Northern Germany: Meet the Germans Road Trip (Scottish Reaction)
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2023
- Northern Germany: Meet the Germans Road Trip (Scottish Reaction)
This is my reaction to Northern Germany: Meet the Germans Road Trip from DW Euromaxx
It was interesting to learn about Northern Germany with this reaction. It looks like a beautiful place.
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As we Hamburgers often quip, there is no bad weather, there is just suboptimal clothing.
As long as the sheep still have curls!😂
and the fishes are awimming on eye level ^^
Büschn Wind.
A "stiff breeze" can be anything up until 12 Beaufort...
So siehts aus. Grüße aus Bremen
Funfact: in the time after WW2, when germany was still occupied. The British were the occupier in lower-saxony and therefore in east frisia as well. The British (as established tea drinkers) recognized the tea culture and not only gave food stamps to the people there but also tea stamps
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I think Northern Germany is completely underrated, especially Meck-Pomm. It is the number 1 holiday destination for Germans. Warnemünde, Rügen, Usedom, Wismar, Stralsund, Schwerin with its castle and so much more. And still very important Vogelpark Marlow, in my opinion it is the best "zoo" ever.
I flew from Philadelphia to Boston last year, first class, and struck up a conversation with a Boston businessman. he told me that he flies to bavaria every year to go cycling. I then showed him Meck-pomm, the coast, forests and other things.
He directly rebooked his trip, he showed me that. he is on the road in M-V in June.
For cycling, M-V is indeep better than Bavaria. It is as flat as a stamp.
And as so often usual... They talk and show only the western part and the "little" island Nordeney, instead the number one island Rügen. 🤷🏻♂️
@@UlliStein I mean, it's not just flat, there are plenty things to look at as well (I mean, anything that's not a mountain anyway). And especially the coast line is so dense with touristy places that there's always some place to get snacks and drinks from nearby.
Good job!
Yeah ... it's such a pity that americans especially only seem to know (or frankly care about) Bavaria. I mean it's pretty, but it's just 1/16 of Germany!
The northern German states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania should not see themselves as rivals. Together they present the beautiful German coastal landscapes. Everything the southern countryside lacks is here, it's beautiful and simply great. Best regards from Lübeck.
I am from Schleswig-Holstein - the mostern northern federal state and I have to say that Northern Germany is just awesome. It is so beautiful and peaceful with countless of sleepy villages... cow, green meadows and of course the beaches.
The people are more relaxed and calm, but super nice and hospitable. But beware, in order to break through the hard shell of a Northerner... you need to put in some effort. But when you have succeeded, you have gained friends for life.
So, Nothern Germany is always worth a trip.
So true! Moved to Schleswig-Holstein seven years ago - didn't regret it for a second. Having been born and raised in Saxony, I especially like the openness and cordial directness of the Northern Germans.
For me as a Dutchman the Ost Fries Dialect is very easy to understand, propably even easier than someone from South Germany. Its is very simular to the Groninger dialect. The province of Groningen borders on the west side with North Germany. The language (not a dialect) from the province of Friesland, even more west, is totaly different. Very difficult to understand for me.
I have been to the coast of Meckelenburg-Vorpommern and its beautiful, so underrated. I love the Backsteingotik, of which I never heard before. So old and still standing. Stralsund is my favorit city. In a way it reminds me of old citie's of Flanders. In the Netherland there also were a lot of Hanse cities. The Republik of the seven united Dutch provinces became very rich because of the trade with the Ost Sea cities; wood, grain and weapons.
Frisian is indeed different from lower German. Most northern Germans that still understand or speak lower German understand Dutch better than some standard high German dialects from the south as well.
True. The closer to the border, the closer Low German is to Gronings. I grew up ten kilometres from the border and can communicate quite well in Low German as long as the person knows Gronings. 😊😊
Which part of Germany has the best beer?
Yes.
:)
The beer of Northern Germany vs. Southern Germany is totally different. In the south the beer is sweeter/maltier, in the north it is more bitter. North Germans and South Germans argue about which beer is better. but in the end the disagreement is good: they don't drink away from each other.
North and souths can argue as long as they want, best beer comes from middle germany 😉
Generally true , however you might find a few exceptions : for example I come from the Franconian region of Spalt which is one of the oldest hops-grewing regions in Germany , so the breweries in our vicinity like to put more of the good stuff into their beer . Some people from the North that tasted it told me it tastes a lot more like a typical N-German Pils , not like the malty and smooth South German Helles . Of course , we also like Weizenbier down here , which is as fruity as it gets .
Just commutetd from work in Hamburg to Lower Saxony, enjoying a party-evening-beer which logo is a white spade on a red shield😇. But hey, one of the banters in my company is that I'm a Bavarian, because I live on the wrong (southern) side of the river Elbe. Embrace the "shame"!😁
@@soewenue name one!
@@Mike8827 In Spalt in Spalt da werden die Leut gar alt.... aber euer Bier ist extrem hopfig bzw. bitter, bissl zu krass für mich. Wenn dann als IPA, aber dann bitte nicht so bitter. Die Hopfenaromen mag ich durchaus.
For someone from the south of Germany (I am from Bavaria), northern Germany is almost like another country. By culture, we can relate much more to Austria, Switzerland or even Italy (south Tyrolia). But it is also interesting to venture to the north, in particular to the coastal areas. I used to work for a couple of months on a drilling rig in northern Germany (Syke, south of Bremen), where the roughnecks only spoke platt(-deutsch) with each other. I did not understand a single word, communication was all by sign&gesture language. Of course, those guys could speak and understand "proper" German, but they just made their point. Another experience was on a geological field trip: The guide pointed out the "hills" in the countryside immediately in front of us. I did not see anything until he explained that these barely two-meter-high mounds were the subject of our study. Yes, northern Germany is flat. - As a matter of curiosity, after our divorce, my daughter grew up with her mother in the North, at the shores of the Baltic sea, and she calls me "her Bavarian father", whereas I call her "Nordlicht", a term popular in the south denominating the folks from up north. But after all, how boring would Germany be, how dull would this world be for us, if there were no differences in style, habit, tradition, langues, and what else. That's why I love northern Germany, too.
As a Syker, of course, I now ask myself what there is to drill here!😅
As a native of Bremen, I grew up speaking High German, of course, but here in the countryside Low German is still the common everyday language in the villages in the north.
