Many heartfelt thanks to our American Friends for showing us Germans in such a sympathetic Way the many Advantages and Graciousness of our beautiful Country, which we Germans unfortunately often take for granted and often forget to be Thankful for it!
Some if the things you mentioned is more typical for southern Germany like the many outdoor activities. This is due to what the region has to offer (Alps, the many lakes, less industry). We call it „a high recreational value“. It’s one of the reasons why I moved to Munich, coming from the northern part of Germany. 😊
Vielen herzlichen Dank an unsere amerikanischen Freunde, daß Sie uns Deutschen auf so sympathische Weise die vielen Vorteile und Liebenswürdigkeiten unseres so schönes Landes vor Augen führen, die wir Deutsche leider oft als nur zu selbstverständlich erachten und darüber auch oftmals die Dankbarkeit vergessen!
Actually "Kaffee und Kuchen" is not only on sunday afternoons. Most eldery germans still have some coffee and cake or sweet pastries around 4pm every day.
Spent 7 very happy years living and working in a variety of places in Northern Germany including Berlin before the wall came down. Wonderful memories of a beautiful country. Left Berlin for the Mediterranean and as much as I enjoyed the Med it did not resonate with me in the same way Germany did. Now very contentedly living in the UK but go back for my German fix every now and again.
Germany definitely has a special place in our hearts. I think we will definitely will need to come back to get our fix if we move back to the states. Thanks for watching!
Hello, it's nice to read that you liked Germany even before the wall came down. A lot has happened in the meantime and you might like it even more. There have been a lot of positive changes not only in East Germany, and it is sometimes hard to believe that people still live there who would almost like the old GDR back and are completely ungrateful. I got to know the former GDR straight after the fall of the Berlin Wall and got to know how broken and desolate it looked there! Helmut Kohl's blooming landscapes have at least largely come true, especially if you still remember the image of the old GDR. There are definitely losers, but they too now live in a nicer, better country!
@@wallerwolf6930 Thank you. My wife and I have holidayed quite extensively in the old DDR since unification. We loved our time in Dresden, Meissen, Bautzen, Leipzig, Spreewald, Goerlitz, Wernigerode - So much so to see and such beautiful countryside. For sure we will return.
Just became aware of your channel and watched a few videos of your trips in my country. I just love it to experience a fresh view on things we are just used to and may take for granted so we even don't think about. So welcome and enjoy your stay. And who knows if you like it that much being here that you consider coming back after finishing your PCS / military service.
Thanx for your gratitude to things we Germans mostly take for granted. Sometimes it is quite an eye-opener what we should be delighted to have here in our country, but we Germans prefer to grumble instead ..... Well, do enjoy the autumn and the winter with all the wonderful colours of fallen leaves and perhaps the first snow and the Chistmas markets that will start soon! Liebe Grüße!
The leaves are more beautiful here than where we are from in the states. We also really look forward to the Christmas markets! Which Christmas markets are your favorites?
Nice to see you here. We love open-minded, young people who want to live, and work here. I hope you feel welcomed and want to stay here. To 3. Hehe, yepp, like 'Geography Now' stated: "Germans abso-freaking-lutely LOVE their bread!" True, that. But while you might love the quality of bakery quality breads here when compared to the USA it is a sad fact that even here most bakeries use baking mixes or almost done goods from one of only four major baked goods chains. Oftentimes, bakeries here recieve already pre-baked goods that only need crisping up in an oven. Others recieve a flour-plus-other ingredients mix with concise instructions of when and how to bake them. Alright, those mixes and products aren't terrible, granted, but it does reduce the actual quality because most of these mixes already contain quite a few rising agents that should not be used for *GOOD* bread. These bakeries simply can't allow the doughs the time to leaven and ripen for the required times. Otherwise they'd need much larger store-rooms for the amount they are selling. Storerooms require space that most bakeries today simply don't have. Sadly again, even most Germans don't understand that a good loaf of bread takes one thing: TIME. Time, however, is something that many people, including many Germans, can't afford to put into such a simple thing as their daily bread. Because time that something takes simply lying around allowing yeast to do its job while not being sold is time and money wasted. Therefore rising agents are used that increase the speed of leavening and the size of loaves without allowing the yeast to do its job slowly. Therefore a good loaf is usually quite a bit more expensive than a standard loaf at a bakery. If you can, find a real, traditional bakery who mix their flour and ingredients themselves, allow the doughs to leaven slowly and multiple times, and make and bake everything from scratch themselves. THEN you'll find the REAL deal. Once your palate has aquired THAT taste you'll see (or rather taste) the subtle but still major differences still available. Instead of 2-4 euros for a small to medium sized loaf it could be around 4-6 € for a similar sized loaf of slowly leavened bread. But to my taste buds, yepp, it is totally worth it.
