:00:00. > :00:00.Now on BBC News, it's time for The Travel Show.
:00:07. > :00:12.What's cooking? Look at that! I thought there was some permeation of
:00:13. > :00:44.beautiful smells here. Hello and welcome to The Travel
:00:45. > :00:48.Show. We come to you from a very windy north London, where I am going
:00:49. > :00:52.to be meeting the people who are making home-cooked meals and selling
:00:53. > :00:58.them as takeaway is. That's later. Also coming up this week: We had to
:00:59. > :01:10.Berlin to visit a museum dedicated to pump -- punk rock legends The
:01:11. > :01:13.Romones. And we face a snowstorm high in the Austrian Alps. I've
:01:14. > :01:17.never seen anything like this before. We look at what's trendy
:01:18. > :01:25.online my inner world of travel. First...
:01:26. > :01:31.London. One of the world's greatest cities to visit and also one of the
:01:32. > :01:39.most expensive. But in the last few years the economy has brought some
:01:40. > :01:43.of the cost down. These days you can book a cheap cab in London through
:01:44. > :01:50.an Apple on your phone, rent a room for a website and British food is of
:01:51. > :01:56.the joke it once was. You can spend some of your savings in one of the
:01:57. > :02:00.city's restaurants. What about getting a real taste of London with
:02:01. > :02:04.home-cooked food? If you're renting a flat for a few days, how do you
:02:05. > :02:12.get to eat what's on the table of Londoners? Off to the internet I go.
:02:13. > :02:17.This website is a new London start-up connecting hungry people
:02:18. > :02:24.with home cooks who have a few portions going spare, like Carolina.
:02:25. > :02:28.What's cooking? Look at that! I thought there were some heavenly...
:02:29. > :02:41.Beautiful permeation is of smells. What is this? This is the world's
:02:42. > :02:44.famous pastor, Carolina style. Carolina is one of the pioneers of
:02:45. > :02:50.this service which is surprisingly simple. You put in your postcode,
:02:51. > :02:54.which tells what area of London you are, and then the list of dishes
:02:55. > :03:00.being cooked around your home will come up and you click to look at
:03:01. > :03:05.what's available, look at the ingredients, look at how many
:03:06. > :03:09.portions are available and just click buy and pay and you come and
:03:10. > :03:13.pick it up. Why do you do it? Is it not quite tasking, cooking for more
:03:14. > :03:22.than just yourself and your partner? For me, cooking is a way of winding
:03:23. > :03:26.down, actually. It is just like when you get there, start chopping, it is
:03:27. > :03:31.really relaxing. So it is for you more than anything? Yes! It is more
:03:32. > :03:35.for -- for me more than anything. Like other sharing websites, this
:03:36. > :03:38.one tells you about who will be cooking food, what they offer and
:03:39. > :03:53.sometimes what's in their back garden. So, this is where we have
:03:54. > :04:02.the name outside cooking oven. For pizzas! Very authentic. And when the
:04:03. > :04:06.fire dies down you can cook bread and slow roast, which is amazing
:04:07. > :04:10.because it has that smoky flavour. It is really, really nice. So what
:04:11. > :04:17.is the potential for websites like this? If people are happy to ride in
:04:18. > :04:23.a stranger's car or stay in a room, why not eat their food? Two years
:04:24. > :04:26.ago nobody had heard of Uber or Airbnb and now they are household
:04:27. > :04:30.names that people are becoming accustomed to sharing things with
:04:31. > :04:33.each other, or are buying not just from the traditional business but
:04:34. > :04:42.from another individual who is a bit like them. This is happening with
:04:43. > :04:44.food and the beauty really is that people through Dish Next Door I'm
:04:45. > :04:48.eating and sharing and making friends and hanging out when they
:04:49. > :04:54.never would have before. -- are eating. The rollout of the sharing
:04:55. > :04:58.economy isn't always welcomed, especially by people who think they
:04:59. > :05:01.will lose out. Taxi drivers, traditional hotels. So what about
:05:02. > :05:06.the takeaway and restaurant business, which can be precarious
:05:07. > :05:11.enough anyway? The food market is like ?100 billion industry every
:05:12. > :05:15.year and it is growing. I really think there's room for takeaway and
:05:16. > :05:19.businesses like ours and all the other amazing innovative new
:05:20. > :05:25.businesses that are coming out of the woodwork in London. I don't feel
:05:26. > :05:29.like it's a them or us situation. I've got what I've come for and
:05:30. > :05:35.that's a lovely takeaway. This is all good for north London, but what
:05:36. > :05:43.about everyone else? Right now this takeaway idea is just getting
:05:44. > :05:47.started. But in west London and beyond this type of dining has
:05:48. > :05:50.really taken off. Various websites have found a market for tourists who
:05:51. > :06:00.want to eat with locals and locals who are happy to shop, cook and open
:06:01. > :06:05.up their doors to tourists. Visitors can sign up online at it as a way of
:06:06. > :06:10.eating local food at a reasonable price in one of London's smartest
:06:11. > :06:14.neighbourhoods. What are you preparing today? Strawberries dipped
:06:15. > :06:20.in chocolate. I always think that's quite a nice English thing.