Funnily enough, here in the north, in the area of Bremen and Hanover, the most unadulterated High German is spoken in all of Germany.
The reason for this is that High German and Low German are different languages and not dialects of each other, so that the students here used to have to learn High German at school like a foreign language. 😉
I am glad you've decided to cover this documentary series. It is in my humble opinion one of the best, contemporary videos for foreigners that illustrates the variety of the countries. Hope you'll enjoy it
As an eastfrisian, I am happy to see someone watch a video exploring the north! We are the more quiet and reserved (except me, I can't keep my mouth shut for good) part of germany and can come of as pretty stand offish, but if you get to know one of us and are open for some tea and a dark beer (Ostfriesenbräu), you will soon have friends vor life.
I find the german islands have similar vibes to the scottish islands, just flatter and smaller. Everyone is quite chill in character and in weather, many people wear wool just not with tartan on it. The tea houses in east frisia are my absolute fave. You get served loose leaf tea in a thousand varieties and home baked gorgeous cakes and pastries. The car free islands have horse drawn carriages and reed thatched houses with lovely little gardens. The tide difference is not as strong as on the mainland, so bathing in the north sea is easier (and less algea) and there are always wind surfers. It's really a nice place for a family vacation.
As a German. The north of Germany is like a magic zone. You feel a bit of the English vibe with the tea tradition and the typical british/irish weather, but you also have the nordic vibe, cause you can visit some old Viking villages like in Schleswig "Haithabu" it's an open museum with reconstructed long houses from that time periode, but those kinds of buildings are also common in the elements of more modern houses, espacially the roof area on the top with the "Reetdach" system. That is very northern German.
At least the language is close to the netherlands and with Hamburg and the Reeperbahn you have that kind of Amsterdam feeling, when you visiting the city, exept of the weet. In the Netherlands(Amsterdam) you can smoke it, but not in Hamburg - Germany. But beside of that the North of Germany is a mix of all the northern Europe cultures. They have bit of English, a bit of Scandinavian and bit of Dutch lifestyle to offer. It's like a nordic candy store :D Take what you want and be happy.
Well - not without the weed but without legal weed.
Oh und Bieke brennen - Its Magic. Watt ick seggen wullt, iick beleve, das die Lü in Scottland veel gemen ham mit den Lü hier anner Küste in Dütschland. Salt inner Luft, Regen un Sturm. Dat man sien Mul hält wenn man nix zu sagen hat aber wenn man een in sien Herz nom hat das auch immer so bleibt - ohn vertun.
So if you want to visit Germany, try to learn a bit of "Plattdeutsch" - I will guarantee - everybody will instantly fall in love. Just imagine a "Kraut" cominig to a Pub in Dublin and talking a bit Gaelic, or to Glasgow with a heavy Scottish accent :-D
I‘ve never looked at it this way. Thank you for opening up my view a bit further!
@@kix1464 You're welcome.
I'm from northern Germany and I absolutly adore your comment. In fakt I feel more conected to europe than to germany, however with the north it feels different. So your comment really helped me to understand this feeling of mine.
Cuxhaven is worth a look . It is a beautiful city 2 hours away from Hamburg.
There is no such thing as the "best" beer. It's like scottish whisky. Depending on how you feel, whether it's day or night, whether the sun is shining or it's raining, whether you want to quench your thirst or get drunk, there's a beer for it.
Right. And -- in the end it all remains a matter of personal taste!
For me, the coast line is the most beautiful side of germany. Soo nice.
And if you add the coast lines of all the islands, germany has a longer coast line then portugal! Very different architecture to the south and very nice people 😀
And you can also visit beautiful castles here, if you want to. Search for example Schloss Schwerin ...
I’ve been to Northern Germany only 3 times in my life, which is a shame . Being from Bavaria , most people like to travel down to Austria or Italy , and we drive north only if we have to, for example for business.
That said , my 2 vacations in Hamburg and the North Sea coast have been very pleasant , also the people there are quite nice, maybe a bit more quiet and reserved than in the South .
And they all told us we had „unusual weather“ when we went there , because for a whole week it didn’t rain and there was hardly any cloud in the sky .
i've been doing lots of vacations over the last 30 yrs in northern germany and i have to say: so far its my favorite place to be. no other place i can relax better. time seems to pass ten times slower and a week at the shore feels like a month at home. its true, the weather is always changing and you will always have some rain, harsh winds and such, but thats all part of the charm. as shown in the video: just order a pot of tea with a piece of cake and warm yourself up again.
Im from Ost-Holstein (north of Lübeck) and in My Family we call the "Holsteinische Schweiz" (that is the Name of the Rolling hills in the back country) the shire because of the beautiful green hills. I think That incapsulates the vibe that this region gives us. Wholesome and peaceful.
From my parents house I can see the Bungsberg in the far distance and I call it "Mordor" when the sunset casts its red glow over the hills xD
They don´t say for nothing: "Plön is schön!"
If you ask who has the best beer, you will get 1300 different answers from 1300 breweries in Germany, because the people are very regional and mostly prefer their own beers.
As a visitor to the North of Germany, with an interest in history, it was an eye-opener to see a part of the world where the Romans never got to. The history of the Slavic rulers and the completely different style of civilisation were new to me, and I learned a lot. As a Scot, you may be more familiar with this history, but in school in England, we were never told anything about it.
This is an interesting aspect: (historic-) Germany divided into the North, where the Danes and the Swedish have ruled at one time, and the South, which the Romans occupied for a while in history. I have never thought of that in more depth.
But you do realize that the Romans conducted multiple military campaigns and naval operations in the north? And I hope you also realize that the more southern Germanic tribes stopped the Romans...?
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 As far as I know, no South Germanic tribe was there when 3 complete Roman legions were destroyed in the Teuteburg Battle and the Romans then no longer had any ambitions to conquer all of Germanica up to the Elbe.
