Destination 2018: Konstanz 

Des hani au scho gsait. Scho erstunlich, waser zsammenbringt.

and we saw Zeppelins as the manufacturers are in Zeppelin on the north coast of the Bodensee.

@@johncrwarner yes. Friedrichshafen!

Let me give you my thoughts as a German, having grown up in the western part of Germany: Discrimination against Swiss and Austrians - not really. There are sometimes animosities between some people when it comes to sporting events or some political issues but nothing serious. Imho reunification between North and South Korea will be on a whole other level compared to German reunification - not only on economic issues. But speaking of the costs, for me it's pretty obvious that this will be a big blow to the South Korean economy. Not only in the short term. We are speaking of decades of billions of dollars worth of investments to get the completely run down infrastructure (roads, railroads, housing, schools, universities, power plants,... ) in North Korea to a level where it is somewhat similar to the South. In the meantime the South would have to build up a liberal, democratic, free market society which never existed in the North before. Keep in mind in Germany this task was way easier to do since German reunification was started by an uprising of the the East German ppl. Also Germany was a Democratic nation for some years after WW1 and 1933. With a very liberal constitution. So ppl in East Germany had the experience how democracy works and they could see the advantages of individual freedom and the power of capitalism and would change their political system for themselves first, before their newly founded Eastern states would join the western federal German states. If you compare that to the situation in North Korea, where I can't see any signs of a popular uprising against a decades old dictatorial regime, run by a family of demi-god figures, I can't imagine the effort it will take to reunite not only those two separate nations economically, but also the mindset of the ppl of those two nations to form a coherent, functioning society.

Before German unification, most politicians used to tell us west Germans that there would be a flourishing economy in the east very soon. There were few politicians who told the truth, though (that basically it would kind of ruin our economy and we would have to pay the debts for decades, maybe for centuries...) but no one really even wanted to listen to them and only few people voted for them. They were right in hindsight, and many mistakes were made in the heat of the moment. The consequences aren't only visible in the economy, but also in still very different mentalities and sometimes feelings of envy or animosity for each other. But if we could turn back time, we would probably make the same decision again. Discrimination against swiss or austrian people, well I'm married to an Austrian and lived in Austria for some time. To me it seems like we Germans love the Austrians but maybe we don't always take them 100% serious. We always seem to have a kind of snobby attitude against "those mountain people from that cute little country" (exaggerated of course!!!). That's probably why Austrians look at us much more critically and have their own prejudices against us Germans, e.g. we always think we know better than them, we try to dominate the language usage etc. It's somehow hard to describe :-) In Vienna, where I used to live for many years, I sometimes experienced real xenophobia and discrimination for my being German. The other way round, my husband isn't even really seen as a foreigner here, because people think, Austria and Germany, well, that's the same thing anyway, isn't it! So I don't think he has ever been discriminated against herein Germany.

Katharina Lauer Western Germany and its businesses profited a lot from the reunification, it was the east that payed the price by total economical breakdown. Well, Northern Korea seems to be very down already, while the GDR has been the cheapest workbench for the west. Ah yes, the increased taxes we're mainly from people who did Not Profit, Like always ;-)

danke danke thank you very very much I'm really happy I got such good explanations German language is popular among Basque speakers because Basque also has declension, we also have TZ sounds and so on, but I studied Korean instead, sorry haha, Japanese and Korean are also popular here, because we say the verb always at the end, like Koreans or Japanese. So for example it´s easier to translate from Korean into Basque ( just change word by word) than from European languages where you have to change word order.

Did anyone use the Chinese Restaurant Shun Feng in the row of shops by the side - the food was okay and there were vegetarian options - I cannot remember the price but it seemed reasonable.

Yes it does, take the S-Bahn to Karlsruhe from there is a direct regional train to Konstanz, takes about 4 hours.

Well, this video took me about two weeks to make: three days filming, nearly two days travel (because I don't live in Frankfurt), and the rest for research and editing. I'd love to be able to make more and longer videos, but I still can't afford to do this full time.

Ah wow, I have a true respect for you. I didn't mean to discount your hard work, I hope you don't take it like that. I understand that it takes a lot of time and effort to put high quality videos like these together. So once again I must say thank you. Its my favorite channel and makes my day to see you post (both channels). There's such a positive energy to your videos--I watch them right before I start my work. Your knowledge, wit, and presentation is tops. God-willing I will be supporting you when I have the ability. God bless! #rewBOSS

Last week. Did I look very tired?

You might not get the best exchange rate, though. And you'll probably get your change in cash.

The exchange rate is fluctuating, so thats true. However i live around konstanz and i have not used Franken in the last 2 years or so.

I didn't have time for Meersburg, but I did visit another place on the lake. I'll be making a video about that as well.

I'm still hoping he visited the isle of Reichenau.

It did, but Switzerland unfortunately isn't part of the EU

grüne Tinte that's right, but last year my mobile provider did not charge me in Switzerland

Jordi de Bont You either were linked to your German provider's network or got an international data option

Ralf Jansen neither, just plain a KPN data plan

As mentioned, Switzerland is not in the EU. I did visit Switzerland on business a couple of years ago and forgot I had data roaming enabled. I came home to a €70 bill. That was not nice.

It wasnt just some bois, it was pretty much the Catholic church. Which has an impressive track record in causing religious uprisings and conflicts, so thank them.

It was the Emperor who betrayed Jan Hus.