French here, not really, considering he was talking about nude beach lol. It's the same in France, we have the same mindset. (France has germanic influence that's maybe why lol)
It's better, not everyone wants to see someone naked in their time at the beach 😅 if people wants to be naked then good for them, on their own private beach
Also it's worth noting that (I'm told) in Finland it's commonly very acceptable to stay silent during gatherings like this, and it would NOT be considered awkward or even uncomfortable. So, she may have less motivation to fight for a turn :D @@ttiwaz4398
7:05 Germany has 3 weeks of vacation? No we don't. The absolute minimum - by law - is 20 days of vacation for a 5-day week, so 4 weeks MINIMUM. If you have a 6-day week, it is bumped up to 24 days, so still 4 weeks MINIMUM. But most people get 30 days for a 5-day week, so 6 weeks!
In Poland we have 20 days at the beginning and 26 days after 10 years of work (digression: it isn't actually 10 years of work, as you count in some school experience here, for example if you have uni diploma they count it as 8 years - 5 for University and 3 for high-school, so you need 2 years of actual working) and it is normal to say that we have "3 weeks of vacation days" (as 3 whole weeks are 21 days) instead 20 days, while in reality you have 4 weeks free of work days if you use it on your 5-day of work week. BUT: sometimes you have one free day here ant there, so not really whole week is free (like getting random Tuesday free because you need to go to tax office or something). In Poland we also have other types of working schedules, where you can work more or less then 5 days in a week and then counting 5 days off as a week isn't working at all ;) [like some places have 2 days of work, 2 days free or 10 days in row - as long as you have at least 35h free before and after that 🙃]
I think he wasn't too sure himself, or his knowledge was outdated. There was a time when legally 3 weeks were the minimum. Also, with the amount of paid celebration days (Feiertage, not sure about the english term) it always ads up, especially in southern Germany. Tbh, the only time i had a job with less then 6 weeks paid vacation (plus holidays) was during my college years, and i worked only part time then (though if you would do the math according to my work contract, you would get to 6 weeks actually).
There is also other information missing. In Belgium, you do not get any paid leave during the whole first year of employment. And I was surprised the French woman didn't say more about kissing for greeting, as in France people also do it in formal and business relationships, not just private ones. I think in this France stands out in all of Europe, though I'm not sure about whether people in Spain kiss in formal and business relationships. In France it completely depends on the gender. Public metal toilets in Germany in my region are free and only cleaned once a day or something, so not so clean. It's only the toilets owned by companies or put up at public events you have to pay for, mostly only for the women's.
The sad ( and funny) thing is that also middle aged ...let's say WELL DEVELOPED ....german man tend to lack the apropiate beach wear. It makes for an eyeopening trip down the beach.
this must be the most wholesome and respectful channel I came across for a long time. It's so good to learn about other cultures and people. And getting to know each other makes us feel closer and relatable to each other. Thank you for coming up with this idea.
Asians especially girls worship white skin so much that they never allow themself to get suntan, they still wear a bikini but it's just for Instagram 😂
The idea to do the whole Europe in one go is.... ambitious to say the least. European countries are more contrasted than US states. Two French cities can be more dissimilar that a pairing of one French city and a German one. Honestly even one country... I am French and it's clear to me that I'll die having missed huge chunks of important places to experience in France.
Aaah Europe is farrrr from east Asia, expensive too. It might seem strange but for most people, it's one in a lifetime trip thus the crazy idea of doing it all in 1 go. 😅
@@mars1pluto I've never been to China but I would not dream of "doing it all in one go". That being said my first trip to USA was a 3 weeks crossing in a van with tents. Not a "see it all" but certainly an horizontal slice. What I feel like is if you go to EU and just do one tourist "must see" every day it's a bit absurd.
Southern Frenchman here and gosh darn are you right. It shows so much when tourists invade my town lol. The way Parisians especially think and behave is so alien to us. More so even than Dutch people coming to chill for their holidays, and I find that hilarious.
@@Capyrate You're very polite :p (and I am... well was Parisian). Jokes aside as a fellow French I am interested in the parts you find the most "alien". I understand this is more than the well known impatience and arrogance?
7:43 Also important to point out: if you're confirmed sick during vacation time you can get that time "refunded". Like those days can't be counted as vacation day because you're sick and thus can't relax.
Meanwhile in my country that usually isn't the case as you usually need a medical certificate (MC) to prove to the employer that you are sick, but often MCs issued by doctors outside my country are not recognized (we also often don't recognize locally-issued MCs by doctors practicing traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) instead of Western medicine, perhaps because the former is based more on anecdotes than scientific evidence). There were some instances of my countrymen & women who had to cancel their overseas holidays because they got infected with CoVid on day 1 & thus were sent into quarantine, so now there's insurance for that too
Its strange, it seems like someone called to hear. Se reacts and looks at the back sand then shes gone. Something must have happened. Maybe her parking went out lol
As a Dutch person I've never heard of two kisses with an aquaintance. From my experience: Family on like a birthday, family gathering = three kisses (right, left, right) Friends / closest family = hug / one kiss on the cheek Unfamiliar / more formal setting / friend of a friend = handshake for first meeting. When you've gotten more familiar with people on an informal level a hug will also do when saying goodbye Also I feel like the girl representing The Netherlands is referring to bigger cities like Amsterdam mostly. We do have cars and parking is way easier (and free/cheaper) outside of the cities.
That way i also though, i only doing it with Family and super close friend the 3 kiss but good friend i only hug meanwhile stranger or someone i just meet only handshake
I don’t think she’s even Dutch. She just lived here for an unknown amount of time. I’ve never heard about kissing 2 or 3 times depending on how well you know someone. Also I feel like since the pandemic the kiss-greeting has basically vanished.
I think 3 kisses is the traditional way of doing it, but younger people/city people are changing it to 1 Kiss, or sometimes 2. At least, if you know someone already.first meetings are usually always a handshake. It gets very confusing if you have a family birthdayparty where some of your relatives have caught on on the trendy 1 kiss, while others haven't. So you always have one person floating in the air with a follow-up kiss, while the other already is pulling away. To remedy it, sometimes people just say it up front: 1 Kiss? Until you kinda now who wants what amount of kisses. But with young people who are friends you usually just give a hug.
In my Polish experience it varies not even from region to region, but from person to person (perhaps due to a lot of resettlement in the last century). Since like early teens in my schools it was pretty normal to exchange a kiss on the cheek (1) between girls and girls/boys within even a loose friend group. Boys thing would vary, but it had to be some kind of physical contact (high five, the clasp & pat on back, a bear hug). Then in adulthood, or in general outside of school men do a handshake or a hug (depending on familiarity), women would pretty much have free choice of handshake/hug/cheek kiss/distant wave, and it would be wildly different from person to person.
In italy nobody serve tap water because if you want drink only some tap water you can drink it everywhere... there are many public points with free water. You can fill a bottle in too Every city, town or little area has many of these little free fountains
In Norway you're usually not allowed to bring your own drinks to restaurants so you couldn't bring a bottle of water. However our tap water is really good and so you can just get free water at the restaurant. Only time they'll charge you for water is if you buy some bottled shit. Also just as a point of reference, alot of Norwegians will look at Voss Water and just laugh, because it's basically just glorified tap water...
@@Kriss_941you can't bring your bottles in Italy too, he meant that you can simply ask for tap water without having to pay anything, but when you go out eating you usually order water there, but outside there are fountains and you can fill your bottles there if you need them
As a Dutch person, I don't drink tap water in Italy because it contains too much chlorine. I even cook food in spring water from a bottle. Our government also advises against drinking tap water in Italy.
I think Spain is a really heterogeneous country, I live in the north so we usually don’t have AC. We have a cold and rainy weather and we usually buy a floor fan that we can save in a closet the rest of the year. About tap water, here you can ask for it on a bar or coffee shop, and normally they’ll give it to your for free, maybe in biggest cities is like she’s saying, for example, when I was in Madrid I needed to pay for other product to get free tap water. Cold water? We usually have it, not in all supermarkets but on bars, yes, cold water is available most of the times. About driving license, we usually have manual cars and the license, is with manual too.
It might be because I’m a French tourist but as far as I remember, I’ve always paid for water in restaurants in Spain. I live at about a 40 minutes drive from Guipuzkoa and Navarra so I usually go there whenever I go to Spain. It might be a local thing.
In Germany you have everything from all kind of hugs, hand shaking, kissing on checks in all variations. It just depends on the bubbles, regions etc... but in cities you have usually all variations.
In Hamburg at the cinema I had to go to toilet in 2012 then I had to pay 1 € but I got a ticket with value 0.50 € thus I could use this ticket next time in the toilet.
not sure about Prague, but in Pilsen (4th largest city in Czechia), people will use the toilet in malls or McDonalds, where it's always completely free. No one pays for the toilet here.
I read that free public toilets in Europe are rarer as vandalism is more common there. To which my relative would respond: "& that's why we need corporal punishment for vandalism"
The Dutch girl says that the Netherlands has more electric cars than fossil fuel cars is not correct. It is true that more electric cars are sold than fossil cars. The Netherlands has the highest number of electric charging stations in the EU, estimated at around 400,000. The goal is to install one million charging stations. She is right about the parking spaces. No more parking spaces are being created in new residential areas and the municipality of Amsterdam is removing 10,000 parking spaces in the city. Parking is also expensive up to a maximum of €7.50 per hour.
@@PopPipPop yes! Shes only probably lived in Amsterdam probably. In the big cities of course parking is a problem, I don't go to those by car. But usually where ever I go I can easily park....
There is no legal age limit on drinking alcohol in Germany (though giving your kid alcohol outside of medicine will of course still get child protection services involved). You are allowed to drink in public from age 14 if an adult guardian is present (parent or someone who got put as your guardian by your parents), purchase beer and wine from age 16 and buy hard alcohol from age 18
„In public“ is the important phrase here. What you do at home is decided by the parents. If they decide to share ga glass of wine with a 12 year old, it is their decision.