Moin, Mert! Loving you reactions! I'm from the Baltic Sea in Schleswig-Holstein and I'm moving back soon after a decade in the Canadian prairies. I've lived on 3 continents and traveled to 30+ countries, to me Norddeutschland is still one of the most beautiful places (biased Lokalpatriot obviously). When they mentioned Schmuddelwetter, I was thinking you'd feel right at home as a Scotsman xD. Fun fact, during WWII, the East Frisians were the only community in Germany to receive extra allotments of tea, which, like coffee, was a semi-luxury food item and heavily rationed. Overall, the northern culture is closer to Scandinavian. I spent some time in Aarhus, Denmark and, except for the language, felt very much at home (same food, architecture...) The same year, I traveled to Heidelberg for the first time and had much more of a culture shock among my fellow countrymen. You should definitely check out Lübeck and Hamburg ,and the islands are always worth a visit! Helgoland was British in the 19th century and the lyrics to our national anthem were written there in 1841. As it was a strategically important island, the Brits tried to blow it up (Operation Big Bang) in 1947 with 7,000t of explosives. It was one of the biggest non-nuclear detonations in history. Foodwise, their specialty is brown crab (Knieper). As for Low German (Plattdeutsch): my grandparents used to speak it, but my mother doesn't because they did not want her to sound "uneducated". I'm still able to read/understand some Dutch because of my exposure to Platt. Beer: I dont' think there's a "best" - just personal preferences. Or, as we'd say in the north: "Wat den Eenen sin Uhl, is den Annern sin Nachtigall" (One man’s owl is another man’s nightingale’). I'm partial to Jever Pilsener, a Frisian beer with a hoppy, bitter/tart taste and Aasgard amber lager (from Schleswig). Greetings from Alberta!
I prefer northern germany to the south. The people are less chatty, usually tend to mind their own business, but are there when you need them. I also prefer the landscapes where you can see far to the horizon and aren't blocked by mountains at most there are gentle hills and soft rolling plains. It's not for everyone though. And that's great as well.
There is even a German island which was once under British rule - Helgoland. Funny fact: This island is still tax-free, thanks to Queen Victoria.
The brits also tried to blow it up for some reason.
Yep! The daughter of a German, married to a German...
While I currently live in Hamburg I grew in Schleswig-Holstein and consider Low German my mother tongue. Not only do and did we speak it at home, I also learned a lot of old folk songs in primary school in the 1990s.
High German might get the job done and it unites us all in its practicality but the original regional languages have that heart and soul which makes you feel like coming home.
My great grandmother was born in 1896 and didn't speak any High German. So when my norwegian aunt joined the family in the 70s she videotaped a Low German language theatre group (Ohnsorg Theatre Hamburg) which was being broadcasted at the time and taught herself by watching the plays over and over again. She speaks flawless low german to this day and kept all of the VHS Tapes.
You have already learned about most Germans reluctance to wave the national flag and display pride for their country but it is a whole different story when it comes to the state flags. Especially up here you will spot a flagpole in many a garden flying the blue white and red of Schleswig-Holstein. We also do have a state hymn which is being played daily on the radio at midnight. If you happen to be on a late night roadtrip with your friends or family everybody will join in to chant "Schleswig-Holstein Meerumschlungen / Schlewig-Holstein surrounded by the sea(s)".
It has to be mentioned that both the flag as well as the hymn have a dark background story surrounding the German-Danish War 1864. But their use these days is not a display of an anti danish sentiment. Most of us secretly wish to be part of Denmark 😅
I do prefer the Baltic coast due to its rolling hills, cliffs and white dunes. The North Sea has its charm but the Baltic feels a little more cozy. Plus we've got a nice little ferry which takes you to Lolland in no time, from there it's only an hour and a half to Copenhagen and a quick drive over the Öresund Bridge will have you in Sweden.
We shop a lot in Denmark but we also make use of the Border Shops targeted at the Scandinavians. Nothing beats a big old bag of Djungleräv 🤘
Oh and to answer your questions of who has the best beer ... well ... that's Bavaria for me. I just love a dark wheat beer =)
I used to live in Rostock for a few years and I agree, the baltic sea coast it really pretty. And it took me a while to wrap my head around the fact that Copenhagen is within day trip distance if you don't mind starting the day early. It always seemed so far away from my more sothern perspective.
Please teach your kids Platt or Frasch. I didn't learn it properly and I wish I did because my grandfather doesn't speak good standard german. If you still have some VHS tapes I would take them.
Great that you watch Rachel... Coming from "the real north" I think that we are really so happy, because we kind of live a danish lifestyle. There is plenty of "hygge" here as well, we are outside a lot, we enjoy our beaches and to live where other people pay lots of money for to make holidays. A lot of tourists come here all year round and I would think that our mentality is maybe a bit like Scottish people are. Not much talking- no bad weather- just bad clothing.
I personally think that there is nothing like "the best German beer"- just the good advice: Drink from local breweries. Every beer has its own taste and you should drink what you get, when you are there.
I am originally from Hamburg, but I used to live in the beautiful town of Lüneburg, which is another Hanseatic town just southeast of Hamburg.
I once took the train to visit a friend in Bavaria and to my surprise found myself seated between a group of elderly British ladies. One of them told me they were on a trip to visit famous places with baroque musical background such as churches with church organs that had been part of Johann Sebastian Bach's or Georg Friedrich Händel's lives. I was stunned because I had never thought of that part of northern Germany's history until then. But, yes, there is a lot of culture here.
And Labskaus is totally underrated! It looks bad, but it’s really tasty - think mashed potatoes with pulled beef. And off course the side dishes of fried egg, beetroot, pickled pumpkin (😋) and cucumber (sour and sweet) and, if you must, a Matjeshering are delicious.
The East Frisian North Sea coast is well worth a visit . You can eat delicious fish, drink East Frisian tea in a cozy cafe, go for a walk on the beach and enjoy the wonderful sea air and go swimming in the North Sea when the tide is high.
You can eat delicious fish on the Baltic Sea too and even better: you have real beaches! 😁 Seriously... every normal person would prefer the Baltic Sea for a beach and swimming holiday. For the calmness and air its another thing.
Greetings from north frisian island Föhr, where I live. I've been to some british islands which differ a lot to the one I live on. Most impressive for me was isle of Skye :)
There is a nice channel of a british lady, Wales I think. She made two videos of our island Föhr and a lot of of other beautiful places and islands in north germany. The channel is called Lauren in Germany.
I like Föhr very much. When I was a child we took our holiday every year on Föhr. Especially the ice cream in Nieblum is a must have.
