True story. I ordered a table for dinner in the restaurant of my hotel in Boston. My table was not ready and I was asked to wait in the bar and order from there. The bartender refused to serve me a drink since there was no chair empty to sit down. I cannot serve unless you sit. I told him, that in my country, I will get served as long as I can stand.
So I grew up in a Baptist church in Germany. (Yes they exist :)) Baptists try to only baptize willing participants so teenagers or adults not babies. Of course these baptisms are kind of a huge deal and often they tried to make it very special. Sometimes even going outside in the summer and do a "wildromatische Taufe" at a river or a beautiful lake. One time we had a visiting preacher from the US over, and he really loved the idea. So he went out and searched for a nice beach in the vicinity. He found one during early spring when nobody was swimming there yet. When the organising staff later tried to follow his "Geheimtipp" and tried to make the logistics work they couldn't stop laughing. Somehow this Southern US Pastor had picked out the only FKK beach along the whole river side. It took a long time and lot of giggling and red faces explaining to him why this wasn't a very good spot. :D
well, at least they found out before ... just try to imagine the situation if they had not suspected anything before the baptism service, and actually assembled there with the congregation :-O probably THAT would have been embarrassing...
@@jbZahl Why should they not know? There are enough " good reasons" to know which part of the river to avoid ... for example, someone could hear it from a colleague or friend outside the church, who had been there before (or himself heard it from someone else) ... or, as long as nobody knows it, there is always the chance/risk to go there as innocently as this American... and then that person would notice... and probably warn his/her friends to better not go to this place. To say it short: The place might be known not only by people who want to go there, but also by people who have a reason to avoid it.
Attempting to escape from prison is legal in Germany. Attempting to escape from prison is not punishable in Germany, as the law considers 'freedom' to be a basic human instinct. However, a prisoner who damages property, murders or assaults someone while escaping will be guilty of those crimes.
Short, escaping itself won't increase your punishment, but will likely void any possible bonuses you earned (early release, weekend leave etc) Any crime you commit while escaping will increase your sentence. and yes, there is the option to leave prision for weekends in germany under the right circumstances
@UC4aiw3PHjamcukEH3soZeyQ KANN - muss aber nicht. Dazu muss eine entsprechende Eignung festgestellt werden. Auch in den USA gibt es Vollzugslockerungen dieser Art, ja sogar auch offenen Vollzug, kommt auch auf den jeweiligen Bundesstaat an. Die Vollzugsbedingungen in den USA variieren sehr stark und reichen hinsichtlich der Bestrafungswirkung von sanatoriums-ähnlich bis zu regelrecht alttestamentarisch.
Der Hauptunterschied ist: als Angeklagter darfst Du in Deutschland vor Gericht lügen, Du wirst nicht vereidigt. Auch Dein Ehepartner darf lügen, Dein*e Partner*in / Verlobte*r die Aussage verweigern.
Lustige FKK-Story: Wir waren früher in einem FKK-Verein Mitglied. Der Veein besaß ein nettes, kleines Waldbad mit einem kleinen Waldsee. Eines Tages lagen wir dort, zusammen mit einer Freundin und unseren kleinen Töchtern auf einer Decke und ließen es uns gutgehen. Plötzlich hielt ein Mann, der mit seiner Frau zum Ausgang wollte an. Er musterte unsere Töchter, meinte sie seien inzwischen auch schon so groß, wie doch die Zeit verginge.. Dann wünschte er noch einen schönen Tag und ging. Nackt wie wir, seine Badesachen unter dem Arm. Es dauerte einige Sekunden, bis Frau und Freundin begriffen, dass der nackte Mann ihr Gynäkologe war! Sehr fair, meinte unsere Freundin nur, dass sie ihn nun auch einmal nackt sehen durften! 😂
Ich dachte schon das wäre ein kranker Mensch. „Er musterte..." Puuuh, mein Pulsschlag ging beim Lesen hoch und ich bin über das Ende richtig froh jetzt.:) Edit: Danke für den Thriller am frühen Morgen, ich brauch jetzt auch keinen Kaffee mehr😳👍🏿
@Tyrone Valdéz-Krüger Lach! Mein Kaffee ist grad fertig. Jo, ist ca. 30 Jahre her. Am Schönsten damals war, dass du als Vereinsmitglied einen Schlüssel für's Gelände hattest. Ich bin einmal im Sep., gegen ca. 22 Uhr dort schwimmen gewesen. Völlige Dunkelheit, völlige Ruhe. Bleib negativ, denk positiv!
@Cyril Sneer Moin. Ja klar, viele. Besonders in Ostdeutschland. Dort war die FKK-Bewegung schon in der DDR sehr aktiv. Und ein Gelände, wie unsren Waldsee von der Stadt pachten, macht ja für eine Person keinen Sinn. Zwischen 10 und 18 Uhr war das Bad ja für Jedermann, nicht nur für Mitglieder offen. Da muss jemand Eintritt kasieren und für Ordnung sorgen. Und das Gelände und die Gebäude müssen ja auch instand gehalten werden. An den FKK-Stränden an Nord- und Ostsee ist das wohl anders, denke ich. In Dänemark kannst du an jedem Strand einfach aus deinen Sachen schlüpfen, da gibt es keine besonderen FKK-Abschnitte.
A lot of people aren't responsible enough to do it. The people who are responsible pay for the irresponsible people's actions. People get into fist fights, people shot, people stabbed, people block traffic, etc. Police have more important things to do than deal with a bunch of drunk assholes. Children play on the streets and sidewalks. It kind of sucks to have your kids body part sliced open by a broken beer bottle because they fell down. You the parent are responsible for the Emergency bill not the asshole that broke the beer bottle. There are areas in the US that allow drinking on the street but in a plastic or non breakable container. Hood River Oregon, Butte Montana, Power and Light district of Kansas City Missouri, Las Vegas Nevada, New Orleans the French Quarter Louisiana, Savannah Historic District Georgia, Dalton Georgia, Fredericksburg Texas (this is a pretty cool "German" City), Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee, Indianapolis Indiana, Various cities in Alabama, Erie Pennsylvania, the entire state of Ohio (as of 2015), in front of Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville Tennessee, in front of the Convention Center in Nashville Tennessee, and Broadway strip in Nashville Tennessee are areas where you can drink on the street. The cities that allow drinking on the street usually (not always) have the highest crime rates in their state.
Drinking from a paper bag in public is one of those hypocritical things in the US. It is okay for young Americans to kill and be killed in distant lands to give the US access to the last remaining oil reserves on our planet. But if they want to have a beer they have to wait three years ...
@@grandmak. seriously? If people are drunk they don't think clearly. They let their anger control their actions. Haven't you heard of the saying he's an angry drunk? Guns don't kill people. People kill people. Guns don't get up and say I'm going to shoot and kill this person. The person with the gun chooses to grab his gun and kill a person. Maybe this will help educate yourself with aggression and alcohol. www.drinkaware.co.uk/facts/health-effects-of-alcohol/mental-health/alcohol-and-aggression#:~:text=Too%20much%20alcohol%20can%20make,way%20alcohol%20affects%20the%20brain.
My parents knew I loved to sun bathe and swim in the sea in the nude ever since I was a teenager, but they were always properly dressed themselves. My father died in 1994. In 1996 I took mother with me to Gran Canaria, to give her a break in her chemotherapy treatment. We ended up in Maspalomas because the travel agency had over booked. What was more natural than to go to the nearest beach, the nude beach by the light house. Mother had no hair on her head because of the chemotherapy treatment, why she wore a turban. She had 8 years earlier gone through surgery because of breast cancer, but hid it well with her regular bathing suit. What none of us expected, was to see women on the nude beach, who had been through breast cancer surgery as well. They were sun tanning in the nude and didn't draw any attention to them. My mother fully relaxed with the nude men around her and felt at ease. Nobody took notice of her wearing a turban with her regular bathing suit. I love the fact that she had this experience. It was like a breath of fresh air. She died 6 months later. After 2000, when a few public pools opened up for nude swimming in Denmark during the winter months, I learned that people, who would normally never set foot in a public pool during regular opening hours, enjoy coming to the public pool during the naturist hours on Saturdays, because they don't draw attention with their walker or whatever else equipment they need to move out of the water.
@@KoldingDenmark I went to FKK-camping in Croatia with my family when I was 13 - we booked a normal camping side but that turned out to be crappy and so my parents decided to try something new and we went on the (pretty great) FKK camping side nearby instead. First days I did not like it - but then it was great. You see all kinds of bodies, nothing is hidden, und I, who struggled with my changing teenager body, learned how normal different bodies are, how nobody's body is perfect (and how many people hide funny little tattoos somewhere ;)). I am 36 today and think it was a great experience and gave me a pretty relaxed relation to my body (and to being seen naked) until today.
On the topic of alcohol: There are no laws against drinking in public, so it is permitted. That's why you never had a problem with the police while holding a beer. However that does not mean anything you do when you are blackout drunk is legal, like littering your bottles, public urination etc. Nowadays there are some restrictions like no alcohol in sports arenas to combat violence or in recent years you are in at least some cities, not allowed to drink on a tram or bus because they were fed up with people acting rowdy, vomitting in the tram etc. but those are not laws either, they are terms of service for the tram company. If the fines connected to those infractions hold up in court is a matter of debate. Alcohol in the workplace has been prohibited some years ago. It was always frowned upon but there were/are exceptions. Apparently (that's just hearsay on my part) there is a law in Bavaria which allows emplyees a bottle of beer with dinner at work. But I never read that law (if it exists)
Drinking in public is legal in Germany, behaving badly because of it is not. Most employers in Europe would not say anything, if you drank a small beer or wine to lunch, as long as it does prevent you from doing your job correctly and it’s an exception (e.g. because of a birthday or you won a great contract).
There’s definitely no federal law that prohibits drinking during working hours per se. It’s up to the employer whether they allow it or not. If doctors fuck up a surgery because they are wasted they can get sued for malpractice of course, but that’s a different story.
I can totally relate with, and appreciate your input. I spent 6 years stationed in Germany back in the early 80's and experienced most of what you addressed on a "Military restricted basis". I loved it just the same, and promised myself that one day I would return and "Freely" experience it as a civilian. In 2016 I did just that! With a good friend and German citizen. It was almost like day and night, and the experience in 2016 far outweighed the "Limited" experience of the 80's. I fell in love with Europe the first time I visited, and rekindled that love the second time. I made many friends that say (Not "if", but,) "When you come back, we will do this again." That's one point that I think you should address in the future. The fact that the citizens are much more open, compassionate, and down right more friendly.
Awesome video Hayley! I was born and raised in Germany and moved to the US three years ago. I've noticed, that here in the US most vets are taking your pet to a separate room, behind the scenes, to give them shots or do bloodwork. In Germany, you are always in the examination room with your pet and you're allowed to hold and comfort them as well. Something I somehow cannot get used to here lol
Why? Just WHY am I still living in the USA? I've never felt more at home than when I'm in the EU. I have family in Germany, Poland, France and Norway. I need to leave. I need to make this a reality.
@@jennyh4025 I speak some French, Dutch, learning German and some Polish in addition to English and some Japanese. I think Germany will be my new home.
@@cocobass that’s probably more than I know, just German, English, some Spanish and swear words in French, Maltese and Italian. I can also understand some Dutch, but forgot how to speak it. That’s what you get for growing up in Europe, mostly swear words in other languages. 😉
@yoncekaii hotchkiss With attractive offers, fast trains, good service and good prices, you can even get Americans to leave their cars behind and use public transport. The airlines in the USA can do that too. Even without your own car in your hand luggage. What makes me completely stunned is that there are no high-speed trains in the US. We're not talking about a poor Third World country here. We're talking about the USA. Insane.