Wow. I will be looking out for a real traditional bakery like that. In the US we loved to get sourdough bread made from scratch. Here we like the dark bread lots of seeds and grains inside. Thank you for your insight!
Great Video. In addition what about the German concept of GEMÜTLICHKEIT (e.g. in restaurants)? One aspect of it means that you don't have to pay the check immediately when you have finished eating. Instead you have to order the bill, when you think, you're wanna go. And in the extreme you can remain being seated with your friends the whole evening (if there is no other reservation) without any reason to hustle. In the US you have to use the bar for having trinks before or after dinner/lunch. The German/European way is much more relaxed and satisfying.
Great video folks. It is always great to see you both TH-cam world lol. I am in catch up mode lol. It was fun to listen to what you love about living in Germany. I really enjoyed my time but I always come back to Germany at least twice a year. with that being said I hope that you will consider coming to my TH-cam meet up in Heidelberg Germany on July 1, 2023. That would be so cool to meet y’all. I have information on my Facebook group page which has the same title as my TH-cam channel. I also have a recent video discussing the meet up. Have you tried spaghetti Eis yet?
Thanks for the invite. I will add it to my calendar. We do have family visiting then so we will see if we can make it work. We have had spaghetti eis! Great treat on a hot summer day!
I wonder how you think about the ability to find english speaking people in Germany. I feel that there are most of them/us that at least are able to have a basic conversation or to show the way/help out in the supermarket etc. What experiences did you make with this issue?
Good question. We recently travelled to northern Germany and we noticed a lot less people spoke English up there. Seems like so far in Bavaria the ability to speak English has been fairly common. It certainly has helped us out multiple times when we had trouble communicating. Thanks for watching!
OMG, now every folk abroad thinks that German railways are still using steam engines! JFTR, nope. The ICE is a high-speed train that (where possible) goes up to 200mph. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercity_Express The steam engine/locomotive (in the video) is running historical routes only and is not part of the public transport system.
Thanks for watching. I'm pretty sure people know Germany doesn't still use steam engines. That was a historic train near Pottenstein that we rode. We have used the trains all over Germany and have had mostly good experiences.
It's because Germans actually learn in driving schools, which can cost a few thousand, how to actually drive responsibly, and follow the rules they have learned, and are tested on. Not like some idiot today here on Maui in his rambo truck trying to pass me in a double left turn line, just as I was getting into that lane for my upcoming turn.
Scrolled through your videos and realized you didn't go north yet. Highly recommended. it might even remind you of Kentucky a bit. Where to go? The islands for sure! Where else? Have a look at Lauren in Germany's channel. She's british, living in southern Germany.
Yes we haven't gone north yet. We plan on exploring more of northern Germany this spring and summer. Thank you for the tips. I just subscribed to that channel.
