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Seven Stars Travel TV-Show - Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin
Video subtitles: Seven Stars Travel TV-Show - Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin
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Berlin there a unified capital of
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Germany today is a thriving city were
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historic and modern architecture meet
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it's a hub of music art and culture at
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the center of it all is the Adlon hotel
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located next to the historic Brandenburg
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Gate the ad lon is one of the best-known
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luxury hotels in Europe the hotel
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miraculously survived the Allied
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bombings of world war ii only to be
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burned down by soviet soldiers a few
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days after the war but the hotel was
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rebuilt in 1997 after German
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reunification to rival its past glory
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and stands today as one of the most
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elegant places to stay in Europe the ad
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lon offers 304 luxurious guest rooms 78
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exquisite suites world-class dining in
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two restaurants a magnificent spa and
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pool and an unrivaled staff to cater to
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your every need the hotel is located at
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Pariser Platz in the heart of Berlin's
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historic district next to the
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centuries-old Brandenburg Gate and
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convenient to all of the cultural
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opportunities which make visiting Berlin
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so rewarding at the Hotel Adlon endless
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culinary possibilities await you
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including a Michelin two-star fine
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dining restaurant Lorenz Adlam esamoo
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and the amenities don't stop there
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during our visit the Adlon received a
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seven stars and stripes award for
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attaining world-class
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perfection of its restaurants in the
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second damn 110 Dominica satella of Tata
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patha
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keen isn't in wound ocean zone on the
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Ganga ramp and pocket or mid the entire
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caffeine simply outstanding being here
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at the Adler Presidential Suite and
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ordering something from the room service
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and expecting such outstanding service
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okay mr. Burman enjoy your wine this is
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like the old days very rare to find
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service at the attached having your own
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private little restaurant inside your
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owns we enjoy beautiful company the
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Adlon base the basic philosophy on the
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five elements of the Chinese medicine
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subscribe please I know what kind of
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that's you did to me on
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welcome I was almost ready to say
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welcome to the American Dream show so
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you guys all know me I'm the host of the
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American Dream show doing today the
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seven stars Travel Show a fabulous show
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about the most unique and most luxurious
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places all over the world and you
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wouldn't believe it guys but I happen to
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be at a very very special place and when
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the camera is actually getting a little
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bit of my backdrop you will know that I
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am in Berlin at a location to die for
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the optimal spot to be at the Adlon
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hotel my guest today is nobody less than
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Oliver Ella the man who made it all
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happen the general manager of this
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fantastic beautiful hotel and the
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Brandenburg Gate the place to be it
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can't get any closer than that Oliver
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right can't get better than that
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thank you very much I am delighted to
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have you on my show grating good we both
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are sweating here a little bit it's a
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long but we got to do what we got to do
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Oliver absolutely first of all Oliver
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tell us about your life with pleasure
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but first of all thank you very much for
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being here giving me giving the
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applicant Pinsky Hotel the chance to be
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you know available for for you viewers
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Berlin is an truly international City
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and we're very excited to be here with
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Kempinski in such a property with such a
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history and trust me the New York Harris
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trust me they want to know about you
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because New York loves to travel but
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Oliver we want to know about you at
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first how do I get you first of all I
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arrived in Berlin and taking over the
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optin competing skee-ball want to have
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years ago so I'm pretty new to town but
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I have worked many many years before in
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Berlin and several different positions
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before maybe two to start with it all my
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my career started back in western
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Germany city close to Hannover I used to
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travel a lot with my father whenever he
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had a business trip he took me RISM I
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was staying in beautiful hotels I was
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waiting for him was my soda at the bar
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in the evening and I found it extremely
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fancy what did you dad do
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my dad was selling furniture oh so you
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travel
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all over Europe and ever had holidays in
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school I was able to come with him we
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both enjoyed it I enjoyed the hotels the
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luxury the pools the bars as I said so I
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saw to tell business extremely fancy so
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when I started my apprenticeship so you
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might know in Germany it's it's a
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professional you start to learn for 3
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years we saw hotels school once a week
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and four days in a in a hotel in every
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position so you work as a cook you work
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in the stewarding department in the
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restaurants you're working rooms
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division so you have a very great
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overview over the business alone really
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every detail as well as you get your
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school diploma and after three years you
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certified Hotel II and what I did after
