Sync, very clever! How long would people spending here? Two

or three nights. I could happily stay here. How many passengers would

there be in these areas? Capacity was 50 passengers. That was the

maximum? Yes. And how many people working on it? To bring 50

passengers over the Atlantic you need about 50 crew members. A ratio

of one to one. Transatlantic flights might be a thing of the past, but it

is still possible to take a ride in a zeppelin today. From an airbase

here, this zeppelin takes flight around the local area. These

airships are constructed differently from the originals, crucially using

helium instead of hydrogen. There are a lot of variables. For example,

landing on a windy day or a calm day are very different techniques. We

don't use runways so it is land in a field. Every runway is different.

This is a flyby feel aircraft, not fly by numbers. The aircraft can

only fly in certain weather, and it was touch and go as to whether we

would be able to take off. Then we get the go-ahead, and on we go.

Floating serenely over the clouds. I have to be honest, I didn't imagine

it would be like this. It is literally like floating in the air.

It is a really peaceful, lovely experience, and the views below are

great. Any turbulence you feel, it is not the vibration type of

turbulence you feel in an aeroplane, it is like riding over waves. Check

this out. Here is one thing you can never do on an aeroplane. Open the

window! Wow! In a world that is now looking for ever more

environmentally friendly ways to travel, engineers have come up with

designs for vast new airships powered by solar energy or other

sustainable sources. But here, at the home of the Hindenburg, they say

it is unlikely we will ever see a return to the glory days of luxury

airship travel. There is the idea for some people that there would be

no war, there would be helium from America, and rigid airships had a

great future. The flying boats, the aviation in the 30s, the British,

the German, the French, the Italians, had four or six engine

flying boats in preparation. But it is now redundant.

Time now for Citizens, our regular look at the people who make a place.

This week we are off to the Seychelles for a taste of authentic

creole cuisine. IMV manager of this restaurant in

the Seychelles. We welcome guests from all over the world. They come

and visit us just to taste our famous, authentic creole cuisine.

Every morning around nine o'clock I visit the market to purchase my

local spices, my fish and my vegetable and fruit for the day.

Every day the market sees me buying the fish, and the fishermen will

save the fish for me because they will know I am coming to purchase.

Even the fruit and vegetables they will keep for me, even if I am a

little bit late, they still wait for me to come and fetch it. This is

where the magic happens. We are going to prepare a curry. When we

tell our guests we have fruit bat, they think, do you eat that? I try

to convince them that the fruit bat is a very nice meet, and it is a

very clean meat. They eat only fruit. A very traditional local

dish. We are a creole restaurant so we must have fruit bat on our menu.

Now, we are frying our ginger and garlic to make a paste. We have two

at the red wine, don't forget about the red wine. Now we have a very

nice thick sauce and greedy, and we will put the fruit bat in and put it

on a fairly slow fire, so it cooks nicely and soft. This is the only

restaurant on the island that offers this type of local cuisine, where

you get to taste a little bit of everything, which gives the tourist

a chance to have the real creole taste. Still to come on this week's

Travel Show: I take to the trampoline to try and new sport here

in Spain. And, ever worried about how much to tip? Global guru Simon

Calder has the answer. The Travel Show, your essential

guide wherever you are heading. Welcome to the slice of the show

that tackles your questions about getting the best out of travel. We

are off to explore the Black Forest shortly, but first... Health

authorities are warning that the Zika virus is spreading. The

mosquito borne infection is harmless to most people may cause birth

defects when caught by pregnant women. Locally transmitted cases

have now been reported in Thailand and the Maldives, as well as Latin

America and the Caribbean. Prospective visitors who are

pregnant should take medical advice before travelling. Next, David Lucas

and his wife are after advice on the beautiful south-west corner of

Germany. The Black Forest, draped across the

hills east of the Rhine, was awarded with national forest status. Quite

rightly as well. There is a beautiful spa town in the north of

the Black Forest, or the handsome cathedral city of Freiburg in the

south. Public transport is excellent throughout the Black Forest, with

the historic railway a particular favourite of mine. It passes through

the source of the Danube, and close to the loveliest of the Black Forest

Lakes. Jackie says she has been deterred from visiting Florida

because of the length of the queue for arrivals. She wonders...