:06:21. > :06:27.Strawberries are always England and then I do this roast tomato soup
:06:28. > :06:32.which is actually a recipe from Sophie Dahl. People come to London,
:06:33. > :06:35.usually as tourists, and they want to see the obvious things, but there
:06:36. > :06:41.may also want to try English food and it is really difficult to
:06:42. > :06:44.suggest places to people to go and eat home-cooked English food. So
:06:45. > :06:49.many years English food has had such a bad reputation, so I felt there
:06:50. > :06:56.was a huge gap for people just wanting good, English cooking. Here
:06:57. > :07:01.is something to nibble on. The original social network is not
:07:02. > :07:08.called Facebook or Twitter, it is called a table, where people have
:07:09. > :07:18.exchanged and shared for centuries. Wow, what is this? May be one of the
:07:19. > :07:23.best experiences of your trip. It is dining, at more than that, it is
:07:24. > :07:27.about exchanging, meeting new cultures and an opportunity to meet
:07:28. > :07:31.locals when you are travelling. But what about safety? Eating food
:07:32. > :07:39.cooked by a stranger, that might make some people nervous. In terms
:07:40. > :07:45.of safety, remember that the post is going to eat the same food as you
:07:46. > :07:49.and his family. So people would be careful about the type of food they
:07:50. > :07:54.eat. The reviews are extremely important because they will give you
:07:55. > :07:58.an idea of what is the experience like, the food, the setting, et
:07:59. > :08:03.cetera. This three course meal will set you back about ?15 or $22.
:08:04. > :08:08.That's without the English sparkling wine on the table. Out there in
:08:09. > :08:12.London restaurants, you will struggle to get two courses for that
:08:13. > :08:17.money and probably pay a lot more. Staying and eating with strangers,
:08:18. > :08:20.that may not be to everyone's taste, but in a city this big and expensive
:08:21. > :08:22.it might be a way of making new friends and making your money go a
:08:23. > :08:45.lot further. Next, our regular look at the people
:08:46. > :08:51.who make the pints. This is said to be the only museum in the world
:08:52. > :09:00.dedicated to The Ramones, the American band at the forefront of
:09:01. > :09:11.punk in the mid-19 70s. Hello, I am the founder of The Ramones Museum in
:09:12. > :09:19.Berlin. This is a museum dedicated to The Ramones, the first punk band
:09:20. > :09:21.to have existed. Berlin is the perfect place for The Ramones
:09:22. > :09:25.because the people have the right attitude, we have a lot of people
:09:26. > :09:28.who like music, people who live music, a lot of bands who live here
:09:29. > :09:33.and we also have a lot of people from all over the world who come to
:09:34. > :09:38.Berlin and they check out The Ramones Museum as well. The link
:09:39. > :09:41.between Berlin and The Ramones is that the former bass player of the
:09:42. > :09:46.band was living in Berlin for a couple of years when he was really
:09:47. > :09:55.young and he broke a lot of songs about Germany and Berlin. And most
:09:56. > :10:01.of them ended up on the albums. I was 13 years old when I heard The
:10:02. > :10:06.Ramones for the first time, AB 14. I didn't see them until I was 16. --
:10:07. > :10:09.maybe. Then I went to see them dozens of times and I collected all
:10:10. > :10:14.of their stuff while I was on the road. The T-shirts, posters,
:10:15. > :10:16.tickets. I kept all of these, framed it and put them on the wall and
:10:17. > :10:21.eventually after The Ramones retired they were worth more -- I got more
:10:22. > :10:26.because they were more accessible through the incident. The first
:10:27. > :10:29.memorabilia got was the first ticket from the first show. It was the
:10:30. > :10:35.start of the collection. Then I got a couple of other things, I got
:10:36. > :10:42.Johnny Ramones' jeans and then it all snowballed. The Ramones kind of
:10:43. > :10:46.invented content I don't think it was intentional, it just happened,
:10:47. > :10:49.because they couldn't play their instruments, so they just stood to
:10:50. > :10:53.the three chords and they presented it with a power and speed that
:10:54. > :10:55.wasn't there before and then somebody put the punk tag on it and
:10:56. > :11:07.then punk became a big thing. To a lot of people, the Ramones are
:11:08. > :11:14.more than a band, they are religion. When those diehard fans come to
:11:15. > :11:16.check them out, they are the main audience, so everyone has some
:11:17. > :11:20.connection to the band. Some people come here just because they want to
:11:21. > :11:23.have a coffee and a piece of cake and they don't even though the
:11:24. > :11:33.music, and they still have a great time.
