1. Ladies, (and perhaps gentlemen) leave your heels at home: In hindsight, totally common sense. But I wish somebody would have told me this before I packed several of my standard work pumps. Cobblestones and brick walkways are everywhere. I think some of my heels are one street crack away from snapping off. Thankfully, my winter clothes / shoes shipment has finally arrived with some flats!
2. Don't you want something to wash that down with?: I was surprised to learn that most of my colleagues don't drink anything (even water) with lunch. I don't know if its a German thing or a regional thing or what. I, however still like a soda or a water with my meal.
3. What's Non-Alcoholic Beer?: Ok, my motto's gone to hell already. I admit, this one strikes me as weird. But I've found out that it's actually fairly common to drink non-alcoholic beer here (And yes, I know beer is a great post-workout drink). But really, while I love the taste of all sorts of beer, I just don't get it. Non-alchohic beer just kind of defeats the purpose for me. Don't think I'll be having many of those.
4. No Sunday Funday?: I knew this one coming into my trip here but I still find myself sad enough over it to add to the list. Nothing is open on Sunday. Nothing. And around here everything is closed by 8 every other day so it's pretty different from the States. Not bad, just different.
5. They love their dogs: And they take them everywhere! Seriously, on trains, in restaurants, even at the airport! I've seen people bring their dogs everywhere. I won't be surprised to find dogs in an office or hospital next.
Yup, that's a dog on the train from Kassel
Ok, that's all I've got for now. I'm sure more will come soon but I was a bit of a hermit this weekend due to being sick so nothing exciting happened.
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