@yoncekaii hotchkiss I would say got the wrong ticket. You can certainly get that cheaper. In northern Germany there is the Lower Saxony ticket. For 23 € you can drive around Lower Saxony for 24 hours. You can use anything. Just no planes and no taxis. In addition, competition stimulates business. I don't think you have to explain capitalism to Americans.
We went to England for a wedding in 2002. At first, I ordered bottled beer. The best bottled beer wasn’t German but rather French. Then I discovered that England produces bitters all over the country and they’re not bitter at all. Hook Norton was my favorite beer. I went to Finland in 2004 on business. We did so well that our Finish salesman took us to a Russian restaurant (Saslik). Most of what we drank was hard liquor. I never drank much in college and it seemed I had more to drink that evening than I did my entire college career. The Finns and the English were so friendly and accommodating. It was amazing.
There are FKK communities in the US. I was an instructor for a company that helps at risk teens. We take them out canoeing for 30 days. We one time stopped at an area where we thought our campsite was. We ran into a person riding on a golf cart buck ass naked. We of course were taken aback. We told them who we were and we thought this was a campsite. The guy on the golf cart went and got his supervisor. We ended up finding out we were in a public nudist area.
The British had a comment years ago which isn't "pc" but applicable to both nudity and drinking: "We sent the criminals to Australia and the Puritans to America." There remains that streak (no pun intended) of Puritanism in our culture. Some aspects of Puritanism - the work ethic - is also exploited in the US. Americans equate nudity to sex; drinking to drunkenness and sloth. You would think nearly 400 years later these things wouldn't matter... but they do.
The thing is, that GMO is a very broad term that sounds very bad, but the GMO aspect is not unhealthy for consumtion and as you said it is mostly for environmental reasons the EU has banned it, but the EU has very strict rebulations on the pesticides, herbicides, what is considered organic and also the use of antibiotics in livestock is banned, so this is the area, where the food in Europe is considered higher quallity compared to the US
The difference is, in america, you have to prove something is un-healthy for it to be banned, in germany (and I think the EU as well) you have to prove something isn't un-healthy to be allowed
Interesting- yeah it was really hard to get answers. A lot of articles just listed the potatoes that Germany (and other countries in Europe) use that are a genetically engineered
@@HayleyAlexis the thing is, that there are some things, that you just cant find non gmo in the world, like corn, soy ect... and the thing that is modified is for example: you have a specific gene that affects the amount of seads, so it is just multiplied in the genome, so the plant gives more of it... it is not some insidious thing as many people think, because it is popular to paint the gmo stuff as bad from a marketing point of view (there are things that can make gmo bad of course, but generally speaking, it is not some poison) 😊
@@HayleyAlexis if you're really nitpicky, even the selection based evolution done in the past centuries with selecting certain types of plants is some form of gene modification
If all GMO products were be banned, we would have almost nothing to eat. What isn't mentioned in the GMO debate is that most of our grains, and a great variety of fruits and vegetables (including the basics like apples, pear, tomatoes,...) were created by exposing them to high radiation and inducing mutations. This IS genetic modification, just kind of like shooting at a plant's genome with a shotgun. Beneficial mutations would be bred back into the germline (but without any knowledge, what else was changed in the genome). The hypocrisy in this is that it is totally fine for those crops to be sold as "GMO free" or "bio", while GMOs which were created by accurately altering only one single gene are "the end of the world". The nuclear method of creating GMOs is out of favor now, because the new methods are much more accurate and predictable. The law of restricting GMOs for environmental reasons is at least somewhat science based. While none has shown yet that GMOs are any different to humans than non-GMO food, they often come with an impact in fertilizer use, herbicides or an effect on animals (mostly insects) which can destroy local ecosystems.
The laws for drinking in public varies from city to city. Most cities have laws against drinking in public parks and places after a certain hour of the day, mostly evenings. They implemented those laws after complaints of residents about drunk homeless people or groups of young people loitering around, being drunk and making too much noise.
If youre back in Germany and you and Mike go on a tour, try to drive 3hrs to the north west, to Rheinland Pfalz and do a Weintour. There are a few distinct regions you can hit on the way. Rheinlandpfalz has several wine regions, that produce a huge variety of wine. The Pfalz, Rheinhessen, and the 2 major rivers (beside the Rhein) are the Mosel and the Nahe. These regions all produce awesome wine, you can buy wine everywhere, in every small town, where there is a winery, they usually sell the stuff they produce at their home. Especially if you visit in late August or early September your in the main wine harvest season. You usually can get "Neuer Wein", which is new wine (slightly alcoholic and mostly sweet) with Zwiebelkuchen (the Pfälzer Twist on a Quicke Lorraine)
Very interesting Video. My dad always says I don´t know enough about the american culture, so I started to watch your videos. Last time I visited my dad in Florida I also wanted to visit my grama in New Orleans. But we forgot our international driver's license, so we thought ok lets take a greyhound bus to New Orleans. Not only was it over 2 hours late it was also very expensive for a bus ride. Really frustrating!!! Made me so made... But then again we also visited New York and Boston and took a Train, and we were like WOW... That train was great It was not really fast but the View and the train was great. I believe there are some differences between the north and the south when it comes to public transport. Cause in Boston and New York it's good. But I believe my dad don´t want me using public transport I think he don´t even like uber. I have a fun story about work and alcohol. A few years ago I worked in an Internet agency. And they always said "kein Bier vor vier". So when the clock turned to 4 they were usually having their first beer. Since I´m actually a Bavarian who doesn´t drink beer I were never part of this thing. Oh, and by the way you can drink public everywhere in Germany When you do it Before an event its called "Vorglühen". Actually they say that a beer is like a meal almost everywhere in Germany. I moved to Stuttgart 12 Years ago, and they just say the same thing. Love your Videos have a nice Weekend
Yeah I like taking trains in the USA actually because it can be very pretty but they aren't really convenient :( Traveling to New York/Massachusetts is relatively easy because they are right next to each other...It's like traveling to Munich to Mannheim... The problem arises when you try to travel from major cities like New York to Houston..... It is so complicated and probably a couple hundred/thousand dollars to do so on a train :(
Drinking in the streets - easiest to remember is that it being legal isn't weird, it's it being banned. As far as I know for Western-culture countries it's only that way in the US (prohibition time leftover) and Poland (what's going on with our Polish friends? Probably the Catholic Church, but who knows). Drinking during work hours is generally not a good idea though.
And it's illegal in Canada too!! We also had "Prohibition"!! I had a cousin who arrived in Canada in 1950 and left in 1951. He was a bricklayer in Toronto and was once arrested for drinking a beer on the sidewalk on his way home from work and for being under 21! You couldn't buy a single bottle of beer and had to buy your beer from the Beer Store and alcohol from the LCBO where you never saw your booze until after you bought it and it was presented to you in a paper bag!! You couldn't go out for a beer after church on Sunday without buying a full meal dinner! After almost a year in Canada, he went back to southern Germany. He once asked me "How do you live in that country??" A lot of these laws continued into the 1970s. You still can't drink in the streets or on the beach or in a park actually anywhere other than residence or a licensed dining or drinking establishment! Canada is a very backward country!
Interesting video. But after a few seconds, I had to think back to the videos you made in the USA this year. It’s not easy to see the same person. Today’s Hayley looks so much better, rested and happy. Just beautiful.
There are definitely clothing optional and nude beaches in the US but they're pretty rare, like South Beach in Florida is optional. In New York is totally legal but not common to go topless.
In Europe there is food that is advertised as "BIO". Very good quality. Happy animals, more space in the stable, also on the green meadow. Environmentally friendly agriculture. No pesticides. No geenome modified foods. Customers like to buy it, even if it is a little more expensive. In the US, the opposite appears to be the case.
Bio (organic as it's known in the US) doesn't necessarily mean happier animals. The EU Bio label requires only slightly more space for animals than conventional mass factory farming. If you really want to ensure high quality of life standards for the animals you have to go with special labels like Bioland or Demeter that require way more space for animals as well as things like toys for pigs and a certain quality of feed (you can only feed organic to the animals). Overall the EU bio label is more of a safety to oneself because you e.g. don't eat meat that is pumped full of antibiotics.
I agree with Carina S. BIO is not quite what you think it is. Here are two links regarding the "Bio-Verordnung". www.oekolandbau.de/service/rechtsgrundlagen/ ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/farming/organic-farming/legislation_de
Back in the '80s when I lived in Berlin everywhere in any city park was the nude section but especially Halensee at the end of the main shopping drag Kurfürstendamm and Krumme Lanke, a lake in a quite posh living area. But if there was a an open air concert or a demo there were always some naked people around.
Hallo Hayley, nice video again.. my favorite Germany TH-cam explorer. I'm from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Here we also have FKK. I retired some 6 years ago and some 5 years ago I was alone on the beach in the south of France. It was beautifull weather and I refused to wet my swimsuit. So I went in naked... that felt GOOD. Later back home I went to the nude beach on the North Sea. It was unusual for me but it felt good. There was plenty of distance on this large beach. Later that year I went to a nude area just North of Amsterdam. It's a lake to swim in and grass to sunbathe on. It's such a nice group of totally relaxed people there. I knew quite a few of them without knowing they were narurists. 5 were neighbours from my street and it appeared there were also 6 of my former collegues. No problem at all. The last few years we went to Cap d' Agde in France and I love it. Now I regret not going to nude beaches some 40 years earlier :-) To say it in general.. it are all people who have nothing to hide, even mentally, all relaxed people. Officially it's forbidden in the Netherlands to recreate nude outside of a designated nude beach, but more and more I see people ignore that and especially in the last (Covid19) summer there were so many people on all the beaches unlawfully nude and I never heared about people complaining about it. They all kept more then enough social distance in reality. I would not mind meeting you accidentally on a nude beach. I have nothing to hide. I'm sure your smile will have my attention. All the other video items are valid in the Netherlands too.
It's interesting what different freedoms are important to people. Carrying a gun or rejecting gene food and tanning the pimpled butt in the sun while having a drink. No doubt, this time the european perception is more sympathetic to me.
@@MrJlin1982 If you open that gate you really end up needing a gun. No, i will never agree to that. Even a very stable person can turn unstable one day. And once the weapon market is open for regular people, you don't need to worry about knifes anymore, but guns in hands of criminals. All that would turn in a downward spiral of violence. Police would need to arm themselves better, death rate would rise, and we would end up with a similar situation like in the US. If you have problems with fear, learn some martial arts, makes you confident and resilient without the need for such adventurious dreams about guns^^
Come on Hayley you are a Florida girl, you can't jump off any cliff because Florida did not have a single cliff at all, so this saying is the equivalent to the German saying: "Ich stürtz mich aus dem Kelerfenster" .
When I relocated from Heidelberg to Grenzach-Wyhlen and in Sunday there was no bus from Lörrach to Grenzach-Wyhlen so I took another bus that went almost to the direction of my place. So, I asked the driver about any direction toward Grenzach-Wyhlen. I had a bicycle with me and several bags. So, the driver told me there is a road that goes toward Grenzach-Wyhlen but it is hard to get there because it goes uphill and downhill several times. So, I had no other way to get to my home so I took my belongings and my bicycle and I started going about 20 km through Switzerland and Germany so that was my hardest mountain ride with a city bike with 3 speeds.
The problem with most of the Californian wine is that they can not stop themselves from using chemical engineering in producing it. They want the wine to taste every year the same so they process it in order to achieve this goal. Unfortunately they destroy a lot of the taste. There are some quite good traditional wineries in California but they are normally not sold in supermarkets.