:11:34. > :11:42.Still to come: Carmen is he with what is trending online in the world
:11:43. > :11:48.of travel. Somewhere along the way I took a wrong turn. Now I am in
:11:49. > :11:52.deep... We catch up with Ben Fir part two of his adventure, spending
:11:53. > :12:00.a night in the middle of a snowstorm high in the Austrian ups. The Travel
:12:01. > :12:10.Show, your essential guide wherever you are headed -- Alps.
:12:11. > :12:16.Welcome to Trending Travel. I will be taking you through the essential
:12:17. > :12:19.videos and blogs. Let's start by looking at the top stories that have
:12:20. > :12:23.caught our attention online or in social media. The power of social
:12:24. > :12:27.media was once again brought into focus as missing backpackers hit the
:12:28. > :12:31.headlines. When 21-year-old Grace Taylor didn't contact home for a
:12:32. > :12:34.week, her mother went to Facebook to seek help from the backpacking
:12:35. > :12:40.community. She was soon reunited with her daughter. They thank
:12:41. > :12:43.everyone on Facebook for their help. This is not long after British
:12:44. > :12:48.backpacker Jordan Jacobs appeared to go missing. Only to be found shortly
:12:49. > :12:51.after following a widely shared Facebook message from his concerned
:12:52. > :13:01.sister. He later explained he had just been chilling out, and perhaps
:13:02. > :13:03.having a bit too much fun. And at 25 billion pixels, and new interactive
:13:04. > :13:06.photo of Shanghai has been praised as one of the world's biggest
:13:07. > :13:12.photographs. It's breathtaking detail allows users viewing it on a
:13:13. > :13:16.website to zoom into minute details of the Chinese city, which is home
:13:17. > :13:18.to 24 million people. It wasn't long until the internet did were the
:13:19. > :13:22.internet does best, and found some of the more amusing parts of the
:13:23. > :13:28.photograph, including two people in the state of undress. In Australia,
:13:29. > :13:32.a small rural town with a declining population of around 250 residents
:13:33. > :13:38.became the focus of unusual attention, with reports of a
:13:39. > :13:42.Brisbane artist turning grain silos into a tourist attraction. After
:13:43. > :13:46.spending time with the locals, he painted the huge grain silos as
:13:47. > :13:52.portraits of four generations of local farmers. With the help of
:13:53. > :13:57.stories about it online and this picture on you tube, it has drawn
:13:58. > :14:00.tourists from around the world. Finally, the adventures of a
:14:01. > :14:03.90-year-old grandmother called Norma has been warming the hearts of many
:14:04. > :14:11.online with pictures of her travels, after receiving a brick prognosis of
:14:12. > :14:19.cancer. -- leak. Six months after hitting the road, her trip to Mount
:14:20. > :14:24.Rushmore, New Orleans and... They have made her a minor celebrity.
:14:25. > :14:28.We love staying connected with you, and don't forget we are on
:14:29. > :14:31.Facebook, Twitter and e-mail. You have been sending us some great
:14:32. > :14:37.stuff. Your photos have been coming in from around the world, especially
:14:38. > :14:40.on Tuesdays, using this hashtag. Check out our Twitter and Facebook
:14:41. > :14:46.pages for loads of exclusive Travel Show content and top stories to keep
:14:47. > :14:49.you up-to-date and inspired for your next world-class adventure.
:14:50. > :14:54.Let's look at the viral videos that have been clocking up the views this
:14:55. > :14:58.month. When Alessandro visited Budapest, he
:14:59. > :15:02.captured his four-day trip on his smartphone. This video shows that
:15:03. > :15:04.you can make mesmerising memories from their trips with just what you
:15:05. > :15:19.carry in your pocket. But, great camera equipment can
:15:20. > :15:24.help. This super high-definition hyper lapse of Paris shows this
:15:25. > :15:29.beautiful city through night and day. He told us that he filmed it
:15:30. > :15:33.over the course two week holiday, exploring Paris for the first time.
:15:34. > :15:34.He wanted it to be a tour of the city, while making it all seem
:15:35. > :15:45.connected. Don't forget to check out our
:15:46. > :15:49.website, for all the ways you can get in touch. Or if you see anything
:15:50. > :15:58.online at you think we should be looking at.
