12/03/2016 The Travel Show

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What's cooking? Look at that! I thought there was some permeation of

beautiful smells here. Hello and welcome to The Travel

Show. We come to you from a very windy north London, where I am going

to be meeting the people who are making home-cooked meals and selling

them as takeaway is. That's later. Also coming up this week: We had to

Berlin to visit a museum dedicated to pump -- punk rock legends The

Romones. And we face a snowstorm high in the Austrian Alps. I've

never seen anything like this before. We look at what's trendy

online my inner world of travel. First...

London. One of the world's greatest cities to visit and also one of the

most expensive. But in the last few years the economy has brought some

of the cost down. These days you can book a cheap cab in London through

an Apple on your phone, rent a room for a website and British food is of

the joke it once was. You can spend some of your savings in one of the

city's restaurants. What about getting a real taste of London with

home-cooked food? If you're renting a flat for a few days, how do you

get to eat what's on the table of Londoners? Off to the internet I go.

This website is a new London start-up connecting hungry people

with home cooks who have a few portions going spare, like Carolina.

What's cooking? Look at that! I thought there were some heavenly...

Beautiful permeation is of smells. What is this? This is the world's

famous pastor, Carolina style. Carolina is one of the pioneers of

this service which is surprisingly simple. You put in your postcode,

which tells what area of London you are, and then the list of dishes

being cooked around your home will come up and you click to look at

what's available, look at the ingredients, look at how many

portions are available and just click buy and pay and you come and

pick it up. Why do you do it? Is it not quite tasking, cooking for more

than just yourself and your partner? For me, cooking is a way of winding

down, actually. It is just like when you get there, start chopping, it is

really relaxing. So it is for you more than anything? Yes! It is more

for -- for me more than anything. Like other sharing websites, this

one tells you about who will be cooking food, what they offer and

sometimes what's in their back garden. So, this is where we have

the name outside cooking oven. For pizzas! Very authentic. And when the

fire dies down you can cook bread and slow roast, which is amazing

because it has that smoky flavour. It is really, really nice. So what

is the potential for websites like this? If people are happy to ride in

a stranger's car or stay in a room, why not eat their food? Two years

ago nobody had heard of Uber or Airbnb and now they are household

names that people are becoming accustomed to sharing things with

each other, or are buying not just from the traditional business but

from another individual who is a bit like them. This is happening with

food and the beauty really is that people through Dish Next Door I'm

eating and sharing and making friends and hanging out when they

never would have before. -- are eating. The rollout of the sharing

economy isn't always welcomed, especially by people who think they

will lose out. Taxi drivers, traditional hotels. So what about

the takeaway and restaurant business, which can be precarious

enough anyway? The food market is like ?100 billion industry every

year and it is growing. I really think there's room for takeaway and

businesses like ours and all the other amazing innovative new

businesses that are coming out of the woodwork in London. I don't feel

like it's a them or us situation. I've got what I've come for and

that's a lovely takeaway. This is all good for north London, but what

about everyone else? Right now this takeaway idea is just getting

started. But in west London and beyond this type of dining has

really taken off. Various websites have found a market for tourists who

want to eat with locals and locals who are happy to shop, cook and open

up their doors to tourists. Visitors can sign up online at it as a way of

eating local food at a reasonable price in one of London's smartest

neighbourhoods. What are you preparing today? Strawberries dipped

in chocolate. I always think that's quite a nice English thing.

Strawberries are always England and then I do this roast tomato soup

which is actually a recipe from Sophie Dahl. People come to London,

usually as tourists, and they want to see the obvious things, but there

may also want to try English food and it is really difficult to

suggest places to people to go and eat home-cooked English food. So

many years English food has had such a bad reputation, so I felt there

was a huge gap for people just wanting good, English cooking. Here

is something to nibble on. The original social network is not

called Facebook or Twitter, it is called a table, where people have

exchanged and shared for centuries. Wow, what is this? May be one of the

best experiences of your trip. It is dining, at more than that, it is

about exchanging, meeting new cultures and an opportunity to meet

locals when you are travelling. But what about safety? Eating food

cooked by a stranger, that might make some people nervous. In terms

of safety, remember that the post is going to eat the same food as you

and his family. So people would be careful about the type of food they

eat. The reviews are extremely important because they will give you

an idea of what is the experience like, the food, the setting, et

cetera. This three course meal will set you back about ?15 or $22.