@@jbird4478 It's kind of a "use common sense, do it at your own discretion" kind of situation. Giving a beer to a single digit aged kid? No. But a cup of weak, sweet cider (it's like 3~5 proof or so) is not really gonna hurt anyone. Letting a teenager have a sip of strong alcohol or wine? Not that big of a deal. But if they drink a whole shot or more, yeah that's pushing it. Anymore than that it probably won't get you in trouble (doesn't mean you should risk it) unless they drink a dangerous ammount (wasted or worse) or do dangerous things, or do it regularly, but it's also unacceptable and seen very poorly. On very rare occasion some leniency may be allowed, for things like a small glass of champagne on new year's eve and whatnot. This works somewhat like this in France.
In U.K. children can drink with their parents from the age of 5 (but of course if the authorities think you are giving too much then child services get involved). You can also drink in public with your parents (as long as it’s part of a meal) from 16. The public age for drinking outside of this is 18. That said when I was growing up (2000s) it was common for 14/15 year olds to be drinking alcopops, beer or cider now and again.
In Montenegro, you don't pay for the toilet (maybe some nightclubs have a woman to whom you leave a tip, but that's not the rule), free tap water (we even have public water stations where bottles can be filled), we only pass the driver's license on a manual transmission, but then we drive both automatics and electrics. We hug, kiss, shake hands, it depends on the mood and degree of closeness (although I am Finnish "school"). State companies have 21 paid vacation days, but with weekends it's a month, but if you've worked for 15 or 20 years, you get extra days. Or if you do some dangerous work, you get 30 working days. By law, private companies must give a minimum of 20 working days. But that depends on the employer, the working hours... But if you are sick, you can take sick leave, it is not taken away from your vacation days. You can also take a day off. We have very hot summers, and we use AC (spring has started and the temperature here is 30 degrees) when it's winter one part of the country has a mild climate (the central part and the sea coast) and the north of the country is under snow. So the AC is used for both heating and cooling, although many people heat with wood in the winter. We have nudist beaches, on normal ones it is not very often that someone is topless, but it is common for women to wear a thong as the bottom part of their swimsuit.
Hey world friends you might not see this but thanks for sharing peoples culture around the world and y’all encourage me to learn more about languages so thanks again for brightening up my day with your videos and sorry what I did the other day but if you know you know no questions asked
@@module79l28she lived her whole life in Spain and she couldn't tell that Spanish do use aircon but just talked about her experience only!! Living the last year in South Korea doesnt mean she should know better!!
Das Mädl aus Österreich hat generell nicht viel gesagt, und wenn hat’s zum Teil nicht mal gestimmt … der deutsche Typ hat aber auch vieles nicht ganz richtig gesagt … finde das irgendwie ein bisschen peinlich und irgendwie im Moment das Klischee dieser Generation im Moment … :/
@@sandraankenbrand ich wusste aber auch bevor ich gearbeitet habe schon, wie viele Wochen man im Jahr frei hat etc. Man bekommt es ja auch bei den eigenen Eltern mit
That might be the case for a glass at the counter, but in practice most restaurants will still deny you tap water so you have to buy bottled. I stopped asking past a point but it never worked out for me
Notice that only tap water is free. If you want cold water or bottled water you need to buy it. But refusing to give tap water is ilegal and I have never seen it. In fact most bars have a jar of water and clean glasses in the counter for people to serve themselves
there was a joke about social distancing Fins: "Ok, we can stand those 2m distancing, but when it will be over we will return to our usual 3m distancing"
I think the handshake is the best way to greet someone as Joshua said , i usually don't hug or kiss anyone even if someone that i know , but nothing so cold as Finland saying a slow "hi" 3 or 4 meters of distance 😂
But it depends on the region. I'm from the north and befriended people from the south and they started hugging right away, so I totally froze up xD Then I moved to the south-west near France and they kissed 3 times, so I did it too... when I met friends from NRW (west) and they were utterly shocked 😆
LOL We Filipinos dont Handshake if Our Hands is Wet or Dirty., also if We want to Handshake that Person., before We Handshake each other., We make sure first Our Hands are clean., that's Our Culture
Here in the United States, I have only encountered a pay toilet one time. It was in the 1970s. There was a charge for using a stall, toilet but not the urinal.
@ here public toilets can cost up to 1 euro to use, though most times you do get a discount coupon for use in the store that the public toilet is at. Thought there are free public toilets still… thankfully
The Italian girl marked yes for paying for restrooms. Not really. You won't hve to pay in gas stations, malls, restaurants and cafes, of course. There are some automatic booths restrooms in historical areas and in some big train stationswhere you have to pay,.
From my studies in Italy I am very grateful that many cafés have allowed me to use their toilets without having the time to stay and purchase anything. These have been outdoor or museum studies following a professor all day and you can’t lose your group. I find that if you ask politely in Italian nobody has told me no. ❤ But at the same time there’s not always toilet paper or soap so it’s best to carry some tissues and handsanitizers. Having said that I never ever miss an opportunity to buy a cup of wonderful Italian coffee, gelato or pastries if I can 😄
exactly! Also don't know if it's the editing or she's more silent, but we didn't get much input in the Italian situation I think, and the info is not that accurate.. but of course it's impossible to have 100% info on a whole country from just one person and a few questions (tra l'altro sono di Torino pure io :D)
This video IS very interesting ! I love that that you all sharing your culture. I think the world would be better if everyone share there culture like they do in this video. With no judgement and acceptation that other don't live in the same way than us.
kissing in the Netherlands from my experience (outside the Randstad) is that you give 3 kisses in specific social settings, like when greeting friends and family at a party but I don't do it when I greet people at work or when I pass someone on the street. Also it's usually not done between men. so men will give women kisses but give another man just the handshake. + I never heard about the kissing rule the girl in the video mentioned. You can decide to give just one kiss if you feel like it or even none if you don't want to but there are no rules deciding how many.
Also depends on the group. In my family men definitely do the three kisses thing. When I was younger a lot of girl groups in high school would meet that way. The social setting is important.
i believe they havent been in their home countries for quite some time, i dont remember any time in my life when you pay for bathrooms in poland (im 32), and in sweden i havent seen paid bathrooms for at least 10 years. I remember once there was girl from Latvia, who also said that in latvia all public toilets are paid, but for like past 20 years its only train stations and bus stations.
in mcdonalds at warszawa centralna station you literally have to scan your receipt to enter the toilet, its not technically paid but you do have to buy something
@@herondaless well, that is a train/bus station. I have been in poland so many times in like past 25 or so years. I have yet to remember any time paying for toilets. And yes, it is just a bust/train station thing everywhere in europe.
Since the Swedish girl vanished. Tap water is free in scandinavia, sparkling or iced may cost you about 1€, still cheaper than soda or beer. In most restaurants a can of water and toilet visit is included in the service. If you ask politely you may get to use restrooms for free despite not being a customer, but then it's common to give a coin anyway. Nude beaches, is a thing, but unless it's a public beach skinny-dipping is common, topless is also fully legal and quite normal, but keep the bottom part on. Drinking age in Sweden is 18, but buying hard liqour above 3.5%, it's 20, so you can basically not get drunk unless you go to the pub at 18 or wait until you are 20, unless you chug down a 6-pack 50ml 3.5% in the sauna fast.
Hello from Romania. I think keeping the bottom on but the top off it's pretty standard in a lot of countries mine included , and it kinda make sense if you think about it. Also , skinny dipping it's normal and fun to do , you are IN the watter , nothing to show off.We have mixed payment on toilets - about half are free , things like malls and restaurants , the ideea probably beeing that you pay but thru purchases, but at the beach or at small venues you'll pay up a small sum. There is a funny thing about drinking age , the law states that IN PUBLIC minors are not allowed to drink so that makes 18 , however , there is simply no age restriction to drink in private.Normaly around the low teens wine and home made sweet fruit liquors around 16 most try beer and hard liquors , by 18 you know what you like and how much you can handlewhich makes public drinking better behaved and yeah , 21 when most US young ones go to Spring Brakes without breaks we put a break in due to Uni exams and life . Of course there are exceptions.
Thanks to what we call allemansrätten we can actually bath nude everywhere in Sweden. Except for public beaches. Non public beaches is open to everyone to, but if your bath naked, you have to be sure no one is disturbed by it. So if i finns a lake, it has s little beach, No people there and not public, bark naked. If other people comes, its just to get your bathing suit on.
Tap water in sweden is not free it’s included municipal taxes and utility fees. So no difference with other countries beside it’s not split to tax water and you don’t pay as individual. Which actually don’t make sense cuz one person can use 2K L and the other 12K L and still pay same ammount for the sum
I like these videos, because they bring people together. Knowing and respecting the differences and also seeing similarities, will bring the world together. That is how I hope all these stupid and horrific wars will end. People see, that we are all one. We might have different habits, which is good and interesting, but we all can communicate and be friends, understanding each orher. For me, being already part of the older generation, it gives me hope. Thank you.
In the 21 years I've lived in Finland I've barely seen bathrooms you need to pay to use, and the ones that have been like that are either in super touristy spots or at railway stations. Mall bathrooms are free, at restaurants you probably need to be a customer but tbh with the free mall bathrooms I've never had that issue. I have no idea where that Finnish person is from, most of my knowledge is from the capital area but even when I've travelled to other towns it hasn't been an issue to find a free bathroom. So I wouldn't say their reply is accurate, paid bathrooms are rare compared to the free ones.
In Germany, we are legally entitled to 24 working days' holiday. In most of the companies I've worked for, it was 30 working days. Working days are all days except Sundays and public holidays. Working days are the days on which you usually work, i.e. 5 per week. So most Germans get at least 6 weeks paid holiday (Translated with deepl)
most of the similarities mentioned weren't really cultural, like paying for bathrooms. The closest example might be public nudity, but that's uncommon in other European countries as well. Cheek kissing is another example, but it's practiced in many other places too. I'm not saying there aren't similarities, but I think the video could have chosen better examples.
@@MaraMara89 I live in Norway and we have great insulation. But it’s for keeping the warmth in, it does not work in reverse in my experience. Now that summers are becoming hotter it’s unbearable for me in my well insulated flat. I have to seriously consider air condition because I can’t sleep in the summer in my flat anymore and that’s really hard for my body and mind.
Paid vacation Germany: at least 4 weeks (20 work days) by law , not 3 weeks, like he said. Most people have 6 weeks due to tariff contracts of labor unions.