:15:59. > :16:02.Next, we are back with there and in Austria, who last week we saw
:16:03. > :16:10.preparing to snow camp at the top of this glazier. -- glacier. As he set
:16:11. > :16:18.up camp on the beautiful mountainside, he was warned the
:16:19. > :16:34.temperatures could get as low as -30 degrees. We have put up all of the
:16:35. > :16:38.tense, and when I say we are mean most of these guys. It is a lot
:16:39. > :16:46.warmer than I thought, it is going well. So, after some hard work, our
:16:47. > :16:52.camp is set, and I will be honest, a hot drink has never been more
:16:53. > :16:55.satisfying. As the sun fell behind the mountains, little did we know
:16:56. > :16:59.that this would be our last chance to take in this amazing environment.
:17:00. > :17:07.It was most definitely the calm before the storm. Although it is
:17:08. > :17:11.absolutely freezing and getting colder by the second, it really is
:17:12. > :17:22.the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life. We melt snow over camp
:17:23. > :17:34.stoves to make our dinners of rehydrated chicken noodles. But then
:17:35. > :17:41.there dramatically worsening weather was taking its toll. OK, so the
:17:42. > :17:45.storm did hit, and as you can probably tell by my face things have
:17:46. > :17:50.got pretty terrible. But there is respite, let me let you in on a
:17:51. > :18:03.secret through these doors. This is called the safe room. The warm
:18:04. > :18:06.shelter of the safe room gives us welcome relief from the elements,
:18:07. > :18:11.especially tonight. It turns out it might be the wrong weekend to be up
:18:12. > :18:15.here. I see on social media reports of a number of avalanches in
:18:16. > :18:22.neighbouring mountains, including a huge one 2 kilometres wide that had
:18:23. > :18:25.claimed the lives of five skiers. It wasn't the news I wanted to hear as
:18:26. > :18:32.we braved the falling temperatures and worsening storm to find our it's
:18:33. > :18:40.the night. Somewhere along the way I took a wrong turn and now I am in
:18:41. > :18:54.the deepest snow. God! It is so deep. Seriously, where is the path?
:18:55. > :19:11.That was difficult! OK, here is my house for the night. It is so cold!
:19:12. > :19:16.The ground feels like a freezer. It is finally bedtime, it was a very
:19:17. > :19:20.long day. It is very noisy outside because of the wind, and it is very
:19:21. > :19:29.cold, that inside I'm pretty warm because I'm very wrapped up. I will
:19:30. > :19:34.see you can get some sleep. OK, it is currently 2am, and I really have
:19:35. > :19:39.not slept at all. I think we are right in the middle of the storm and
:19:40. > :19:53.the wind is so strong. But the worst was yet to come. We woke up early to
:19:54. > :19:58.a blizzard of snow. Overnight temperatures fall to -18 degrees,
:19:59. > :20:01.and with the wind hitting this hard I am shocked at how drastically this
:20:02. > :20:05.amazing place can change of just a few hours. But then it was all hands
:20:06. > :20:44.on deck to pack down our tents. What an end to all of this. With
:20:45. > :20:48.visibility restricted to just a few metres, it was important we stick
:20:49. > :21:02.together. Our path was never too far from a sheer drop down the mountain.
:21:03. > :21:08.It is finally morning and we have managed to pack the tents down in
:21:09. > :21:12.this, which is quite an achievement. You can't truly see anything because
:21:13. > :21:15.of the blizzard. Overall it was a great experience, something you
:21:16. > :21:21.don't do every day. Now it is time to get warm. Getting down was going
:21:22. > :21:25.to be much harder than getting up. This torment the whole mountain had
:21:26. > :21:29.been shut down for safety reasons, and we would essentially need to be
:21:30. > :21:41.evacuated. So, snowploughs to the rescue.
:21:42. > :21:48.It was a dramatic end to a weekend that was at times peaceful and
:21:49. > :22:05.spectacular, but also challenging. And yes, a bit extreme. But I
:22:06. > :22:09.wouldn't have had it any other way. I'm afraid that is all the time we
:22:10. > :22:12.have this week's show. It enjoys wherever you are in the world by
:22:13. > :22:18.signing into your social media feeds. This is what is coming up in
:22:19. > :22:22.next week's programme. It looks like a giant ferocious
:22:23. > :22:26.bonfire from this distance. We take a look back at some of our favourite
:22:27. > :22:35.moments from the Travel Show so far this year. That is a thrill! Join us
:22:36. > :22:37.for that if you can, but from me and the rest of the travel team it is
:22:38. > :23:14.goodbye. A chilly night for England and
:23:15. > :23:15.Wales, with some mist and fog that could linger till