Best 3 things in Germany

1-Location(frankfurt)easy to visit other nations!
2-No or little street crime
3- Theres a World Cup Coming

That was more difficult than I thought

1- Beer

2- Mountains (Summer or winter hols)

3- More Bank Holidays than U.K.

1 Health service

2 Germans (they are friendly!! Hubbi is one! :$ )

3 Public transport - ONTIME!!!

1. Beer

2. No speed limits on autobahns (OK, some of them)

3. a) Audi RS4 B) AMG SL55 c) BMW M5

Bombi

all this public transport mmmm In Frankfurt there are delays regulary infortubately

Germans being friendly mmmmmmmmmmmmm aside from your hubs I would have to agree to disagree

As for the Topcat Beer is good but Irish bars here serve crap!

Beer

Crime (as in there is none of it)

Public Transport (I complain when it's 3 minutes late, which means it's actually pretty good)

Wow, that was easy.

I go with the Beer, Mountains/Countryside, Haxen!

Tho' the countryside in the UK is also wonderfull.

Oh wait, I have a fourth!!
Cylcle paths!

@neilg, you've forgotten something! Just you wait until I meet Mrs neilg!

Know your feelings exactly!!! I come from a Welsh village and buses don't run in the evenings and on Sundays, well if you see a bus then...

Beer !

Munich

The Britboard

@Tommy : That was 4 things, but it's nice to see you put Bombi in first place

1. Cafe-Frühstück (Cafe breakfasts)
2. Fahrradwege (bike paths)
3. Wälde (forests)

1) opening hours
2) house building standards (thick walls, taps that stick out over the sink etc)
3) making me really enjoy England when I go back

1. No last orders at 11pm!!!

2. Christmas market.

3. Autobahns (well those parts with unlimited speed restrictions)

(And 3 more: mixed saunas ; being able to drink and eat outside on the street cafes for most of the year; cheaper to rent an apartment)

:doh:

And what do you think about german bread and baps???

As you know I am german and now living in London. I can't find any crispy bread. The bread in UK is very "fluffy" isnt't it?

Oh I miss that bread so much :$

Try and find a bakery where they bake the bread on the premises. Not easy I know, but there are some to be found in some areas at least. You might find something edible there.

German bread is excellent. Especially love Laugenbrötchen and that Bauernbrot type stuff with thick brown crusts.

Buy a bread machine Jumbles and make your own! Get your Mom to send you some ready bread mix over.

The thing with german bread and german bakeries is, there are so many different bread types and bread roll types allwith different names, often with regional variations. I have mostly given up trying to ask for them by name. Invariably if I state the name of the loaf as its printed on the sign on the shelf edge, 9 times out of ten, the sign is in the wrong position/referring to the shelf above, or something, and end up with something I didnt want! So Ive learned to mostly just point (unless its bread that I am certain I know the name of, like Laugenbrötchen).

sonst noch ein Wünsch..?!

I find bakeries here very intimidating. I often get incredulous looks when i refer to a Vierkornbrötchen as a Sechskornbrötchen.

@Jumbes: don't get me thinking of baps and buns again ...!!!

I go to a fantastic Turkish bakery where I am safe in the knowledge that their German is just as bad as mine.

@Jumbes: don't get me thinking of baps and buns again ...!!! ph34r.gif

You thinking of the ones in the mixed german saunas??!

lol

Is bup the wrong word??? :$

Ups

And believe me: I have the same problem to know the name of the bread.
Because every bakery use another name.

I always point the bread I want to have

As you can see: That's a problem the germans have too.

A bakery machine...Of course a good idea. But the problem is that a self made bread can not be stored with the same taste like a bread from a bakery.

Sorry not bup. I mean bap.

You are confusing me. :doh: :doh:

getting decent bread in UK can be a nightmare but London is good compared to everywhere else.. as for covering everything with nuts and seeds you'll probably have to do that yourself

if you're after the heavy bread then English bread is lighter, I think German flour is ground coarser and hence your cakes are a lot nice too! You could try Irish soda bread or they used to do a really good wholegrain Irish loaf thing at Mark+Spencer that's good.. I used to buy the ciabattas from Aldi+Lidl and live off those..

Jumbles - baps is correct, but they are by nature a soft bread. As sort of said by JDee go for wholemeal rolls & loaves baked in-house, prefereably at a wholefood shop or Deli.