Greetings from a Scot who has been to Föhr. It's a lovely island. I especially enjoyed it because I had spent 3 summers many years ago working on the East Frisian island of Juist way back in the 1970s. I never got the time to just enjoy island life back then, so Föhr was ideal. It was lovely to see thatched houses again, Sanddorn and the wild dog rose hedges. The smell of the air is quite different from inland. And I really loved hearing the local accents, a bit of Platt and even a few words of Fering.
@@alicemilne1444 oh you know fering exists. That's rare. Even most german tourist think it's danish. I've been to Juist often also in early 70th, beautiful as well. So many special places all around the world and I fell in love with scottish highlands :) and the dialect there (gaelic I get no word :) but it sounds beautiful. Always a playlist with proclaimers with me)
@@philipb.5833 hehe the ice cream shop is still there
Lauren is a jewel of a person for sure
Moin! As my nickname says, I'm from East Frisia, but I now live a little further north-east near Wilhelmshaven, the largest naval base in Germany. My families were actually colonists who colonised the inaccessible moorland at the time and were given land in return. My grandfather was the first to end his life as a farmer. I grew up speaking Low German and I can agree that it helped a bit with learning English. The weather up here is rather British. More continental in the east, north east and south east and drier, much warmer in the south and south west (wine growing areas) and generally atlantic in the west but less windy and wet than the north. So there are not very big differences, but it is clearly noticeable.
For years I have been drinking coffee instead of tea and I miss the times when my grandparents were still alive and I used to sit in their very small kitchen every Saturday at 2:30pm on the little corner bench and comfortably drink 3-4 cups of tea. It was very cosy. Bünting Grünpack is my favourite tea (I grew up near Leer). 🤣 I own a complete East Frisian tea set (around 60 years old!) and always have Büntingtee and Kluntje at home! 🤭
East Frisia has rather less to offer in the way of culinary delights, but labskaus and fried fish ... I could be woken up at three in the morning, I would eat it. 😂 In season, there are also North Sea crabs - quite expensive by now, I don't like them, but certainly interesting for tourists such a crab roll.
The Mecklemburg lake district is very beautiful, not too far from Berlin and can be included in a trip there if a car is hired. Borkum is a very beautiful East Frisian island, and I also loved Sylt and Fehmarn. Every island is different and unique.
Of course I know of the tea ceremony because I grew up very near to East Frisia. One of the best things I got in my childhood was actually coming from school and before we got lunch, my mom and I had a cup of tea and she sat down with me talking about what happened at school while drinking tea (with Kluntje and East Frisian tea). I really loved this ritual, especially when coming home cycling through the windy, rainy, cold streets.
This sounds like such a lovely thing to do: Have a cup of tea first, and then we deal with the rest of the world. What a great attitude to life!
Must-see towns and cities are Lüneburg and Celle - they are cut off a little bit from the sea, but they have both maintained a lot of the typical northern german architecture from the Middle Ages to the baroque period.
Then the beautiful hanseatic seaport cities of Wismar, Rostock, Stralsund, Greifswald - and if you are there, visit Rügen, the most unique german island - accessible by bridges. It’s white cliff coastline, the wooded hills and the elegant white houses are quite unique.
Every region in Germany has its own beer ... I prefer the beer from Bavaria. You'll also find the oldest brewery in the whole word in Bavaria: "Weihenstephan". It was founded as a state brewery back in 1675, but the beer of their monks, who invented it, dates back to the year 1040! So this beer is almost 1,000 years old! So you can be sure, that they are knowing how to brew a good beer! :) *prost
If the Beer would be thousand years old, you could not drink it :-)
Fun Fact: People who say "Moin, Moin" are almost 100% tourists. The typical North German, at least in my region (10km south of the Danish border) simply says "Moin". We northern Germans are very short of words in this respect...
One of the best beers in Germany comes from Einbeck! They invented the Bockbier there, which was even shipped to Munich.
Einbecker is great. I live in the upper southwest, the Saarland, and you simply can´t get it here. Instead you need to order it directly at the brewery and have it shipped to you. "Eyn Pöckisch Bier". Luckily, whenever I am on summer holiday in Husum, one supermarket there provides at least one type of it.
I am pretty sure you would have a great time in Hamburg. Beautiful city, and absolutely different to south Germany. It's Like with you guys over there. I love your Scottish accent. It ist very destinctively different to what I hear from other, most likely English people. The way you speak it is different and sometimes I have to think twice. But in the end, I understand it 100 percent. I like the flow and special flavor of your English. It is part of Scottish identity. Similar to different German regions.
I regard you as a very decent, kind, observing, and smart Embassador of Scotland.
Check out Hamburg, you will love it. I am from Cologne, another totally different region. Very Open to all ways of lifestyle. Check this region out in other reaction Videos. But Hamburg is a damn good start. Enjoy. And I will improve my abilities in Scottish English. I Like it alot.
i live in northern germany and i can just say, it is the best part of germany, hamburg is the best big city in germany and northern germany has great nature, beaches and the people are the most chill you will find in germany.
I´m from Nothern Germany and I have lived in the UK the weather is very similar but UK weather is even more changeable. One of my favourite places here is the isle of Borkum it´s a beautiful island.
Of course, I think Nothern Germany has the best beer, the city of Einbeck has the best and one of the oldest beer brands. Although, I prefer Schwarzbier to Pils.
Look at Amrum and his beautiful beach . For me the best island. A dream !
I am from Kiel, capital city of Schleswig-Holstein. My father's from Hamburg. My mother from Flensburg, which is very close to Denmark. I love the north. But I am living in Cologne now since 8 years and I have lost my Moin, my tea drinking and who knows what else. I miss it a lot. Its actually weird to have to be reminded of things that were so normal to me just a moment ago. So its true: Germany is diverse and the north differs greatly from the east, west and south. The weather is different two. The north can be very grey. But I love those storm clouds and the cooler temperatures and the endless skies and flat green fields. If you want to visit, come to: Lübeck, Eutin, Malente, Kiel, Friedrichstadt, Husum, Hamburg, Flensburg... there are more places obviously. But places with either the sea or a few wonderful natural lakes close by are what I would visit. :-)
Friedrichstadt is a hidden gem, best described as a small copy of Amsterdam because it whas built by Dutch settlers.
