In German restaurants you are usually served mineral water that has to meet different requirements than tap water, namely that it contains certain minerals. Both waters are strictly controlled in Germany. In some areas tap water is very hard. It is absolutely harmless but it leaves unsightly limescale marks. For example, if you need water with your coffee, which makes the coffee more digestible in your stomach, you can get it.
Air conditioning It depends on the construction. In Germany you can't put your fist through a wall. It is mandatory to insulate new buildings for heat. Windows are double or triple glazed. This means that heat/cold can be kept outside or inside much better. Since Germany has little gas or oil reserves, it obviously has to be imported, which makes energy prices more expensive than in the US.
Honking in wedding parades is a bad habit that didn't exist before and was brought with them by migrants. StVO: The horn may only be used as a warning sign - and for good reason. Due to the high volume, the use of the horn outside of dangerous situations is considered noise nuisance and is therefore prohibited. Toilets are usually checked by toilet women/men so that the next user finds a clean toilet. So it's a recognition. In America you are expected to tip the waitress, whereas here you tip if you are satisfied with the service. Feedback
You are expected to tip in a restaurant, regardless of whether you are happy with it or not. With us, tips are given if the service is good, this also applies to the toilet, because there is usually a toilet attendant who checks that the toilets are clean for the next user.
There are many boars and they're not afraid of humans at all. They usually don't attack humans, but they can, when it's mating season or when they have young ones, for instance. In some parts og Germany, there are wolves, too. Marders look cute, but they're very aggresive and can cause serious injuries. Lots of deer, too. I think most people would be terribly annoyed at the restaurant if the waiter showed up every five minutes to ask if they want something, that would be a reason never to go back there...
Happy for you that you felt comfortable in the sauna. It’s like a different mindset in Europe. It’s a little awkward when you go for the first times but after a few visits you realise that there is nothing to be ashamed of. Just enjoy yourself and the benefits that go with the high heat.
Alcohol in Germany: the good hard stuff at 18 years on your own. Soft alcohol like wine and beer at 16 years on your own. Fun fact: you need no parental guidance for drinking the above mentioned alcoholic beverages when you are old enough. However, it is not illegal to offer/allow, your kids under that age if the parents are around and you are at home. In public it might be considered to be an offense. But also not illegal under certain circumstances, most parents don't take advantage of this.
You seem like a smart man. If you think it’s over priced educate us all with a similar condo central located two bedrooms with all the same luxury and quietness that twin peaks has to offer for a cheaper price? 😂
I really like that privacy is a thing in germany. I hope we will never change that. Do i want my child and me get filmed by random people in the public or in a store? No! Did you hear of the disgusting people who might do whoknowswhat with this? I think it is horrible how people exploit the privacy of their children in general, also on youtube. Do i want to get filmed buy a guy who does whoknowswhat with a video of me? No. So thank god it is at least not allowed.
I was born in 1960. When I was a kid, everything except gas station near interstate highways was closed on Sunday. If you needed something, you borrowed from a neighbor.
I live in Oklahoma. At the gym, there are four locker rooms, two male, two female. They are divided according to comfort with nudity. The one I use has a sauna and the ladies are naked.
i know i'm like a year late, but thanks for this. considering i would pay this price anyway for 1 bed place, i guess i would need a roommate........ i'm still thinking bangkok or chaing mai at the moment.
Even though the video is already "old", I will comment on one point: free camping in nature. Until the 1970s, this was allowed everywhere in Germany, especially on river banks. But there are over 80 million people in such a small area... And then there is the human inadequacy... So it became popular on certain holidays in spring/early summer to go on a "men's trip": you went out "into the countryside" and got drunk - really drunk... You set up camp somewhere in nature, you came by canoe or motorboat or you drove by car until you couldn't go any further. Then you party (often with loud music on the radio) and drink beer and liquor until you drop. The next day or the day after, after a second "party" you drive home hungover, happy about the "successful weekend" and you have left a real mess in nature. Of course - as usual - there were only a few black sheep. But they ruined everything for the rest of the people. German legislation is surprisingly quick in this regard and all previous rights have been painfully curtailed. There are only 3 (out of 16) federal states where it is permitted to spend the night in nature (plus Bavaria in the high mountains). We have no central legislation on this issue, each federal state makes its own laws. And the state nature conservation laws in 3 states have retained a paragraph that allows a "non-motorized hiker" (a cyclist or a paddler is also a "hiker" in this case) to sleep in nature for one night "if no other regulations speak against it". "Other regulations" would be nature reserves or private property. But private property can be "the salvation", if you are lucky enough to meet the owner, because - as the old saying goes: "If you ask nicely, you will get nice answers." I think it's good