Btw, I live in the Black Forest and those pictures are not exaggerated. You’d think Ryan might have picked the best spots to show in the video and the rest is maybe meh but it’s seriously this beautiful everywhere. There are so many little villages you could add to the list of picturesque places. It’s almost a hazard while driving. I had to check myself several times because I was about to veer off the road while gawking at the landscape
I also come from the Black Forest. Better said from the southern Black Forest, near the feldberg and belchen. So where the highest Black Forest peaks are. I love it here and never want to move away. And at minute 21 where you pressed the pause button at the lake in the Black Forest, that's the feldsee at the foot of the feldberg. ;)
Brügge's architecture and flair is amazing, but unfortunately it has become far too crowded with tourists. It's like Disneyland. The tourists *are* the city. When nearly everything from shops to restaurants to bars is made to cater for tourists, a city loses its soul.
For autumn colours with the changing leaves the best place to see that is the Spessart region which has the largest mixed deciduous forest still remaining in Germany.
Yeah, Europe is worth a journey...there are countless spots and everything is so close to each other, compared to the US. There is an epic video around, named "This is Germany" - i wish there would be more of that sort, for every single european country. All of them are beautiful and have their very unique places to visit. You´ll find all types of landscapes: Breathtaking coasts, mountains, lakes, huge forests, churches, castles, ancient ruins and other historic buildings with stories, which could fill a whole novell. Regarding Germany, there are almost 20.000 to discover, but the most famous ones are pretty much shown in the video mentioned above. However, castles and historic buildings can be found everywhere in Europe and most city centers are worth a visit as well.
I have family from the Black Forest. It’s amazing. They’re from Villingen, a beautiful walled town near the source of the Danube in Donaueschingen. There is a spectacular train from there to Freiburg that winds its way through and up the mountains. There’s also a lovely set of waterfalls in the tiny town of Triberg, which is only moderately obsessed with cuckoo clocks
As a German I have to say: for someone who has visited these locations his pronunciation is often attrocious. We're not talking only slightly off; we're talking so twisted that a German would probably be unable to understand it, unless it was printed. Getting someone from the location to say it once, correctly, and have it on record to listen to, and repeat might make it better. We are talking along the lines of mangling New York to Naff Joark or Chicago to She-key-jo. Yes, it was really that bad in some cases.
The region that changed hands between Germany and France several times over the centuries that you referred to near Freiburg is Alsace - Lorraine. The Rhine River flows through it and is now the French / German border there. It is home to Strasbourg, a beautiful major city, very German sounding but today on the French bank of the river. A great white wine producing area.
How could he exploring the north and don't mentioned Rügen?? I mean, at least he explores the north, what most foreigners don't do, but ... So, dear foreigners, come to our beautiful north, cause germany has soo much more to offer then just castles and mountains. And another tipp: don't forget to visit smaller cities, there are so many stunning smaller cities❣️❣️❣️ Greetings from Altlandsberg (small but old city near Berlin 😉)
*stopps video at 1:34 * @mcJibbin "Matterhorn" is the highest Mountain in my home country, austria "mont blanc" is a mountain on the border between italy and france your welcome ^^
9:30 The most parts of Northeast-US nature looks like german nature. I can understand why a lot of german farmers went to Pennsylvania in the 1800s. Forests, grasslands, little town, grasslands, forests, grasslands, river, grasslands, forests, little town. That´s central Germany :) I live near Hohenzollern Castle (12:07) today. That´s a normal terrain for central and southern germany (without alps). Hills, forests, grasslands, little towns
Cologne and its cathedral always look a bit dreary and grey in pictures and on video. Not too spectacular. But it’s hard to convey just how massive this thing is. You leave the main station, step out and it’s right there, so huge it’s hard to fathom until you stand right before it. It dwarfs everything around it and you feel like an ant. I’m not even religious but I can’t help but go inside every time I’m in cologne. The interior is just beautiful, serene and a bit gloomy in a gothic way. It’s even cooler to enter the city via train and watch the cathedral loom ever larger as you cross the bridge over the rhine towards the train station.