Ihr seid amerikanische Besatzungssoldaten. Ich verstehe nicht, wie Amerikanische Besatzer, die Kultur des besetzten Volkes ihrer eigenen Kultur bevorzugen können. Warum seit ihr denn dann hier? 🤨
@@peter_meyer Sie meint damit, dass die USA einen sehr großen Einfluss auf Deutschland hat z.B. mit Ramstein Air Base und mit dieser Air Base Kriegsverbrechen im mittleren Osten ausgeübt hat und die deutschen dagegen nichts sagen dürfen, weil es sonst harte Konsequenzen gibt. "Die "Besatzung" endete 1991. Nicht zur Schule gegangen? Was für ein lächerlicher Kommentar." So welche Kommentare fördern keine Diskussion. "Saublöder Kommentar. Wenn die Russen vor der Tür stehen wirst du noch froh sein." Wenn die Russen vor der Tür stehen sollten, dann muss Deutschland dafür sorgen, dass die Bundeswehr verteidigungsfähig ist. Wozu hat man eine Regierung, wenn man sich auf die amerikanische verlassen soll? Die Amerikaner würden es eh nicht schaffen Rechtzeitig in den Kampf zu kommen, um die deutschen Grenzen zu schützen. Der dritte Weltkrieg würde sicherlich in Frankreich stattfinden.
Ich finde Deinen Kommentar echt traurig. Aber was kümmert es Euch überhaupt, wenn ihr lt. Eurer Kanalinfo aus Österreich seid? Ursprünglich kamen die Soldaten, um uns aus der Herrschaft eines Eurer Landsleute zu befreien. Und unabhängig von der aktuellen Situation bin ich froh, dass das amerikanische Militär hier ist.
@@kerim.s8801 Die USA haben ein sehr großen Einfluß auf viele Länder. Die Kriegsverbrechen der USA sind in deutschen Medien ausführlich behandelt worden - übrigens auch, nicht so ausführlich, in den meisten US-Medien. die (lächerlichen) Entschädigungszahlungen der USA an Familien "unrechtmäßig getöteter", (ich persönlich würde den Begriff "ermordet" bevorzugen) sind meines Erachtens vor einem US-Gericht erstritten worden. Eine Diskussion ist von Claudia ganz offensichtlich auch gar nicht gewünscht, sonst hätte sie sich gewählter ausgedrückt. Ich will ihr nicht unterstellen, daß sie das nicht kann. "Wenn die Russen vor der Tür stehen ..." kommentiere ich nicht. Das ist 70er Jahre Rhetorik, prinzipiell genau so ignorant wie der Kommentar von Claudia.
Only problem is probably about 40k of those are outlets for factory pastry and not bakeries. You can buy the exact same stuff in lidl or aldi.. Bakeries have been dying out for decades
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Always loved visiting Germany it’s massively underrated
Many heartfelt thanks to our American Friends for showing us Germans in such a sympathetic Way the many Advantages and Graciousness of our beautiful Country, which we Germans unfortunately often take for granted and often forget to be Thankful for it!
Thank you for your nice comment! It is easy to take for granted the things we become accustomed to.
Some if the things you mentioned is more typical for southern Germany like the many outdoor activities. This is due to what the region has to offer (Alps, the many lakes, less industry). We call it „a high recreational value“. It’s one of the reasons why I moved to Munich, coming from the northern part of Germany. 😊
Vielen herzlichen Dank an unsere amerikanischen Freunde, daß Sie uns Deutschen auf so sympathische Weise die vielen Vorteile und Liebenswürdigkeiten unseres so schönes Landes vor Augen führen, die wir Deutsche leider oft als nur zu selbstverständlich erachten und darüber auch oftmals die Dankbarkeit vergessen!
Thank you for your kind words! That is very true.
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@@cv507 - Was soll dieses Rätselwort bedeuten? - Zur Erinnerung: Die Umgangssprache hier ist Deutsch!
Actually "Kaffee und Kuchen" is not only on sunday afternoons. Most eldery germans still have some coffee and cake or sweet pastries around 4pm every day.
Ok that's great. That is more excuse to eat more of the great German sweets.
Exactly correct on all points. I spent four years there as a military dependent and am looking forward to my next visit.
Thanks for watching! What were some of your favorite places you visited while living here?
Spent 7 very happy years living and working in a variety of places in Northern Germany including Berlin before the wall came down. Wonderful memories of a beautiful country. Left Berlin for the Mediterranean and as much as I enjoyed the Med it did not resonate with me in the same way Germany did. Now very contentedly living in the UK but go back for my German fix every now and again.