That's without the English sparkling wine on the table. Out there in

London restaurants, you will struggle to get two courses for that

money and probably pay a lot more. Staying and eating with strangers,

that may not be to everyone's taste, but in a city this big and expensive

it might be a way of making new friends and making your money go a

lot further. Next, our regular look at the people

who make the pints. This is said to be the only museum in the world

dedicated to The Ramones, the American band at the forefront of

punk in the mid-19 70s. Hello, I am the founder of The Ramones Museum in

Berlin. This is a museum dedicated to The Ramones, the first punk band

to have existed. Berlin is the perfect place for The Ramones

because the people have the right attitude, we have a lot of people

who like music, people who live music, a lot of bands who live here

and we also have a lot of people from all over the world who come to

Berlin and they check out The Ramones Museum as well. The link

between Berlin and The Ramones is that the former bass player of the

band was living in Berlin for a couple of years when he was really

young and he broke a lot of songs about Germany and Berlin. And most

of them ended up on the albums. I was 13 years old when I heard The

Ramones for the first time, AB 14. I didn't see them until I was 16. --

maybe. Then I went to see them dozens of times and I collected all

of their stuff while I was on the road. The T-shirts, posters,

tickets. I kept all of these, framed it and put them on the wall and

eventually after The Ramones retired they were worth more -- I got more

because they were more accessible through the incident. The first

memorabilia got was the first ticket from the first show. It was the

start of the collection. Then I got a couple of other things, I got

Johnny Ramones' jeans and then it all snowballed. The Ramones kind of

invented content I don't think it was intentional, it just happened,

because they couldn't play their instruments, so they just stood to

the three chords and they presented it with a power and speed that

wasn't there before and then somebody put the punk tag on it and

then punk became a big thing. To a lot of people, the Ramones are

more than a band, they are religion. When those diehard fans come to

check them out, they are the main audience, so everyone has some

connection to the band. Some people come here just because they want to

have a coffee and a piece of cake and they don't even though the

music, and they still have a great time.

Still to come: Carmen is he with what is trending online in the world

of travel. Somewhere along the way I took a wrong turn. Now I am in

deep... We catch up with Ben Fir part two of his adventure, spending

a night in the middle of a snowstorm high in the Austrian ups. The Travel

Show, your essential guide wherever you are headed -- Alps.

Welcome to Trending Travel. I will be taking you through the essential

videos and blogs. Let's start by looking at the top stories that have

caught our attention online or in social media. The power of social

media was once again brought into focus as missing backpackers hit the

headlines. When 21-year-old Grace Taylor didn't contact home for a

week, her mother went to Facebook to seek help from the backpacking

community. She was soon reunited with her daughter. They thank

everyone on Facebook for their help. This is not long after British

backpacker Jordan Jacobs appeared to go missing. Only to be found shortly

after following a widely shared Facebook message from his concerned

sister. He later explained he had just been chilling out, and perhaps

having a bit too much fun. And at 25 billion pixels, and new interactive

photo of Shanghai has been praised as one of the world's biggest

photographs. It's breathtaking detail allows users viewing it on a

website to zoom into minute details of the Chinese city, which is home

to 24 million people. It wasn't long until the internet did were the

internet does best, and found some of the more amusing parts of the

photograph, including two people in the state of undress. In Australia,

a small rural town with a declining population of around 250 residents

became the focus of unusual attention, with reports of a

Brisbane artist turning grain silos into a tourist attraction. After

spending time with the locals, he painted the huge grain silos as

portraits of four generations of local farmers. With the help of

stories about it online and this picture on you tube, it has drawn

tourists from around the world. Finally, the adventures of a

90-year-old grandmother called Norma has been warming the hearts of many

online with pictures of her travels, after receiving a brick prognosis of

cancer. -- leak. Six months after hitting the road, her trip to Mount

Rushmore, New Orleans and... They have made her a minor celebrity.

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Next, we are back with there and in Austria, who last week we saw

preparing to snow camp at the top of this glazier. -- glacier. As he set

up camp on the beautiful mountainside, he was warned the

temperatures could get as low as -30 degrees. We have put up all of the

tense, and when I say we are mean most of these guys. It is a lot

warmer than I thought, it is going well. So, after some hard work, our

camp is set, and I will be honest, a hot drink has never been more

satisfying. As the sun fell behind the mountains, little did we know

that this would be our last chance to take in this amazing environment.

It was most definitely the calm before the storm. Although it is

absolutely freezing and getting colder by the second, it really is

the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life. We melt snow over camp

stoves to make our dinners of rehydrated chicken noodles. But then

there dramatically worsening weather was taking its toll. OK, so the

storm did hit, and as you can probably tell by my face things have

got pretty terrible. But there is respite, let me let you in on a

secret through these doors. This is called the safe room. The warm

shelter of the safe room gives us welcome relief from the elements,

especially tonight. It turns out it might be the wrong weekend to be up

here. I see on social media reports of a number of avalanches in

neighbouring mountains, including a huge one 2 kilometres wide that had

claimed the lives of five skiers. It wasn't the news I wanted to hear as

we braved the falling temperatures and worsening storm to find our it's

the night. Somewhere along the way I took a wrong turn and now I am in

the deepest snow. God! It is so deep. Seriously, where is the path?

That was difficult! OK, here is my house for the night. It is so cold!

The ground feels like a freezer. It is finally bedtime, it was a very

long day. It is very noisy outside because of the wind, and it is very

cold, that inside I'm pretty warm because I'm very wrapped up. I will

see you can get some sleep. OK, it is currently 2am, and I really have

not slept at all. I think we are right in the middle of the storm and

the wind is so strong. But the worst was yet to come. We woke up early to

a blizzard of snow. Overnight temperatures fall to -18 degrees,

and with the wind hitting this hard I am shocked at how drastically this

amazing place can change of just a few hours. But then it was all hands

on deck to pack down our tents. What an end to all of this. With

visibility restricted to just a few metres, it was important we stick

together. Our path was never too far from a sheer drop down the mountain.

It is finally morning and we have managed to pack the tents down in

this, which is quite an achievement. You can't truly see anything because

of the blizzard. Overall it was a great experience, something you

don't do every day. Now it is time to get warm. Getting down was going

to be much harder than getting up. This torment the whole mountain had

been shut down for safety reasons, and we would essentially need to be

evacuated. So, snowploughs to the rescue.

It was a dramatic end to a weekend that was at times peaceful and

spectacular, but also challenging. And yes, a bit extreme. But I

wouldn't have had it any other way. I'm afraid that is all the time we

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goodbye. A chilly night for England and

Wales, with some mist and fog that could linger till