The same taste every year is what a lot of high-class French wineries go for as well. But they don't do it by chemical tampering, they do it by blending different wines from the respective year until they get the desired taste. If they absolutely cannot achieve this goal in any given year, they don't produce their "A" brand wine that year, only the cheaper "B" brand. Or they sell the wine to other companies that use it to produce liquor or something like that.
I agree with you on the abundance of good and inexpensive wines in Europe. Albeit Napa Valley California wines are expensive, but they are some of the best in the world.
With us it wasn't our teachers who brought alcohol but ourselves. In the higher years at school (10,11,12) you have your own separat room to use in brakes and free periods. We always had some beer there😅😂
About the wine. In the 1970s, my american friends bought some bottles of american wine in the PX. It was Bally High or similar. That stuff was pure sugared red juice. It was kinda hard to stay polite and down that stuff. Even the cheapest two liter bottle of Pennerglück is real wine against Bally High. If this is what the US takes for red wine - i rest my case.
@@quazwasd4062 Some wine from Sonoma Valley or Napa is REAL wine. I think the average US wino hasn't got the dollars, to buy the real thing. Plus it is not so common to drink good wine, like in Italy or France.
When I was in the Army, they would contract local German workers for maintenance and some road construction. By law we (the US) had to supply the workers with beer for their breaks.
In my experience, FKK is a very personal family issue. You can engage in different degrees of it. Either just one nude activity or a vacation when you do everything without clothes on. Or anything in between. My family just loves to go swimming on nude beaches and that's all the FKK we need for a happy summer vacation. My mother's side of the family grew up in the GDR and remembers how the German FKK beaches were longer and more numerous back then. A lot of them were turned into textile beaches to accommodate the more conservative West German tourists.
I worked in a rural part of the Ukraine for a while and I'm not lying to you when saying the police stopped by our local supermarket for having a couple of vodkas for lunch every single day.
Transport links in Europe are probably better because we have a greater population density. In Europe, 74 people live in one square kilometer, in the USA it is only 33 people.
This could be a reason. But: Sweden, Finnland and Norway are not very densely populated and have good public transport systems. And look at the Chinese rail transport system, including their new build high speed lines. The US public transport is crappy even in the majority of densely populated areas.
@@sammy012345678 city governments are now holding parents responsible if their kid takes their gun and kills another kid. When I was a kid in my area a lot of kids were dying from friends finding their parents gun, playing with it, and accidentally shooting and killing their sibling, cousin, or friend. My city started to charge the parents with manslaughter. The cities excuse was "you should have your gun locked up." Parents started to lock their guns up so their child couldn't get it. Now more areas are making this a law. Another example in Nashville a man shot up a restaurant. It was found out that his guns were taken away from him because of mental illness. His father left guns laying around so he took his father's gun and shot up this restaurant. The father was also charged with homicide.
@Licht spiel, is more like a wine country, The Netherlands, my country is both. We have to most small brewery's in the world, more then our formerly southerners, the Belgians
Going back to the 1980 Austrian winemakers were involved in increasing the "alcohol content" of the wine by adding "antifreeze" liquid to their wines. It whipped the Austrian wine Industry out for years.
When I started work in the late '70s a lot of factories in UK had a company social club that served alcohol at lunch time so the employer was actually supplying your booze!
BTW - Washington State USA and France are nearly on the same latitude (off by 1.744 degrees) and our wines are pretty good. ;-) The only $2.00 wine we have, comes from california. If your boss is drinking, I can (beer or wine only).
As a bus driver I toured Europe with some American music students in the late 70 ties. I remember going to the beach with them somewhere in Sweden, and they were shocked that people just changed on the beach without covering up. I remember one of the counselors acting like he was about to throw up, seeing these naked bodies, and I wondered how he was able to have a normal erotic life with that perception of the human body. He really said that it was groce.
I think the drinking during your lunch break depends on what you work. If you're in administration and stuff like that it's probably not a big deal. But if you have to operate machines it wouldn't be a good idea to drink. I had to sign that I won't drink during working hours because I'm working in a chemical plant. It's a desk job but the ones doing the heavy lifting get the same contract.
Beer is food everywhere in Germany. Beer is not alcohol, it is liquid bread. Used to work on the stage crew at Deutsche Oper Berlin for an agency and we had a beer every break ie every 2 hours. First day I started there was a delivery truck from a brewery and I just assumed it's for the public bar or the canteen. It wasn't, they were refilling the fridges of the permanent stage crew! :)
I think the drinking beer on your lunch break thing is more of a Bavarian custom. But we have had Mon Cheri (liquor filled chocolates) at the office before. And there's beer in our office fridge that sometimes gets drunk at the end of work. Overall I think unless you have a job that requires you to be sober/not on pain meds like driving a forklift, no one will say anything about having a little bit of beer or a Mon Cheri at work/during work hours, but obviously you can't be drunk drunk.
Nice Haley, Me too if a go to a beach in general to a nudity beach, for example in Zandvoort in the Netherlands, I just don't like swim clothes, also visit sauna's sometimes. We just live in an great continent
I'm from Germany but lived in Spain from 2007 to 2013. They say Germany is very open about nudity, but Spain is even more so. I was pretty prudish in Germany, but Spain has changed me. Nudism is by law even allowed on every beach without separation. So you can see naked and not naked on the beach in Barcelona. That means mixed. So is the whole Costa Brava. So one day I thought if nobody minds I'll give it a try. And it didn't bother anyone and since then I've only been swimming naked. The difference is also that in Germany the older people do naturism in Spain the younger ones.
@@MrJlin1982 No, I didn't say that, because I don't know you personally. You are even 3 years younger than me. The thing is that in Germany the older people who tend to be more open to naturism. That was different in the 90s.
I used to live and work in Germany in the 60s, both in Bavaria and Hesse. People drink beer any time any where, no restrictions what so ever. Beer is like water to them. While I was there people never drank water. Beer was cheaper than bottled water. Their tap water is not potable, used only for washing and cooking. I started at 8 in the morning and on my way to my office I used to stop at a coffee shop and have a cup of coffee with a roll, brotchen . I was bemused to see the locals taking the sugar cubes that came with the coffee, unwrap them, dip it in the coffee eat them before drinking their coffee. In the office at 9 o clock a trolley used to come with hot filled rolls and bottles of beer! The pubs used to be open until early hours in the morning. The pubs used to have vending machines in the foyer dispensing bottled beer. Another common drink was apfelwein that is cider. Germans used to drink like a fish esp in Bavaria but never got drunk! That is the beauty of Germans!
I worked in construction in Mannheim-Viernheim in the mid-1970s and my boss would buy two cases of beer per day from a beer truck that travelled from work site to work site selling beer. Only one guy ever got drunk on-site and was immediately fired! I drank one once for lunch and found out that if you are working hard in the hot sun beer makes you sweat profusely. From then on I waited until after work to drink a beer. I live that country!!
@@ottovonostrovo1486 Beer is not the first choice, on a hot southern german summerday. So that is why, you better drink apple wine. I guess you call it cidre. Mixed up, with a quater bubblin' water, it will refresh you well and don't get in your brain, like beer, like a bullet...
No way you can drink during work hours at a big company in Germany. And its been like that for about 10 to 15 years now. The reason is ensurance and and the fine you have to pay if something happens.
@@galanthuman2157 There’s no such state law. It’s entirely up to the employer. It’s a different story with surgeons, pilots etc of course. But if some type of accident happens and the insurance doesn’t cover it because of drunkenness that’s the employer’s problem, not the state‘s.
You can drink wherever you like to drink. There are only some exceptions: schools, kindergarten, some rooms in hospitals and public buildings, sport arenas if there is a derby, airports.
i have discovered FKK just a few years ago and now i totally love it. now its really uncomfortable to me wearing swimming shorts so most of the time i go somewhere where i just need a towel! ^^
On some parts of the Autobahn there is no speed limit! If you are driving a supercar in good conditions and light traffic there's nothing to stop you driving at 180 mph!
Very interesting video! Concerning one of the "grey areas": drinking alcohol during lunch breaks will definitely not help your career in Germany with an office job. That is still more acceptable (but changing) in Italy because of their tradition of having really long lunch breaks as opposed to ever-efficient Germany (30 minutes and back to work). More important, the "alcohol culture" differs a lot between Germany and Southern Europe: in Italy etc. drinking is much more linked to social events and family gatherings while in Germany, the UK etc. having two, three or more "Feierabendbier" at home every evening unfortunately is quite common. Also, Italians drinking at home every day will likely be confronted by family and friends some day while in Germany the "social environment" will typically look away (but the HR department of your company will not once they find out). I'm not a puritan and I go with the liberal European drinking laws but I wished that in Germany - especially in Bavaria (I'm a Munich local) - habitual "non-social" drinking would be a bit more in public focus as a common problem. But as you said, beer is being perceived more as a basic food than an alcoholic beverage in Bavaria and the breweries' lobbying is strong - like our car industry preventing general speed limits on highways which every civilized country has.
Don't know which type of job you have, but in the office I worked in germany there was free beer in the fridge. And sometimes the boss came to have a brain storming round with beer. And the lunch break was min 1 hour. And no the office was not in Bavaria.
I think that will come to Germany soon. The Green Party has also given its OK for Geen Manipulated Crops. Maybe we will soon have a free trade agreement with the USA, so that we will unfortunately have to give up our rejection anyway.
True... An important value in general European culture is “responsibility”, or “accountability” - as an implicit parallel to any liberty one may have or experience. Strictness in law (and enforcement) comes from the consideration that (most) governments here actually expect people to use common sense, and not immediately abuse any legislative loopholes they may find. Philosophically this is a really old conundrum - The ancient Greeks were on to it, and the Bible also states in the very beginning that “we” received free will with the added burden of total responsibility for our deeds. This shouldn’t be just another “rule” for religious people. It’s more a fact of life - a common value - of being human in a family, a group, and in society. So, you may be naked in an area meant for this, but not in a public square. You may have a beer during lunch, but job lost there and then if you turn up drunk even once. It’s a Gordian knot that the US gov values a state that doesn’t interfere in liberties, while Americans themselves feel more “free” in Europe where the state runs a lot more of everything...?
With over 400 comments I'm not sure if it has been mentioned. Also things allowed in Germany and not in the US: Überraschungsei (reason being a kid could swallow the plastic toy inside), candy with alcohol inside (mon Cheri, Weinbrandbohnen etc.) Nudity in public is allowed, if it is without sexual intent. e.g. a couple may get in or out of bed naked in films or on tv, but not "make out" or have sex. Same for nakedness in public.
Drinking Alkohol during lunch break is only in Bavaria traditionell. Mostly it's not allowed to drink alcohol during working time. The insurance for working accidents will not pay if you were drunk. So it is forbidden now. 25 years ago no one cared if someone did drink 8 bottles beer from 9 to 5.
German wide Company. No Alcohol at the Workplace Policy. Year 2000. Training camp in Bavaria. 1 Liter Radler included on standard dinner in the canteen (Company owned restaurant?). (a Normal Radler would mean 0.5 Liter Citron Lemonade and 0.5 Liter Beer.) At Least in 2000 Bavaria was something special with the Alcohol ...
One more thing, I lived in Greece for more than 10 years and going topless does not do a roaring trade. Actually I think it is frowned upon. Just remembered.
Many Mediterranean countries have special topless or nude beaches, whereas it’s more of an „as long as no one cares, go as you like, but no clothes on nude beaches“ in Germany.