Germany definitely has a special place in our hearts. I think we will definitely will need to come back to get our fix if we move back to the states. Thanks for watching!
Hello, it's nice to read that you liked Germany even before the wall came down. A lot has happened in the meantime and you might like it even more. There have been a lot of positive changes not only in East Germany, and it is sometimes hard to believe that people still live there who would almost like the old GDR back and are completely ungrateful. I got to know the former GDR straight after the fall of the Berlin Wall and got to know how broken and desolate it looked there! Helmut Kohl's blooming landscapes have at least largely come true, especially if you still remember the image of the old GDR. There are definitely losers, but they too now live in a nicer, better country!
@@wallerwolf6930 Thank you. My wife and I have holidayed quite extensively in the old DDR since unification. We loved our time in Dresden, Meissen, Bautzen, Leipzig, Spreewald, Goerlitz, Wernigerode - So much so to see and such beautiful countryside. For sure we will return.
You are so right about all you said you loved about Germany. Love it there. Thank you for sharing and for your service!!
Thank you for watching! I am curious to see how our list changes the longer we live here!
I was an exchange student in Bardstown, Kentucky. I liked it there very much too. Nice to have you here in my country now. 🙂
That is neat! We grew up very close to Bardstown and have family there still. Thank you for watching!
Well done video. Enjoy your time.
Thank you! We will try to enjoy every opportunity we get!
We have missed you guys terribly, we are happy you guys have enjoyed Germany, we can’t wait until you come hone.
Thank you! Looking forward to seeing family again in person.
Just became aware of your channel and watched a few videos of your trips in my country. I just love it to experience a fresh view on things we are just used to and may take for granted so we even don't think about. So welcome and enjoy your stay. And who knows if you like it that much being here that you consider coming back after finishing your PCS / military service.
Thank you for watching! We love it here. It is easy to take for granted the things that are common and become normal.
nice to hear
you´re nice ppll
Thank you for your continued support! You are one of our top fans.
Got to agree on all of this. I left the brit army in germany and came to canada. After canada, germany is a great place to live.
We absolutely love it!
I love Kaffee und Kuchen!
It truly is special. Thank you for watching!
Thanks for this video! Gearing up for a 3-year tour next year and so excited about the stuff on your list.
Congratulations on winning the lottery. Haha. It truly is a blessing living here and the ease of travel all over Europe.
Thanx for your gratitude to things we Germans mostly take for granted. Sometimes it is quite an eye-opener what we should be delighted to have here in our country, but we Germans prefer to grumble instead ..... Well, do enjoy the autumn and the winter with all the wonderful colours of fallen leaves and perhaps the first snow and the Chistmas markets that will start soon! Liebe Grüße!
The leaves are more beautiful here than where we are from in the states. We also really look forward to the Christmas markets! Which Christmas markets are your favorites?
@@trailblazinpeppers Landshut is the cutest
Nice to see you here. We love open-minded, young people who want to live, and work here. I hope you feel welcomed and want to stay here.
To 3. Hehe, yepp, like 'Geography Now' stated: "Germans abso-freaking-lutely LOVE their bread!" True, that.
But while you might love the quality of bakery quality breads here when compared to the USA it is a sad fact that even here most bakeries use baking mixes or almost done goods from one of only four major baked goods chains. Oftentimes, bakeries here recieve already pre-baked goods that only need crisping up in an oven.
Others recieve a flour-plus-other ingredients mix with concise instructions of when and how to bake them.
Alright, those mixes and products aren't terrible, granted, but it does reduce the actual quality because most of these mixes already contain quite a few rising agents that should not be used for *GOOD* bread. These bakeries simply can't allow the doughs the time to leaven and ripen for the required times. Otherwise they'd need much larger store-rooms for the amount they are selling. Storerooms require space that most bakeries today simply don't have.