In Indonesia the legal drinking age is 21 years old. 17 years old is when we get our ID cards. But like most countries many people just don't care about the rules. 😆
In my experience in Bulgaria, water is usually offered cold! Don't usually ask for water at restaurants since I bring my own around but whenever I have, they either bring a cold water or ice, people keep water in the fridge so it's cold, etc. Cheek kissing is also mostly an old generation thing - the younger generation doesn't do it. We usually hug if it's a closer friend, shake hands *or* we have this semi-bow/head nod we greet people with? It's a bit tilted but it's how you'd greet, say, a waiter or a shop keeper. Disclaimer, of course, I live in the capital so things can definitely be different outside of Sofia!
Paying for toalet in Poland? On train stations maybe, but my ultimate cheat was going to malls and public toalets in metro and it’s free. And bins are everywhere in Warszawa. Can’t say it’s the case with every city in Poland but I’ve been to few and I could use every toalet without paying. Maybe the old ones and in so e restaurants but usually they were cool with using them for free. Unless I’m wrong about other cities, feel free to share if you will.
I'm from Finland and when I greet with close friends we hug. With my family we hug only if we see each other after a long time. With friends not that close and some acquaintances we just wave and say hi. But I guess it depends on person. edit: and by the way, in Finland in most restaurants (at least in the metropolitan area where I live) we do have to pay for the water.
As a Finnish man I never hug my friends. I greet my friends and acquaintances like neighbours in a way that I take an eye contact to them, wave my hand and say something like "terve" or "hei". Shaking hands is more common when meet someone for the first time and you introduce yourself properly. A hand shake is also a common way to seal any kind of deal. In a Finnish restaurant it is possible to have a big jug of cold tap water in the middle of the table, not just a small bottle. If you choose a buffet, you can usually eat and drink as much as you feel good, and the price remains the same. When you buy a cup of coffee, a glass of water will be free.
@@lucone2937 well good for you. I was talking about a la carte restaurants. I have been charged for plain tap water in almost every restaurant I have visited in these past two years. I have never ordered a bottle of water because I have been wanting to avoid for paying for just water but still got charged.
@@Katirin89What restaurants are you going to, majority of the ones I've been to had free water and if it wasn't free it was still only 1€ for a big jug
@@lucone2937 I like the idea of the big jug of cold tapwater in the middle of the table, I noticed they do that in Iceland also. Iceland has wonderful tasting water.
I have never seen the exchange thing after paying for the toilet in Poland tbh, but also never been to a mall in Poland that makes you pay for toilet. As I live in Poland since I was born and have been to a lot of cities it is kinda crazy. Tho I have seen that system in Germany for example while traveling.
I'm also polish and i had a "laluna co ty ...." moment when she said that. I understand that in tourist spots you have to pay for toilets but toilets in malls are free. Most of the time, if you are a customer in a place, then the restroom is free.
It depends tbh. I live in a city in Poland which is not tourist-oriented, yet there are weird spots in which toilets are paid. Once I was in a cafe in which there was an absurd prize for toilet (50-fucking-złoty for non-clients) or you could buy sth (like cinammon roll for 4.5 zł) and then you had a free toilet. It was during quarantine though so that might be the case, now the prize for toilet is 5 zł for non-clients. I still find it a little annoying.
You don't remember paying for the toilet in the malls, because it's free by law. Usually public toilets in other places like bus stations are not free. That's why often if the train station is in the same building as a mall you have to pay for the toilet in the part of the building with station and in the part of the building with mall it's free. Some examples: Krakow with main train station. The free toilet is like 3 minute of walking from the one you have to pay for. Same in Katowice and Warsaw.
I remember ditching school one time at recess in Belgium with a buddy. We went to the bar across the street and ordered a beer, which we drank. We were 10 or 11 years old at the time.
Maybe she thought about restaurants where you have water bottles in menu and have to pay for them (though usually they are quite inexpensive)? I have no idea how it is in non-touristic places, but does Italy really have non-touristic places? I mean it is so beautiful that I have seen people traveling to smallest villages ;)
@@MaraMara89 Most Italian regions are non touristy actually and I like that. I saw what mass tourism brought to other places and I hope it won’t happen where I live. People from abroad just visit the same four five cities. Those “villages” you are talking about are in the most touristy regions like Tuscany and they have been popular for decades. It’s very difficult to find foreigners outside non touristic places here but if you manage to find them they are usually Europeans, mostly French and German but you can count them on your fingers. All over Italy you pay for water but as @cherylblossomfp said you can just ask for tap water there is no problem. No one would deny it to you.
@@marty8895as a neighbour I visit Italy very often and I'm given tap water with my order! But I don't trust the quality so I always asked for a bottle of mineral water or I go and buy lots of them at supermarket!!
@@ΠαρασκευηΚωστελιδου Don’t worry tap water in Italy is very much regulated. I always drink tap water at home because it’s even better than water in bottles. What part of Italy have you visited because it is very weird they gave you tap water unless you asked for it?
In Poland during season that are not summer those self-serve glass refrigerators in stores and gas stations are off. They become basically shelves for beverages. I'm sure in some they keep them on all year but in most they don't. You don't want cold drinks when it's cold outside anyway. In the US the beverages are always cold. In southern states the only hot beverage people drink is coffee. The tea is always cold but it is considered a different beverage and southern iced tea is called sweet tea. It is delicious. I don't know how they make it. In other states hot tea is usually either flavored tea or an herbal hot drink with no tea in it but it's still called tea. Proper hot tea is not popular at all and never with milk. Beer is always cold. Warm beer is considered disgusting but US beer is disgusting if consumed at room temperature. It is basically beer-flavored fizzy water. Speaking as an American also besides being Polish.
There are restrooms you have to pay - mostly in touristic spots (last year was media uproar about restrooms in Zakopane, where you had to pay 10 zł), train stations (in my city - Zabrze - we have that one for free, but in Katowice or Bytom you have to pay) or in restaurants (if you are not customer), there are also some free-standing small restrooms ("szalety", with famous one in Białystok that costed almost 0,5 mln zł and failed to be opened at first because of construction supervision), you need to pay, usually by using 2 zł coin. There are some restrooms you need to have code to enter (chain fast-foods like McDonald's, Starbucks etc; some entertainment centers like Punkt44 in Katowice - with Cinema City and some other attractions - had those codes, but it died in pandemic and didn't came back). And there are restrooms you don't have to pay to use - I think it is getting more common after pandemic: on bus stations, in malls (although sometimes you need to pay for restrooms in malls attached to train or bus stations), in public institutions. I remember that when I was younger we needed to pay for almost all restrooms in gas stations, now it is common that no one cares if you are customer or not and you can use it for free, but some still need you to buy something.
Regarding the hugging for greeting as an european, in normal day not usual unless it's family, but in some friend groups or some social activities it becomes part of it. In my hobby you even greet strangers sometimes with a hug when they are friends with your friends or you had a good talk and hug before leaving.
To compare the days off and stuff. I am working in Germany and average work days in my state are about 220-225 a year for employees. 24 days paid leave is minimum in full time job by law, most companies give around 30 days. Since I am working shift, going 365 days a years, 24h they give 8 extra days leave. Extra days or hours working you can decide if you want to have it paid (including bonus for extra hours, holiday, Sunday, night bonus) or have it converted into hours for extra leave. Since I am married with two kids and lower tax rate I mostly decide for pay out these hours. Other colleagues who aren’t married often take the time. If you are sick for the first 6 weeks the employer keeps paying. After six weeks the health insurance will cover 60% of your salary. My employer will fill this 40% gap depending on the time you are inside the company, for 10 years inside the company its maximum 1 year. Having two working mates that had cancer it was a huge benefit for them.
I guess that we can show respect by bow, and we can show fraternity and loyalty by handshake and we can show deeper friendship and apreciation between friends and family by hug or emotional warmth by kiss. :)
Supongo en el Sur es muy necesario cuando hace calor porque suben mucho la temperatura, pero en el Norte por ejemplo Galicia que es de donde soy lo maximo que llegamos seria 37 o 39 grados
In Spain we have nude beaches separated from others. In Barcelona you can’t go in the street with bikini or without t-shirt. lol I use ac it’s so hot in summer…
Some of us (men) hate wearing a t-shirt. If it's about respecting the locals, then I wear a t-shirt until I'm at the beach, but it's too hot walking around as a North European used to the cold
@@Fatherland927 we also know what is cold in Spain 🤣. I was born in Barcelona but my family is from the Pyrenees and it gets very cold like -15 c in winter.
13:27 Er zijn maar weinig mensen die een automaat rijden en elektrisch is alleen de norm in rijke milieus omdat ze stik duur zijn. Een beetje elektrische auto is duurder dan het vervangen van de kozijnen van je huis. €30.000 voor een kleine tweedehands is niet heel gek en er zijn ruim voldoende mensen die dat niet hebben liggen. Als je een gezinsauto wilt en geen tesla kunt betalen, dan rijd je waarschijnlijk een handgeschakelde auto met verbrandingsmotor. We hebben overigens een van de oudste wagenparken van Europa.
Most public toilets in UK are free. Many shops or pubs, shopping centres all free and will have a SIGN stating yes you can go here. And water bottle top ups too but those are very new. Some city cafes and pubs tend to have a code due to prevalence of homeless souls unfortunately
The vacation time for Germany is incorrect. It is not three weeks. The legal minimum by law is four weeks, but usually working contracts have five to six weeks of vacation time, and you have to take at least two weeks connected, while you can split up the rest of your vacation days even into single days off if that's what you prefer. The legal drinking age is split. You may drink beer and whine with 14 if accompanied by a parent, 16 if not accompanied, and 18 for the hard stuff. So-called Alcopops, drinks of lemonade or juice mixed with vodka or whisky used to have the same rules as beer and wine, but some time ago the drinking age for those mixed drinks was changed to 18. There is no free water in Germany. Water comes often in bottles and sparkling water is very popular, but you can also have still water from the bottle. Beverages are usually served cold without ice cubes, but you may order your drink with ice cubes, too.