The north of germany is better understandable in their german, they don't have this thick accent like the east or south in my opinion. I could never hear that 24/7. As someone who doesn't like to go up and downhill all the time it's very nice that it's flat and i just LOVE the sea and it's calming presence 10 times more than some hills in the south. Since you can get beer from the south also in the north often, who cares about that. I also visited Hamburg and Cuxhaven and those experience is one i would like to repeat 10 times more if i can. If you wan't to visit germany you should definitlely also visit the north. It's a good combination with Berlin together as a 2 city trip.
that was a funny comment, as a point was made that many people up north are speaking platt, which is no easier to understand than fraenkisch or bavarian. you probably mean that a lot of people speak to you in standard german, rather than their home language or dialect.
Hamburg ist great - but then, it's my home town so I might be a tad biased... Whenever family comes to visit me in Bavaria, where I live, they bring a huge packet of "Franzbrötchen" for me and the kids. They are hard to get outside of Hamburg and never as good. Puff pastry, lots of cinnamon and lots and lots of butter. They are decidedly sticky and delicious.
Northern friesland is my preferred holiday location. Standing on one of the dykes and just watching over those vast, ever changing mud flats, the salty air in your nose has an astonishing relaxing and soothing effect and is an amazing stress relieve. That video has only shown a tiny bit of what northern germany holds.
I grew up in Schleswig-Holstein or more specically Angeln. A lot of villages end with "by". There are also places in the UK end with "by", such as Derby. No surprise really. When i lived in the UK for years i felt more connected to people there than to germans from the south. Very similar people imho.
my favourite island is Spiekeroog. If you ever go there make sure to visit the restaurant "Altes Inselhaus" and try the "Bratkartoffeln". My no.1 food from north germany is definetly "Labskaus". And if you try frisan tea here's a tipp: frisian tea tastes better with a shot of rum! Have fun!
I am from Hamburg, Northern Germany. When I was on a trip through Ireland and Scotland, it was raining nearly every day. I felt immediately at home…🙂
The typical German weather forecast: Storm and rainfall predicted for the German coast. Temperatures 5 to 7 degrees. Rainy periods during the day for Western Germany, 10-12 degrees Celsius. Cloudy with some periods of Sun in Eastern Germany, 14 degrees. Southern Germany: Snow above 2000 m, but clear sky and 16 degrees of the other parts of Bavaria. 18 degrees and a Southern breeze in Southwest Germany. 24 degrees at Kaiserstuhl.
Haha when he said: "See if we can see any differences" in the beginning, i was just, oh boy...!
Being from the German -Danish border I can confirm that there is a conquest between Germany and Denamrk taking place in the regions north and south of the border . Reason for it that in south Denmark you have a German minority with special rights in Denmark and south of the boder in northern Germany a Danish minority with special rights . SO the Dansih party ( also very often voted for by Germans ) SSW Süd Schleswiger Wählerverband is not bound to the Restictions of the 5 %v clause . So they do not need to get 5 % of all votes but only 2 direct seats to be in the county parliament .
The same goes for the German minority in Denmark .
Furthermore both countries , Denmark and Germany try to give their minorities on the other side of the border the best they can ... best schools , bibliotheks and and and ..
and who is then the winner : ALL people in that region who are supporting each on every side ..
a real wonderful example how we can live on both sides of borders in Europe !
No Matter where in Germany you are...everywhere you find great beer❤😊
Not in cologne 🤣
The landlocked lake area - Mecklenburgische Seenplatte - is amazing, very beautiful for fishing and kayaking
The best Beers:
North: In the North the beers are famous for really refreshing and bitter Pilsner Beers like Jever, Holsten, Flensburger et cetera. Very famous is the "Insel Brauerei" from Rügen, which is a world class brewery for all kinds of rare beer types and german craft beer. Also a very famous brand with a whole variety of beer is the Störtebeker Brauerei, that has gained great popularity throughout Germany and in my opinion makes the best Schwarzbier (Black Lager).
Center West: The West is the only Region where Kölsch- and Altbier are popular, which is a regional specialty of Vollbier, although Kölsch and Alt are also consumed and loved in the South West of Germany from time to time, as I can witness.
Center East: I might mix up things, but there is a Beer famous brand from there called Köstritzer, which is famous for it's Schwarzbier. This region is also famous for the rare beer-type "Gose". It is to some point comparable to Berliner Weiße. It is brewed with additional Lactic Acid Fermentation and often lightly salted and apperently spiced with Coriander. I have tried it only twice and loved it. It is not what you expect from an average beer ;).
South West: Pilsner, Lager and Vollbier are mostly consumed. The most famous coming to my mind are Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu and Rothaus Brauerei, both from the Schwarzwald. For I live at the Swabian Albs in the South West, if I buy a beer from here it is for the most part a regional one, which differs from city to city. So there are hundreds I could name and I wouldn't know how to rank them..... (Suttgarter, Fischer's, Dinkelacker, Baisinger, Hirsch, Hoepfner, Berg, .....)
South East: Frankian and Bavarian Beers: The Franks are famous for their darker Beers while Bavaria is famous for the Hefeweizen-Beers and Bayrisch Hell (a kind of Vollbier). Some of these Beers are famous throughout Germany. Also Bavaria has the highest density of Breweries, especially in Franken. The City of Bamberg alone and the sourrundings has the highest density of Breweries in the world with circa 60 Breweries and over 350 types of Beer brewed and bottled there. The most famous I know is Aecht Schlenkerla that specialises in Smoked Beer. They export a lot of their Bottles to the Americas and Asia actually. The latest one I tried was the one smoked on cherry-wood. Actually there is a video if you search in YT "The Most Historic Beer In The World🌎 Schlenkerla Rauchbier". Might be worth a reaction.
I hope I was a little bit helpful,
cheers,
Ascanius Votan
Post Scriptum: I do not know everything about all regions of beers in Germany, this is just my experience and impression. I actually only know the beers I see and drink. But this is what I can say to that.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's lake district is one of the prettiest regions in Germany.
*in your opinion
@@mo_3924 Of course. But I also wrote "one of", which implies that there are other regions just as pretty. 😉
Well someone from Lower Saxony here, i find it a bit sad that the skipped over the island of "Neuwerk" its an island in the mud flats that you can walk towards by feet when there is low tide but at high tide you need ships to get there...
I'm from Meck-Pomm and I can't think of a place that doesn't have some kind of lake within a half hour bike ride... I grew up a 10mins walk from one of the biggest lakes.
