:00:00. > :00:07.US media has made fresh claims about purported links
:00:08. > :00:10.between President Trump's transition team and the Russian government -
:00:11. > :00:11.the subject of a current FBI investigation.
:00:12. > :00:13.The latest allegations involve the President's son-in-law.
:00:14. > :00:17.Bowser the headlines on BBC News. Now on BBC News, it is time for the
:00:18. > :00:19.Travel Show. On The Travel Show this week:
:00:20. > :00:21.Gigantic metal elephants. So this is how you make
:00:22. > :00:23.an elephant roar. And exploring London's
:00:24. > :00:39.secret tube network. The top speed of one of our mail
:00:40. > :00:43.trains was about 35mph. We start this week
:00:44. > :01:15.on France's River Loire. Along its banks, you'll find
:01:16. > :01:18.some of the country's A chateau there were visited
:01:19. > :01:23.by the likes of Joan of Arc, Leonardo Da Vinci
:01:24. > :01:25.and Eleanor of Aquitaine. But we sent Keith Wallace
:01:26. > :01:29.to the city of Nantes to find out how the region's industrial past
:01:30. > :01:31.is being used to inspire Just over a decade ago,
:01:32. > :01:39.this little island in the Loire was a scrap of wasteland close
:01:40. > :01:42.to the centre of Nantes. A three-mile stretch of brownfield
:01:43. > :01:45.site, home only to the odd artist who had gone there in search
:01:46. > :01:51.of peace and quiet. But it didn't stay
:01:52. > :02:03.peaceful for very long. In 2007 this, the Great
:02:04. > :02:06.Elephant, began taking People came from all over to hitch
:02:07. > :02:18.a ride in its belly. And, as it prepares to celebrate
:02:19. > :02:21.its 10th birthday, they still come. So this is how you make an elephant
:02:22. > :02:26.roar from inside its body. You can feel the whole thing
:02:27. > :02:45.pull against your body All of these switches are twitching
:02:46. > :02:53.every time the elephant's moving. The elephant rides form part
:02:54. > :03:06.of the first huge push to turn The industry that had recently
:03:07. > :03:11.departed had left a huge ugly scar just a stone's throw
:03:12. > :03:17.from the historic centre. It's a crazy project
:03:18. > :03:20.when you think about it, when they proposed to the city
:03:21. > :03:23.to create an elephant that will carry people on his back and go
:03:24. > :03:27.around on the Isle of Nantes. I mean, you have to ask money
:03:28. > :03:30.for that, you can imagine that people were quite surprised
:03:31. > :03:33.but the fact is that they managed to I mean, there are loads of cities
:03:34. > :03:46.that have old industrial quarters that have been taken over by arty
:03:47. > :03:50.types but this is different. This is about rivets and metal
:03:51. > :03:54.and wood and workmanship In the mid-1970s, 60,000 people
:03:55. > :04:07.made their living on this island but the ships started getting bigger
:04:08. > :04:10.and bigger and the Loire was too narrow this far upstream
:04:11. > :04:16.to accommodate them. 30 years ago, in 1987,
:04:17. > :04:18.the last yard closed. These days, the old buildings are
:04:19. > :04:21.occupied, not just by the elephant, All the animals began life
:04:22. > :04:42.inside the head of Francois and he still gets a kick out
:04:43. > :04:45.of the drama. And these are all dockyards,
:04:46. > :05:36.aren't they, and they still feel But there's another influence,
:05:37. > :06:00.the adventure writer Jules Verne was a son of Nantes and his book,
:06:01. > :06:03.20,000 Leagues Under The Sea inspired the island's
:06:04. > :06:04.gothic carousel. We are on the top level precisely
:06:05. > :06:27.and under we have the deep sea and then the level of the sea
:06:28. > :06:30.and at every level you have The idea is that you make a trip
:06:31. > :06:42.and to dream basically. Since the carousel was built,
:06:43. > :07:05.it's possible that Nantes skyline has become one of the most
:07:06. > :07:08.distinctive in Europe and it's A 45-metre tall artificial tree
:07:09. > :07:16.complete with mechanical herons Building work on that is scheduled
