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and was captured by the Taliban.

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Now on BBC News, it's time

for the Travel Show.

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This week on the show: beefed up

security in the city of love.

There

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has not been at time when we have

felt unsafe.

Birthday celebrations

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in the basket country.

We are ready

for the future.

And how to stay in

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London for a tenner a night.

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First today we are in Paris. The

decades, the French capital has been

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one of the most popular travel

destinations in the world. The city

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tops many people's travel bucket

list and there are no shortage of

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reasons why people are drawn here.

You have to visit Paris, the river,

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everything, the history.

Romance,

the atmosphere, the history, the

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culture.

The food, the people, the

culture, the arts.

It is really not

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difficult to see why people all in

love with Paris, the city is

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spectacular and crammed with iconic

sites but last year the French

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capital saw a drop of around 1.5

million visitors. The decline in

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numbers of was mostly blamed on high

profile terrorist issues including

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the attacks at Bataclan and across

the city. And the Charlie Hebdo

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incidents. A staggering 41% fewer

Japanese tourists took trips last

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year, according to official

statistics. All these has had a real

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impact on the local economy,

particularly the businesses in the

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areas near the attacks. I have come

to meet the manager of this bistro,

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a short distance from the restaurant

were 19 and diners were killed

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during the attack. What happened

here on the night of the attack?

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Being so close to the attacks has

had a long-lasting impact on his

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business. Was there a noticeable

deep in tourist numbers are you? --

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dip.

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Have you changed anything about your

business, your approach, since that

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time?

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High-profile headlines about the

city have led some tourists to take

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extreme measures to help them feel

safe when visiting. I have come to

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the triangle door, one of the most

exclusive areas in Paris to meet

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George, managing of a company that

offers personal bodyguards for

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clients in cities around the world.

What kind of people gear have on

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your client list?

EU range from

foreign royals to corporate business

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to music and film stars.

Do you ever

get your average Joe wanting your

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services?

That has happened.

Terrorism is in the forefront of

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everyone's mind so it is something

people react to and consequently

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they require our services. It is not

cheap what we are very competitive

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as a company within the sector and

you very much get what you pay for.

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Why has your company recently opened

a new office in Paris?

We were

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experiencing a high volume of

enquiries, all the way back to the

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Charlie Hebdo incident and things

that were shown in the media.

A

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personal bodyguard is clearly beyond

most of our travel budget and

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statistically the chance of being

involved in a terrorist incident is

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extremely low but the city is going

to great efforts to make tourists

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feel safe. The mayor has published a

59 point plan to lure back tourists.

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The reverse falling numbers but to

become the most visited city in the

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world. It is currently in third

place hide Bangkok and London. As

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well as improvements such as better

lighting and clean the streets,

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measures are put in place to improve

security across the city. The most

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high profile project is at the

Eiffel Tower. Access is currently

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restricted by these pretty ugly

barriers but construction on a 2.5

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metre glass high ball to protect

tourists with bullet proof walls

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stopping vehicles from being able to

drive onto the site as well. Other

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cities are following suit, to

protect tourists and hear

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attractions. Temporary areas were

installed on bridges in London and

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the Spanish government promised to

ramp up protection in Barcelona. It

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really does not take long to spot an

increased police presence here in

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Paris. Are these measures are

helping to reassure tourists about

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their safety?

There has not been a

time where we failed unsafe and we

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have seen the Green Berets.

It

affects the way I see masses so I

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tried to avoid them. In the street I

have been a UCI lot of military

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which helps you come down. -- you

see.

As I walk, I feel more

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comfortable though it is at the back

of your mind.

Millions of euros are

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being invested in the battle to

become the number one tourist

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attraction. Renovations and new

attractions. These will become a

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state-of-the-art theme park. So far

improve it and investments seem to

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be working. Statistics for the first

half of 2017 showed Paris is on

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track to reverse the downward

statistics. Will this be enough to

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take the title? You can bet Bangkok

and London will be watching very

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closely. We are heading to the

Middle East next where this week

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global gourmet is cooking up

something spicy in Bahrain.