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my apprenticeship I wanted to go to
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Berlin at that time Westbourne still
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divided city extremely interesting for a
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young gentleman and I started here at
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the reception of the Intercontinental
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Hotel in West Berlin extremely
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interesting time still east-west you had
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to cross a ball or the wall was there so
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I experienced it all first time was
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there a lot of money to be spent it was
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divided and actually for the eastern
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Germans wasn't possible to cross the
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border into West Berlin yeah so West
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Berlin was only reachable by car through
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the customs do the gates or obviously by
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airplane it was an international city
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but like an island maybe that describes
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his best the big island you didn't see
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the wall every minute of your life but
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sure it was a very special situation but
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still a blooming city interesting good
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business and for a young gentleman at
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that time sure the place to be in
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Germany maybe in the heart of Europe
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parties celebrities VIPs shoe everything
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party's not so much I was more
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interested into the culture part yes if
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I remember correctly I'm not so sure
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about that who do the place to be it is
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truly the place to be right here the Sun
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is coming out
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overlooking this amazing historic
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Brandenburg Gate however it's all about
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education a major part of your education
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you've got in the United States
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absolutely right you know so after my my
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diploma here back in Germany and before
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the high school had the opportunity to
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work in Miami for InterContinental
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Hotels moved on to Obama's iris for a
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year and a half then I had the chance
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which we'll never forget because it was
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grace that great time and great
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education I went to Cornell University
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upstate New York I concentrated their
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own sales and marketing mainly so the
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last five and a half years I spent in
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Moscow before Berlin I opened there the
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ritz-carlton Moscow right on the red
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square what an opportunity because you
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know the relationship between Moscow
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Russia and Germany very close only two
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and a half hours flight with a lot of
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Russian business in Berlin as well that
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helped me getting here to Berlin taking
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over the art one and then he said you
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know concentrate on this property which
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has a fabulous history and with new
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management skills with a young team
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selecting the right people in the a
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endowment and we're trying to create
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experiences we're not selling a location
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or product sure that many places in
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Berlin where you can sleep well where
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you can you know have a decent meal and
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they might not have the location but at
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the end of the day it all comes together
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even that location was a bad service
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would not be a nice experience and I
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believe truly in the power of our ladies
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and gentlemen creating an experience for
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every guest which is memorable which is
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exciting which is you're gonna
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communicate about afterwards that has to
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be that Wow and when you create that Wow
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and that every day was every customer I
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think you can really change the world
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you have a wonderful wonderful spa here
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very luxurious very intimate at the same
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time I felt very cozy any time you can
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have a treatment as well and that is
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very important now building this Spa is
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that something what has been
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done recently did it come under your
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umbrella tell us about it it was right
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from the beginning when this hotel was
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reconstructed after unification in
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Berlin and was rebuilt on the original
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spot of the Papillon convinced kilter
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before that is where where the gold was
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acid it was historically to build the
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very best hotel in the world and sure
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enough in a city location even so it's
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mainly a business hotel you want to
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offer a spa which is out of this world
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and with the art on day spa from the
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architecture from the whole atmosphere
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that is it's a spa in the city
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it is truly carrying you away and that
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is what a lot of our customers enjoy you
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have the option it's not a must but you
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have that option and that is really what
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a world class hotel should offer I saw
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downstairs in the lobby there was a big
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sign foreign ministry Allyson
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ministerium I can say that yeah foreign
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ministry means you meet a lot of very
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influential people here sure this is a
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home to be in Berlin the German
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government as well as a lot of
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international governments use the
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article Pinsky as their home of choice
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when they travel to the capital of
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Germany it's our honor having these
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guests here lots of state visit the US
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president stayed at the artwork and
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Pinsky many others you will please
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understand and appreciate also as your
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viewers we cannot really talk about our
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guests but you liked our president very
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much enjoyed and jointly before also in
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Russia so it's it's a great visit it's
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it's an great experience to have a state
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visit like that you also had quite a few
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personalities here what was it like to