Balkan country parents/grandparents giving a shot of liquor is so real but also like, it's completely normal to be drinking alcohol as a teenager, I have 2 older brothers and when I was 16 my oldest brother was getting married, everyone in the immediate family drinks some liquor from the same glass and then the oldest unmarried member of the family shatters the glass in order to "bless the marriage" (if there's no unmarried member then the one who shatters is usually the father, this is preformed twice; once for the groom's and once for the bride's family), and then at the reception I drank quite a bit more. that wasn't even my first experience with alcohol. When I was like 13 I was at my friend's for new years, and his parents gave all of us half a glass of champagne, there were 3 of us there and I was the oldest of the group, 1 is a year and the other, host, is 3 years younger than me I'm from Croatia btw
So... I've only ever experienced the having to pay to use a bathroom in Germany, never seen that in Sweden before, nor Denmark, and not here in Norway either... they might exist some rare places, but I've not personally seen any. We also wear our traditional Bunad quite often... but I think we might be an outlier there.
Europe is a continent of many countries with individual cultures. Not every European country will understand the same cultural references as another European country so these types of comparisons are pointless (I realise it’s all a bit of harmless fun, but still pointless and does not help the understanding of, particularly, visitors from the USA to a European country as they have a hard enough time not understanding the difference between the continent of Europe and a European country and between Europe, which is a continent, and the European Union 🇪🇺, which is a member organisation of only some of the continent of Europe’s countries). Too many times when discussing Europe they only mean Western Europe or EU member countries. This seems to be reflected by the participants here.
@@jenniferpearce1052it is pointless cause these Europeans are talking in a funny way and some things are not right! Also they dont represent European culture since every country has it's own!! Only the EU countries are sharing many common laws but even then every country practise them differently!! North Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltics seem so far away from the central Europe and the balkans are consider the poor relative!! We have lots of differences, prejudice and defently this video can't actually help a tourist....
Not true. Europeans are diverse but they are very similar in many things and cultural norms. If we compare them to US or Japan or Saudi Arabia, then Europeans are almost like one country
8:33 greeting with kisses is definitely a thing in Germany but I think it’s more common in the older generation. Like my mum would greet acquaintances with 2 kisses on the cheek right to left. Younger generations seem to go for a quick hug instead
I hate the fact that in Poland you have to pay for public toilets... tbh, there used to be some places where it was free or cheap, but after covid and.. the war it got way more expensive, especially in tourist spots 😑
In touristic spots restrooms usually are expensive, but I have different experience in other places - they got rid of fee during covid and it didn't came back... so it apparently depend on individual places
in germany there is no direct law to stop you from giving alcohol to kid at home or in private with the family, but outside of medicine it could bring child protective service on the plan if you fill your child up. you are not in trouble for giving your child a sip of wine, sparkling wine or eggnog. at age 14 they are allowed to drink in public with there parents/ legal guardians oversight, in resturants they can order most of the booze without a second glance as long as your parents give there okay. as long as the child don´t end up drunk.
In the UK we don't have air conditioning _or_ window shutters in houses. We just put an electric fan on. But I think it also depends on when your house was built. Maybe modern houses have air conditioning, I don't know, but a lot of our houses are really old so it's fair to say they generally don't. Workplaces and shops usually do have air conditioning, though.
I have 25 days of vacation each year in germany, and I work 38-40 hours a week, the minimum is 20 days they need to give you but it depends on how much hours you work per week
No, it has nothing to do with the hours. It depends on how many days you work per week, according to your contract. 20 days minimum vacation relates to a 5 day week. People who work 6 days per week have a minimum of 24 days of vacation. It doesn’t matter whether you have a 40 hour per week contract or 20 hours. As long as you work 5 days per week, you have a minimum of 20 days of vacations. But that’s really the minimum….I don’t know anyone in my profession who would accept only the minimum vacations.
Just for Austria I want to mention something. It's unusual to order water in this day and age at restaurants. The reason being is that Austrian tap water is VERY high quality, especially in the capital Vienna. So why would buy something you can get easily at home. I think it is weird she didn't talk about that. The younger generations in general walk around with their refillable water bottles anyway. We don't drink out of it in the restaurant but ordering bottled water without gas is just a waste of money. They charge you as much as 3€ or more for that. Just no. I think other people in the comments mentioned it as well, but we also have 5 or 6 weeks of paid holiday, plus 13th and 14th month of pay. So we get paid at the end of June/July one month (that's the 13th month) extra (because summer is the main vacation time) AND at the end of November/December (Christmas and winter holidays), which is the 14th month.
außerhalb der autobahnraststätten wird sich das bezahlen für toiletten nicht durchsetzen. allein schon wegen der gesetzeslage , der beschaffungskosten von schleusen & dem backlash der stammkunden.
A few corrections: in Bulgaria we get our IDs at age 14, not 18. We also have a very common drinking culture, so most of us are being taught to drink alcohol in our early teens. We also usually keep the homemade rakia in a labeless bottle of soda in the fridge so everyone of us has been thirsty and taken a sip of rakia from fhe infamous "coke bottle" as a kid. The legal age for drinking is indeed 18, but most kids deink alcohol at parties by age 15-16. Also, clubs are full of kids age 16, even if you have to be 18 to get in. It's just that oftentimes people break the law, because they "know some guy" and it usually by far has had no repercussions. Smoking is also illegal in closed public spaces, yet some restaurants allow smoking, just for the sake of clients, plus the inspectors rarely visit after 8 pm. Legal age for smoking is also 18, but you can see kids with vapes and regular cigarettes everywhere, so they manage to buy those anyway. We have laws, but our culture of "I know a guy" and "I'll do whatever I want" seems to be stronger. We have a huge problem with that, especially when you read the stats on DUIs and speeding as we can't seem to lower the numbers of deaths on the road. We also happen to have a lot of cases of underaged non-licenced kids driving and crashing their parents' cars. It's just recently that these problems started to get regulated through methods like you get the toll cameras to detect and evaluate your speed and if it fits the max permitted per the distance passed. So people have started to drive slower. Also qe got a few very significant cases of famous people drunk driving and using drugs on top, so under the public pressure after the court kf public opinion has canceled these celebs, the laws have gotten tighter in the past year. The overall drinking and smoking i doubt will be fixed anytime soon, but allowing and teaching kids how to consume alcohol responsibly at a teen age has done some public service as by the time we hit 18 we have already learned what "the cool thing about drinking" is and it's not as much of an outburst as it would have been. We simply get to learn and try it in the presence of our parents, instead of on our own while our hormones are raging and out of adult supervision - we'd be doing it without our parents anyway.
Watch the video, they were asked: “What do you think about Europe?”. So he was talking about Europe, not Germany. He said Europe has the 2nd longeat high-speed rail in the world. And it does, after China. But you are also right, Spain has the largest high-speed rail in Europe. Viva España🇪🇸
But its not Europe, its in Spain because you can go from Madrid to Berlin in high speed train, so no. Its just Spain lol He also say: ‘we also have this new technology window shutters’ una persiana hijo. De toda la vida.@@masaru340
OK I have clearly no idea where Zuzia lives in which part of Poland, but where I live for over 40y now there is no paywalled restrooms in the malls... surely, I am aware of paid self-standing modern well-equipped restrooms in cities heavily based on tourism like close to sea or close to mountains but I live in a big city in the middle of the country and never ever spotted paid restroom inside a mall...
In Spain we do have to pay to go to the toilet in some places, even though it's not the everyday case. It happens in places like stations (let's say, for example, Alicante or Barcelona-Sants train stations. You pay like a €1 fee but they are really clean and convenient.
Is the Spanish girl alright?? They have A/C blasting on full power every time I go there xD (but to be fair I've only been to South of Spain which is hotter)
Except the North of Spain, the green strip from.Galicia to the Pyrenees, the rest is boiling hot in summer, some exceptions are places located on mountains.😂 You can't sleep well at night because it's so hot. 😮😢
The greeting with kisses thing depends highly on the country. Usually the more you go to the south of europe, the more hugs and kisses you will get but there are exceptions for instance Romania. This is also reflected in the personal distance that people keep during conversations. In Argentina two people talking to each other stand 2.5 feet (0.76 meters) apart, but in Germany it is 3.3 feet (roughly 1 meter) and in Romania it is 4.5 feet (1.37 meters). If you get as close in Romania as you do in Argentina, Romanians would find it EXTREMELY intrusive. In Germany we say: "eine Armlänge Abstand" wich means "one arms lenght distance".
About 20% of Americans speak another language. But lets be honest, English is a little bit easier to get into since many places speak English (especially in Europe). You just get a lot of casual exposure to English as well as mileage out of speaking the language because it's the most commonly spoken one.
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German guy going “it needs to be designated” is the most German thing I’ve seen all day.
True!! 😂
French here, not really, considering he was talking about nude beach lol. It's the same in France, we have the same mindset. (France has germanic influence that's maybe why lol)
It is the same in Austria. It's called FKK ( Frei Körper Kultur).
And it’s also very rational and civilised, on a cold mathematical perspective 😅
It's better, not everyone wants to see someone naked in their time at the beach 😅 if people wants to be naked then good for them, on their own private beach
"finland is famous for introverted people"
*stays silent for the rest of the video*
how on brand
She didn't have a chance to speak. I mean in Finland it's rude to cut a conversation. She was just waiting for her turn to speak and never got it 🤭
Also it's worth noting that (I'm told) in Finland it's commonly very acceptable to stay silent during gatherings like this, and it would NOT be considered awkward or even uncomfortable. So, she may have less motivation to fight for a turn :D @@ttiwaz4398
@@ttiwaz4398 calling out all us introverts here.
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That's why i ❤ Aki Kaurismäki movies 😍
7:05 Germany has 3 weeks of vacation? No we don't. The absolute minimum - by law - is 20 days of vacation for a 5-day week, so 4 weeks MINIMUM. If you have a 6-day week, it is bumped up to 24 days, so still 4 weeks MINIMUM. But most people get 30 days for a 5-day week, so 6 weeks!
In Poland we have 20 days at the beginning and 26 days after 10 years of work (digression: it isn't actually 10 years of work, as you count in some school experience here, for example if you have uni diploma they count it as 8 years - 5 for University and 3 for high-school, so you need 2 years of actual working) and it is normal to say that we have "3 weeks of vacation days" (as 3 whole weeks are 21 days) instead 20 days, while in reality you have 4 weeks free of work days if you use it on your 5-day of work week. BUT: sometimes you have one free day here ant there, so not really whole week is free (like getting random Tuesday free because you need to go to tax office or something).