Greek here (living in Austria & lived in Germany), I agree. In Greece there are nudist beaches where people can be completely naked, but you can also wear a swimsuit if you prefer, whereas in FKK areas you must be naked. In the other beaches, topless (for women) might be ok but you can expect some staring, some people might complain too.
Everytime when someone writes an english word with ä,ö,ü I get so confused. My first reaction when reading the nüde in the thumbnail was "What it nuede" 😂
Drinking during work time depends on the job (and yes, in Bavaria its different than in Germany). If the work has to do with driving, alkohol is tabu (bus or tram drivers are not allowed to drink 10 or 12 hours befor the shift), working on machines alkohol is mostly tabu too. Years ago it was very common for construction workers to drink beer during work time, today its uncommon. Drinking in public is no problem, but if you get total wasted in public you can loose your driving licence (even as pedestrian) and the police can put you in prison until you are sober (not as punishment, just to protect you from getting hurt)
Same for North Rhine-Westphalia. We have pretty liberal standards when it comes to alcohol, too but drinking during the working hours is pretty much a taboo.
You got the wrong job. Sommelier for wine or beer, beer brewer, Önologe is another one and there are more where it is required to drink alcohol at work... :-)
I (German from the environment of Cologne) don't know, that it is usual or accepted to drink at lunchtime some alcoholic drinks. But I remember well, when I did a traineeship at a Parisian Court in 1986, that I was really astonished, all juges drinking vine at the break and returning to the hearings afterwards. The vine was served at the court's lunchroom.
My little nude beach story: when I was about 12 or 13 years old, my familiy went on vacation in denmark. My parents were into FKK, but I refused all the time to let my pants go, but the *very* last day at the beach, i was ok with it and dropped the tast piece of cloth. So at the way home in the car I was lying in the back. I couldn't sit, because my butt was glowing red sun burned. Great experience.. 🤣
There is nothing more liberating than jumping naked (splitterfasernackt) into a natural lake on a balmy summer evening. As an island child, this of course also applies to the North Sea :-). I love your videos and your charming and cheerful way. And in addition you are a beautiful "deern" as we say in the north. American history has always interested me and in particular how the German emigrants have brought their special characteristics and down to earth as they are some of the most successful companies in the world have built. Especially with regard to the Corona Impstoff I like to look at the history of such companies (Pfitzer). Typical "German" is not to dig in the earth on the goldfields, but to wait for the prospectors to bring their nuggets to the butcher's store, bakery, grocer's store, metal store, pub or hotel etc. :-).
Just to add on the wine scene Slovene white wines are considered as part of the top European wine scene, while our sparkling wines - champagne are at the very top, rivalling France.
In Germany drinking alcohol in public is generally allowed... well you even shouldn't think like that - in most occasions there is just no rule, so of cause its allowed. In some (most?) public transportation though alcohol (and often other beverages and meals too) aren't allowed, but you will see a sign at the door or in the vehicle stating this. I think it is similar in departments/agencies etc. What you should know is that while alcohol is not permitted generally, people would often turn their heads if you drink alcohol outside of your free time. But this depends on Bundesland (Bavaria may be more open) and much more on people's class/education.
I assume that the thing with beer or wine in the lunch break can only be a Bavaria thing. And maybe it also depends on the job, but on the whole it is not accepted for several decades.
It's not only Bavaria, but there are some anecdotes, like: Soldiers of the German Bundeswehr can't drink alcohol during their duty hours. The soldiers stationed in Ulm envied the ones from Neu-Ulm. Neu-Ulm is in Bavaria and they could drink beer at lunchtime. In Germany outside of Bavaria, Siemens did have a strict no alcohol policy. In the cantinas in the headquarters in München you could fill your glass with draft beer yourself. But generally, if you go to a restaurant for lunch, you'll see many people having their beer or wine or some mixed drinks like schorle or radler. Just don't get drunk. If you're in contact with customers don't have a "Fahne" (alcoholic breath).
@Kessina1989 Ja, das ist, glaube ich grundsätzlich auf Arbeit verboten. Ich hoff, ihr seid alle gesund, Kessina. Wünsch dir und deiner Family entspannte Feiertage und einen guten Jahreswechsel! Und dass du auch mal etwas arbeitsfrei hast! Daumenhoch!
Very interesting to hear what an American woman noticed about us Germans. Never thought too much about that before! On the other side we are sometimes wondering about Americans, or let‘s be more precise about their behaviors when it comes to alcohol, sex and nudity: While most Americans seem to be quite puritanical, young college students have the bad reputation of completely freaking out when away from their parents‘ homes, especially during the famous „Spring Break“ season: Wet T-Shirt contests, public sex, drugs and alcohol; this is something unheard of here in this country!
@@Ariyl Isn't an FKK-Club most often a "swinger's club" or a "sauna club" (if you like euphemisms)? There might be some brothels as well that call themselves FKK-Club , but i wouldn't think that's the norm.
@@cg6511 i thinbk it just depends on what you define as brothel, but you are right most of them are labeled as that! but i think what we all mean here is: fkk clubs can sometimes(depending on the usage of the word) be a place where sexworkers offer their services or where swingers are swinging (?) :D
My 0.02 : In Germany (most of Europe for that matter) you can buy alcohol and walk down the street drinking it without a care in the world. Here (Australia) you would be made to tip it out and would receive a hefty fine for doing so from the constabulary. Theres something about drinking and drunkedness in europe that don't carry over to the rest of the western world, in Europe you hardly ever see people in the street drunk and making a scene, there's just an inherent sense of shame they have that doesnt carry over, whilst every weekend or party night you can go out here and see people damaging property, assaulting people and verbally abusing others that would go on over in europe, they have an unwritten 'self policing' understanding over there regarding public drinking that would never work over here in Australia as drinking alcohol (too some excess some might say) is part of our national identity and not something that is readily going to change.
"What previously seemed to be an activity for the uninhibited became a normal activity that could be enjoyed without fear of embarrassment." -Ed Lange, nudist photographer, publisher, and nudist resort owner.
U S army ,1981 -1984 , kirchgons , spent lots of time in Frankfurt , the first thing they told my group was if you hear someone holler halt ,the only thing that doesn’t may have a German Sheppard behind it .
the thing I found interestingg is that they have beer vrnfing machines just like we hav them for sodas. Also, you only need to be 12 years old to buy beer.
in the 90th they had in Bavaria even Beer Vending Machines in the in production factories. It was absolut legal to drink weil working on the machines. Ok of curse you where not allowed to get drunk but a couple of beers was ok. I dont know who it is today so.
It was still allowed in Niederbayern up to ca. 2 years ago. You could drink a beer anytime a day, but if you had a work related accident under the influence (no matter how many you had) the insurance wouldn’t pay a cent
That is a real problem. I was handling the reorganization of a factory in Ingolstadt/Bavaria that was a sub-contractor to the local automotive industry. These darn beer vending machines played havoc with the quality on the shop floor.
I think the drinking is tied to the amount of driving as well in the US. But up north in Estonia, we wouldn't really draw any attention for drinking in public.
True story. I ordered a table for dinner in the restaurant of my hotel in Boston. My table was not ready and I was asked to wait in the bar and order from there. The bartender refused to serve me a drink since there was no chair empty to sit down. I cannot serve unless you sit. I told him, that in my country, I will get served as long as I can stand.
So I grew up in a Baptist church in Germany. (Yes they exist :)) Baptists try to only baptize willing participants so teenagers or adults not babies. Of course these baptisms are kind of a huge deal and often they tried to make it very special. Sometimes even going outside in the summer and do a "wildromatische Taufe" at a river or a beautiful lake.
One time we had a visiting preacher from the US over, and he really loved the idea. So he went out and searched for a nice beach in the vicinity. He found one during early spring when nobody was swimming there yet. When the organising staff later tried to follow his "Geheimtipp" and tried to make the logistics work they couldn't stop laughing. Somehow this Southern US Pastor had picked out the only FKK beach along the whole river side. It took a long time and lot of giggling and red faces explaining to him why this wasn't a very good spot. :D
😅😂😆OMG that is hilarious!!! I can only imagine how embarrassed he was!! LMAO
@@HayleyAlexis I think he was more shocked that so many of the congregation new exactly were the naked people hang out. ;)
well, at least they found out before ... just try to imagine the situation if they had not suspected anything before the baptism service, and actually assembled there with the congregation :-O
probably THAT would have been embarrassing...
@@jbZahl Why should they not know? There are enough " good reasons" to know which part of the river to avoid ... for example, someone could hear it from a colleague or friend outside the church, who had been there before (or himself heard it from someone else) ... or, as long as nobody knows it, there is always the chance/risk to go there as innocently as this American... and then that person would notice... and probably warn his/her friends to better not go to this place.
To say it short: The place might be known not only by people who want to go there, but also by people who have a reason to avoid it.
Bist du Baptist?
Attempting to escape from prison is legal in Germany.
Attempting to escape from prison is not punishable in Germany, as the law considers 'freedom' to be a basic human instinct. However, a prisoner who damages property, murders or assaults someone while escaping will be guilty of those crimes.
Short, escaping itself won't increase your punishment, but will likely void any possible bonuses you earned (early release, weekend leave etc)
Any crime you commit while escaping will increase your sentence.
and yes, there is the option to leave prision for weekends in germany under the right circumstances
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@@grandmak. $13 StVollG: (1) Ein Gefangener kann bis zu einundzwanzig Kalendertagen in einem Jahr aus der Haft beurlaubt werden.
@UC4aiw3PHjamcukEH3soZeyQ KANN - muss aber nicht. Dazu muss eine entsprechende Eignung festgestellt werden. Auch in den USA gibt es Vollzugslockerungen dieser Art, ja sogar auch offenen Vollzug, kommt auch auf den jeweiligen Bundesstaat an. Die Vollzugsbedingungen in den USA variieren sehr stark und reichen hinsichtlich der Bestrafungswirkung von sanatoriums-ähnlich bis zu regelrecht alttestamentarisch.
Der Hauptunterschied ist: als Angeklagter darfst Du in Deutschland vor Gericht lügen, Du wirst nicht vereidigt. Auch Dein Ehepartner darf lügen, Dein*e Partner*in / Verlobte*r die Aussage verweigern.
FKK goes along with body positivity, starting out with body acceptance. The seamless tan comes as a bonus.
That is probably one of the top reasons why I like it.... having crispy cheeks is a big PLUS :D
@@HayleyAlexis cheeks ? LOL
@@grandmak.
You're racist
One of the best FKK sites were in the former communist country yugoslavia located on adriatic sea.
@@channelfive7883 ? How?
Lustige FKK-Story:
Wir waren früher in einem FKK-Verein Mitglied. Der Veein besaß ein nettes, kleines Waldbad mit einem kleinen Waldsee.
Eines Tages lagen wir dort, zusammen mit einer Freundin und unseren kleinen Töchtern auf einer Decke und ließen es uns gutgehen.
Plötzlich hielt ein Mann, der mit seiner Frau zum Ausgang wollte an. Er musterte unsere Töchter, meinte sie seien inzwischen auch schon so groß, wie doch die Zeit verginge..
Dann wünschte er noch einen schönen Tag und ging. Nackt wie wir, seine Badesachen unter dem Arm.
Es dauerte einige Sekunden, bis Frau und Freundin begriffen, dass der nackte Mann ihr Gynäkologe war!
Sehr fair, meinte unsere Freundin nur, dass sie ihn nun auch einmal nackt sehen durften!
