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Jan. 21st, 2015 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird1Five weeks to go before we're back in Australia.
I'm rather keen to go home (and show off the kidlet), but there are some things I will miss here.
German Things I Will Miss
- the snow
- the lockers everywhere, useable with a 1 Euro coin (which returns to you when you re-insert the key)
- traffic lights that turn orange before they go green
- the road signs saying "Stadtmitte", giving you a handy guide to where the local shops (etc) will be
- the bakeries and their wonderful pastries
- crepe stands in the street
- having France a few hours' drive away
- buskers who really know how to play the piano accordian
- squirrels
- little old ladies who stop me in the street to admonish me to put a hat on my son (yes, this is annoying - but I still find it rather sweet)
German Things I Will Not Miss
- the ice
- having to pay to use the loos
- traffic lights that only sit on one side of the intersection, making it impossible to see them if you're at the front
- freeway exits that seem designed for maximum chaos
- bakeries that DON'T HAVE MEAT PIES (oh the humanity!)
- all the food using pork instead of beef
- driving on the right side of the road
Aussie Things I Really Miss Right Now
- summer!
- cafés and coffee shops
- pies, sausage rolls, dim sims, thai food, hamburgers with the lot, flake, pavlova, lamb, and fruit that doesn't go off within a day
- magpie song
- footpaths that don't have cobblestones (prams are a pain to use in old towns)
- houses without steps up to the front door
- shops that are open on Sundays and in the evenings
- my family
- my cat
...so there's that.
I'm rather keen to go home (and show off the kidlet), but there are some things I will miss here.
German Things I Will Miss
- the snow
- the lockers everywhere, useable with a 1 Euro coin (which returns to you when you re-insert the key)
- traffic lights that turn orange before they go green
- the road signs saying "Stadtmitte", giving you a handy guide to where the local shops (etc) will be
- the bakeries and their wonderful pastries
- crepe stands in the street
- having France a few hours' drive away
- buskers who really know how to play the piano accordian
- squirrels
- little old ladies who stop me in the street to admonish me to put a hat on my son (yes, this is annoying - but I still find it rather sweet)
German Things I Will Not Miss
- the ice
- having to pay to use the loos
- traffic lights that only sit on one side of the intersection, making it impossible to see them if you're at the front
- freeway exits that seem designed for maximum chaos
- bakeries that DON'T HAVE MEAT PIES (oh the humanity!)
- all the food using pork instead of beef
- driving on the right side of the road
Aussie Things I Really Miss Right Now
- summer!
- cafés and coffee shops
- pies, sausage rolls, dim sims, thai food, hamburgers with the lot, flake, pavlova, lamb, and fruit that doesn't go off within a day
- magpie song
- footpaths that don't have cobblestones (prams are a pain to use in old towns)
- houses without steps up to the front door
- shops that are open on Sundays and in the evenings
- my family
- my cat
...so there's that.
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Date: 2015-01-21 10:09 am (UTC)I'm actually having takeaway right now, because it's too hot to think about cooking. I'll eat a dim sim for you.
Today was a top of 29. It is still 28.5 out there right now, after 9. By the time you get back it should be starting to get nice again, not unbearable and gross.
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Date: 2015-01-21 10:22 am (UTC)In Germany you get separate restaurants for any European country, and one "Asian" food place selling all rice-containing dishes (except Indian, which have their own restaurants). So you don't really have things like chicken satay, or beef with cashew nuts, or proper curries*, or roti bread.
(BRB, making myself drool...)
*Germans don't really "get" curry. Their spicy is something we'd consider mild enough for ten year olds.
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Date: 2015-01-21 03:36 pm (UTC)Yeah. I love currywurst, but it has as much to do with curry as hot dogs have with actual dogs. (Hopefully.)