In Poland we also have other types of working schedules, where you can work more or less then 5 days in a week and then counting 5 days off as a week isn't working at all ;) [like some places have 2 days of work, 2 days free or 10 days in row - as long as you have at least 35h free before and after that 🙃]
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It is the same for the whole EU. 4 weeks paid leave a year as minimum.
I think he wasn't too sure himself, or his knowledge was outdated. There was a time when legally 3 weeks were the minimum. Also, with the amount of paid celebration days (Feiertage, not sure about the english term) it always ads up, especially in southern Germany. Tbh, the only time i had a job with less then 6 weeks paid vacation (plus holidays) was during my college years, and i worked only part time then (though if you would do the math according to my work contract, you would get to 6 weeks actually).
There is also other information missing. In Belgium, you do not get any paid leave during the whole first year of employment. And I was surprised the French woman didn't say more about kissing for greeting, as in France people also do it in formal and business relationships, not just private ones. I think in this France stands out in all of Europe, though I'm not sure about whether people in Spain kiss in formal and business relationships. In France it completely depends on the gender. Public metal toilets in Germany in my region are free and only cleaned once a day or something, so not so clean. It's only the toilets owned by companies or put up at public events you have to pay for, mostly only for the women's.
Most of my friends have 25 days, so 5 weeks, a few 30 days and only one with only 4 weeks.
I felt it so much when the Spanish girl called the germans out for their lack of beach garments. 😆
The sad ( and funny) thing is that also middle aged ...let's say WELL DEVELOPED ....german man tend to lack the apropiate beach wear. It makes for an eyeopening trip down the beach.
Ahhahaaha of course! Germany is commonly known as a peninsula hahahah
@@bivanbivanus6448 yeah.. I'm living on a small Eiland.. tourists often wear colorful speedo's well after their prime 😅😅 some wear nothing tho 😂
And his reaction is so german like lmao
Spanish? When i was in spain girls were topless all the time
this must be the most wholesome and respectful channel I came across for a long time. It's so good to learn about other cultures and people. And getting to know each other makes us feel closer and relatable to each other. Thank you for coming up with this idea.
"T-shirts and sometimes long pants on the beach" lol , i can't even imagine that in my country 😂
Even they wear hoodie sometimes 😂
Hahaha even tho im indonesian its true, because we go to the beach to feel the sand and swimming in the waves. We do noteven want to get tanned😂
Asians especially girls worship white skin so much that they never allow themself to get suntan, they still wear a bikini but it's just for Instagram 😂
evry Countries have Own Culture Dude 😊
We...😂 don't want to get tanned. Most of us are already tanned, and yeah, religion regulations
You cannot just have 14 people in one video and expect me to remember where is each from, man TwT
they literally said every starting sentence their country what are you on?
@@wesleycoomans6850 not always and more often than not they didn't, it was confusing
I was thinking the same, they should have some carts or stickers on their shirts with their Flagg or something like that 😂
@@wesleycoomans6850no, they did not … I only remembered half of them, where exactly they are from
As an asian, I feel the same!
The idea to do the whole Europe in one go is.... ambitious to say the least. European countries are more contrasted than US states. Two French cities can be more dissimilar that a pairing of one French city and a German one. Honestly even one country... I am French and it's clear to me that I'll die having missed huge chunks of important places to experience in France.
We think that, but when you come back from america or asia, even the country from the other side of europe suddenly feels like home
Aaah Europe is farrrr from east Asia, expensive too. It might seem strange but for most people, it's one in a lifetime trip thus the crazy idea of doing it all in 1 go. 😅
@@mars1pluto I've never been to China but I would not dream of "doing it all in one go".
That being said my first trip to USA was a 3 weeks crossing in a van with tents. Not a "see it all" but certainly an horizontal slice. What I feel like is if you go to EU and just do one tourist "must see" every day it's a bit absurd.
Southern Frenchman here and gosh darn are you right. It shows so much when tourists invade my town lol. The way Parisians especially think and behave is so alien to us. More so even than Dutch people coming to chill for their holidays, and I find that hilarious.
@@Capyrate You're very polite :p (and I am... well was Parisian). Jokes aside as a fellow French I am interested in the parts you find the most "alien". I understand this is more than the well known impatience and arrogance?
7:43 Also important to point out: if you're confirmed sick during vacation time you can get that time "refunded". Like those days can't be counted as vacation day because you're sick and thus can't relax.
Meanwhile in my country that usually isn't the case as you usually need a medical certificate (MC) to prove to the employer that you are sick, but often MCs issued by doctors outside my country are not recognized (we also often don't recognize locally-issued MCs by doctors practicing traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) instead of Western medicine, perhaps because the former is based more on anecdotes than scientific evidence). There were some instances of my countrymen & women who had to cancel their overseas holidays because they got infected with CoVid on day 1 & thus were sent into quarantine, so now there's insurance for that too
11:54 that girl in the back just dissapeared after saying 'bye' 😂
😨
she had another schedule haha
what in the...? XD
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Its strange, it seems like someone called to hear. Se reacts and looks at the back sand then shes gone. Something must have happened. Maybe her parking went out lol
As a Dutch person I've never heard of two kisses with an aquaintance.
From my experience:
Family on like a birthday, family gathering = three kisses (right, left, right)
Friends / closest family = hug / one kiss on the cheek
Unfamiliar / more formal setting / friend of a friend = handshake for first meeting.
When you've gotten more familiar with people on an informal level a hug will also do when saying goodbye
Also I feel like the girl representing The Netherlands is referring to bigger cities like Amsterdam mostly. We do have cars and parking is way easier (and free/cheaper) outside of the cities.
That way i also though, i only doing it with Family and super close friend the 3 kiss but good friend i only hug meanwhile stranger or someone i just meet only handshake
the way i could tell she was only using amsterdam as a reference,,
I don’t think she’s even Dutch. She just lived here for an unknown amount of time. I’ve never heard about kissing 2 or 3 times depending on how well you know someone. Also I feel like since the pandemic the kiss-greeting has basically vanished.
I think 3 kisses is the traditional way of doing it, but younger people/city people are changing it to 1 Kiss, or sometimes 2. At least, if you know someone already.first meetings are usually always a handshake. It gets very confusing if you have a family birthdayparty where some of your relatives have caught on on the trendy 1 kiss, while others haven't. So you always have one person floating in the air with a follow-up kiss, while the other already is pulling away. To remedy it, sometimes people just say it up front: 1 Kiss? Until you kinda now who wants what amount of kisses. But with young people who are friends you usually just give a hug.
In my Polish experience it varies not even from region to region, but from person to person (perhaps due to a lot of resettlement in the last century). Since like early teens in my schools it was pretty normal to exchange a kiss on the cheek (1) between girls and girls/boys within even a loose friend group. Boys thing would vary, but it had to be some kind of physical contact (high five, the clasp & pat on back, a bear hug). Then in adulthood, or in general outside of school men do a handshake or a hug (depending on familiarity), women would pretty much have free choice of handshake/hug/cheek kiss/distant wave, and it would be wildly different from person to person.
In italy nobody serve tap water because if you want drink only some tap water you can drink it everywhere... there are many public points with free water. You can fill a bottle in too
Every city, town or little area has many of these little free fountains
In Rome at least they were installed by the Ancient Romans. They've been used for at least 2000 years.
In Norway you're usually not allowed to bring your own drinks to restaurants so you couldn't bring a bottle of water. However our tap water is really good and so you can just get free water at the restaurant. Only time they'll charge you for water is if you buy some bottled shit. Also just as a point of reference, alot of Norwegians will look at Voss Water and just laugh, because it's basically just glorified tap water...
@@Kriss_941you can't bring your bottles in Italy too, he meant that you can simply ask for tap water without having to pay anything, but when you go out eating you usually order water there, but outside there are fountains and you can fill your bottles there if you need them
As a Dutch person, I don't drink tap water in Italy because it contains too much chlorine. I even cook food in spring water from a bottle. Our government also advises against drinking tap water in Italy.
@@RAMDH I've had dutch colleagues that never had problems with tap water here 🤔 I'll try and ask them about this xD
So happy to see Bulgaria represented 🥰🥰🇧🇬
Yes, we Eastern Europeans are most often left out, especially if we're from smaller countries. Greetings from your northern neighbour 🇷🇴🤝🇧🇬
me too ❤
BEAUTIFULLY represented to say the least! 😍
@@balak1 What's interesting/a bit sad is that there almost no Romanian representation on this channel. Not a lot of us in South Korea I guess, huh...
I think Spain is a really heterogeneous country, I live in the north so we usually don’t have AC. We have a cold and rainy weather and we usually buy a floor fan that we can save in a closet the rest of the year.
About tap water, here you can ask for it on a bar or coffee shop, and normally they’ll give it to your for free, maybe in biggest cities is like she’s saying, for example, when I was in Madrid I needed to pay for other product to get free tap water.
Cold water? We usually have it, not in all supermarkets but on bars, yes, cold water is available most of the times.
About driving license, we usually have manual cars and the license, is with manual too.
im from madrid and ive never had to buy anything else to get free tap water lol, ive even been joked about having to pay for it by a waitress once
I agree, I'm from Mallorca and we do use our AC if it's hot enough. 🤣
also, legally they have to give you free tap water if you ask for it!
It might be because I’m a French tourist but as far as I remember, I’ve always paid for water in restaurants in Spain.
I live at about a 40 minutes drive from Guipuzkoa and Navarra so I usually go there whenever I go to Spain. It might be a local thing.
In Germany you have everything from all kind of hugs, hand shaking, kissing on checks in all variations. It just depends on the bubbles, regions etc... but in cities you have usually all variations.
In informal settings yes, but not in professional or formal settings, and kisses on cheeks depend on the gender. A nod of the head is also common.
Quatsch wo denn? Es ist doch sehr anders als Südeuropa wo es tw üblich ist unter Kollegen sich auf die Wangen zu küssen zur Begrüßung.
I think Covid made the handshake very rare. Friends are hugged, everyone else is greeted with a nod, fist bumps also became more common.
Paying a bit for toilet is fine because it is clean. In petrol stations it is smelly but free.
