Germany
Apart from
all the restaurants and cute Cafès in Germany, you find amazing so called
“Drogeriemarkt” retail stores, I couldn’t find a direct translation for it. It’s
kind of “everything in one store” kind of store. You will find cosmetics,
health care items, household products and mostly health food items. So you can
get your mascara, shampoo, washing liquid, natural “medicine” (as its not a
pharmacy and Germany is very strict when it comes to medicine which needs a
subscription by a doctor, those medicine you won’t find there), teas, baby
diapers, packed healthy cookies, spreads, juices which mostly are either sugar
free, gluten free, vegan you name it… and you can print out your pictures of
your last travel. They only don’t sell fresh food, everything is packed and
usually has a longer shelf life. The most famous and best equipped chain is
called DM- Drogerie- Markt https://www.dm.de/ followed by not much less famous and popular
stores Rossmann Drogeriemarkt https://www.rossmann.de/einkaufsportal/ and Müller Drogeriemarkt https://www.mueller.de/ .
Well we
covered the food section, Germany has to offer much more then that! It’s a
general green country with many forests and parks. Local people love to
maintain beautiful gardens and generally spend time outdoors. The bicycle
culture is big, next to the public transportation. Petrol and also Diesel
(which is a big thing in Germany) are expensive, maintaining your car with 2
sets of proper tires (summer and winter) as well as paid parking plays a roll.
Apart from the financial point, a lot of people are genially health and
environmental conscious and use alternatives whenever possible. Germany is also
big when it comes to solar power and sustainable energy. They have huge fields
full of solar panels to catch the energy the sun has to offer, windmills on
every corner and even water mills to produce green energy. Apart from that the
current Chancellor Angela Merkel announced in 2011 that all 17 nuclear power
plants will be shut down by 2022. Well done!
Overall
Germany is a very vegan friendly and green country. It has 4 seasons summer,
autumn, winter and spring, but the winter seems to become longer and colder. It
has plenty of history to offer with many castles and museums. The most famous
castle might be Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria http://www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/tourist/ .You will find something to
discover in each city.
One note at
the end: Germans are not the best English speakers, although they learn it in
school, or maybe most of them are just shy to speak. Apart from that, they are a
bit too formal sometimes, so they might give you the impression of being a
rude.
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