😂
Ich dachte schon das wäre ein kranker Mensch. „Er musterte..." Puuuh, mein Pulsschlag ging beim Lesen hoch und ich bin über das Ende richtig froh jetzt.:)
Edit: Danke für den Thriller am frühen Morgen, ich brauch jetzt auch keinen Kaffee mehr😳👍🏿
@Tyrone Valdéz-Krüger Lach! Mein Kaffee ist grad fertig.
Jo, ist ca. 30 Jahre her.
Am Schönsten damals war, dass du als Vereinsmitglied einen Schlüssel für's Gelände hattest. Ich bin einmal im Sep., gegen ca. 22 Uhr dort schwimmen gewesen. Völlige Dunkelheit, völlige Ruhe.
Bleib negativ, denk positiv!
Es gibt FKK-Vereine?
@Cyril Sneer Moin. Ja klar, viele. Besonders in Ostdeutschland. Dort war die FKK-Bewegung schon in der DDR sehr aktiv.
Und ein Gelände, wie unsren Waldsee von der Stadt pachten, macht ja für eine Person keinen Sinn. Zwischen 10 und 18 Uhr war das Bad ja für Jedermann, nicht nur für Mitglieder offen. Da muss jemand Eintritt kasieren und für Ordnung sorgen. Und das Gelände und die Gebäude müssen ja auch instand gehalten werden.
An den FKK-Stränden an Nord- und Ostsee ist das wohl anders, denke ich.
In Dänemark kannst du an jedem Strand einfach aus deinen Sachen schlüpfen, da gibt es keine besonderen FKK-Abschnitte.
@@Cyril_Sneer Das deutsche Vereinswesen macht vor nichts halt! ;-) Gibt auch im Westen welche, oft mit langer Tradition bis zurück zu Weimarer Zeiten.
You are right. Nobody cares when someone drinks in public in Germany.
I don't understand US lawmakers in that regard either.
A lot of people aren't responsible enough to do it. The people who are responsible pay for the irresponsible people's actions. People get into fist fights, people shot, people stabbed, people block traffic, etc. Police have more important things to do than deal with a bunch of drunk assholes. Children play on the streets and sidewalks. It kind of sucks to have your kids body part sliced open by a broken beer bottle because they fell down. You the parent are responsible for the Emergency bill not the asshole that broke the beer bottle. There are areas in the US that allow drinking on the street but in a plastic or non breakable container. Hood River Oregon, Butte Montana, Power and Light district of Kansas City Missouri, Las Vegas Nevada, New Orleans the French Quarter Louisiana, Savannah Historic District Georgia, Dalton Georgia, Fredericksburg Texas (this is a pretty cool "German" City), Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee, Indianapolis Indiana, Various cities in Alabama, Erie Pennsylvania, the entire state of Ohio (as of 2015), in front of Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville Tennessee, in front of the Convention Center in Nashville Tennessee, and Broadway strip in Nashville Tennessee are areas where you can drink on the street. The cities that allow drinking on the street usually (not always) have the highest crime rates in their state.
Drinking from a paper bag in public is one of those hypocritical things in the US.
It is okay for young Americans to kill and be killed in distant lands to give the US access to the last remaining oil reserves on our planet. But if they want to have a beer they have to wait three years ...
No one does....and the funny thing is that people actually fight against lowering the drinking age or drinking in public... IT MAKES NO SENSE 😐
@@jessicaely2521 really ? Is crime related to drinking in the streets? I always thought that the gun laws led to more crime. Interesting.
@@grandmak. seriously? If people are drunk they don't think clearly. They let their anger control their actions. Haven't you heard of the saying he's an angry drunk? Guns don't kill people. People kill people. Guns don't get up and say I'm going to shoot and kill this person. The person with the gun chooses to grab his gun and kill a person. Maybe this will help educate yourself with aggression and alcohol.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/facts/health-effects-of-alcohol/mental-health/alcohol-and-aggression#:~:text=Too%20much%20alcohol%20can%20make,way%20alcohol%20affects%20the%20brain.
My parents once accidentally(?) booked a FKK campsite for our holiday. It was...an experience for sure 😂
LOL....LOL... my mother would have DIED
lol
My parents knew I loved to sun bathe and swim in the sea in the nude ever since I was a teenager, but they were always properly dressed themselves.
My father died in 1994. In 1996 I took mother with me to Gran Canaria, to give her a break in her chemotherapy treatment.
We ended up in Maspalomas because the travel agency had over booked.
What was more natural than to go to the nearest beach, the nude beach by the light house.
Mother had no hair on her head because of the chemotherapy treatment, why she wore a turban.
She had 8 years earlier gone through surgery because of breast cancer, but hid it well with her regular bathing suit.
What none of us expected, was to see women on the nude beach, who had been through breast cancer surgery as well.
They were sun tanning in the nude and didn't draw any attention to them.
My mother fully relaxed with the nude men around her and felt at ease. Nobody took notice of her wearing a turban with her regular bathing suit.
I love the fact that she had this experience. It was like a breath of fresh air.
She died 6 months later.
After 2000, when a few public pools opened up for nude swimming in Denmark during the winter months, I learned that people, who would normally never set foot
in a public pool during regular opening hours, enjoy coming to the public pool during the naturist hours on Saturdays, because they don't draw attention with their walker
or whatever else equipment they need to move out of the water.
@@KoldingDenmark thank you for sharing that ! I'm so sorry you lost your mother !
@@KoldingDenmark I went to FKK-camping in Croatia with my family when I was 13 - we booked a normal camping side but that turned out to be crappy and so my parents decided to try something new and we went on the (pretty great) FKK camping side nearby instead. First days I did not like it - but then it was great. You see all kinds of bodies, nothing is hidden, und I, who struggled with my changing teenager body, learned how normal different bodies are, how nobody's body is perfect (and how many people hide funny little tattoos somewhere ;)). I am 36 today and think it was a great experience and gave me a pretty relaxed relation to my body (and to being seen naked) until today.
On the topic of alcohol: There are no laws against drinking in public, so it is permitted. That's why you never had a problem with the police while holding a beer. However that does not mean anything you do when you are blackout drunk is legal, like littering your bottles, public urination etc. Nowadays there are some restrictions like no alcohol in sports arenas to combat violence or in recent years you are in at least some cities, not allowed to drink on a tram or bus because they were fed up with people acting rowdy, vomitting in the tram etc. but those are not laws either, they are terms of service for the tram company. If the fines connected to those infractions hold up in court is a matter of debate.
Alcohol in the workplace has been prohibited some years ago. It was always frowned upon but there were/are exceptions. Apparently (that's just hearsay on my part) there is a law in Bavaria which allows emplyees a bottle of beer with dinner at work. But I never read that law (if it exists)
I think Bavaria is different from other German states in many regards, and considering beer as food is one of them.
Drinking in public is legal in Germany, behaving badly because of it is not.
Most employers in Europe would not say anything, if you drank a small beer or wine to lunch, as long as it does prevent you from doing your job correctly and it’s an exception (e.g. because of a birthday or you won a great contract).
There’s definitely no federal law that prohibits drinking during working hours per se. It’s up to the employer whether they allow it or not.
If doctors fuck up a surgery because they are wasted they can get sued for malpractice of course, but that’s a different story.
also something interesting is the "Haustrunk"
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haustrunk
@@jamestheprotogen7554 sad = I only speak / red english (american) & the article seems to not be translated ;-(
Ah Well thanks any way
I can totally relate with, and appreciate your input. I spent 6 years stationed in Germany back in the early 80's and experienced most of what you addressed on a "Military restricted basis". I loved it just the same, and promised myself that one day I would return and "Freely" experience it as a civilian. In 2016 I did just that! With a good friend and German citizen. It was almost like day and night, and the experience in 2016 far outweighed the "Limited" experience of the 80's. I fell in love with Europe the first time I visited, and rekindled that love the second time. I made many friends that say (Not "if", but,) "When you come back, we will do this again." That's one point that I think you should address in the future. The fact that the citizens are much more open, compassionate, and down right more friendly.
Awesome video Hayley!
I was born and raised in Germany and moved to the US three years ago. I've noticed, that here in the US most vets are taking your pet to a separate room, behind the scenes, to give them shots or do bloodwork. In Germany, you are always in the examination room with your pet and you're allowed to hold and comfort them as well. Something I somehow cannot get used to here lol
Oh wow...That is something I have never really paid attention to :( Poor babies that have to be alone and get shots. I bet that is so scary
Why? Just WHY am I still living in the USA? I've never felt more at home than when I'm in the EU. I have family in Germany, Poland, France and Norway. I need to leave. I need to make this a reality.
Choose a country, learn the language and become European (officially).
@@jennyh4025 I speak some French, Dutch, learning German and some Polish in addition to English and some Japanese. I think Germany will be my new home.
@@cocobass that’s probably more than I know, just German, English, some Spanish and swear words in French, Maltese and Italian. I can also understand some Dutch, but forgot how to speak it. That’s what you get for growing up in Europe, mostly swear words in other languages. 😉
Norway isn´t EU, though.
@@denniswitt1638 it’s close enough. 😉
Germany is Autoland (car country) and yet we have a viable public transportation. Being Autoland is no excuse for a creepy public transportation.
I think you mean crappy instead of creepy
@@hansflanse2674 quite possible 🤔
...like listen to someone that has been frozen for long time!
USA? who cares!
@yoncekaii hotchkiss With attractive offers, fast trains, good service and good prices, you can even get Americans to leave their cars behind and use public transport. The airlines in the USA can do that too. Even without your own car in your hand luggage. What makes me completely stunned is that there are no high-speed trains in the US. We're not talking about a poor Third World country here. We're talking about the USA. Insane.
@yoncekaii hotchkiss I would say got the wrong ticket. You can certainly get that cheaper. In northern Germany there is the Lower Saxony ticket. For 23 € you can drive around Lower Saxony for 24 hours. You can use anything. Just no planes and no taxis.
In addition, competition stimulates business. I don't think you have to explain capitalism to Americans.
In Vienna we have the danube island there is a area for FKK swimming on the 21km long danube island.
“America land of the free”😂 too funny
Very funny 🤣
More free than Germany.....
@@stefanlemke4245 nope, you really should go and educate yourself
@@stefanlemke4245 That was a hilarious joke
You should yourself
Your "schmeckt lecker" is so cute!
We went to England for a wedding in 2002. At first, I ordered bottled beer. The best bottled beer wasn’t German but rather French. Then I discovered that England produces bitters all over the country and they’re not bitter at all. Hook Norton was my favorite beer.
I went to Finland in 2004 on business. We did so well that our Finish salesman took us to a Russian restaurant (Saslik). Most of what we drank was hard liquor. I never drank much in college and it seemed I had more to drink that evening than I did my entire college career.
The Finns and the English were so friendly and accommodating. It was amazing.
Omg your sarcastic humor is what made me addicted to your vids 😂❤
I am glad someone understands me 😅😂
There are FKK communities in the US. I was an instructor for a company that helps at risk teens. We take them out canoeing for 30 days. We one time stopped at an area where we thought our campsite was. We ran into a person riding on a golf cart buck ass naked. We of course were taken aback. We told them who we were and we thought this was a campsite. The guy on the golf cart went and got his supervisor. We ended up finding out we were in a public nudist area.
L M A OOOOO I would have LAUGHED soooo hard
@@HayleyAlexis we did. It's just we didn't expect it. It was the highlight of the teens 30 day trip.
The British had a comment years ago which isn't "pc" but applicable to both nudity and drinking: "We sent the criminals to Australia and the Puritans to America." There remains that streak (no pun intended) of Puritanism in our culture. Some aspects of Puritanism - the work ethic - is also exploited in the US. Americans equate nudity to sex; drinking to drunkenness and sloth. You would think nearly 400 years later these things wouldn't matter... but they do.