In Hamburg at the cinema I had to go to toilet in 2012 then I had to pay 1 € but I got a ticket with value 0.50 € thus I could use this ticket next time in the toilet.
@@AhmetMurati on the Autobahn stations in Germany. It’s the same way that you pay, but you receive a ticket that you can use for a latte or something
not sure about Prague, but in Pilsen (4th largest city in Czechia), people will use the toilet in malls or McDonalds, where it's always completely free. No one pays for the toilet here.
I read that free public toilets in Europe are rarer as vandalism is more common there. To which my relative would respond: "& that's why we need corporal punishment for vandalism"
The Dutch girl says that the Netherlands has more electric cars than fossil fuel cars is not correct. It is true that more electric cars are sold than fossil cars. The Netherlands has the highest number of electric charging stations in the EU, estimated at around 400,000. The goal is to install one million charging stations. She is right about the parking spaces. No more parking spaces are being created in new residential areas and the municipality of Amsterdam is removing 10,000 parking spaces in the city. Parking is also expensive up to a maximum of €7.50 per hour.
This, people are using a parking app to avoid paying per 20, 30 or 60 minutes. Parking apps counts per minute, so it's cheaper and more fair.
that’s what happens when they invite a non-Dutch person to speak for Dutch culture
Yeah and she was also incorrect about the kisses. Almost no one does that lol.
@@PopPipPop yes! Shes only probably lived in Amsterdam probably. In the big cities of course parking is a problem, I don't go to those by car. But usually where ever I go I can easily park....
She is probably a terminal city dweller and has never left a student city and believes only demons drive manual diesels.
There is no legal age limit on drinking alcohol in Germany (though giving your kid alcohol outside of medicine will of course still get child protection services involved). You are allowed to drink in public from age 14 if an adult guardian is present (parent or someone who got put as your guardian by your parents), purchase beer and wine from age 16 and buy hard alcohol from age 18
„In public“ is the important phrase here. What you do at home is decided by the parents. If they decide to share ga glass of wine with a 12 year old, it is their decision.
@@jbird4478No, underaged drinking is illegal in most European countries. It certainly is in Finland
@@jbird4478 It's kind of a "use common sense, do it at your own discretion" kind of situation. Giving a beer to a single digit aged kid? No. But a cup of weak, sweet cider (it's like 3~5 proof or so) is not really gonna hurt anyone. Letting a teenager have a sip of strong alcohol or wine? Not that big of a deal. But if they drink a whole shot or more, yeah that's pushing it. Anymore than that it probably won't get you in trouble (doesn't mean you should risk it) unless they drink a dangerous ammount (wasted or worse) or do dangerous things, or do it regularly, but it's also unacceptable and seen very poorly. On very rare occasion some leniency may be allowed, for things like a small glass of champagne on new year's eve and whatnot. This works somewhat like this in France.
In italy you can't buy alcohol since 18 but you can drink it with your family in public
In U.K. children can drink with their parents from the age of 5 (but of course if the authorities think you are giving too much then child services get involved). You can also drink in public with your parents (as long as it’s part of a meal) from 16. The public age for drinking outside of this is 18.
That said when I was growing up (2000s) it was common for 14/15 year olds to be drinking alcopops, beer or cider now and again.
Most of European have their vacation paid every yr.
Sure... that's what its about - taking off without payment is up to you and unlimited
In Montenegro, you don't pay for the toilet (maybe some nightclubs have a woman to whom you leave a tip, but that's not the rule), free tap water (we even have public water stations where bottles can be filled), we only pass the driver's license on a manual transmission, but then we drive both automatics and electrics. We hug, kiss, shake hands, it depends on the mood and degree of closeness (although I am Finnish "school").
State companies have 21 paid vacation days, but with weekends it's a month, but if you've worked for 15 or 20 years, you get extra days. Or if you do some dangerous work, you get 30 working days. By law, private companies must give a minimum of 20 working days. But that depends on the employer, the working hours... But if you are sick, you can take sick leave, it is not taken away from your vacation days. You can also take a day off.
We have very hot summers, and we use AC (spring has started and the temperature here is 30 degrees) when it's winter one part of the country has a mild climate (the central part and the sea coast) and the north of the country is under snow. So the AC is used for both heating and cooling, although many people heat with wood in the winter. We have nudist beaches, on normal ones it is not very often that someone is topless, but it is common for women to wear a thong as the bottom part of their swimsuit.
Hey world friends you might not see this but thanks for sharing peoples culture around the world and y’all encourage me to learn more about languages so thanks again for brightening up my day with your videos and sorry what I did the other day but if you know you know no questions asked
I dont know where the Spanish girl lives but in the Spain that i live we use the Aircon a lot, specially in summer.
In the north of the country it is very unusual. In the Basque Country I don't have it, and it is not common to have it here.
She's from Barcelona but she doesn't live in Spain, she lives in South Korea.
@@module79l28she lived her whole life in Spain and she couldn't tell that Spanish do use aircon but just talked about her experience only!!
Living the last year in South Korea doesnt mean she should know better!!
@@ΠαρασκευηΚωστελιδου - I don't know how long she has been living in South Korea, apparently you know more about her than I do.
@@module79l28 I know that she wasn't born or raised in Korea so he should know better....
The Austrian forgot to mention that WE have 5 Werks vacation and 13 national Holidays.also WE have 2 extra wages each year
Das Mädl aus Österreich hat generell nicht viel gesagt, und wenn hat’s zum Teil nicht mal gestimmt … der deutsche Typ hat aber auch vieles nicht ganz richtig gesagt … finde das irgendwie ein bisschen peinlich und irgendwie im Moment das Klischee dieser Generation im Moment … :/
@@DasTamiijaaa💀🥲
@@DasTamiiJa, hab mir auch gedacht: warum Teenies fragen, die wissen sowas natürlich nicht.
@@sandraankenbrand ich wusste aber auch bevor ich gearbeitet habe schon, wie viele Wochen man im Jahr frei hat etc. Man bekommt es ja auch bei den eigenen Eltern mit
18:39 actually in spain it's illigal to deny someone a cup of water, it's free by law, like in the UK
in spain its honestly a necessity considering how comically hot the south gets during summer although i've never seen that law enforced
That might be the case for a glass at the counter, but in practice most restaurants will still deny you tap water so you have to buy bottled. I stopped asking past a point but it never worked out for me
Same in France, restaurants must serve you freely a glass of water if you ask it.
Notice that only tap water is free. If you want cold water or bottled water you need to buy it. But refusing to give tap water is ilegal and I have never seen it. In fact most bars have a jar of water and clean glasses in the counter for people to serve themselves
the water in majorca don't taste like what it oughta
there was a joke about social distancing
Fins: "Ok, we can stand those 2m distancing, but when it will be over we will return to our usual 3m distancing"
really?
In Bulgaria we quit drinking at 18...
In Austria holiday is at least 5 weeks, after 25 years working for the same employer you get 6 weeks, paid sick leave too up to several month
I think the handshake is the best way to greet someone as Joshua said , i usually don't hug or kiss anyone even if someone that i know , but nothing so cold as Finland saying a slow "hi" 3 or 4 meters of distance 😂
But it depends on the region. I'm from the north and befriended people from the south and they started hugging right away, so I totally froze up xD Then I moved to the south-west near France and they kissed 3 times, so I did it too... when I met friends from NRW (west) and they were utterly shocked 😆
Handshake is how I do it, but it's disgusting how many people don't wash their hands after toilet.
every Nations or Countries have different Versions how to greet People., many European Countries They hug or kiss
I don't think so with wet hands... and you can't know where and what those hands had touch before you coming
LOL We Filipinos dont Handshake if Our Hands is Wet or Dirty., also if We want to Handshake that Person., before We Handshake each other., We make sure first Our Hands are clean., that's Our Culture
We definitely have to pay at a lot of the public restrooms in the Netherlands. That Dutch girl held up the wrong side of the paddle.
I wouldn't pay to use the restroom but I would leave a free deposit. You are welcome. 💩
Here in the United States, I have only encountered a pay toilet one time. It was in the 1970s. There was a charge for using a stall, toilet but not the urinal.
@ here public toilets can cost up to 1 euro to use, though most times you do get a discount coupon for use in the store that the public toilet is at.
Thought there are free public toilets still… thankfully
The Italian girl marked yes for paying for restrooms. Not really. You won't hve to pay in gas stations, malls, restaurants and cafes, of course. There are some automatic booths restrooms in historical areas and in some big train stationswhere you have to pay,.
From my studies in Italy I am very grateful that many cafés have allowed me to use their toilets without having the time to stay and purchase anything. These have been outdoor or museum studies following a professor all day and you can’t lose your group. I find that if you ask politely in Italian nobody has told me no. ❤ But at the same time there’s not always toilet paper or soap so it’s best to carry some tissues and handsanitizers. Having said that I never ever miss an opportunity to buy a cup of wonderful Italian coffee, gelato or pastries if I can 😄
Exactly. I was surprised when she marked yes. They're 95% free, especially in the countryside and small towns.
exactly! Also don't know if it's the editing or she's more silent, but we didn't get much input in the Italian situation I think, and the info is not that accurate.. but of course it's impossible to have 100% info on a whole country from just one person and a few questions (tra l'altro sono di Torino pure io :D)
This video IS very interesting ! I love that that you all sharing your culture.
I think the world would be better if everyone share there culture like they do in this video.
With no judgement and acceptation that other don't live in the same way than us.
kissing in the Netherlands from my experience (outside the Randstad) is that you give 3 kisses in specific social settings, like when greeting friends and family at a party but I don't do it when I greet people at work or when I pass someone on the street. Also it's usually not done between men. so men will give women kisses but give another man just the handshake.
+ I never heard about the kissing rule the girl in the video mentioned. You can decide to give just one kiss if you feel like it or even none if you don't want to but there are no rules deciding how many.
I was thinking the exact same thing xD
Also depends on the group. In my family men definitely do the three kisses thing.
When I was younger a lot of girl groups in high school would meet that way. The social setting is important.
