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related to the assassination of John

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Now on BBC News, The Travel Show.

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This week on The Travel Show, I am

in the far north of Sweden to visit

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the city on the move, literally, in

one of the world's exist urban

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transformations.

The mine is our

heart. We wouldn't be here without

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it.

We had to Croatia's capital to

take a look around some of the

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city's most exclusive addresses.

For

ten days of the year, the doors of

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these architectural secrets are

flung open to the public so that

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even commoners like me can go win

and snoop around.

And Lucy Hedges to

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the Southdown is in the UK to

roadtest the latest in travel tech.

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I'm not 100% convinced. I think

hardened hikers.

Beginners? And

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restocking the nude for the latest

in our global gourmet series. This

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week, a soup that is considered the

national dish. -- and we stop in

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Bermuda.

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We start this week in Swedish

Lapland, in a town some 1300 miles

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north of the capital, Stockholm. It

is the jumping off point for

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tourists heading further into

Lapland to see the Northern Lights

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in winter and the midnight sun in

the summer. But what put the area on

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the map in the late 19th century was

the discovery of iron ore, the most

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widely used metal on earth.

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All right. We just arrived at the

largest underground iron ore mine in

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the world. The stats for this place

are staggering. It produces enough

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iron ore to build 40,000 cars every

day. That's the equivalent of six

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Eiffel Tower is. Right now we're

540m below zero point. I can feel my

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ease the starting to pop. This is

the visitor centre as I'm going to

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look around. What have you got for

me? The disused part of the mine has

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become a tourist attraction, giving

visitors and insight into how the

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mine has evolved and expanded over

the last century.

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Today's modern machinery allows

miners to blast the incredibly deep

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levels.

Today, we are somewhere down

there, at 1365 metres.

Nearly a mile

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underground!

Yes.

That's

astonishing.

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They produce 90% of Europe's iron

ore here, worth billions of dollars.

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But for the early pioneers, things

were a lot more basic.

So, Ade, I

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want to show you how the first

miners lift because when they came

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here in 1898, we didn't have any

houses for them, so they had to

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build houses with whatever they

could find in the forest. And it was

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called and it was draughty.

-- cold.

So how many people would live in

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this place?

Big families. They could

have four, five, six kids and live

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in this space.

So you would have

seven place in the -- seven people

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in the family and sometimes they

would take on other people?

Yes.

The

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environment was harsh for those in

this life. Could you imagine living

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in a house like this with

temperatures dropping two -30

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degrees?

Noway!

It must have been

hard for them to survive.

Of course

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it was. Some of them died because

they couldn't get enough food, it

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was called, it was draughty and for

the small kids, well, some of them

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didn't survive this coldness.

These

days the mine employs 2300 people

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and there are 800 working

underground, still in quite extreme

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conditions.

Now we are going into

the darkness.

We are still at 540

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metres here?

Yes, we are. Well, this

is our common deck in the darkness,

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because the tunnels, it's dark,

where the machines are working.

It

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seems like there is an integer --

interdependency between the mine and

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people in the city.

Well, the mine

is our heart. We wouldn't be here

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without the mine.

Today it's a

bustling town, but the continuing

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expansion of the mine has this ever

lies to the ground above it to the

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point where it it will eventually

sink into a chasm. So the mining

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company have come up with a radical

solution. They're going to move the

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town. That it mounted over their

dominating the skyline is the centre

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of the mine. In that direction is

where the sinking began. You can see

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how the Earth has just started to

collapse and what is going to happen

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is eventually it will spread over

their and everything you can see in

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that direction, all the houses, will

collapse into that thing called and

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that's why they have to relocate the

whole town -- sink hole. It's not

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the first time a city or town has

been moved, but this is most

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certainly the biggest operation of

its kind and I'm not sure how they

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are going to do it. In parts of the

city, the bulldozers have already

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moved in and over the next two

decades large areas of the town will

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also be demolished.

We can't rebuild

the whole town, we can't put too

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much money here now because in ten

years it's going to be gone.

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And buildings that are too important

to demolish are being uprooted whole

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and transported a few miles down the

road. And the spectacle is

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attracting a new wave of visitors.

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It's pricey operation. The cost of

the move is estimated at $2 billion.

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We are approximately 1.5 kilometres

from the city centre and what you

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see behind us is the brand-new

Townhall.

So you're going to move

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everyone and the buildings from the

city centre to hear?