They only still matter to some, def Not most
The thing is, that GMO is a very broad term that sounds very bad, but the GMO aspect is not unhealthy for consumtion and as you said it is mostly for environmental reasons the EU has banned it, but the EU has very strict rebulations on the pesticides, herbicides, what is considered organic and also the use of antibiotics in livestock is banned, so this is the area, where the food in Europe is considered higher quallity compared to the US
The difference is, in america, you have to prove something is un-healthy for it to be banned, in germany (and I think the EU as well) you have to prove something isn't un-healthy to be allowed
Interesting- yeah it was really hard to get answers. A lot of articles just listed the potatoes that Germany (and other countries in Europe) use that are a genetically engineered
@@HayleyAlexis the thing is, that there are some things, that you just cant find non gmo in the world, like corn, soy ect... and the thing that is modified is for example: you have a specific gene that affects the amount of seads, so it is just multiplied in the genome, so the plant gives more of it... it is not some insidious thing as many people think, because it is popular to paint the gmo stuff as bad from a marketing point of view (there are things that can make gmo bad of course, but generally speaking, it is not some poison) 😊
@@HayleyAlexis if you're really nitpicky, even the selection based evolution done in the past centuries with selecting certain types of plants is some form of gene modification
If all GMO products were be banned, we would have almost nothing to eat. What isn't mentioned in the GMO debate is that most of our grains, and a great variety of fruits and vegetables (including the basics like apples, pear, tomatoes,...) were created by exposing them to high radiation and inducing mutations. This IS genetic modification, just kind of like shooting at a plant's genome with a shotgun. Beneficial mutations would be bred back into the germline (but without any knowledge, what else was changed in the genome).
The hypocrisy in this is that it is totally fine for those crops to be sold as "GMO free" or "bio", while GMOs which were created by accurately altering only one single gene are "the end of the world". The nuclear method of creating GMOs is out of favor now, because the new methods are much more accurate and predictable.
The law of restricting GMOs for environmental reasons is at least somewhat science based. While none has shown yet that GMOs are any different to humans than non-GMO food, they often come with an impact in fertilizer use, herbicides or an effect on animals (mostly insects) which can destroy local ecosystems.
The laws for drinking in public varies from city to city. Most cities have laws against drinking in public parks and places after a certain hour of the day, mostly evenings. They implemented those laws after complaints of residents about drunk homeless people or groups of young people loitering around, being drunk and making too much noise.
If youre back in Germany and you and Mike go on a tour, try to drive 3hrs to the north west, to Rheinland Pfalz and do a Weintour.
There are a few distinct regions you can hit on the way. Rheinlandpfalz has several wine regions, that produce a huge variety of wine. The Pfalz, Rheinhessen, and the 2 major rivers (beside the Rhein) are the Mosel and the Nahe. These regions all produce awesome wine, you can buy wine everywhere, in every small town, where there is a winery, they usually sell the stuff they produce at their home.
Especially if you visit in late August or early September your in the main wine harvest season. You usually can get "Neuer Wein", which is new wine (slightly alcoholic and mostly sweet) with Zwiebelkuchen (the Pfälzer Twist on a Quicke Lorraine)
Very interesting Video. My dad always says I don´t know enough about the american culture, so I started to watch your videos. Last time I visited my dad in Florida I also wanted to visit my grama in New Orleans. But we forgot our international driver's license, so we thought ok lets take a greyhound bus to New Orleans. Not only was it over 2 hours late it was also very expensive for a bus ride. Really frustrating!!! Made me so made... But then again we also visited New York and Boston and took a Train, and we were like WOW... That train was great It was not really fast but the View and the train was great. I believe there are some differences between the north and the south when it comes to public transport. Cause in Boston and New York it's good. But I believe my dad don´t want me using public transport I think he don´t even like uber.
I have a fun story about work and alcohol. A few years ago I worked in an Internet agency. And they always said "kein Bier vor vier". So when the clock turned to 4 they were usually having their first beer. Since I´m actually a Bavarian who doesn´t drink beer I were never part of this thing. Oh, and by the way you can drink public everywhere in Germany When you do it Before an event its called "Vorglühen". Actually they say that a beer is like a meal almost everywhere in Germany. I moved to Stuttgart 12 Years ago, and they just say the same thing.
Love your Videos have a nice Weekend
Yeah I like taking trains in the USA actually because it can be very pretty but they aren't really convenient :( Traveling to New York/Massachusetts is relatively easy because they are right next to each other...It's like traveling to Munich to Mannheim... The problem arises when you try to travel from major cities like New York to Houston..... It is so complicated and probably a couple hundred/thousand dollars to do so on a train :(
Drinking in the streets - easiest to remember is that it being legal isn't weird, it's it being banned. As far as I know for Western-culture countries it's only that way in the US (prohibition time leftover) and Poland (what's going on with our Polish friends? Probably the Catholic Church, but who knows).
Drinking during work hours is generally not a good idea though.
And it's illegal in Canada too!! We also had "Prohibition"!! I had a cousin who arrived in Canada in 1950 and left in 1951. He was a bricklayer in Toronto and was once arrested for drinking a beer on the sidewalk on his way home from work and for being under 21! You couldn't buy a single bottle of beer and had to buy your beer from the Beer Store and alcohol from the LCBO where you never saw your booze until after you bought it and it was presented to you in a paper bag!! You couldn't go out for a beer after church on Sunday without buying a full meal dinner! After almost a year in Canada, he went back to southern Germany. He once asked me "How do you live in that country??" A lot of these laws continued into the 1970s. You still can't drink in the streets or on the beach or in a park actually anywhere other than residence or a licensed dining or drinking establishment! Canada is a very backward country!
You guys back living together in Deutschland ? That’s so beautiful 😻
Finaally.....after many long months :)
@@HayleyAlexis love it 🥰 !!!!!
Interesting video.
But after a few seconds, I had to think back to the videos you made in the USA this year. It’s not easy to see the same person. Today’s Hayley looks so much better, rested and happy. Just beautiful.
Beer for breakfast at McDonald’s Donald’s ,loved it. served 3 years in Germany early 80’s beautiful people and country.
There are definitely clothing optional and nude beaches in the US but they're pretty rare, like South Beach in Florida is optional. In New York is totally legal but not common to go topless.
In Europe there is food that is advertised as "BIO".
Very good quality.
Happy animals, more space in the stable, also on the green meadow.
Environmentally friendly agriculture. No pesticides.
No geenome modified foods.
Customers like to buy it, even if it is a little more expensive.
In the US, the opposite appears to be the case.
Bio (organic as it's known in the US) doesn't necessarily mean happier animals. The EU Bio label requires only slightly more space for animals than conventional mass factory farming. If you really want to ensure high quality of life standards for the animals you have to go with special labels like Bioland or Demeter that require way more space for animals as well as things like toys for pigs and a certain quality of feed (you can only feed organic to the animals).
Overall the EU bio label is more of a safety to oneself because you e.g. don't eat meat that is pumped full of antibiotics.
I agree with Carina S. BIO is not quite what you think it is. Here are two links regarding the "Bio-Verordnung".
www.oekolandbau.de/service/rechtsgrundlagen/
ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/farming/organic-farming/legislation_de
Back in the '80s when I lived in Berlin everywhere in any city park was the nude section but especially Halensee at the end of the main shopping drag Kurfürstendamm and Krumme Lanke, a lake in a quite posh living area. But if there was a an open air concert or a demo there were always some naked people around.
Hallo Hayley, nice video again.. my favorite Germany TH-cam explorer.
I'm from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Here we also have FKK. I retired some 6 years ago and some 5 years ago I was alone on the beach in the south of France. It was beautifull weather and I refused to wet my swimsuit. So I went in naked... that felt GOOD. Later back home I went to the nude beach on the North Sea. It was unusual for me but it felt good. There was plenty of distance on this large beach. Later that year I went to a nude area just North of Amsterdam. It's a lake to swim in and grass to sunbathe on. It's such a nice group of totally relaxed people there. I knew quite a few of them without knowing they were narurists. 5 were neighbours from my street and it appeared there were also 6 of my former collegues. No problem at all. The last few years we went to Cap d' Agde in France and I love it. Now I regret not going to nude beaches some 40 years earlier :-) To say it in general.. it are all people who have nothing to hide, even mentally, all relaxed people. Officially it's forbidden in the Netherlands to recreate nude outside of a designated nude beach, but more and more I see people ignore that and especially in the last (Covid19) summer there were so many people on all the beaches unlawfully nude and I never heared about people complaining about it. They all kept more then enough social distance in reality. I would not mind meeting you accidentally on a nude beach. I have nothing to hide. I'm sure your smile will have my attention. All the other video items are valid in the Netherlands too.
To Paris there is a special highspeed train this is not comparable to common lines, also within Germany
It's interesting what different freedoms are important to people. Carrying a gun or rejecting gene food and tanning the pimpled butt in the sun while having a drink. No doubt, this time the european perception is more sympathetic to me.
Juri, I would like if in our continent, we were allowed to wear guns, If you were psychological stable adult person, for self defence
@@MrJlin1982 You don't need a gun for self defence IF the country work as it should
@@altergreenhorn Not really, lot of weapon problems lately here in my country, lot of knives. Next in not feel so secured in the West
@@MrJlin1982 You need to read my comment again
@@MrJlin1982 If you open that gate you really end up needing a gun. No, i will never agree to that. Even a very stable person can turn unstable one day. And once the weapon market is open for regular people, you don't need to worry about knifes anymore, but guns in hands of criminals. All that would turn in a downward spiral of violence. Police would need to arm themselves better, death rate would rise, and we would end up with a similar situation like in the US.
If you have problems with fear, learn some martial arts, makes you confident and resilient without the need for such adventurious dreams about guns^^
Come on Hayley you are a Florida girl, you can't jump off any cliff because Florida did not have a single cliff at all, so this saying is the equivalent to the German saying: "Ich stürtz mich aus dem Kelerfenster" .
Additional wine info, Eastern Europe grows lots of vines as well, AND the biggest wine cellar in the WORLD is in the humble country of Moldova
When I relocated from Heidelberg to Grenzach-Wyhlen and in Sunday there was no bus from Lörrach to Grenzach-Wyhlen so I took another bus that went almost to the direction of my place. So, I asked the driver about any direction toward Grenzach-Wyhlen. I had a bicycle with me and several bags. So, the driver told me there is a road that goes toward Grenzach-Wyhlen but it is hard to get there because it goes uphill and downhill several times. So, I had no other way to get to my home so I took my belongings and my bicycle and I started going about 20 km through Switzerland and Germany so that was my hardest mountain ride with a city bike with 3 speeds.
The problem with most of the Californian wine is that they can not stop themselves from using chemical engineering in producing it. They want the wine to taste every year the same so they process it in order to achieve this goal. Unfortunately they destroy a lot of the taste.
There are some quite good traditional wineries in California but they are normally not sold in supermarkets.
@DawgTawkWellington (DTW) unfortunately this is true as well.
The same taste every year is what a lot of high-class French wineries go for as well. But they don't do it by chemical tampering, they do it by blending different wines from the respective year until they get the desired taste. If they absolutely cannot achieve this goal in any given year, they don't produce their "A" brand wine that year, only the cheaper "B" brand. Or they sell the wine to other companies that use it to produce liquor or something like that.
I agree with you on the abundance of good and inexpensive wines in Europe. Albeit Napa Valley California wines are expensive, but they are some of the best in the world.