I am the

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chef and honour that the cafe of the

National Museum. Today I will cook

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something dear to my heart, a local

dish, a curry which is basically a

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distillation of all the cultures of

that have met through different

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trade groups on the island. It is

usually made with many things but

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today we are focusing on seafood and

I have chosen a very local white

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fish that everybody loves and we

cook in a variety of ways but this

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is my way. Am going to add the key,

clarified butter, to make the masala

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with a cream base. -- ghee. I going

to add some masala, a local spice

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mix, tumeric, some cummin. Give it a

quick mix, a little bit of ghee,

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some chilli powder, a nice bright

red. I adding in the spice mix to

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the pace. I will pour some stock.

This is a traditional cooking pot.

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The fish is a local fish. There you

have it, a local dish.

Still to

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come... Simon is back having a look

through his travel inbox. This time

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had to stay in London for less and

can you take your own booze on a

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cruise? And we are in northern Spain

is one of its best-known landmarks

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celebrates its 20th birthday.

I

cannot believe this. I do not

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believe I've seen so many people in

the one place.

The travel show, your

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essential guide wherever you are

headed.

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Welcome to the slice of the show

that tackles your questions about

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travel. A place to stay in London

and the less than £10 per person per

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night and the tricky business of

bringing your alcohol on board a

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cruise ship. Firstly travel to the

Chinese capital. Beijing giant

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Shanghai in offering a transit

permit that allows visitors to stay

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144 hours so long as they meet the

right conditions. Surprisingly, Hong

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Kong is allowed. You are not allowed

to stray too far from the capital

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although a stretch on the great Wall

is allowed. Next,... One country

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stands out, Tunisia where you will

find winter sunshine and a deep and

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fascinating history and friendly

welcoming people. Since the

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terrorist attack in the south and

15, this nation was a no-go list for

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tourist but it is now open the

business once more. Base yourself at

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a resort and use at the excellent

rail system. You may want to explore

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the desert landscape so consider

signing up for a trip into the

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Sahara as well as a visit to one of

the holiest Islamic shrines but

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check the latest advice before you

book and travel. Next...

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Accommodation is the big problem,

central London is one of the world's

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more expensive places to find a

hotel but happily, at some hostels,

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a family of six can stay the less

than £10 per person per night which

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is around $80 all told. Try to stay

close to each up station you can

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into the world's oldest underground

railway to explore the capital with

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the benefit of up to four children

under 11 can travel in with a

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farepaying travel across or not.

London has some of the world's most

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family friendly museums and the

majority are free. Doug is planning

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a cruise with P and O and wants to

know: cruise lines make very good

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profits from selling alcohol on

board and therefore many are like

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ten to let you bring more than a

single bottle of wine. Happily, some

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of them are more relaxed, including

a and O cruises. --P and O. They

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say:

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so what constitutes a small,

reasonable amount? A case may

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encounter problems.

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But picking up a bottle or two at

ports of call is perfectly

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acceptable. You can even take wine

into the restaurant and pay a

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corkage fee of £15. Which can work

out a good deal compared with on

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board prices. Whether you are

contemplating a trip to the nation

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next door or the ends of the earth,

I'm here to help the e-mail your

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question.

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I will do my best to find you and

other. From me, Simon Calder, the

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guru, see you next time. The Spain

next and Bilbao on its northern

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coast is celebrating something of an

anniversary this year. 20 years ago,

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one controversial building appeared

that would utterly change the town's

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fortunes forever. We sent Keith

Wallace to the Basque country to see

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the birthday celebrations. It's been

two decades since the Guggenheim

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Museum appeared in the Spanish port

city of Bilbao. Its arrival

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kickstarted the transformation of a

declining industrial town into the

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home of nickname art and and people

started coming into hundreds of

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thousands every year. But first and

foremost they came to the

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Guggenheim. From titanium limestone

and class, the building is supposed

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to look completely different from

whichever angle you see it. Part of

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the reason the building looks so

striking is that they have -- clad

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in these titanium sheets and we're

only half a millimetre which creates

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the kind of rumpled organic effect.