There is a handy online resource giving a snapshot of waiting times

and border formalities that all the main US gateways. Just go to this

website. I took a date and time at random and found that travellers at

Miami experienced an average waiting time of 34 minutes, with some taking

up to 78. The nearby airport of Fort Lauderdale was three times quicker,

while Tampa was twice as fast. Alternatively, ritual journey

through one of the country that offers preclearance, like Ireland or

Canada. Your process through passport control and customs before

you book a flight to Florida, which means when you touch down in Miami

you are regarded as a domestic passenger and can breeze across to

Miami Beach pausing only to pick up your baggage. Rachel James is

looking forward to a trip to New York City, but she has one nagging

concern. I am worried about the etiquette of

keeping. Keeping tends to be something you do to reward good

service. In the US, especially New York City, a gratuity is regarded as

an obligatory contribution to the staff's wages. 15% is the absolute

minimum. Leave less than that only as a protest against terrible

service. Bartenders will make you feel more comfortable if you keep $1

per drink, and if you keep in fancy Manhattan Hotel is, anyone who takes

you will your luggage to your room will expect $5. More if you have an

ambitious amount of luggage. There is no charge for the tips on the

Travel Show, so you can just e-mail the Travel Show and I will do my

best to find you an answer. Next time. Finally this week, we are in

the small town of Estapona in southern Spain, where I jump in with

both feet to try a ball game I have never seen before. This area to the

west of my beer on the coast is a great place to get stuck in to

sports. Throughout the year, this municipal complex is crammed with

locals getting active with games from tennis and football to

ping-pong. There is one sport that it is a bit different to all the

others, called Bossaball. It is like volleyball, with elements of

football, gymnastics, Kappa wearer, and it is played on a huge

trampoline/ bouncy castle. The rules are fairly simple. Two teams aim to

get the ball over the net to land in the court of the other side. There

is usually a musical accompaniment of slumber to get things going, and

to please the crowds, extra points are awarded for moves like this. --

Samba. It was the brainchild of Philip Eichmann is, a Belgian former

music whose inspiration came in the 1990s on a Brazilian beach. They

play football there, I saw the real capoeira. I was a big music fan, and

I remember the trampoline is the nicest thing to do when they were

having physical education classes. I started to mix it all up and that is

how the mix of volleyball and football came about. Dream became a

reality in the mid-2000. He set up his HQ here in Estapona, and it has

spread to 25 countries, culminating in a Bossaball World Cup that has

been in Turkey and the Netherlands in recent years. This unusual

bouncing game has drawn in players across the world, and according to

fill up, anyone can play. Some people play it on a rigid floor, so

it is a lot less brush up on your muscles with the air. That is why we

have people up to 90 years old playing it. We are up to 100, that

is the next idea. While there aren't any centenarians on the court today,

there is a gender mix, which is typical of a Bossaball team. I think

it is really nice to play together, because most of the time they say

boys are better than girls, but now we play mixed, so it is a good

challenge for girls. While the game looks like simple

fun, there is a serious commitment to making sure Bossaball is easy on

the environment. I travelled up to Philip's Bossa farm just a short

drive from the town where his team has been busy recycling, each old

inflatable court can be made into 500 shoulder bags. We transform the

PVC that we're not using from the courts to something useful to give

it a new life basically. For Philip, this is all part of what it takes to

be a modern sport, catering for new sensibilities in a fast moving

world. The sustainability is important for us, to mix various

sport is important and to have that movement, some of the older sports

were a bit boring too and they were there to entertain people in small

cities, to have them a good Sunday afternoon after going to church. But

things are changing. People have changed, so sports have

to adapt to that. Whether I could adapt to Bossaball

was another question entirely, but I wasn't going to miss my chance to

have a go. So you're going to teach me a few of the skills? We will try

to, we'll see how it goes. It's really fun!

It was quite tough, it looks like it's going to be really tough, fun,

which it is, but you need to be good at Star, which is a bit of a

shortcoming. Hitting things off my head... The worst idea ever is now

undergoing to have a go with the proper team, who, as you can

probably see behind me, are really good at this. Prepare yourself

because this is going to be embarrassing.

It's certainly unconventional but Bossaball is growing. Is one of

several new sports that may yet and challenge the traditional games and

may even one day come to redefine what we consider sport.

Well, that's all we've got time for this week but do join us next week

when we've got a great show coming up.

Carmen visits some natural hot springs in Japan and then wrapped up

warm to try a spot of camping high in the Austrian Alps. Rather him

than me. Not really the morning I was hoping for, you can't see

anything because it's such a blizzard but overall it's a great

experience, something you don't do every day, but now it's time to get

warm to see you later. So catch us then if you can. In the

meantime, don't forget you can check us out on social media too. The

details of how to do that are on the screen now. From me, and the rest of

the travel show team in Spain, it's goodbye.

The chilly feel to the weather continues for most