😂 Sounds like a Bayern thing to drink on your lunch break...on my first day of grad school, our professor brought 3 crates of beer!
Really? are you in the USA or Germany? because in most cities in the USA..... Alcohol (substances of any kind) are not allowed on school campuses
With us it wasn't our teachers who brought alcohol but ourselves. In the higher years at school (10,11,12) you have your own separat room to use in brakes and free periods. We always had some beer there😅😂
@@HayleyAlexis I’m in Bayern :)
I'm in Frankfurt and people regularly have a glass of wine during their lunch breaks in restaurants. It's more prevalent in Italy and France.
@@WhoamI27676 lucky that you didn't get caught !
About the wine. In the 1970s, my american friends bought some bottles of american wine in the PX. It was Bally High or similar. That stuff was pure sugared red juice. It was kinda hard to stay polite and down that stuff. Even the cheapest two liter bottle of Pennerglück is real wine against Bally High. If this is what the US takes for red wine - i rest my case.
@@quazwasd4062 Some wine from Sonoma Valley or Napa is REAL wine. I think the average US wino hasn't got the dollars, to buy the real thing. Plus it is not so common to drink good wine, like in Italy or France.
I literally got lost in the comment section after you mentioned FKK 😂😂😂😂
When I was in the Army, they would contract local German workers for maintenance and some road construction. By law we (the US) had to supply the workers with beer for their breaks.
I lived in Germany from 87 to 90. I will be moving back when I retire.
In my experience, FKK is a very personal family issue.
You can engage in different degrees of it. Either just one nude activity or a vacation when you do everything without clothes on. Or anything in between.
My family just loves to go swimming on nude beaches and that's all the FKK we need for a happy summer vacation.
My mother's side of the family grew up in the GDR and remembers how the German FKK beaches were longer and more numerous back then. A lot of them were turned into textile beaches to accommodate the more conservative West German tourists.
Beer during lunchbreak is definitely a bavarian thing, but I lived half a year in the UK & there was 1 guy who always had 2 pints in his break 😂.
I worked in a rural part of the Ukraine for a while and I'm not lying to you when saying the police stopped by our local supermarket for having a couple of vodkas for lunch every single day.
Transport links in Europe are probably better because we have a greater population density.
In Europe, 74 people live in one square kilometer, in the USA it is only 33 people.
This could be a reason. But: Sweden, Finnland and Norway are not very densely populated and have good public transport systems. And look at the Chinese rail transport system, including their new build high speed lines. The US public transport is crappy even in the majority of densely populated areas.
Things Legal in Germany and illegal in the USA: Kinder Ü-Ei (Überraschungsei)
yes, too dangerous, but guns........
@@grandmak. kids can't own guns. The egg was banned because kids were choking and dying.
@@jessicaely2521 but kids take a gun and kill other so what ?
@@jessicaely2521 Strange. Kids are apparently not dying from Kinder eggs in Europe.
@@sammy012345678 city governments are now holding parents responsible if their kid takes their gun and kills another kid. When I was a kid in my area a lot of kids were dying from friends finding their parents gun, playing with it, and accidentally shooting and killing their sibling, cousin, or friend. My city started to charge the parents with manslaughter. The cities excuse was "you should have your gun locked up." Parents started to lock their guns up so their child couldn't get it. Now more areas are making this a law. Another example in Nashville a man shot up a restaurant. It was found out that his guns were taken away from him because of mental illness. His father left guns laying around so he took his father's gun and shot up this restaurant. The father was also charged with homicide.
You should absolutely mention Austria in the wine part as well. Austrians drink more wine than Germans.
@Licht spiel, is more like a wine country, The Netherlands, my country is both. We have to most small brewery's in the world, more then our formerly southerners, the Belgians
We can say: Everywhere the Romans where, there is at least some Wine.
Going back to the 1980 Austrian winemakers were involved in increasing the "alcohol content" of the wine by adding "antifreeze" liquid to their wines. It whipped the Austrian wine Industry out for years.
When I started work in the late '70s a lot of factories in UK had a company social club that served alcohol at lunch time so the employer was actually supplying your booze!
BTW - Washington State USA and France are nearly on the same latitude (off by 1.744 degrees) and our wines are pretty good. ;-)
The only $2.00 wine we have, comes from california.
If your boss is drinking, I can (beer or wine only).
As a bus driver I toured Europe with some American music students in the late 70 ties. I remember going to the beach with them somewhere in Sweden, and they were shocked that people just changed on the beach without covering up. I remember one of the counselors acting like he was about to throw up, seeing these naked bodies, and I wondered how he was able to have a normal erotic life with that perception of the human body. He really said that it was groce.
I think the drinking during your lunch break depends on what you work. If you're in administration and stuff like that it's probably not a big deal. But if you have to operate machines it wouldn't be a good idea to drink. I had to sign that I won't drink during working hours because I'm working in a chemical plant. It's a desk job but the ones doing the heavy lifting get the same contract.
When I was stationed at HAHN AB our workers brought a bottle of beer and drank it either with their morning break or at lunch. It was a union rule...
Same thing at SpangDahlem AB, just down the road!
I've lived in UK,Australia and NZ,drinking in public is ok in all of them,but there may be specific areas where its not allowed.
Beer is food everywhere in Germany. Beer is not alcohol, it is liquid bread. Used to work on the stage crew at Deutsche Oper Berlin for an agency and we had a beer every break ie every 2 hours. First day I started there was a delivery truck from a brewery and I just assumed it's for the public bar or the canteen. It wasn't, they were refilling the fridges of the permanent stage crew! :)
I think is not only in Germany seen as food. In Croatia is also seen that way. 😊
I think the drinking beer on your lunch break thing is more of a Bavarian custom. But we have had Mon Cheri (liquor filled chocolates) at the office before. And there's beer in our office fridge that sometimes gets drunk at the end of work.
Overall I think unless you have a job that requires you to be sober/not on pain meds like driving a forklift, no one will say anything about having a little bit of beer or a Mon Cheri at work/during work hours, but obviously you can't be drunk drunk.
Nice Haley, Me too if a go to a beach in general to a nudity beach, for example in Zandvoort in the Netherlands, I just don't like swim clothes, also visit sauna's sometimes. We just live in an great continent
I'm from Germany but lived in Spain from 2007 to 2013. They say Germany is very open about nudity, but Spain is even more so. I was pretty prudish in Germany, but Spain has changed me. Nudism is by law even allowed on every beach without separation. So you can see naked and not naked on the beach in Barcelona. That means mixed. So is the whole Costa Brava. So one day I thought if nobody minds I'll give it a try. And it didn't bother anyone and since then I've only been swimming naked. The difference is also that in Germany the older people do naturism in Spain the younger ones.
@@inotoni6148 I'm not an old guy, I'm almost 39, so I'm not young but also not old
@@MrJlin1982 No, I didn't say that, because I don't know you personally. You are even 3 years younger than me. The thing is that in Germany the older people who tend to be more open to naturism. That was different in the 90s.
@@inotoni6148 In the Netherlands, until around 2005 topless was more common for woman on regular beaches, today it's less common
My agecomment was more of An example
I used to live and work in Germany in the 60s, both in Bavaria and Hesse. People drink beer any time any where, no restrictions what so ever. Beer is like water to them. While I was there people never drank water. Beer was cheaper than bottled water. Their tap water is not potable, used only for washing and cooking. I started at 8 in the morning and on my way to my office I used to stop at a coffee shop and have a cup of coffee with a roll, brotchen . I was bemused to see the locals taking the sugar cubes that came with the coffee, unwrap them, dip it in the coffee eat them before drinking their coffee. In the office at 9 o clock a trolley used to come with hot filled rolls and bottles of beer! The pubs used to be open until early hours in the morning. The pubs used to have vending machines in the foyer dispensing bottled beer. Another common drink was apfelwein that is cider. Germans used to drink like a fish esp in Bavaria but never got drunk! That is the beauty of Germans!
I’m allowed to drink during work. There’s even a fridge with free beer for the employees. Love Berlin
I worked in construction in Mannheim-Viernheim in the mid-1970s and my boss would buy two cases of beer per day from a beer truck that travelled from work site to work site selling beer. Only one guy ever got drunk on-site and was immediately fired! I drank one once for lunch and found out that if you are working hard in the hot sun beer makes you sweat profusely. From then on I waited until after work to drink a beer. I live that country!!
@@ottovonostrovo1486 Beer is not the first choice, on a hot southern german summerday. So that is why, you better drink apple wine. I guess you call it cidre. Mixed up, with a quater bubblin' water, it will refresh you well and don't get in your brain, like beer, like a bullet...
"Bier um Vier" is an official event in our work calendar on fridays.
No way you can drink during work hours at a big company in Germany. And its been like that for about 10 to 15 years now. The reason is ensurance and and the fine you have to pay if something happens.
@@galanthuman2157 There’s no such state law. It’s entirely up to the employer. It’s a different story with surgeons, pilots etc of course. But if some type of accident happens and the insurance doesn’t cover it because of drunkenness that’s the employer’s problem, not the state‘s.
You can drink wherever you like to drink. There are only some exceptions: schools, kindergarten, some rooms in hospitals and public buildings, sport arenas if there is a derby, airports.
Dankeschön, have a nice Christmas time too🌲
Thank you :) I am enjoying the glühwein and cooler temperatures
i have discovered FKK just a few years ago and now i totally love it. now its really uncomfortable to me wearing swimming shorts so most of the time i go somewhere where i just need a towel! ^^
Love going to the Therme in Germany! It’s so freeing!
On some parts of the Autobahn there is no speed limit! If you are driving a supercar in good conditions and light traffic there's nothing to stop you driving at 180 mph!
OK - I won't tell you that you could buy beer at the cafeteria in my college. Not Bavaria, but Berlin ;)
Jealous- JUST A LITTLE!!! lol
Very interesting video! Concerning one of the "grey areas": drinking alcohol during lunch breaks will definitely not help your career in Germany with an office job. That is still more acceptable (but changing) in Italy because of their tradition of having really long lunch breaks as opposed to ever-efficient Germany (30 minutes and back to work). More important, the "alcohol culture" differs a lot between Germany and Southern Europe: in Italy etc. drinking is much more linked to social events and family gatherings while in Germany, the UK etc. having two, three or more "Feierabendbier" at home every evening unfortunately is quite common. Also, Italians drinking at home every day will likely be confronted by family and friends some day while in Germany the "social environment" will typically look away (but the HR department of your company will not once they find out). I'm not a puritan and I go with the liberal European drinking laws but I wished that in Germany - especially in Bavaria (I'm a Munich local) - habitual "non-social" drinking would be a bit more in public focus as a common problem. But as you said, beer is being perceived more as a basic food than an alcoholic beverage in Bavaria and the breweries' lobbying is strong - like our car industry preventing general speed limits on highways which every civilized country has.
Don't know which type of job you have, but in the office I worked in germany there was free beer in the fridge. And sometimes the boss came to have a brain storming round with beer. And the lunch break was min 1 hour. And no the office was not in Bavaria.
GM food is not allowed in the EU, but it will be coming to you soon in the UK
I think that will come to Germany soon. The Green Party has also given its OK for Geen Manipulated Crops. Maybe we will soon have a free trade agreement with the USA, so that we will unfortunately have to give up our rejection anyway.