Not exactly

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everything. About 6000 people will

be moving, because their houses and

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apartments will be affected.

I've

moved house three times. It's

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complicated. I can't imagine what it

must be like to move a whole town or

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city and thousands of people.

It's

an incredible project, but we will

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move approximately 21 buildings, old

wooden houses, et cetera.

Do you

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believe this will be a better city

once it has moved?

I think so, yes.

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Because there are so many functions

that will be brand-new. The

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hospital, Townhall, schools, et

cetera. So I'm very optimistic about

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it and I also like the location.

But

some of the buildings, like this

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Gothic style church, are too large

to transport. It's going to be taken

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down by bit and rebuilt in the new

location. It's been central to the

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community for generations.

I was

that little because I was baptised

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here and then the communion was

here. When I was going to get

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married I was here too. Of course I

want to put that further onto my

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kids. I think it's the most

beautiful building in the world and

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just for a couple to walk this

aisle, and everybody is looking at

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you, and you go upstairs and you see

this beautiful picture, you can't

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even describe the feeling.

And while

it will be spared the wrecking ball,

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there are still mixed feelings about

the changes.

I would like to move

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all the old buildings because they

are so nice and they are all, they

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are almost 100 years old, and this

is our history.

And in the future,

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maybe people will come here not for

the mines but to visit the town that

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moved.

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Next up on The Travel Show, we had

to Bermuda where fish chowder is a

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soup considered the national dish of

the country in our latest Global

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Gourmet.

I am a chef at a beach club

in the new day. -- in Bermuda. Today

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I will make Bermuda fish chowder, a

very famous local dish. It

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originated during the 17th century,

with the first settlers in Bermuda.

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At that time, there was not a lot of

refrigeration or any way of keeping

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food fresh for a long time, so to

preserve the fish that they used to

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bring on the island they had to use

rum and sherry peppers to make fish

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chowder. There are quite a few

vegetables that go into the chowder.

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Peppers, some carrots, some ginger

and don't forget to put celery. And

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they have to be all finely chopped.

So basically you have to have onion,

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garlic. The best onion to use is the

Bermuda red onion, which is locally

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produced and sweeter than regular

onion. You start by sauteing all of

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the vegetables you have. The onion

first until it is translucent, then

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add all of the other vegetables.

Then you add your rum. So you need

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to cook off the alcohol. The rum

just puts the flavour in the fish

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dish.

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Let it all cooked together. You

normally -- the longer you cook it,

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the better it is.

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I present to you a perfect Bermuda

fish chowder.

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This is delicious!

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Still to come on The Travel Show, we

check out the latest in travel

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gadgets and navigation aids. My

nappies telling me I've gone a

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little bit off east but I'm still

near the trail.

Plus, Rajan heads to

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Croatia where for just ten days of

the year the capital opened its

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doors to some of the most exclusive

venues.

A real person actually lives

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here? Yes.

And they let us just come

in for ten days in a row?

So stay

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with us for that.

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The travel show. Your essential

guide, wherever you are travelling.

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This is the South Downs, the UK's

newest National Park. 200 square

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miles of hills crisscrossed with

hiking trails and the perfect place

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to try out some tech. I have agreed

to be blindfolded and driven to a

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random spot from where I will find

myself back to civilisation and

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using only gadgets I have been

given. What is in the bag?

In Paire,

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we have some stuff that will get you

back to where we have come from,

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safely.

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-- there. Also something that is

things don't go according to plan,

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just to make your life a bit more

comfortable. This is your stop. This

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is where I leave you. I'm heading

back to the Royal Oak, about five

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minutes. It will be about one hour

on foot for you. One thing. You will

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find you won't have phone signal.

First up, a GPS watch with a music

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player, heart monitor and all sorts

of features. It is the navigation I

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am particularly interested in. I'm

presented with a rather basic

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version of a map. It gives me my

trail in all of its entirety. As you

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can see, the arrow on the map, on

the overview version, tells me that

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way. Yeah. That's the way. I'm a bit

confused because there is a trail

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that way. Maybe if I walk down Bow

Trail and then geared to the

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right... My map is telling me I have

gone off-piste. I'm still the trail.

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For someone who uses things like

Google Maps, it is not immediately

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obvious way to go. I'm not going to

be too harsh on the adventure

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because I'm not a seasoned hiker

that the user interface just wasn't

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as intuitive as I would have liked

and even finding the map that then

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downloaded for me, it took me a

while. One to many buttons. It does

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more than this, it has a built-in

heart monitor, council steps,

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calories, altitude. I personally am

not 100% convinced. Hardened hikers,

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beginners. A little break. Time to

use the tech Ben Stokes in here.