Love the Scottish lakes btw! When I visited we had like 30°C weather and sunshine, no Shietweather 😄
It seems the half former East Germany is full of lakes now. In Meck Pom, the Brandenburg Lake district, the Leipzig Lake district, the Lausitz lake district and more. For once they made the right thing (renaturation). 👍
@@strasbourgerelsass1467 Actually a lot of Mecklenburger people hate the newly established lakes further south. Tourists that once came to us for some water fun now stay home causing the tourist industry in MV to make less money...
@@myeramimclerie7869 Well, I like it. I m born in the southern Eastside. Everytime I come back its more amazing (especially between Leipzig and Chemnitz). The ugly old coal industry is gone and beautiful lakes are growing. I know you miss some of the people from there as tourists. But we cannot be considerate. 😉
If you´ll visit Hamburg you MUST see the "Miniatur-Wunderland"!
The lakes in Mecklenburg are beautiful. We rented a house boat for a week a few years ago; was great. All lakes (or most of them) are connected by rivers or channels. And all the little towns are quite nice, too.
Another beautiful place in northern Germany is Hitzacker, a little town in a region called Lüneburger Heide, right on the banks of the river Elbe.
I did not know about that East Frisian Tea Ceremony but I want to try it out myself. I am from the South West.
I just realized that the Scottish and the Goethe German people call an island the same way. Very poetic.
You write island, but you pronounce it pretty much as we do in poetry. Eiland where the Ei is exactly the same as the I in English, but with a little twist and exactly this twist is what it makes sound German.
Scottish I is not the English I...you have more like an ey to it...I love that.
Im from Bremen, the smallest state in Germany and I really appreciate that I'm in a big city but just 1 hour away from the beaches.
Too bad that the Island of Usedom was not mentioned. After all, the second largest island in Germany and the most beautiful in my opinion. Only sea with the best fine sandy beach next to Sylt and forests and untouched nature. In fact, the whole island is under nature protection. Incredibly friendly people to boot. As a native of the island, I had to get rid of it. Sorry.
The lakes of Meck-Pomm are a relict of the last ice age, where the glaciers from the north went south until they were stopped by the more mountainous areas in middle Germany.
Islands: She only speaks of the islands on the coast. But in most of Germany's sweet water lakes and even big rivers you find a couple of islands as well, where you can find towns, castles, monasteries and cultural or climatic specialities. Take Lake Constance: Lindau is a town located on an island, Mainau is the "flower island", Reichenau the "vegetable island".
Lübeck was the place in the Hanse, where rows went to court. And the language of law and Lübeckian court verdicts was Latin, whereas the trading language was Niederdeutsch, which besides to north Germany and south Scandinavia was also understood in Amsterdam and London.
The best beer in Germany IMHO is a variety called Märzen which is brewed only in Bavaria in the spring (März is German for March).
It is difficult to do justice to a region in such a short video, but the essence is there. I was born on the North Sea coast of England, and can see a lot of similarities in the type of people, the north Germans are not noted for "small talk", they tend to say what they mean, Not that they are not welcoming, as with Germans as a whole, when you break through the surface, they tend to be generally very friendly to foreigners.
As someone said, the beers in Germany have very regional tastes, the beers tend to get drier in the North, which I personnally prefer, for choice I would drink a "Jever" Pils, or another favourite would be "Einbecker".
I have visited some of the islands mentioned in the video. Rügen on the Baltic sea is very attractive; the famous author Christopher Isherwood based one of his short stories here in the 1930s in his collection "Goodbye to Berlin" (on which the play "I am a camera" and the film "Cabaret" was based). A vintage narrow-guage railway with steam engines runs across the island.
Perhaps my favourite resort on the coast is the Cuxhaven area, at the mouth of the River Elbe. Here, the mud flats of the Wadden Sea (Wattenmeer) are revealed at low tide, and the island of Neuwerk can be reached after a nine-mile hike. (Neuwerk actually belongs to the City of Hamburg). For those not so sporty, there are horse-drawn carriages which carry visitors over to the island. On the island there is an old lighthouse, and a couple of restaurants, where I usuallly get outside a large plate of prawns and scrambled egg on toast - washed down with a couple of glasses of good north German Pilsner. By this time, the tide has come in and the return journey is on the ferry. A great day out.
I love going on vacation on the North Sea islands in Eastern Frisia, and everyone has its own character. Juist, e.g., the neighbour island of Norderney, is so charming, has no cars, beautiful beaches, cycling paths, a little forest and the most adorable village. They have a lovely museum, where you can still see an old bathing carriage from the 19th century, that took vacationers directly to the sea. Many islands had their beaches divided into beaches for women and for men only, and for family. You can still see small paths named "Ladies' path" (Damenpfad) or "Gents' path" (Herrenpfad).
Norderney is more urban, with a concert hall, more shops and busses that take the tourists around the island, but also plenty of lovely beaches and amazing nature. These two always fight with each other and when you take a boat tour from Juist, they will usually point at the beaches of Norderney, going "look at the poor, poor tourists there, they have to stay at Norderney and were so close to our beautiful island!" :) So funny!
Baltrum is the smallest of the islands, so idyllic and so small that only natives are allowed bicycles. :) The biggest is Borkum with the most beautiful promenade, bus tours and places to go. Borkum is also (apart from Helgoland) the only "high sea" island of their group, it takes 2 hours to go there by ferry. I depends what you want to do in your vacation, but I like each one of them.
But you should definitely take part in a tea ceremony, that are often offered by museums (Heimatmuseum), with delicious cake and much interesting info about the islands and their history. These museums often also show how the islands came to be, which is very interesting, I think. If I'm correct, only 8000 years ago, you could still walk from Germany to England on the "dogger bank", which is now part of the sea, there was an amazing documentary by Tony Robinson on tv.
Among the north frisian islands, which are also amazing, there used to be one island more, Rungholt, which was completely drowned by a fierce storm flood and is now part of songs and legends.
Our North Sea islands are very similar to the beach of Bournemouth, in my view, regarding the temperatures and the sea and sand, but even in July or August, you should always bring a sweater and a blanket just in case. It can get quite hot there too though.
Regarding the weather differences between the South and the North, they are bigger than one would expect, probably because of the sea, the wind and the flat landscape in the North, and the hills and mountains in the South.