Sadly again, even most Germans don't understand that a good loaf of bread takes one thing: TIME. Time, however, is something that many people, including many Germans, can't afford to put into such a simple thing as their daily bread. Because time that something takes simply lying around allowing yeast to do its job while not being sold is time and money wasted. Therefore rising agents are used that increase the speed of leavening and the size of loaves without allowing the yeast to do its job slowly. Therefore a good loaf is usually quite a bit more expensive than a standard loaf at a bakery.
If you can, find a real, traditional bakery who mix their flour and ingredients themselves, allow the doughs to leaven slowly and multiple times, and make and bake everything from scratch themselves. THEN you'll find the REAL deal. Once your palate has aquired THAT taste you'll see (or rather taste) the subtle but still major differences still available. Instead of 2-4 euros for a small to medium sized loaf it could be around 4-6 € for a similar sized loaf of slowly leavened bread. But to my taste buds, yepp, it is totally worth it.
Wow. I will be looking out for a real traditional bakery like that. In the US we loved to get sourdough bread made from scratch. Here we like the dark bread lots of seeds and grains inside. Thank you for your insight!
Great Video. In addition what about the German concept of GEMÜTLICHKEIT (e.g. in restaurants)? One aspect of it means that you don't have to pay the check immediately when you have finished eating. Instead you have to order the bill, when you think, you're wanna go. And in the extreme you can remain being seated with your friends the whole evening (if there is no other reservation) without any reason to hustle. In the US you have to use the bar for having trinks before or after dinner/lunch. The German/European way is much more relaxed and satisfying.
Yes that is true! We love not feeling rushed at restaurants and being able to visit and talk as long as we want.
happy new year from leipzig
Happy New Year. Thanks for watching!
Great video folks. It is always great to see you both TH-cam world lol. I am in catch up mode lol. It was fun to listen to what you love about living in Germany. I really enjoyed my time but I always come back to Germany at least twice a year. with that being said I hope that you will consider coming to my TH-cam meet up in Heidelberg Germany on July 1, 2023. That would be so cool to meet y’all. I have information on my Facebook group page which has the same title as my TH-cam channel. I also have a recent video discussing the meet up. Have you tried spaghetti Eis yet?
Thanks for the invite. I will add it to my calendar. We do have family visiting then so we will see if we can make it work. We have had spaghetti eis! Great treat on a hot summer day!
Very well done
Thanks for watching!
Spätzle! Maultaschen! :-)
We haven't tried that yet but it sounds delicious.
Proud to be German
Germany has a lot to love! Thanks for watching!
I wonder how you think about the ability to find english speaking people in Germany.
I feel that there are most of them/us that at least are able to have a basic conversation or to show the way/help out in the supermarket etc.
What experiences did you make with this issue?
Good question. We recently travelled to northern Germany and we noticed a lot less people spoke English up there. Seems like so far in Bavaria the ability to speak English has been fairly common. It certainly has helped us out multiple times when we had trouble communicating. Thanks for watching!
@@trailblazinpeppers in the DDR the people studied russian instead of english. This might be a reason for your experience in the north of Germany.
Have a question...is it in Americans come to live here in Germany ?
Yes we are Americans living in Germany but employed by the US. Thanks for watching.
I live up in Hamburg (expat)... You should really check it out some time. It's amazing.
Ok cool. We plan to explore northern and western Germany this spring and summer!
What are some things you recommend seeing or visiting near there?
OMG, now every folk abroad thinks that German railways are still using steam engines!
JFTR, nope. The ICE is a high-speed train that (where possible) goes up to 200mph.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercity_Express
The steam engine/locomotive (in the video) is running historical routes only and is not part of the public transport system.
Thanks for watching. I'm pretty sure people know Germany doesn't still use steam engines. That was a historic train near Pottenstein that we rode. We have used the trains all over Germany and have had mostly good experiences.
It's because Germans actually learn in driving schools, which can cost a few thousand, how to actually drive responsibly, and follow the rules they have learned, and are tested on. Not like some idiot today here on Maui in his rambo truck trying to pass me in a double left turn line, just as I was getting into that lane for my upcoming turn.
That is so true! I think there should be more drivers education in the US.