:07:17. > :07:21.to begin soon with a finish Keith Wallace in the
:07:22. > :07:36.French city of Nantes. And if you're thinking about heading
:07:37. > :07:39.there any time soon, The Voyage of Nantes is an urban
:07:40. > :07:46.trail that winds several miles through the city taking in dozen
:07:47. > :07:52.of artistic and historical sites. The distinctive green line will take
:07:53. > :07:55.you around all sorts of treasures, some of which are created especially
:07:56. > :07:58.for the summer and many We have about 40 artists everywhere
:07:59. > :08:02.in town with great installation, follow the green line,
:08:03. > :08:05.it's kind of for children to discover the city
:08:06. > :08:06.with their parents. At the end of June the Museum
:08:07. > :08:09.of Fine Arts reopens It's been redeveloped
:08:10. > :08:18.and expanded and will become one Treasures include works by Picasso,
:08:19. > :08:24.Kandinsky and Max Ernst. If you want a glimpse
:08:25. > :08:27.of some of the region's most important chateaux,
:08:28. > :08:30.head a couple of hours up the river to places
:08:31. > :08:33.like Chambord, Amboise, They're not only historically
:08:34. > :08:40.important, they're also And finally, if you fancy joining
:08:41. > :08:44.in the Great Elephant's birthday The venue is across the river
:08:45. > :08:51.at the old quarry where the heron The latest in our series
:08:52. > :09:09.looking at what the city This time we're off to meet
:09:10. > :09:21.Baker Street's nocturnal florist. We can never shut down,
:09:22. > :09:30.if something goes wrong. My name Kaleem and I work at flower
:09:31. > :09:37.station as a night shift supervisor. It's used to be a petrol
:09:38. > :09:40.station about 13 years ago Our customers at night are kind of,
:09:41. > :09:52.you know, especially When they fight with each other
:09:53. > :09:58.one thing can fix that One time somebody came 4am,
:09:59. > :10:06.he said that a search on Google, only one shop open 24/7,
:10:07. > :10:10.let's go there and fix it. The reason I am buying flowers
:10:11. > :10:14.in the middle of the night, I have finished my shift as a taxi
:10:15. > :10:17.driver, it's my wife's birthday tomorrow and hopefully this will be
:10:18. > :10:20.a nice surprise for her. Yeah, I was looking
:10:21. > :10:23.at the purple ones, as well. 24/7 really helps people
:10:24. > :10:30.in Australia and America When they want to be afternoon,
:10:31. > :10:43.everything going to be closed here. Celebrities, sometimes they come
:10:44. > :10:46.and they choose their own flowers, they feel like they are in their own
:10:47. > :10:51.heaven or in back gardens. In centre of London
:10:52. > :10:56.you can never have that. We don't print out any letter
:10:57. > :10:59.and send it to customer, I am the one at night
:11:00. > :11:07.time who writes letters At night it is peaceful, everybody
:11:08. > :11:21.is sleeping but we are working. I was thinking if I have a girl,
:11:22. > :11:29.maybe girl I will give It's a flower name, it's one
:11:30. > :11:32.of my favourite, Dahlia. I think flowers are the one
:11:33. > :11:35.thing which can connect Stay with us because coming
:11:36. > :11:46.up on The Travel Show: A neat way to book New York hotel
:11:47. > :11:51.rooms by the minute. And I'm in London exploring
:11:52. > :11:53.the secret tube network that's about to be opened to the public
:11:54. > :11:57.for the first time. You're going to get a dodgy back
:11:58. > :12:08.if you're walking down here all day. The Travel Show, your essential
:12:09. > :12:16.guide, wherever you're headed. Time now for Trend and Travel,
:12:17. > :12:19.your monthly mash-up of the best travel-related stories,
:12:20. > :12:23.snaps and videos online. A few months ago
:12:24. > :12:25.we met the Tiletsons. They launched a huge social media
:12:26. > :12:28.campaign to find one lucky nanny who would join them
:12:29. > :12:30.on a once-in-a-lifetime Well, almost 25,000 applications
:12:31. > :12:33.later, they found their It was such an honour,
:12:34. > :12:43.to have so much attention on us and so many people saying