You should really visit one of the islands (I would recommend Norderney for a first visit because of the bus tours, concert hall and all), when you have the chance to visit Northern Germany. I'm sure you would have a great time. :)
To answer your beer-question: Without a doubt it's the northwest with the best beer.
Well, I may be a "little" bit locally biased, but ... yeah, to me it's our Pilsener, spefically just that one she's holding at 09:15. ^^
The German islands are worth a visit. I like being there.
I'm german (Rhineland palatinate) and the whole Tea thing is new to me. I'm flabbergasted in a very positive way! I have Ostfrisen-tea, I might make myself a cup!
My family always went to the sea (be it East Frisia or Rügen) when we were little, just spending time at the beach, doing some biking, buying shrimp directly from the fishermen and going to visit some little zoo where you could feed boars and similar. Still continues now the next generation is young.
It is indeed a great place for holidays, but so are the Mountains. The weather is different, sure, and that area is morefor winter sports and hiking.
The 2 Greatest German Island´s Rügen and Usedom are a Dream,Awesome
Beer: It depends on what you like. The North is home to most of big, internationally known brands like Beck's, Jever and so on; most northern beers are a bit more "dry", brewed as "Pils"/"Pilsner" (after Pilsen/Plzeň in Czechia, where they invented the brewing method for this bottom-fermented lager beer), heavily hopped, mainly using the more bitter varieties. In the South you get a greater variety of beers, the highest presumably around Franconia, where you have also the highest density of small local breweries (there was not as much merging as in other regions). Some beer types are very regional, like Kölsch in Cologne and Altbier in Düsseldorf and Westfalia (both top-fermented). Weizen or wheat beer (also top-fermented) was once a regional speciality in southern Bavaria and Swabia, but is now brewed also in other regions. Strong beers are mostly brewed and sold as "Bockbier", named after the Hanse member Einbeck in Lower Saxony, where they brewed it for export, until the Dukes of Bavaria enticed in 1614 a brewing master from Einbeck to the Hofbräuhaus (court brewery) in Munich to brew a "Ainpöckisch Bier" in Munich.
Tea: The water in Friesland is very "soft", meaning it is not very calcareous, so tea can kept warm for hours on a "Stövchen" without becoming bitter. East Frisia was for a long time rather isolated from the rest of Germany, being oriented to the sea and having large bogs to the South. There was less feudalism than in other regions, at least until the former Imperial county came under Hohenzollern rule in 1744 (which meant it belonged to Prussia after the dissolution of the Empire in 1806, but was immediately incorporated in the French-dominated Kingdom of Holland and in 1810 into the French Empire). Friedrich II of Prussia founded in 1751 the "Royal Prussian Asiatic Company in Emden to Canton and China" to get a major share in coffee and tea trade, but that company failed as Emden was occupied by French troops during the Seven Years's War in 1757. Afterwards he tried to forbid tea and coffee imports, because he saw them as a strain to the trade balance and the foreign currency stock, which led to the "East Frisian tea wars" (mostly tea smuggling and civil disobedience, including the local authorities). In 1781 Friedrich II King in Prussia gave up and allowed the Frisians their beloved tea. In 1806 Napoleon started the Continental Blockade against the British Empire, and the East Frisians started smuggling tea again.
As a Brit, I prefer the North Sea Coast to the Baltic coast. No tide? That's just a puddle!
I agree about the lovely sea air and better quality sleep. I've lived in the Rhine valley for decades and haven't had a good night's sleep in years.
I live in Lübeck, which is a city with about 220k people living in it. Very much culture and history to discover - way too much to mention one out. Not too small, not too big. 1/3 of its downtown, which is actually an isle, is subject to the unesco world heritage. Once i was in one of the plenty museums and the guide told me, Lübeck was the "New York" of the 16th century. Its only 20 minutes away from Travemünde, wich belongs to Lübeck and is settled at the baltic sea. If you think about visiting northern germany, Lübeck and its bay might be a good start for about a week or just a long weekend, depending on how much of the environment you want to discover. Summer recommended because of the very close beaches (Travemünde, Timmendorfer Strand, Scharbeutz, ...).
A typical stereotype would be: we consider 'moin, moin' talkative 😂
Of course not, but, compared with people from other regions, people up here might appear reserved and closed-up. We usually aren't, but it might seem like it.
The islands are beautiful. And I really enjoyed every time I've been there.
I'd say they are a little like British islands look like on TV. Although they are all pretty densely populated, being islands and all.
I live in a smaller town in Brandenburg, Kyritz, where we have 'platt-snaker', people who keep plattdeutsch or plattdütsch alive in the region.
I live in the north of Germany and can't imagine myself to live anywhere else in Germany. I love the pictures south with the warmer weather as well but would miss the beaches and beautiful islands. The weather in the north is similar to the weather in the UK. Maybe it takes longer to get to know people but they are friends for life once they really know you.
Matjes something my father loves, he's not German, but soured herring is popular in Denmark and Southern Sweden as well, regions which are basically Germany in the first place, except in speech.
Moin, moin from Hamburg....the nicest city in Germany
Yes, the weather is very different. If it's 32 degrees and sunny in the Rhine Valley in summer, it's often a few degrees cooler in Bavaria and by the sea. Currently 30 degrees in the south, and 23 at the sea in the north. Sometimes you have very similar temperatures throughout the country, but sometimes they are far apart. Especially in the north it rains much more often than in the south. Baden Württemberg is, next to the Palatinate, the state with the most hours of sunshine. Freiburg and Stuttgart are the sunniest cities in Germany. There are also stark differences in the average temperature and the lowest temperatures. In Bavaria and the Black Forest, it is not uncommon for winter temperatures to drop below -20 degrees. In the Rhine Valley and other southern wine-growing regions, temperatures hardly ever fall below -10 degrees. Most of the time, these are also the regions with the most hours of sunshine. Here with me near Stuttgart, one can plant out beside the wine also peach, almonds, pomegranates, figs and cypresses. Such a thing is unthinkable in the north of Germany, because there are too few hours of sunshine, and the temperatures are not so mild. In the Kaiserstuhl, in the Rhine Valley, lies the warmest place in Germany. In this small mountain range, there are orchid species and downy oaks, lizard species, cacti and birds, which are otherwise only found in southern Europe. If you are interested, search "Huglin Index Germany" This index takes into account sunshine hours and temperature, and thus shows where wine can be grown.
Of course we northern germans are the most happiest people in Germany.