Scrolled through your videos and realized you didn't go north yet.
Highly recommended. it might even remind you of Kentucky a bit.
Where to go? The islands for sure!
Where else? Have a look at Lauren in Germany's channel. She's british, living in southern Germany.
Yes we haven't gone north yet. We plan on exploring more of northern Germany this spring and summer. Thank you for the tips. I just subscribed to that channel.
Why would living in Europe/Germany be the same as the USA? A bit more sanity on this side of the pond.
A lot of similarities but definitely not the same. Thanks for watching!
You dont Live in Germany you live in Bavaria
That is true. We are learning there is definitely a division between Bavaria and the rest of Germany.
Deutsche Bahn 😂
Thanks for watching!
What about the Germans? :)
We love the Germans! 🤍
Ihr seid amerikanische Besatzungssoldaten. Ich verstehe nicht, wie Amerikanische Besatzer, die Kultur des besetzten Volkes ihrer eigenen Kultur bevorzugen können.
Warum seit ihr denn dann hier? 🤨
Saublöder Kommentar. Wenn die Russen vor der Tür stehen wirst du noch froh sein.
Die "Besatzung" endete 1991. Nicht zur Schule gegangen?
Was für ein lächerlicher Kommentar.
@@peter_meyer Sie meint damit, dass die USA einen sehr großen Einfluss auf Deutschland hat z.B. mit Ramstein Air Base und mit dieser Air Base Kriegsverbrechen im mittleren Osten ausgeübt hat und die deutschen dagegen nichts sagen dürfen, weil es sonst harte Konsequenzen gibt.
"Die "Besatzung" endete 1991. Nicht zur Schule gegangen?
Was für ein lächerlicher Kommentar." So welche Kommentare fördern keine Diskussion.
"Saublöder Kommentar. Wenn die Russen vor der Tür stehen wirst du noch froh sein."
Wenn die Russen vor der Tür stehen sollten, dann muss Deutschland dafür sorgen, dass die Bundeswehr verteidigungsfähig ist. Wozu hat man eine Regierung, wenn man sich auf die amerikanische verlassen soll? Die Amerikaner würden es eh nicht schaffen Rechtzeitig in den Kampf zu kommen, um die deutschen Grenzen zu schützen. Der dritte Weltkrieg würde sicherlich in Frankreich stattfinden.
Ich finde Deinen Kommentar echt traurig. Aber was kümmert es Euch überhaupt, wenn ihr lt. Eurer Kanalinfo aus Österreich seid? Ursprünglich kamen die Soldaten, um uns aus der Herrschaft eines Eurer Landsleute zu befreien. Und unabhängig von der aktuellen Situation bin ich froh, dass das amerikanische Militär hier ist.
@@kerim.s8801 Die USA haben ein sehr großen Einfluß auf viele Länder. Die Kriegsverbrechen der USA sind in deutschen Medien ausführlich behandelt worden - übrigens auch, nicht so ausführlich, in den meisten US-Medien. die (lächerlichen) Entschädigungszahlungen der USA an Familien "unrechtmäßig getöteter", (ich persönlich würde den Begriff "ermordet" bevorzugen) sind meines Erachtens vor einem US-Gericht erstritten worden.
Eine Diskussion ist von Claudia ganz offensichtlich auch gar nicht gewünscht, sonst hätte sie sich gewählter ausgedrückt. Ich will ihr nicht unterstellen, daß sie das nicht kann.
"Wenn die Russen vor der Tür stehen ..." kommentiere ich nicht. Das ist 70er Jahre Rhetorik, prinzipiell genau so ignorant wie der Kommentar von Claudia.
You are very Welcome here
Thank you! We love Germany!
Don´t quote me on that, but i heard, that there are 45k bakeries in Germany compared to 3k in the US.
Wow I believe it!
Only problem is probably about 40k of those are outlets for factory pastry and not bakeries. You can buy the exact same stuff in lidl or aldi.. Bakeries have been dying out for decades
@@user-ve7hn2dh8h I still have quite a few good old fashioned bakeries around me.