They say it looks white fish scales

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but it also looks like they have

cracked the building in tinfoil. It

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looks like a rounded sandwich.

Inside, the permanent collection now

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host works from artists like Andy

Warhol, Sean Michel Basquiat and

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Pycroft. -- gene. This is an

adventure. I wasn't expecting this.

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Where are you taking me. -- Mark

Rothko. But the favourite of the man

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who was from this place from the

beginning is this.

It reflects very

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well the spirit of this museum. It

is a work which was done

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specifically for the space. It is

also, it gives you the possibility

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of experience in time as you walk

through them.

Described to me what

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it was like in 97 when this was

opening.

How are you feeling? An

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exciting moment to see the museum

was finally going to be opened to

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the public and be visited. The port

was already living this piece

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because they were expanding into the

harbour this is mostly marginal

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space, not really open, but it was

really open to the city centre and

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thought of a scar in the middle of

the city.

What would Bilbao be like

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if you suck the Guggenheim out?

Difficult to say, a different city

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the shore, we know who displayed the

city and more cosmopolitan and open

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city.

Bilbao actually has two big

landmarks and the other one tells a

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story about what the city used to

be. This is the sky bridge which was

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completed in 1893 and was the

world's first transporter bridge,

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designed to use a hanging gondola to

get you across the river. The

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results are a great view from the

top. It is considered the most

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important industrial monument in

Spain. It is UNESCO listed because

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of its beauty and functionality. But

from the top, from this walkway, you

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get a sense that that is the port of

Bilbao that is the Bay of Biscay and

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the old days, the port used to run

all the way down this Bankside to

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several miles long. It was the

biggest port in Spain, the big Spain

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of its day. Very different Bilbao

from what we have today.

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This lady worked in a factory in the

pre- Guggenheim years but these days

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she runs tours around places like

the old quarter are no other reason

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than her love for her city.

Are you

going to do this?

I am feeding the

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frog. This is the game of the frog,

a busk thing.

On its mouth, don't

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spin it. That's one.

What did you

make of the plans of the Guggenheim

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when you first saw the more those

years ago?

Well, we were told that

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the Guggenheim was going to drive

the economy of the place. At that

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time, we couldn't understand what

they meant by that. And we said it

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was a museum going to drive the

economy of a place? No way! So we

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were demonstrating against the

construction of the museum, but the

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reality after 20 years is that the

city is much better. We are happy.

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And, yes, the museum put the name of

Bilbao on the map.

As a thank you to

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the people hear the museum has been

putting on something of a show

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during its anniversary week. I don't

think I've ever seen so many people

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in one place. It demonstrates how

big of a deal this has been. They

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estimate around half a million

people turned out over the four days

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and in the city of 350,000, but is

quite a few extra bodies. Come on,

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let's get settled and get the best

seats in the house.

OK, OK.

The show

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traces two decades of the town's

history from the end of its industry

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to its rebirth as a centre of

creativity and it features one of

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its most famous residents.

The

spider! The mother! The spider!

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What the scene that make you feel

about Bilbao now?

Over a proud of my

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city and I think that with this kind

of show, it is proving that the

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difficult times... Throw-in all the

factories were closed, right now I

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can tell you that Bilbao is

beautiful, Bilbao is ready for the

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future, but it isn't only the

Guggenheim, the one is much more

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than the Guggenheim, especially the

people.

Impressive stuff from Bilbao

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were the Guggenheim is marking its

20th anniversary. That's all we have

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time for a coming up next week: 100

years since the United States and

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the World War I, which rebel south

of Washington, DC and discover the

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ghost fleet of the Potomac. And the

remains of the ships that helped win

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the war.

It's pretty cool to be able

to touch something that is a part of

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American history and this wreck is

nearly 100 years old.

These ships

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were involved in saving the world

from totalitarianism.

So do the onus

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then if you can and in the meantime

don't forget you can keep up with us

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while we are out on the world in

real-time by searching up to our

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social media feeds. Details are on

the screen. From me and off the rest

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of the team here in Paris, goodbye.

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