Yes we are not talking too much...what for?
Moin-Moin is over the top? Who says this? In Schleswig-Holstein is the Moin at home!
Yes we're having often grey weather in here...but it is beautiful.
The islands are very beautiful. I was living some time on Usedom in Meck-Pomm. I love the North (in Schleswig-Holstein some people sometimes says:"Everything south of the River Elbe is Southgermany") but Usedom and Rügen are awesome and a must visit!
My grandparents used to speak "Platt". Over the years i learned to understand, so I can follow a conversation between two fluent speakers, but speaking myself would need practice! But it sounds cute to be honest and not half as aggressive like highgerman.
Redbrickarchitecture is beautiful. Have a look on the newly renovated Dom von Schleswig!
Ask what you'd like to know!
Yes, in the south of Germany the weather is always more dry, more Hot than in the north.
Yes, weather IS different in the north and south of Germany! Have a look at any weather map and you will very rarely have the same weather on the coast an in the mountains.
Right now there is rain and thunderstorms in the south and east, while in the north and west the sun is shining. At midnight it can be just the other way round, according to the actual forecast.
The answer to you question, which region has the best beer is alway the same, wherever you go: The best beer is from here! And that's true, so always try some local beer. You might also try to taste every German beer, but that means more than two decades of not-so-healty lifestyle if you focus on one beer brand per day.
Moin!
Love how many reactors are watching the DW Road Trip atm.
like your Vids. Thank you. Have a good time and tell us, when you will visit germany 🙂
Been to Scottland many many times - belive me you will feel somehow at home over here in the north.
yeah the weather is very different. im was birn and raised in schleswig holstein, and moved to hessen because of the weather and the prettier and more historic country. and its so much nicer here. the main difference is the wind, in northern germany its ALWAYS windy, cold, and wet.
here in hessen it can be cold and wet aswell, but its nearly not as windy and always like 3-4 warmer.
and if you would go to freiburg, you would see the same difference between freiburg and hessen as in hessen and schleswig holstein.
The weather in the south is more dry and warmer. It's about 850km from north to south + no oceans in the south. The north is known for its harsh conditions in fall and winter.
I lived on one of the East Frisien islands. Often the weather was better than at the coast. People are coming for the healthy air. Lungs problems and skin sicknesses are getting better here. The life on the East Frisien islands and at the coast is quiter and slower. That is the reason people come to Eastfrisia.
They say “The North is the best hidden secret of Germany“ and I guess that's true. The weather in Germany is totally different depending on where you are. The South in ways hotter in summer (36-38°) and colder in winter (-20°) than the North, where it seldom gets hotter in summer than 24-25 °and seldom colder than 0° in winter. The West is warm but can be quite humid (we actually call it "English weather"), the East is dry and sunny and hot in summer and dry and cold in winter because the continental climate is dominant, while in the West is dominated by the atlantic climate. PS. The best beer is brewed in Bavaria - hands down!
"who has the best beer" is definitely a matter of preference. like she said in the north you get mainly pils, in the south lager and weizen and in the west very small glasses of beer flavoured water
The Weather ... we have more rain in Hamburg than in London on avarage per year and like in many coastal regiions due to high winds the weather can be changing quick.
Visit East Friesland: Leer + Emden. Drinks: Ostfriesen Tee, later Jever Pils beer. Visit Rostok and Stralsund and island Rügen. Visit Lüneburger Heide: Uelzen and Celle.
If in Uelzen you have to see the train station!!! No joke. 😊
You should visit Luebeck, world heritage - one of the most beautiful towns I have ever seen
i come from wismar, a tiny but very beautiful hanseatic town in meck-pomm. i now live in hamburg for 12 years. i couldn´t imagine living somewhere without water. the alps and everything in the saouth of germany is very bautiful , too. but you home is where the heart is..and the water. and lapskaus food is very special in wilhelmshaven (close to friesland) that´s where we moved when i was 7. my father also was a sailor. so you see where we are coming from. the north is underrated but people start likin it more and more.
There is a big difference in temperature between the very north and the very south of Germany. This difference can be up to 20°C.
Yeah, teh weather is quite different between coast, in between and mountains.
I am a North German born in Bremen and grew up in Bremen and the area around. My father's native language is low German and still today he only speaks low German when speaking to his sibblings. Anyway at home we did speak high German. Unfortunately I never really learned low German. I do understand the most things but I can't speak it (unfortunately).
The Hanseatic thing really is still present. There are also Major cities that still carry the hanseatic in their names and as shown in the video in the example for Hamburg (license plate HH) you also see that for other cities: Hanseatic City of Bremen (HB), Hanseatic City of Lübeck (HL), Haseatic City of Rostock (HR) and so on. Also you still see it in their flag. Red and white are the hanseatic colors, therefore those cities have flags in red and white.
as always in those short videos there is much more to speak about, even those topics that were mentioned. Speaking about food they mentioned the green cabage. That stuff for example is connected to a tradition/ritual. You only eat in in winter. You have to wait for the first night with frost temperatures before it is harvested. The ritual connected is called "Kohlfahrt". It's a social event where you meet with a group of people (can be friends or a club or family or coworkers or whatever). You have a walk for some kilometers. During that walk there will be quite a bit of alcohol. Often there are also games that are played during the walk. At the end you end up in a restaurant that serves that dish. Typically there is live music or a DJ or something as well, so it's not only eating, but also a party. There often is also the tradition that each group try to find it's cabage king and queen. There are different ways to find those. It can be the man and the woman who eat the most, or decided by draw or whatever. The taks of the king and queen is to organize that trip again in the following year.
I love visiting Hamburg and like holidays at St. Peter Ording in autumn - St. Peter Ording owns the most beautiful and biggest beach in Germany. ❤
If you want to try different beers, you have to visit the Bamberg region. There, the traditional home brewing right still exists. As a result, there are countless different great beers there. Via a beer hiking trail you can visit 13 different breweries on 34 km ... if you still can hike after all the beers.
With the highest brick vault in the world, it was the highest double-tower facade in the world until Cologne Cathedral was completed
I grew up and live about 30 miles from the coast and couldn’t imagine moving away from the broad north west permanently. However except for a handful of larger cities and the 2 city states, the area is quite rural and that’s not for everyone :)
I can’t wait for you to travel to Germany and have an awesome time there.