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have them here rather demanding I can
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imagine probably difficult people to be
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around I wouldn't call it difficult I
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would call it challenging and that's
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what we like that's our profession too
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to having the most challenging customer
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and guests to satisfy I can proudly say
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that the Artem Kempinski is prepared for
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that as we have so many celebratory so
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many state visits people who really have
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very special requests we're prepared for
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that
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I have a team of eight concierge if you
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need a helicopter in 20 minutes we're
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gonna have a heavy but this is about
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seven stars you received last night you
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a team you and you
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the most distinguished hospitality award
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what was it like tell me you see you see
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it in my eyes I'm sure you don't much
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like what what can be better than to get
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such a prestigious award which is
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recognizing the hard work of our ladies
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and gentlemen every day because all of
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them together create that feeling which
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is then reflecting in an award like that
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so we're very proud very happy we
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celebrated today all together as a team
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because as I said it's it's another
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confirmation that we on the right track
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that we do something maybe a little bit
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better than others that makes me very
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proud to have this hotel with this award
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is a very special feature what I loved
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is of course meeting your artist he
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helped me out with us they literally
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just me I looked up all his art on the
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website and and we want you all to know
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that you were displaying his art here
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all over the hotel though it is a rather
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elegant style it pops up the whole
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dining room and makes it a lot of fun I
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thought we are very proud um I want to
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work with somebody like mr. Chesney he's
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a very famous artist he resides at the
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Cote d'Azur he's a lot of traveling all
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over Europe very well-known great art
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when I saw the art is it is exhibited
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now in our restaurant we suppose all the
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bright colors I thought Spring has
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arrived in Berlin because definitely
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it's its energy its colors really
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something which is adding to our benefit
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of having this location having these
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guests here at the artwork and Pinsky
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which you can also enjoy the art and
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maybe more interesting than a museum
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visit and it was pleasure great pleasure
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for me to see our very own Walter Stipe
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sir Walter's type known to many of us in
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the States from his TV show a taste of
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history three Emmys this guy has he is
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something very special on the seven
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stars advisory board and was the one
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actually presenting the cuisine award
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absolutely
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I'm chef Waldo Steve I'm here with seven
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stars and stripes to review the world
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famous hotel adlon right here in Berlin
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water is not only very well known in the
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u.s. water is sure a star in Europe as
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an ambassador of European cuisine in the
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US he is well known it's an honor for us
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for a culinary team to have him here
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work with him exchange knowledge I can
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tell you how cool you know dream is
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totally excited to have some expert like
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water here actually cooking with them in
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the kitchen we can only learn we can
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only benefit and I think that's the
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synergies we are always looking for very
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exciting this is the kitchen of the $1
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billion Germany and we gonna beat chef
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Sebastien the video and you're gonna
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show me one of your favorite dishes
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right yeah today I think we make the
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fresh jean-jacques fun of Italian yeah
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this is a special zone in Berlin Italy
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Italy is beautiful very nice tasting no
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not to her when you're tasting every
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English it's perfect for sauce and also
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for fresh scallops so it's not so it's
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not overpowering like somebody oils if
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you take only three
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and now we have time yeah I think it's
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the two between minutes and we can
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marinate the finer this time with a
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fresh fennel bulb down and make this
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another ice water
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mm-hmm Lynnette cut this so it stays
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crispy you know so it's really nice in
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country chef's you're gonna cook the
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meat your way I would assume wet yes so
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it's nice and pink on the inside
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yeah perfect then put it out of the
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water
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so basically it's the base where the the
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cookies on Shaco on top correct yes
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then can I make a little bit of olive
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oil mm-hmm little bit of sea salt black
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pepper mm-hmm does this form orange
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juice which use you say just orange or
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making sure from Germany yeah where
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would it go yes just look over the
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fennel perfect
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anybody clean on the final uh-huh yep
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lastly pushing trim young commander nice
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Sebastian lebara he is so much richer
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and different in flavor then we have in
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the States
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I mean I had a course all this morning I
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should see the difference you know yeah
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it's something about it yeah there's a
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little work so we let it sit up for a
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little bit on the side so it doesn't
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cook too much and now you're gonna make
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the sauce you know that's a boil again