that the few permitted options are now so hidden in the laws. Because the "Father's Day drinking groups" and the "Pentecost tour vandals" are not intelligent enough to find out, and so they believe the untruth that is widespread in Germany: "Camping is prohibited!" Then there is the "Federal Forest Act" and this actually prohibits any overnight stay in a forest. I didn't know that before ("Not knowing is no excuse." - "Unwissenheit schützt vor Strafe nicht!") So I was "caught" once because I spent the night on a lake shore, so beautiful that I couldn't resist. (in a hammock with a dream view over the lake before my eyes closed and the empty beer can fell out of my hand) The next morning I was visited by a police patrol. When I said that I was a "non-motorized hiker" with my kayak (it was in one of the federal states where that is allowed), the policeman said "Yes, that is basically correct. But what do you call what you have tied the hammock to?" A little confused, I answered: "A tree?" "Yes, right! And what do you call it when there are lots of trees next to each other?" "Forest?" "Yes, exactly!" answered the policeman. "And that's why the Federal Forest Act applies here and prohibits any overnight stays." Then he pulled his ticket pad out of his pocket, tore off the bottom section (the cheapest) and was just about to collect €5 (in such cases you should have cash with you, otherwise you will get an invoice by mail and then there are "administration fees" on top of that...) when his eyes fell on my stove, which was still on the lake shore because I was too lazy to wash up that evening. "Oh, they made a fire..." And then he ripped the next section off his pad: another €5. So a total of €10, exactly the price I would have had to pay at the campsite nearby - but I had a much nicer spot! 🤣 But I was only so "lucky" because my camp was neatly tidied, because I was friendly and because the policeman was an old, experienced officer with a certain "calmness of age". He had a young colleague with him - if I had met this young policeman alone... he would have reacted much more nervously and more "according to the letter of the law". But with that "old bear" ... we looked into each other's eyes ... not showing that we were blinking inside - and he had steel-blue, piercing eyes, you immediately felt stark naked - everyone smiled and we agreed on this "10-€ deal". 😉 But anyhow, the whole situation is very sad in Germany. It's completely different in Denmark (actually almost an "extension of Northern Germany" 🙃): there, spending the night in nature is absolutely forbidden everywhere. But many years ago, the nature conservation authority (!) realized that this was not a solution - how are people supposed to learn to respect nature if they are not allowed to get to know it? And so, as a "test balloon", this authority set up 400(!) bivouac sites along the most popular hiking and cycling routes. This was such an immediate success that there are now (according to the last official count) 1,100 bivouac sites, but there are actually many more. (What a number in such a tiny state!) The authority also realized that they had forgotten the kayakers (Denmark is a fantastic coastal paddling area, but camping on the beach is even more forbidden! This is all the more strange because no one (not even the royal family!) is allowed to own beach property, so that every citizen has access to the beach and the sea everywhere!) and set up bivouac sites on the beach. The standard ranges from a simple pole with the national coat of arms (then you may pitch your tent within a 10 m radius - bring your own spade) to shelter site with sanitary building with several porcelain toilets and flush water. There is almost always a fireplace and even ready-made firewood (I think the Danes are little fire devils 🤣) Often someone from naerby will come by and collect a small fee - absolutely correct, because that's probably the person who chopped the wood, cleans the toilet and is taking your trash away. (Cash is required here too!) This is great and exemplary! Hats off to such authorities! The next time you are in Germany, try it out, it is only a few hours north of Hamburg: udinaturen.dk/map-page?scExtIds=1150,1303,1152,6586®=2514,2517,6684,6685,6686&adScIds= General note: - The North Sea coast is - like in Germany - with large tide differences, rough, often stormy - but a great experience. - Baltic coast is gentle, more sheltered coasts, less extreme weather conditions - simply "beautiful". - The country side has surprisingly beautiful areas, lakes, forests, even "mountains" (147 m Denmark's highest mountain 😂 ... but I was pretty out of breath when I got to the top...)
In my Christian sect, we worshipped on Saturdays, so I can understand why, in a land with free religion, we don't make it mandatory to have Sunday off or Christmas. Not everyone in the USA celebrates Christmas, and those of other religions don't even get their religious holidays off at all.
Dear Cory, The USA is that island somewhere in the Atlantic. And there is a whole world around. So America is not the rule, but the exception. And that is pure mathematics.
Corey, time you caught us up on what happened. You have left us all hanging. We all want the best for you so we are invested. Please let us know you are ok? Doesn’t need to be a long video, just an update please. Jan
A 19% tip is included in the bill at a restaurant. No additional tip is needed. It’s very common to just round up to the next euro (eliminating extra coins).
Smoking is horrible! It will kill you quicker than anything. I saw German hikers at Yosemite smoking after a hike. I couldn't believe it. I was surprised to hear that you cannot film in public.
Appreciate your video, and your comments! I went there myself a few years ago, and like you say, Katai is very proud of her garden. As she says, it's about embracing who we are! The garden of life!