3 kusjes zijn normaal in Limburg.
i believe they havent been in their home countries for quite some time, i dont remember any time in my life when you pay for bathrooms in poland (im 32), and in sweden i havent seen paid bathrooms for at least 10 years. I remember once there was girl from Latvia, who also said that in latvia all public toilets are paid, but for like past 20 years its only train stations and bus stations.
in mcdonalds at warszawa centralna station you literally have to scan your receipt to enter the toilet, its not technically paid but you do have to buy something
@@herondaless well, that is a train/bus station. I have been in poland so many times in like past 25 or so years. I have yet to remember any time paying for toilets. And yes, it is just a bust/train station thing everywhere in europe.
Paid toilets exist nearby tourists attractions and on some railroad stations unfortunately.
Was in Stargard and Szczecin recently and had to pay to use it in some shopping centres but not others.
Nah, train stations and standalone bathrooms have the coin slots. Warsaw, Łódź, Gdańsk for sure.
Since the Swedish girl vanished.
Tap water is free in scandinavia, sparkling or iced may cost you about 1€, still cheaper than soda or beer.
In most restaurants a can of water and toilet visit is included in the service.
If you ask politely you may get to use restrooms for free despite not being a customer, but then it's common to give a coin anyway.
Nude beaches, is a thing, but unless it's a public beach skinny-dipping is common, topless is also fully legal and quite normal, but keep the bottom part on.
Drinking age in Sweden is 18, but buying hard liqour above 3.5%, it's 20, so you can basically not get drunk unless you go to the pub at 18 or wait until you are 20, unless you chug down a 6-pack 50ml 3.5% in the sauna fast.
Hello from Romania. I think keeping the bottom on but the top off it's pretty standard in a lot of countries mine included , and it kinda make sense if you think about it. Also , skinny dipping it's normal and fun to do , you are IN the watter , nothing to show off.We have mixed payment on toilets - about half are free , things like malls and restaurants , the ideea probably beeing that you pay but thru purchases, but at the beach or at small venues you'll pay up a small sum. There is a funny thing about drinking age , the law states that IN PUBLIC minors are not allowed to drink so that makes 18 , however , there is simply no age restriction to drink in private.Normaly around the low teens wine and home made sweet fruit liquors around 16 most try beer and hard liquors , by 18 you know what you like and how much you can handlewhich makes public drinking better behaved and yeah , 21 when most US young ones go to Spring Brakes without breaks we put a break in due to Uni exams and life . Of course there are exceptions.
Thanks to what we call allemansrätten we can actually bath nude everywhere in Sweden. Except for public beaches. Non public beaches is open to everyone to, but if your bath naked, you have to be sure no one is disturbed by it. So if i finns a lake, it has s little beach, No people there and not public, bark naked. If other people comes, its just to get your bathing suit on.
Tap water in sweden is not free it’s included municipal taxes and utility fees.
So no difference with other countries beside it’s not split to tax water and you don’t pay as individual.
Which actually don’t make sense cuz one person can use 2K L and the other 12K L and still pay same ammount for the sum
I like these videos, because they bring people together. Knowing and respecting the differences and also seeing similarities, will bring the world together. That is how I hope all these stupid and horrific wars will end. People see, that we are all one. We might have different habits, which is good and interesting, but we all can communicate and be friends, understanding each orher. For me, being already part of the older generation, it gives me hope. Thank you.
In the 21 years I've lived in Finland I've barely seen bathrooms you need to pay to use, and the ones that have been like that are either in super touristy spots or at railway stations. Mall bathrooms are free, at restaurants you probably need to be a customer but tbh with the free mall bathrooms I've never had that issue. I have no idea where that Finnish person is from, most of my knowledge is from the capital area but even when I've travelled to other towns it hasn't been an issue to find a free bathroom. So I wouldn't say their reply is accurate, paid bathrooms are rare compared to the free ones.
Shopping malls in Finland have free public toilets. However in restaurants you have to be a customer to use it.
Same in Bulgaria
Libraries too.
Europe is so diverse and yet so close..
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Lol I thought that 3-4 weeks of paid vacation was not a lot. I guess that as a European I'm pampered 😆
It's not much compared to Estonia and Scandinavia
In Germany, we are legally entitled to 24 working days' holiday. In most of the companies I've worked for, it was 30 working days. Working days are all days except Sundays and public holidays. Working days are the days on which you usually work, i.e. 5 per week. So most Germans get at least 6 weeks paid holiday (Translated with deepl)
In the Netherlands, 4 weeks is the legal minimum, but most people get 5 weeks.
@@jjkanal640 Sweden gets a minimum of 5 weeks in total, so it's not that far off.
I find it absolutely beautiful every time I see Europeans realizing how much similar they are in contrast to the rest of the world.
most of the similarities mentioned weren't really cultural, like paying for bathrooms. The closest example might be public nudity, but that's uncommon in other European countries as well. Cheek kissing is another example, but it's practiced in many other places too. I'm not saying there aren't similarities, but I think the video could have chosen better examples.
“polish summers aren’t that warm”
meanwhile poland at 35°c
Maybe she lives in country side and in home with great insulation? But in cities that heat is unbearable :/
@@CarriettaCarrieWhite Yeah, that would also made sense with only few days of heat that you can survive
@@CarriettaCarrieWhiteoh comon 35 C during a summer in Poland was normal 10 years ago and even 100 years ago
@@MaraMara89 I live in Norway and we have great insulation. But it’s for keeping the warmth in, it does not work in reverse in my experience. Now that summers are becoming hotter it’s unbearable for me in my well insulated flat. I have to seriously consider air condition because I can’t sleep in the summer in my flat anymore and that’s really hard for my body and mind.
@@blue2mato312 Mhh I wonder how this insulation in Norway works to keep the cold out and keep the warmth in but let the warmth in as well.
Bravo Illy🙌🙌🙌🙌👏. Love from Bulgaria🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬
Paid vacation Germany: at least 4 weeks (20 work days) by law , not 3 weeks, like he said. Most people have 6 weeks due to tariff contracts of labor unions.
In Indonesia the legal drinking age is 21 years old. 17 years old is when we get our ID cards. But like most countries many people just don't care about the rules. 😆
In my experience in Bulgaria, water is usually offered cold! Don't usually ask for water at restaurants since I bring my own around but whenever I have, they either bring a cold water or ice, people keep water in the fridge so it's cold, etc. Cheek kissing is also mostly an old generation thing - the younger generation doesn't do it. We usually hug if it's a closer friend, shake hands *or* we have this semi-bow/head nod we greet people with? It's a bit tilted but it's how you'd greet, say, a waiter or a shop keeper. Disclaimer, of course, I live in the capital so things can definitely be different outside of Sofia!
I feel to this day the handshake I got from my german cousin😂
French accent is so cute ❤ I can’t 😊
Paying for toalet in Poland? On train stations maybe, but my ultimate cheat was going to malls and public toalets in metro and it’s free. And bins are everywhere in Warszawa. Can’t say it’s the case with every city in Poland but I’ve been to few and I could use every toalet without paying. Maybe the old ones and in so e restaurants but usually they were cool with using them for free. Unless I’m wrong about other cities, feel free to share if you will.
i love all these "aaaahs" and "oooohs" 😂
very cool concept, all these differences 🎉
19:09 australia is now in europe according to the subtitles!
It is in Eurovision, so Australia is honorary European 🤣
@@MaraMara89 They have a flag of an European Country on their flag.
They accidentally translated Austria as Australia (if you turn on RUclips subtitles it's shows the correct translation)
I'm from Finland and when I greet with close friends we hug. With my family we hug only if we see each other after a long time. With friends not that close and some acquaintances we just wave and say hi. But I guess it depends on person.
edit: and by the way, in Finland in most restaurants (at least in the metropolitan area where I live) we do have to pay for the water.
As a Finnish man I never hug my friends. I greet my friends and acquaintances like neighbours in a way that I take an eye contact to them, wave my hand and say something like "terve" or "hei". Shaking hands is more common when meet someone for the first time and you introduce yourself properly. A hand shake is also a common way to seal any kind of deal.
In a Finnish restaurant it is possible to have a big jug of cold tap water in the middle of the table, not just a small bottle. If you choose a buffet, you can usually eat and drink as much as you feel good, and the price remains the same. When you buy a cup of coffee, a glass of water will be free.
@@lucone2937 well good for you. I was talking about a la carte restaurants. I have been charged for plain tap water in almost every restaurant I have visited in these past two years. I have never ordered a bottle of water because I have been wanting to avoid for paying for just water but still got charged.
@@Katirin89What restaurants are you going to, majority of the ones I've been to had free water and if it wasn't free it was still only 1€ for a big jug
@@lucone2937 I like the idea of the big jug of cold tapwater in the middle of the table, I noticed they do that in Iceland also. Iceland has wonderful tasting water.
I have never seen the exchange thing after paying for the toilet in Poland tbh, but also never been to a mall in Poland that makes you pay for toilet. As I live in Poland since I was born and have been to a lot of cities it is kinda crazy. Tho I have seen that system in Germany for example while traveling.
I'm also polish and i had a "laluna co ty ...." moment when she said that. I understand that in tourist spots you have to pay for toilets but toilets in malls are free. Most of the time, if you are a customer in a place, then the restroom is free.
It depends tbh. I live in a city in Poland which is not tourist-oriented, yet there are weird spots in which toilets are paid. Once I was in a cafe in which there was an absurd prize for toilet (50-fucking-złoty for non-clients) or you could buy sth (like cinammon roll for 4.5 zł) and then you had a free toilet. It was during quarantine though so that might be the case, now the prize for toilet is 5 zł for non-clients. I still find it a little annoying.
Same in Czechia. Not sure about Prague but in any other city you do not pay for the toilet.
Yeah. I don't know why she says you have to pay in shopping malls. You don't. It's free and clean too.
You don't remember paying for the toilet in the malls, because it's free by law. Usually public toilets in other places like bus stations are not free. That's why often if the train station is in the same building as a mall you have to pay for the toilet in the part of the building with station and in the part of the building with mall it's free. Some examples: Krakow with main train station. The free toilet is like 3 minute of walking from the one you have to pay for. Same in Katowice and Warsaw.
