Germany is not France

I’ve definitely noticed lots of differences between France and Germany, so here they are in a list form:

Houses are built differently and therefore look different. The houses in Germany seem less elegant. Around the Mosel River, all the houses are built with this black slate-like stone. It is essential for growing grapes and is extremely abundant, so they used it for everything, even the shingles on the roof.

Germans don’t just sit around eating cheese and I miss that. In France, your afternoon/all day snack is cheese and bread. You eat it all day long and it is amazing! Not here in Germany though.

Ice cream is everywhere in Germany. I have literally eaten ice cream every day that I have been here. I didn’t take pictures of the first two cones but I got one of the one I had today. I think that’s what I’m going to do for now on: eat ice cream everywhere I go and take a picture—just once a trip. For this trip, however, I will eat it every day and take a picture every day.

There are more sidewalks in France. Here in this town, the sidewalks are very small and almost makeshift. They are just an extension of the road, with some bricks that separate it. That’s about it.

Well there’s four. That’s all I got for now. Here are some similarities:

Roundabouts are everywhere (and in most of Europe.)

It doesn’t get dark until very late in the night.

The windows are the same. You do a quarter turn of the knob/handle to make it swing open and a half turn to make just the top open.

It is very green, but all the foliage might be a bit denser here in Germany.

Time is a very relative matter. For buses and trains and things like that time is absolute, but you can definitely find yourself eating breakfast at noon and dinner at eight or nine I the evening.

That’s all for now. I’ll try to get pictures up in the next post. Like I said, I have to walk down the street to the wifi hotspot and my battery on my laptop (I’m using my old one now) only lasts twenty minutes. I’m actually prewriting all of this and posting it later when I get a chance. If you have a Facebook, I’ve posted some pictures there.