Continuing on my 'reasons to love Germany'. Here's part one and part two
7) WACKEN!
.. and Summer Breeze, and various other big open-air festivals. A metalheads idea of paradise. Especially Wacken. God, 3 days of beer, metal and.. drunk metalheads?
Of constant metal, constant party. Man do I look forward to the festival-season again, and I swear I will be in Germany during it. What's Norwegian festivals compared to this? Lice. Hell of expensive lice too. Gosh, gotta love Wacken.
8) Schnauzer
The Schnauzer - my all time favourite dog-breed is German. Look at the adorable creature on your right now. That used to be my dear Alexi. Had to give him up, unfortunatly. Miss him deeply.
I don't actually know what more to write about that. They are adorable, both how they look and their personality... aaand where they are from. Reason enough to mention it here. Schnauzers are lovely! Ye... next!
9) Maggi Fix/Knorr Fix
Cause it's easy, cheap, and cause it has a good taste. Ah, the thought about the taste of Gebratene Nudeln almost makes me drool.
Nice thing is that they have about everything, Chili Con Carne, Spaghetti Bolognese, Chicken-soup. Roulade... It's not like we don't have any of this in Norway, but they have it SO much more there. HUGE shelves in the stores containing nothing but these Fix bags. And I like it, I dig it. It's one of the things I always bring home to Norway after a Germany trip.. Maaaany Fix bags.
I'm just gonna continue on my 'reasons to love Germany'. Here's part one.
4) Gesundheit!
The fact that when you sneeze, everyone says "gesundheit!" (=German "bless you") to you. Everyone. Even strangers. It's kinda (very) cosy when you're on a metalfestival and release a maajor sneeze in the tent, followed by 10 different voices screaming "GESUNDHEIT" to you from outside. At times it almost seems like it's a competition going on, the one who says "gesundheit" first wins. It's cosy.. simply :)
I was a week in Norway now, sneezed plenty of times, and not once did I hear a "bless you". Not once. Weird that a small "nothing" like that makes me miss Deutschland.
5) Stefan Raab
Now, ladies and dudes, take a look to the handsome man on your right.Looks like a charming man, right? That's Stefan Raab.Known for for example his shows Tv Total, Schlag den Raab and Schlag den Star. All shows that I love to watch when I'm in lovely Deutschland.
Schlag den Raab and Schlag den Star is really superb entertaining. In Schlag den Raab normal people sign up for a competition towards Raab in 15 different thingies, when they win they win money, when Raab wins.. he wins.. respect? Schlag den Star is the same thing, just that they compete towards other celebs. Usually these shows lasts for hours and hours, and they are really.. kickass. Shame it's sent so damn rarely!
On Tv Total he probably met all the people in the world worth to meet also. Cool, cool. My favourite is when he meets Will Smith.. Here's a lil' nice vid showing that meeting.
Ah, uh-uh, yeah. Stefan Raab ist echt toll.
6) Lederhosen
The people who follows my blog probably knows already my feelings towards Lederhosen. If you're new, then this quote from a previous blog-post will cover it ut nicely.
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Lederhosen is a own source of happiness and joy for me. The word in itself brings me joy, people who talks about it brings me joy, and pictures of it brings me joy.
I've also previously talked about Lederhosen in my blog here and here. So as you probably understand , I just can't get enough. If I get rich someday I'll buy Lederhosen to hang on the walls. It will be my altar.
It's a reason to love Germany, cause of the things I said before, and cause it's so damn GERMAN.
This is the first post in my upcoming blog-series "Plenty of reasons to love Germany" - where I'll write about.. yes.. Plenty of reasons to love Germany? I'll have 3 things per blog. Or four.. or five.. or no specific numbers, just what I feel for. Here's the first 3 anyway!
1) Parkplätze nur für Frauen.
Translated, parkinglots just for women. I never saw that anywhere else, never. But Germany has that. When I asked my German boyfriend "why on earth women gets their own parkinglots", he answered that "women get raped, and they park badly". So that's the reason that the parkinglots are close to entances, and that they are bigger.
I look away from the fact that it's a tiny bit discriminating to make it bigger cause women obviously park worse, and I enjoy this. The day I get my drivers-licence (hoho, optimist-Trolldis) I'll really enjoy it!
2) Bier, the taste and the price.
Now, when you buy beer in Norway you pay 2,50€ for a half a liter (at least), when you go to Germany you pay 0,15€ for the cheapest beer, 0,50€ for the average beer, and 0,70€ for expensive beer. I can promise you that a beer-liker goes beer-bananas in Deutschland! Just thinking about Mönchshof gets my mouth all drooly. God what a quality-beer! When you're in Germany, test this beer, if not you'll regret it, and when you die you never experienced great happiness.
3) Süßigkeiten
Rafaello, Milka, Campino, Haribo! God, I love Gummibärchen, here for the Germans who doesn't understand English: ICH LIEBE GUMMIBÄRCHEN! Best thing is: you don't have to sell your soul to afford some candy (like in Norway). And gosh, did you ever taste Rafaellos? Like sent from heaven.
Now, I'm not 100% sure what's German products and what not (lookin' away from Haribo, Haribo ist echt DEUTSCH!), but I mention them here cause you find them in Germany, cheap, everywhere. They taste delicious, and that's all I need.