:12:44. > :12:46.yeah, take me. I called them and they were like
:12:47. > :12:54.yeah, we wanted to see how your week has been and Derek goes,
:12:55. > :13:01.can we switch over to Facetime. And I am like oh, obviously
:13:02. > :13:04.I have the job, there was no way they're going to Facetime me
:13:05. > :13:07.to tell me I won't do The group set off in July
:13:08. > :13:11.and will be blogging This kickstarter
:13:12. > :13:15.project has a solution. The unique travel set packs seven
:13:16. > :13:18.pieces of women's clothing down into a single lightweight bag
:13:19. > :13:21.with 30 different combinations. The project hit its funding target
:13:22. > :13:24.earlier this month with a rollout Recharge is an app that lets
:13:25. > :13:38.you book luxury hotel It's just launched in New York
:13:39. > :13:47.offering customers a chance to use But be warned, if you're
:13:48. > :13:53.still there when housekeeping And finally, one tweet
:13:54. > :14:00.managed to save the life After reading about a Sumatran rhino
:14:01. > :14:04.with a dangerous abscess, I immediately tweeted
:14:05. > :14:16.at Saving the Survivors, and they put together
:14:17. > :14:18.an international crew of vets that performed a highly
:14:19. > :14:32.successful operation. The rhino has now recovered and is
:14:33. > :14:35.living at a sanctuary in Malaysia. The Sumatran rhino is one of the
:14:36. > :14:38.most endangered species on earth. There are fewer than 100 of them
:14:39. > :14:43.left and if we're going to save them from extinction every single
:14:44. > :14:44.last one counts. Thanks to everyone who sent
:14:45. > :14:47.us their pictures this month Richard was in Hong Kong when he
:14:48. > :14:53.snapped the daily light show. And no prizes for guessing where
:14:54. > :14:57.this was taken, a famous landmark. Don't forget to check our
:14:58. > :14:59.Twitter and Facebook feeds for loads of extra special
:15:00. > :15:01.Travel Show content. Now let's look at the travel videos
:15:02. > :15:05.clocking up the views online. With the European summer fast
:15:06. > :15:11.approaching, we ride the waves with some
:15:12. > :15:23.of the internet's surfing stars. They surf these waves a couple
:15:24. > :15:28.of times a year but when we do, In my opinion, what makes
:15:29. > :15:32.a great surfing film? You got to go for it
:15:33. > :15:36.with what you got. You need to know your
:15:37. > :15:52.way around the ocean. And if you don't know
:15:53. > :15:56.what you're doing out there, you can find yourself
:15:57. > :15:59.in a lot of trouble. And if you see anything you think
:16:00. > :16:02.we should know about, Let's finish this week
:16:03. > :16:07.deep underneath London. Final preparations are under way
:16:08. > :16:18.to open to the public an underground train network most Londoners
:16:19. > :16:25.will never even have heard of. Until 2003, it belonged
:16:26. > :16:27.to the Royal Mail. Its tunnels snaked between
:16:28. > :16:29.and alongside the regular tube, I've been told to come
:16:30. > :16:47.to Liverpool Street station, the capital's gateway to the east
:16:48. > :16:50.of England, to see it for myself. This really is the bowels
:16:51. > :16:53.of Liverpool Street. I think there's a set of stairs
:16:54. > :16:56.I am meant to go down. You can actually hear the old tube
:16:57. > :17:02.trains kind of going down The station mirrors its counterpart
:17:03. > :17:24.on the Central Line just above us. It just lacks that nice
:17:25. > :17:26.tiling and polish. It's almost like stepping
:17:27. > :17:37.back in time, isn't it? It's pretty much how
:17:38. > :17:40.it was when we shut in 2003. Ray's worked down here ever
:17:41. > :17:43.since it was decommissioned. He is one of three making sure
:17:44. > :17:47.the tunnels are dry and safe. After a letter is received
:17:48. > :17:52.at a sorting office if it needed to be transferred to the railways
:17:53. > :17:55.or another sorting office it would be bagged up and sent down
:17:56. > :17:58.to us and our trains ran it from East London at White Chapel