@Jumbes: In case English was not confusing enough, baps is slang for breasts in some parts of the country - more common in the Midlands and North (I think)

and nice buns can be applied to the prosterior also

not beiing in germany anyore can't say the 3 best things...but must admit I do mist the bread...used to love going to the bakers of a morning and getting some rolls...can't do that here...couldnt even tell you where the nearest bakers is!!!

Can say though in my drunkon stupor I have just stuffed 4 large sausage rolls...which is something I missed whilest in Germany...

Oh god...I am going to be illi in the morning !!!

*nods* but Andrea it IS the morning...4 sausage rolls on top of massive amounts of alcohol...hmmmm...yes...ill could be the word! Sweet dreams!

1. The cheap cost of living in Berlin
2. Health care
3. Brötchen / Schrippen

beer
beer and ( ere let me pause for reflection for a moment )
oh yes beer
the rest of it is a load of tosh

1. general lifestyle, but that might be Freiburg related - relaxed, continental style town and very scenic
2. the 'cafe culture'
3. low living costs

beer looks like a popular choice - it's ok I guess (for larger!) but I'd rather have a proper pint, some Wadworths 6X or a decent Caffreys would do nicely

I think a stronger word than ill could have been used Hellie

...forgot to cover the budgies up before I crawled up the stairs and guess who got woke up at 7 am to the sounding of tweeting in stereo...it was nearly budgie pie for tea I can tell ya

Hope the hangover is a bit better now Andrea!!!

I honestly couldn't narrow it down to three things but bread, beer, pub hours, standard of living, lack of drunks vomiting in the streets are all certainly up there!

Best 3 things in Germany? That doesn't need much thought...

My wife, my daughter and my son!

1 good location... can travel all over the continent cheaply and quickly
2 it's very safe here, virtually no crime as compared to the States
3 the Nachtbar!!

1. Public transportation (on time and seamless)
2. Beer (slurp!)
3. Cleanliness (living in Frankfurt, cleanest city I've been in Europe)

1. I love German bread and those pastries with custard in them and fruit on top

2. I like the cleanliness of the cities and towns and definitely the sense of community and family that Germans have.

3. The fact that the Germans are very tolerant of other races and are usually more than willing to listen to my terrible German and pretend it wasn't that bad!! Like last week when I was trying to order new glass for the front door and didn't know the word for double glazed and the woman patiently listened to me witter on about two pieces of glass with a gap between them and knew exactly what it was!! and then trust when they came to fix it and wouldn't take the cash but insisited on sending me the bill to pay at the bank. I've never met a workman in the UK who didn't take cash!!

1. Germans do Christmas really well
2. Beautiful autumns
3. Amazing landscapes

1 - The ability to live off one salary and raise children (in england my wife would have to work and let the grand parents look after the kids)

2 - People are not so materialistic here - you dont seem to get frowned at for not wearing the latest adidas trainers of newest levi's

3 - Hospitals that dont make you even more ill after you have been in them

1, Beer
2, Brothels
3, High standard of living

Plus - shopping hours are catching up - many big stores now open till 8PM on SATURDAY (In Duss anyway) - standards, huh?

1. The Länder (accident of history but it does mean that most towns/cities have decent facilities and everything isn't centred around the capital city - as per UK/London, France/Paris for example).

2. Cycle-paths (easy, safe and healthy to get around locally).

3. Doctors & dentists (Can go to which one I want, don't have to try to enrol, etc.)

You've all covered mine so here goes with some obscure ones:

1. Smoothness of the tarmac on the road. When I go back to UK I'm shocked by the level of tyre roar.
2. Pine trees. I was out running in the Taunus the other week and was in awe of the trees. So much more majestic than your average UK woodland. And they smell so good when it rains.
3. Windows that can tilt.

Good ones Luke, I have one more to add

Warm Butterbrezeln yum!!

Thats Microsoft for you then eh !! I can tilt my Windows so that I can see a page in portrait position too ...
Very efficient for DTP !!!

But my favorite at the moment is:
Cheaper DIESEL than in the UK. Fuel is so expensive over there !!
4 Star: 90-95p
Diesel: 93-99p

How about a warm " Käselaugenstange" ??

mmmmm I think I have just gained 2kg!!!

Muffin you can't gain any weight - that would:

1) Put you above the 22% fat ratio

2) Mean you would need to make an appointment with Dr Maaph

PS. Love those Käselaugenstange - have them as a treat ...sigh (look longingly at a Käselaugenstange)!! oh well!!