True... An important value in general European culture is “responsibility”, or “accountability” - as an implicit parallel to any liberty one may have or experience. Strictness in law (and enforcement) comes from the consideration that (most) governments here actually expect people to use common sense, and not immediately abuse any legislative loopholes they may find. Philosophically this is a really old conundrum - The ancient Greeks were on to it, and the Bible also states in the very beginning that “we” received free will with the added burden of total responsibility for our deeds. This shouldn’t be just another “rule” for religious people. It’s more a fact of life - a common value - of being human in a family, a group, and in society. So, you may be naked in an area meant for this, but not in a public square. You may have a beer during lunch, but job lost there and then if you turn up drunk even once. It’s a Gordian knot that the US gov values a state that doesn’t interfere in liberties, while Americans themselves feel more “free” in Europe where the state runs a lot more of everything...?
he is probably playing cyberpunk, a man of culture
Hayley is on fire here. She seems in a good mood. Maybe she had some of that good cheap european wine....
Soweit ich weiß, ist das Konsumieren von Bier in der Mittagspause ein bayrischen Ding.
With over 400 comments I'm not sure if it has been mentioned. Also things allowed in Germany and not in the US: Überraschungsei (reason being a kid could swallow the plastic toy inside), candy with alcohol inside (mon Cheri, Weinbrandbohnen etc.) Nudity in public is allowed, if it is without sexual intent. e.g. a couple may get in or out of bed naked in films or on tv, but not "make out" or have sex. Same for nakedness in public.
0:38 we saw you on your bed for months when you were in Florida! But your living room does look more interesting :)
..... I feel like that was my "childhood" bedroom so it wasn't too special lol
Looked damn stylish for a childhood bedroom, lol
Drinking Alkohol during lunch break is only in Bavaria traditionell. Mostly it's not allowed to drink alcohol during working time. The insurance for working accidents will not pay if you were drunk. So it is forbidden now. 25 years ago no one cared if someone did drink 8 bottles beer from 9 to 5.
German wide Company. No Alcohol at the Workplace Policy. Year 2000. Training camp in Bavaria. 1 Liter Radler included on standard dinner in the canteen (Company owned restaurant?). (a Normal Radler would mean 0.5 Liter Citron Lemonade and 0.5 Liter Beer.) At Least in 2000 Bavaria was something special with the Alcohol ...
One more thing, I lived in Greece for more than 10 years and going topless does not do a roaring trade. Actually I think it is frowned upon. Just remembered.
Many Mediterranean countries have special topless or nude beaches, whereas it’s more of an „as long as no one cares, go as you like, but no clothes on nude beaches“ in Germany.
Greek here (living in Austria & lived in Germany), I agree. In Greece there are nudist beaches where people can be completely naked, but you can also wear a swimsuit if you prefer, whereas in FKK areas you must be naked. In the other beaches, topless (for women) might be ok but you can expect some staring, some people might complain too.
@@a0ch in Albania it is forbidden 🚫 but they don’t care much.
I really enjoyed and appreciated this overview you gave on all points. Thank you.
Everytime when someone writes an english word with ä,ö,ü I get so confused. My first reaction when reading the nüde in the thumbnail was "What it nuede" 😂
I have to write it because I am not really allowed to put it in the thumbnail as an english word...I will get demonetized
@@HayleyAlexis Not only are you not allowed to be n... , you're not even allowed to say the word! There is more than one n-word in the USA!
@@rolandscherer1574 yeah I noticed that AFTER I made the video 🙊😂
@@rolandscherer1574 that's so f'ed up. smh 🤦♂️
Drinking during work time depends on the job (and yes, in Bavaria its different than in Germany). If the work has to do with driving, alkohol is tabu (bus or tram drivers are not allowed to drink 10 or 12 hours befor the shift), working on machines alkohol is mostly tabu too.
Years ago it was very common for construction workers to drink beer during work time, today its uncommon.
Drinking in public is no problem, but if you get total wasted in public you can loose your driving licence (even as pedestrian) and the police can put you in prison until you are sober (not as punishment, just to protect you from getting hurt)
Bayern is special in regards to alcohol. No beer for me in my lunch break in lower saxony
Same for North Rhine-Westphalia. We have pretty liberal standards when it comes to alcohol, too but drinking during the working hours is pretty much a taboo.
@@HorseloverFat1984 I'm from North Rhine Westphalia too, we often had beer in our brakes at school...
I am from lower saxony too....Work and alcohol ist a taboo
You got the wrong job. Sommelier for wine or beer, beer brewer, Önologe is another one and there are more where it is required to drink alcohol at work... :-)
@@WhoamI27676 School is not the same as work.
Love your videos. Keep up the good work ❤❤🙏🏼🙏🏼
Idk if you did anything differently but your make up is really beautiful 🥰
I used a new foundation 🤩 it’s amazing. I will have to purchase it because it was a free sample
I (German from the environment of Cologne) don't know, that it is usual or accepted to drink at lunchtime some alcoholic drinks. But I remember well, when I did a traineeship at a Parisian Court in 1986, that I was really astonished, all juges drinking vine at the break and returning to the hearings afterwards. The vine was served at the court's lunchroom.
My little nude beach story: when I was about 12 or 13 years old, my familiy went on vacation in denmark. My parents were into FKK, but I refused all the time to let my pants go, but the *very* last day at the beach, i was ok with it and dropped the tast piece of cloth. So at the way home in the car I was lying in the back. I couldn't sit, because my butt was glowing red sun burned. Great experience.. 🤣
There is nothing more liberating than jumping naked (splitterfasernackt) into a natural lake on a balmy summer evening. As an island child, this of course also applies to the North Sea :-).
I love your videos and your charming and cheerful way.
And in addition you are a beautiful "deern" as we say in the north.
American history has always interested me and in particular how the German emigrants have brought their special characteristics and down to earth as they are some of the most successful companies in the world have built. Especially with regard to the Corona Impstoff I like to look at the history of such companies (Pfitzer). Typical "German" is not to dig in the earth on the goldfields, but to wait for the prospectors to bring their nuggets to the butcher's store, bakery, grocer's store, metal store, pub or hotel etc. :-).
Here in Portland, Oregon, we have a nude beach on the Columbia River. We also have a once a year nude night time bike ride right downtown!
Just to add on the wine scene Slovene white wines are considered as part of the top European wine scene, while our sparkling wines - champagne are at the very top, rivalling France.
Dein Kanal ist Erdkunde Unterricht für die Armis 😁❤️
UPS!
The first time I read your comment, I read "Amish" in my head and wondered ...
In Germany drinking alcohol in public is generally allowed... well you even shouldn't think like that - in most occasions there is just no rule, so of cause its allowed.
In some (most?) public transportation though alcohol (and often other beverages and meals too) aren't allowed, but you will see a sign at the door or in the vehicle stating this. I think it is similar in departments/agencies etc.
What you should know is that while alcohol is not permitted generally, people would often turn their heads if you drink alcohol outside of your free time. But this depends on Bundesland (Bavaria may be more open) and much more on people's class/education.
This is fun. This makes me want to go to Europe 🇪🇺.
come to the dark side :D
@@HayleyAlexis lol
@@HayleyAlexis ...we got nudity, beer and cookie´s ( Dampfnudeln ) ;-)
@@ThomasRenneis Dampfnudeln are not cookies! Dampfnudeln are deities in their own right. 😉
I assume that the thing with beer or wine in the lunch break can only be a Bavaria thing. And maybe it also depends on the job, but on the whole it is not accepted for several decades.
It's not only Bavaria, but there are some anecdotes, like: Soldiers of the German Bundeswehr can't drink alcohol during their duty hours. The soldiers stationed in Ulm envied the ones from Neu-Ulm. Neu-Ulm is in Bavaria and they could drink beer at lunchtime. In Germany outside of Bavaria, Siemens did have a strict no alcohol policy. In the cantinas in the headquarters in München you could fill your glass with draft beer yourself.
But generally, if you go to a restaurant for lunch, you'll see many people having their beer or wine or some mixed drinks like schorle or radler. Just don't get drunk. If you're in contact with customers don't have a "Fahne" (alcoholic breath).
Also bei uns ist Alkoholkonsum während der gesamten Arbeitszeit, sprich auch den Pausen verboten...
@Kessina1989 Ja, das ist, glaube ich grundsätzlich auf Arbeit verboten.
Ich hoff, ihr seid alle gesund, Kessina. Wünsch dir und deiner Family entspannte Feiertage und einen guten Jahreswechsel!
Und dass du auch mal etwas arbeitsfrei hast! Daumenhoch!
Very interesting to hear what an American woman noticed about us Germans. Never thought too much about that before! On the other side we are sometimes wondering about Americans, or let‘s be more precise about their behaviors when it comes to alcohol, sex and nudity: While most Americans seem to be quite puritanical, young college students have the bad reputation of completely freaking out when away from their parents‘ homes, especially during the famous „Spring Break“ season: Wet T-Shirt contests, public sex, drugs and alcohol; this is something unheard of here in this country!
There 2 types of FKK clubs in Germany. Be sure you go to the right one and don't get them mixed up.
One are nudist clubs, the others are brothels.
....well we wouldnt want that now would we.... Oh lordy
Not true. Brothels are never called "FKK club".
@@silkwesir1444 yes they are there is one where i used to live, that is labeled fkk-club, but there a
@@Ariyl Isn't an FKK-Club most often a "swinger's club" or a "sauna club" (if you like euphemisms)? There might be some brothels as well that call themselves FKK-Club , but i wouldn't think that's the norm.
@@cg6511 i thinbk it just depends on what you define as brothel, but you are right most of them are labeled as that! but i think what we all mean here is: fkk clubs can sometimes(depending on the usage of the word) be a place where sexworkers offer their services or where swingers are swinging (?) :D
My 0.02 : In Germany (most of Europe for that matter) you can buy alcohol and walk down the street drinking it without a care in the world. Here (Australia) you would be made to tip it out and would receive a hefty fine for doing so from the constabulary. Theres something about drinking and drunkedness in europe that don't carry over to the rest of the western world, in Europe you hardly ever see people in the street drunk and making a scene, there's just an inherent sense of shame they have that doesnt carry over, whilst every weekend or party night you can go out here and see people damaging property, assaulting people and verbally abusing others that would go on over in europe, they have an unwritten 'self policing' understanding over there regarding public drinking that would never work over here in Australia as drinking alcohol (too some excess some might say) is part of our national identity and not something that is readily going to change.
"What previously seemed to be an activity for the uninhibited became a normal activity that could be enjoyed without fear of embarrassment."
-Ed Lange, nudist photographer, publisher, and nudist resort owner.
U S army ,1981 -1984 , kirchgons , spent lots of time in Frankfurt , the first thing they told my group was if you hear someone holler halt ,the only thing that doesn’t may have a German Sheppard behind it .
Americans: dont show nudity, think of the children !
also Americans: tell little Tommy to finish playing this "Doom" game of his before kindergarten.
the thing I found interestingg is that they have beer vrnfing machines just like we hav them for sodas. Also, you only need to be 12 years old to buy beer.
Yes, I think we still have lingering prohibition-like laws.
in the 90th they had in Bavaria even Beer Vending Machines in the in production factories. It was absolut legal to drink weil working on the machines. Ok of curse you where not allowed to get drunk but a couple of beers was ok. I dont know who it is today so.
It was still allowed in Niederbayern up to ca. 2 years ago. You could drink a beer anytime a day, but if you had a work related accident under the influence (no matter how many you had) the insurance wouldn’t pay a cent
Happy to say that my employer (in Bavaria) stopped it.
That is a real problem. I was handling the reorganization of a factory in Ingolstadt/Bavaria that was a sub-contractor to the local automotive industry. These darn beer vending machines played havoc with the quality on the shop floor.
I think the drinking is tied to the amount of driving as well in the US. But up north in Estonia, we wouldn't really draw any attention for drinking in public.