What do you love about Germany?
This week's Expat Dispatches is gathering a lengthy list of everything we love about Germany. Blogger and writer Liv Hambrett starts with her reasons why she loves the country.
To add your suggestions to our list, let us know what you love about Germany on our Facebook or Twitter page, or leave your comments below.
Why I love Germany
Schnitzel
Excellently priced wine in the supermarket (you know, 3€ for a bottle)
A good slab of Brie for 2€
The entire, enormous dairy department of every supermarket
Road trips to cross Germany’s borders
Radio stations that aren’t afraid of adding 90s classics to their playlists
The big cities
The little towns
The bakeries
Kölsch (so fresh!)
Glühwein
Being able to drink all of those delicious beverages in public, whenever and wherever I want. Because I’m an adult, something Germany kindly remembers
The ubiquity of seriously good chocolate
How every weekend there is a festival of some sort to celebrate something
And how at every festival there are ten pommes stalls, ten sweets stores and 20 wurst stands
Spring, marvelous Spring, with its flowers and rapsfelds and Spargel and sweet, sweet promise of warmth
Summer strawberries
Daylight until 10.30pm in July
Clean public toilets (I’ll pay 70 cents for hygiene)
The choice and consequent cheapness of grocery stores
H&M delivery service
Kitsch homeware stores, Nanu Nana and Butlers
Buses that run on time
Medieval towns
History at every turn, under every rock, down every cobbled lane
The fierce pride in and protection of sub-cultures, dialects and traditions as produced by the twists and turns of this aforementioned history. (This can, however, get mildly irritating when ten people who live within 20km of each other refuse to be identified as belonging to the same region. Franconian people, I am looking at you.)
Kiel. Actually, the North in general
The Germans
And when they lie to me and say "du sprichst sehr gut Deutsch!"
@TheLocalGermany Spending so much time outdoors! The mountains, the lakes, the nature...
— Arts in Munich (@ArtsinMunich) July 25, 2014
@TheLocalGermany Currywurst
— puddy pad (@puddypad) July 25, 2014
@TheLocalGermany the Ordnung (I come from a chaotic country) and the reliable public transportation
— Pakistani in Germany (@LifeInGermany) July 25, 2014
Vic Smith What ever they do, it is always well done i.e football cars, exports etc.
Jeannie Callaghan What DON'T I love about Germany? I have spent 23 years of my adult life here and think it is a terrific country with really good people. Every country has its bad eggs, but I am very impressed with my German friends and neighbors. It's a good country.
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To add your suggestions to our list, let us know what you love about Germany on our Facebook or Twitter page, or leave your comments below.
Why I love Germany
Schnitzel
Excellently priced wine in the supermarket (you know, 3€ for a bottle)
A good slab of Brie for 2€
The entire, enormous dairy department of every supermarket
Road trips to cross Germany’s borders
Radio stations that aren’t afraid of adding 90s classics to their playlists
The big cities
The little towns
The bakeries
Kölsch (so fresh!)
Glühwein
Being able to drink all of those delicious beverages in public, whenever and wherever I want. Because I’m an adult, something Germany kindly remembers
The ubiquity of seriously good chocolate
How every weekend there is a festival of some sort to celebrate something
And how at every festival there are ten pommes stalls, ten sweets stores and 20 wurst stands
Spring, marvelous Spring, with its flowers and rapsfelds and Spargel and sweet, sweet promise of warmth
Summer strawberries
Daylight until 10.30pm in July
Clean public toilets (I’ll pay 70 cents for hygiene)
The choice and consequent cheapness of grocery stores
H&M delivery service
Kitsch homeware stores, Nanu Nana and Butlers
Buses that run on time
Medieval towns
History at every turn, under every rock, down every cobbled lane
The fierce pride in and protection of sub-cultures, dialects and traditions as produced by the twists and turns of this aforementioned history. (This can, however, get mildly irritating when ten people who live within 20km of each other refuse to be identified as belonging to the same region. Franconian people, I am looking at you.)
Kiel. Actually, the North in general
The Germans
And when they lie to me and say "du sprichst sehr gut Deutsch!"
@TheLocalGermany Spending so much time outdoors! The mountains, the lakes, the nature...
— Arts in Munich (@ArtsinMunich) July 25, 2014
@TheLocalGermany Currywurst
— puddy pad (@puddypad) July 25, 2014
@TheLocalGermany the Ordnung (I come from a chaotic country) and the reliable public transportation
— Pakistani in Germany (@LifeInGermany) July 25, 2014
Vic Smith What ever they do, it is always well done i.e football cars, exports etc.
Jeannie Callaghan What DON'T I love about Germany? I have spent 23 years of my adult life here and think it is a terrific country with really good people. Every country has its bad eggs, but I am very impressed with my German friends and neighbors. It's a good country.
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