the Hanseatic League is very interesting. before that there is this huge heritage of fishermen from the northern coast that fought for free trade aso. Life was very hard. Thats a part of how citys like Bremen or Hamburg became "free" Hanseatic citys
@@wWvwvV i know what "saxon switzerland" is dude, i am german... What is impossible? I mean if an amerikan is shown a drone view and is told that it shows "saxon SWITZERLAND" he might assume that landscape shown in the video is located in switzerland We germans know that its in germany but an american might think its the "saxony" of switzerland and not the "switzerland" of germany. There are even americans who mess up austria and australia... So it really would definitly not surprise me in the slightest if an american will think that its in switzerland So they might take the wrong plane but well you learn from mistakes lol
well, overall, its just this American's opinion about what the best places to visit in Germany are...there are thousands and thousands of other magnificent places. The region Germany and France fought over, was in the end of the middle ages Baden and the rhine area, but especially later with great coal and steel occurence and manufacturers in Alsace and Lorraine...
you know.....if you are there you do not think that others would be so happy to be there^^ but I bet I would have fun to be in youre place^^ thats the good thing that RU-vid can make realise what you have^^
20:45 When it comes to the Brothers Grimm, the first thing i hear from an American is Hansel and Gretel. I thought Snow White and The Sleeping Beauty by the Brothers Grimm were more popular in America.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 Das ergibt einigermaßen Sinn. Wobei man sich aber fragen müsste, wem die Amerikaner die anderen Märchen zuordnen. Immerhin steht auf den englischsprachigen Märchenbüchern *Grimms' Fairy Tales.* 🤔 That makes some sense. But one would have to ask oneself to whom the Americans attribute the other fairy tales. After all, the English-language fairy tale books say *Grimms' Fairy Tales.*
@@Michael_Bonn I don't know if this is the case in Germany, but there are a lot of short children's books that are just the individual stories or retellings thereof, which might contribute to a lack of knowledge of the origins of each story. However, your original question was why Americans always mention Hansel and Gretel first. This doesn't imply that they don't know that the other stories were written down by the brothers Grimm, nor does it imply that they think they were written by someone else; it's entirely possible that they just don't think about who wrote them. After all, that is how most of these stories came to be in the first place: just stories/Märchen that have no author and many authors at the same time. This is why there is also a French version of Sleeping Beauty, La Belle au Bois Dormant, and there are even similarities in a lot of the Grimm's stories to the Greco-Roman fables of Phaedrus, and, heck, I recognise a lot of similarities with local Danish folk tales (eventyr) as well, some of which inspired Hans Christian Andersen.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 I know that Sleeping Beauty and possibly some other fairy tales were inspired and modified from other original versions. What I actually wanted to say with my remarks is that I assume that Americans in particular are ignorant and disinterested in matters of general education. Walt Disneys staged the fairy tales and are popular at Disneyland. So, for most Americans, "logically" everything has to be American.
Moin ut noorddüütschland 👍 More places to visit are in north Germany,. German Baltic coast Rügen island, city Rostock Warnemünde , Stralsund, Wismar, Usedom Island. German Northsea,.. Islands Norderney, Borkum, Wangerooge, Langerooge, Spiekeroog and Helgoland. City Bremen, Leer Hool di wuchtig mien keerl un allerbest ut noorddüütschland vun de waterkant Bremerhaven 👍😀
In Europe we don’t have this intensive Indian Summer that you have in New England and other parts of North America. Of course some of our landscapes are beautiful in autumn, too, but color wise, I think that nothing compares to your Indian Summer. It‘s so incredibly beautiful.
Yes it looks amazing, but tainted with horror and evil, twisted people forever. I will never spend time or money in that land, as a UK citizen. I voted to get OUT of the EU, no matter any cost! Most all UK jobs were shut in the 1980's and went East and the Germans ruled all!
If you want see real "horror and evil" take a look into Boris Johnson´s face and listen to his Brexit Lies... If you want came back in the future, your friends on the other side of the channel waiting for you with open arms and open hearts. Your Welcome! 🤝❤
Unbelievable your stereotypes ! WW II is over since nearly 80 years ! Is the UK the same country like 80 years ago ? People like you are a shame for every country. You are a true nationalist. What horror brought England in all its history to other countries. Slavery, colonialism, opium war in china etc. You are not reflecting your own bad history. Thanks god that you and the UK is out of the EU !