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yeah shallots
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today's our segment we're here can you
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vis me the control
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then the orange juice please okay nice
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okay this is a the orange zest yeah we
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cook it in a in sugar and sugar and
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water
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yeah all right it's the flavor okay
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Oh high-five
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no beautiful color this is a Roma German
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garden quest a little bit spicy like
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black pepper
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Phillipa dog obsess on the top and then
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bloody bitsy sauce on the top you're
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facing those are the cookies on shock
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allah sebastian right here in the a
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blonde hotel in berlin I'm gonna try his
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creation because it sounds very
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interesting especially I have never
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heard before that there are mentions
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corn in Germany let me try this here Wow
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here be the best clean combination of
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flavors and I like to cut a sea salt in
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the end brings it up and I like fennel
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to begin with so it's beautiful it's
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very good dish
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I am looking forward dining tonight with
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you and you are our special seven stars
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team in a nest summer it's actually the
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name is the Lawrence Appling the founder
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of the article Pinsky hotel eczema which
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is a translation of dining room we're
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very proud of this restaurant it's a
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small petite arrest wrong which are
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beautiful you know dining room
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atmosphere overlooking also the
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Brandenburg Gate
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it has two Michelin stars it's a young
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chef Hendrik Otto who works for since
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years now and is bringing it every year
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step by step more forward to highly most
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highly decorated restaurant in Berlin
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it's gonna be an experience and I'm
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definitely looking forward tonight
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hosting you thank you history we cannot
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forget to talk about the history of this
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amazing place see our American history
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is merely three hundred years old so we
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are relatively young in comparison to
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you guys here in Germany yep okay Pinsky
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was originally opened on the 23rd of
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October 1907 by a gentleman called
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Lorenz Appling his dream his vision was
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to open the very best product hotel in
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Europe he built for two years spent a
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hundred million gold mark at that time
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that was then already a lot that was
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then already Lonnie but most exciting it
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was a first hotel with electric power it
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was a first hotel was hot and cold
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running water a lot of a lot of guests
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and all over society were excited about
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this building in this location and their
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modernity the the possibilities the
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building had the first guest was
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actually the german emperor at that time
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kaiser villain ii i am impressed
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what a feat but then also as we might
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know in the 1920s Berlin was the most
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trendiest city in Europe everybody came
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here we had from Charlie Chaplin overall
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famous people at that time staying here
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was us where the Russians are residing
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at the art floor convinced so it was
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really the place to be it was always
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updated unfortunately destroyed during
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the Second World War
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Oliver is that true that the Adlon was
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destroyed just the last few days
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of the world Second World War in what
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1945 very unlucky the hotel was really
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one of the last buildings that got
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destroyed in Berlin but what to do what
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could be done we are very very positive
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and happy about that we found the right
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people who believed in that history and
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we built this famous building this
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famous icon of hotel industry back in
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Berlin after unification and today again
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there is the loans at one hotel run by
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convinced key and we're very very proud
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to be here you certainly may be proud of
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that Oliver and for the fact that you
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came along just under two years ago took
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over the other had lost a little bit of
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its glamour and could we say that I
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think you know challenging times
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obviously at the financial crisis Berlin
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was maybe not not being as much fancy
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anymore
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not only the Africa Pinsky came back all
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to the city came back and then as I
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truly believe the right team makes it
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happen laughs there's no no reason you
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know to to think oh is the art and I'm
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not allowed I cannot look you know this
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is a place we should feel home and I
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invite all of your guests your viewers
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you know when you're in Berlin stay with
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us if you don't stay with us coming on
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at least for a cup of coffee or drink
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experience it you can touch it you can
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see it it's a very very special place
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and you won't miss something coming to
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Europe not being in Berlin at the Apple
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capisco well you certainly see a lot of
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very distinctive people some very
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interesting people and there's a lot of
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art and you can tell that this is the
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place to be Oliver I have to say goodbye
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thank you for inviting me thank you very
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much it's a great pleasure thank you for
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being on the seven stars travel show
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until next time around from another
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incredible place around the world
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I'm truly yes
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you
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