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This comes with a pump, cups and

flask for your hot water. I'm not

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the biggest fan of espresso but then

doesn't need to know that. Carrying

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a the flask. It's pretty handy if

you want something stronger, a

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portable espresso marker, pretty

handy and easy to use once you have

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worked out what to do. All in all,

massive thumbs up. Andy. Then has

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downloaded something I need. This

app is available on the ILS and

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android and you can download

hundreds of thousands of detailed

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maps anywhere in the world. The

skyline feature is quite cool. If

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you point your camera in any

direction, it will label it for you.

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It could be points of interest. Not

particularly in mountainous areas

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critical label mountains as well. If

there is no Wi-Fi or you are out of

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phone signal you can rely on your

phone's GPS. Cave eat is the maps

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are expensive. -- caveats. This cost

us £24 for this high. That is a lot

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of money. There you are! I saw you

look at your watch. You know I got a

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bit more than a bit lost at some

point.

I would always rely on a map

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and compass that usually if the

technology works well, it makes life

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easier. I I think I deserve a drink.

I think you deserve one as well for

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waiting for me. Next, Rajan has an

invite to some of Zagreb's most

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amazing homes. On a hill is this

historic neighbourhood. It is the

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oldest district in the city, filled

with baroque palaces and courtyards

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that were built when Croatia was

part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Today, here are some of their most

grandest buildings. Ten days of the

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year, the doors of these

architectural secrets are flung open

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to the public so that even common

like me can go in snoop around. This

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is the courtyard festival where

tourists and locals can see inside

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the city's walled palaces. Slug it

is one of the organisers. Tell me

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about this particular place. --

Slavica. Irma this was built in at

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the 18th century. Later, it rebuilt

in the 19th century. -- this was

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built.

They all lived here until

1947 when this building became the

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state -- State archive of Zagreb and

this is where the most important

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documents of Zagreb are kept.

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Slavica takes me on a tour through

the narrow streets and tells me why

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she started the project. This year,

seven of the gated buildings were

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open to the public.

Walking through

the old town which is irreverent and

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shall area and it is usually quiet

and not -- not a lot of people

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appear. You see all of these nice

gate and you think what is behind.

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You know there are courtyards but

you don't get a chance to see them

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as a regular person. Here is how the

idea started. We wanted to open and

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wanted ourselves to feel the

atmosphere and reinterpret some of

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the history and give some urban

taste to it and make it accessible

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for all of our citizens and

tourists.

Some of the courtyards are

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now used as to state offices but

others, like this one, are still

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private residences. A real person

actually live here?

Yes, a real

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person list here.

And they let

people come in and lounge about for

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ten days?

Yes, they like us. Some of

them come and have a drink with us

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in the evening. There is a famous

actress who lives here. This person

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is on vacation, I think. It depends.

By night, all of the squares are

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transformed into performance spaces.

In ten days, we have more than 70

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concepts so it is every evening. Not

just Croatian music. -- concepts. It

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is French, Latin, pop, R&B and

classical. -- concerts.

It is a

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surreal to see these spaces which

was want home to 17th-century counts

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and nobles packed. It is the

atmosphere that makes the festival.

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This festival is not just about

buildings. It's not just about nice

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buildings.

Definitely. It's about

emotion. We want to make new love,

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new friendships. The main point is

OK, we need to go down to someone's

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courtyard. Actually, you come to his

home. Everyone who visits courtyard

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is say, OK, this is special. I will

remember for the rest of my life.

--

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courtyards.

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Sadly, that is it your lot for this

week. Make sure you join us next

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week when...

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Christer is in Paris looking at how

the city is seeking to reverse

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tourism numbers to -- by reassuring

visitors it is a safe place to

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visit.

The most high profile project

is here at the iconic Eiffel Tower.

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Access to the bottom is restricted

currently by these pretty ugly

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temporary barriers but the city has

just begun construction on a series

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of 2.5 metre glass walls to protect

tourists at the site.

That his next

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week but keep up with us on the road

in real-time by following us on

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social media. For now, from me, RDF

that the town and all of the Travel

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Show team, here in Swedish Lapland,

it is goodbye. -- Ade Adepitan.

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