:17:59. > :18:02.to Paddington in the west and it was a loop and we would send
:18:03. > :18:05.trains round and they go continuously go around 22 hours
:18:06. > :18:08.a day with a six-minute This was the 150 volt power supplies
:18:09. > :18:18.for powering the trains If I hold that up there
:18:19. > :18:21.you can work the handle. If I release that coil
:18:22. > :18:26.it will drop out. Now that there are no trains
:18:27. > :18:33.running through here it's Well, the whole railway
:18:34. > :18:57.is six-and-a-half miles long but there's 22 miles of track laid
:18:58. > :19:00.because it's double These are built on the hill,
:19:01. > :19:05.so as the train approached it And as the train departed it
:19:06. > :19:08.could naturally accelerate. You're going to get a dodgy back
:19:09. > :19:12.if you're walking down here all day. You could develop
:19:13. > :19:14.the mail rail walk. Still smaller than I
:19:15. > :19:23.thought they would be. They're sort of half-size,
:19:24. > :19:26.we use a two-foot gauge so it's quite narrow and they were unmanned,
:19:27. > :19:29.so they were automatic. The top speed of one of our mail
:19:30. > :19:32.trains was about 35mph. That's fairly perky,
:19:33. > :19:44.though, it is pretty fast. Mail rail was very busy,
:19:45. > :19:48.there were lots of people here, It was a noisy environment
:19:49. > :19:52.with trains coming in and out. Lifts coming up and down and people
:19:53. > :19:55.pushing mail containers around, And very soon paying
:19:56. > :19:59.customers will be able to see In the next few weeks,
:20:00. > :20:04.a brand new postal museum will hope here at Mount Pleasant in central
:20:05. > :20:05.London. They're actually moving
:20:06. > :20:08.all their archives to a purpose built centre just over the road
:20:09. > :20:10.and the highlights This is traditionally
:20:11. > :20:25.the heart of the network. This is where all the locomotives
:20:26. > :20:28.would have been worked on and this will be the centre of the post
:20:29. > :20:42.room museum experience. Sorry to point out the obvious,
:20:43. > :20:45.but what is this thing? So, this is one of
:20:46. > :20:47.the new locomotives. The centre piece will be a ride
:20:48. > :20:50.through the tunnels below on the modern equivalent
:20:51. > :20:52.of a mail train. OK, so this is where the driver
:20:53. > :21:04.will sort of sit and co-ordinate. One train driver and
:21:05. > :21:07.one guard per train. It's a huge project so there must
:21:08. > :21:10.have been some challenges that you guys came across,
:21:11. > :21:12.what were the biggest? We started off very much
:21:13. > :21:16.from the point of view of it can be done and being honest we probable
:21:17. > :21:19.thought there was a reason And as we got further
:21:20. > :21:23.through the development I think we realised kind of how much
:21:24. > :21:26.the public wanted the tunnels So do you think the British
:21:27. > :21:32.public find an affinity The collections that we hold
:21:33. > :21:37.represent 500 years And constantly innovating
:21:38. > :21:40.and constantly changing and certainly in terms of post
:21:41. > :21:43.offices they've been the glue that's While the ride is clearly
:21:44. > :21:47.the main attraction, the routes of Royal Mail go
:21:48. > :21:50.all the way back to Henry VIII. So the archivers have some
:21:51. > :21:53.rich pickings to choose from as they assemble
:21:54. > :21:54.the new exhibition. The post room museum
:21:55. > :21:57.is scheduled to open in July. I'm afraid that's all the time
:21:58. > :22:00.we have for this week. But join us next week when: I head
:22:01. > :22:08.to Istanbul to take in the sights and sounds of a city that combines
:22:09. > :22:11.two continents and thousands Along with some of best
:22:12. > :22:28.Turkish baths in the world. With a good scrub you get a bit
:22:29. > :22:31.of water on the head... But from me, Henry Golding,
:22:32. > :22:37.and the rest of the Travel Show team here deep underground
:22:38. > :23:06.in London, it's goodbye.