I remember ditching school one time at recess in Belgium with a buddy. We went to the bar across the street and ordered a beer, which we drank. We were 10 or 11 years old at the time.
in Italy if we ask some water like a cup, they gave it to us, idk why the Italian girl disagreed
Maybe she thought about restaurants where you have water bottles in menu and have to pay for them (though usually they are quite inexpensive)? I have no idea how it is in non-touristic places, but does Italy really have non-touristic places? I mean it is so beautiful that I have seen people traveling to smallest villages ;)
@@MaraMara89 Most Italian regions are non touristy actually and I like that. I saw what mass tourism brought to other places and I hope it won’t happen where I live.
People from abroad just visit the same four five cities. Those “villages” you are talking about are in the most touristy regions like Tuscany and they have been popular for decades. It’s very difficult to find foreigners outside non touristic places here but if you manage to find them they are usually Europeans, mostly French and German but you can count them on your fingers.
All over Italy you pay for water but as @cherylblossomfp said you can just ask for tap water there is no problem. No one would deny it to you.
@@marty8895as a neighbour I visit Italy very often and I'm given tap water with my order!
But I don't trust the quality so I always asked for a bottle of mineral water or I go and buy lots of them at supermarket!!
@@ΠαρασκευηΚωστελιδου Don’t worry tap water in Italy is very much regulated. I always drink tap water at home because it’s even better than water in bottles. What part of Italy have you visited because it is very weird they gave you tap water unless you asked for it?
@@marty8895 Germans like going to South Tyrol for tourism I think.
In Poland during season that are not summer those self-serve glass refrigerators in stores and gas stations are off. They become basically shelves for beverages. I'm sure in some they keep them on all year but in most they don't. You don't want cold drinks when it's cold outside anyway. In the US the beverages are always cold. In southern states the only hot beverage people drink is coffee. The tea is always cold but it is considered a different beverage and southern iced tea is called sweet tea. It is delicious. I don't know how they make it. In other states hot tea is usually either flavored tea or an herbal hot drink with no tea in it but it's still called tea. Proper hot tea is not popular at all and never with milk. Beer is always cold. Warm beer is considered disgusting but US beer is disgusting if consumed at room temperature. It is basically beer-flavored fizzy water. Speaking as an American also besides being Polish.
I've never come across a pay-to-go restroom in Poland, and I live here. In train stations you have to pay, though.
There are restrooms you have to pay - mostly in touristic spots (last year was media uproar about restrooms in Zakopane, where you had to pay 10 zł), train stations (in my city - Zabrze - we have that one for free, but in Katowice or Bytom you have to pay) or in restaurants (if you are not customer), there are also some free-standing small restrooms ("szalety", with famous one in Białystok that costed almost 0,5 mln zł and failed to be opened at first because of construction supervision), you need to pay, usually by using 2 zł coin. There are some restrooms you need to have code to enter (chain fast-foods like McDonald's, Starbucks etc; some entertainment centers like Punkt44 in Katowice - with Cinema City and some other attractions - had those codes, but it died in pandemic and didn't came back). And there are restrooms you don't have to pay to use - I think it is getting more common after pandemic: on bus stations, in malls (although sometimes you need to pay for restrooms in malls attached to train or bus stations), in public institutions.
I remember that when I was younger we needed to pay for almost all restrooms in gas stations, now it is common that no one cares if you are customer or not and you can use it for free, but some still need you to buy something.
@@MaraMara89 Maybe I just naturally avoid them and go for the free ones intuitively :)
So you did come across pay-to-go restrooms. It's exactly the place where tourists would find them.
11 women and 1 man - what a great way to give a balanced view of how Europeans think.
In the subtitles Austria was translated as Australia. I think that misunderstanding never dies, doesn't it? 😂
Agree (Typing from Vienna airport, originally heading for Melbourne)
Regarding the hugging for greeting as an european, in normal day not usual unless it's family, but in some friend groups or some social activities it becomes part of it. In my hobby you even greet strangers sometimes with a hug when they are friends with your friends or you had a good talk and hug before leaving.
German Guy's voice is so good to listen. Bless you king
Ein sehr interessante Video 😂👌🏻👍🏻
To compare the days off and stuff.
I am working in Germany and average work days in my state are about 220-225 a year for employees.
24 days paid leave is minimum in full time job by law, most companies give around 30 days. Since I am working shift, going 365 days a years, 24h they give 8 extra days leave.
Extra days or hours working you can decide if you want to have it paid (including bonus for extra hours, holiday, Sunday, night bonus) or have it converted into hours for extra leave.
Since I am married with two kids and lower tax rate I mostly decide for pay out these hours. Other colleagues who aren’t married often take the time.
If you are sick for the first 6 weeks the employer keeps paying. After six weeks the health insurance will cover 60% of your salary. My employer will fill this 40% gap depending on the time you are inside the company, for 10 years inside the company its maximum 1 year. Having two working mates that had cancer it was a huge benefit for them.
I guess that we can show respect by bow, and we can show fraternity and loyalty by handshake and we can show deeper friendship and apreciation between friends and family by hug or emotional warmth by kiss. :)
The AC in Spain It depends on where you live, I can asure you that most of Andalucía can't survive the summer without it.
Supongo en el Sur es muy necesario cuando hace calor porque suben mucho la temperatura, pero en el Norte por ejemplo Galicia que es de donde soy lo maximo que llegamos seria 37 o 39 grados
@@beatriz92 El verano pasado yo vi el termómetro marcar 49 y hasta 52
In Stuttgart today we have 29 C but it is the last summer day of April for 2024.
In Spain we have nude beaches separated from others. In Barcelona you can’t go in the street with bikini or without t-shirt. lol I use ac it’s so hot in summer…
Shes talking about being topless i guess
Some of us (men) hate wearing a t-shirt. If it's about respecting the locals, then I wear a t-shirt until I'm at the beach, but it's too hot walking around as a North European used to the cold
@@Fatherland927 Shirtless= Death penalty. Go learn manners.
@@Fatherland927 we also know what is cold in Spain 🤣. I was born in Barcelona but my family is from the Pyrenees and it gets very cold like -15 c in winter.
@@angyliv8040 true, but I meant to say I cannot endure the heat 😂 I need to be shirtless.
Spanish girl should come to Dalarna in Sweden to see that we still use traditional clothes a lot! :)
Yess, I’m a Swede too but I love how they are still keeping the traditional clothes alive
13:27 Er zijn maar weinig mensen die een automaat rijden en elektrisch is alleen de norm in rijke milieus omdat ze stik duur zijn. Een beetje elektrische auto is duurder dan het vervangen van de kozijnen van je huis. €30.000 voor een kleine tweedehands is niet heel gek en er zijn ruim voldoende mensen die dat niet hebben liggen. Als je een gezinsauto wilt en geen tesla kunt betalen, dan rijd je waarschijnlijk een handgeschakelde auto met verbrandingsmotor.
We hebben overigens een van de oudste wagenparken van Europa.
Most public toilets in UK are free. Many shops or pubs, shopping centres all free and will have a SIGN stating yes you can go here. And water bottle top ups too but those are very new. Some city cafes and pubs tend to have a code due to prevalence of homeless souls unfortunately
In France in restaurant water is free in the "pichet" tap water, but if you ask a bottle you will pay
Yes, château la pompe.😅
Well, in Austria tap water is normally free and it tastes so good!!
I am 99% sure the girl representing the Netherlands isn't dutch. Not the accent nor the things she said are true.
The vacation time for Germany is incorrect. It is not three weeks. The legal minimum by law is four weeks, but usually working contracts have five to six weeks of vacation time, and you have to take at least two weeks connected, while you can split up the rest of your vacation days even into single days off if that's what you prefer.
The legal drinking age is split. You may drink beer and whine with 14 if accompanied by a parent, 16 if not accompanied, and 18 for the hard stuff. So-called Alcopops, drinks of lemonade or juice mixed with vodka or whisky used to have the same rules as beer and wine, but some time ago the drinking age for those mixed drinks was changed to 18.
There is no free water in Germany. Water comes often in bottles and sparkling water is very popular, but you can also have still water from the bottle. Beverages are usually served cold without ice cubes, but you may order your drink with ice cubes, too.
I kinda find it crazy how we can all speak or at least semi speak a common language when were all so different
Balkan country parents/grandparents giving a shot of liquor is so real
but also like, it's completely normal to be drinking alcohol as a teenager, I have 2 older brothers and when I was 16 my oldest brother was getting married, everyone in the immediate family drinks some liquor from the same glass and then the oldest unmarried member of the family shatters the glass in order to "bless the marriage" (if there's no unmarried member then the one who shatters is usually the father, this is preformed twice; once for the groom's and once for the bride's family), and then at the reception I drank quite a bit more.
that wasn't even my first experience with alcohol. When I was like 13 I was at my friend's for new years, and his parents gave all of us half a glass of champagne, there were 3 of us there and I was the oldest of the group, 1 is a year and the other, host, is 3 years younger than me
I'm from Croatia btw
Der Deutsche hat den deutschen Humor richtig gut raus! 🤣
Minimum vacation time in Germany is 21 days per year and as a work week has only 5 days is not 3 weeks but 4 weeks and 1 day
to the drinks, system in belgium is the same as in germany , low % alcohol (but only beer & whine ) 16+ high% alcohol 18+
So... I've only ever experienced the having to pay to use a bathroom in Germany, never seen that in Sweden before, nor Denmark, and not here in Norway either... they might exist some rare places, but I've not personally seen any.
We also wear our traditional Bunad quite often... but I think we might be an outlier there.
I love that you wear your traditional Bunad quite often.
Europe is a continent of many countries with individual cultures. Not every European country will understand the same cultural references as another European country so these types of comparisons are pointless (I realise it’s all a bit of harmless fun, but still pointless and does not help the understanding of, particularly, visitors from the USA to a European country as they have a hard enough time not understanding the difference between the continent of Europe and a European country and between Europe, which is a continent, and the European Union 🇪🇺, which is a member organisation of only some of the continent of Europe’s countries). Too many times when discussing Europe they only mean Western Europe or EU member countries. This seems to be reflected by the participants here.
It is the exact opposite of pointless to have these conversations. We get to see all these Europeans discussing how their countries are different.
@@jenniferpearce1052 that is my point - we get to hear from Western Europeans / Europeans from EU countries. How is that representative of Europe?
@@jenniferpearce1052it is pointless cause these Europeans are talking in a funny way and some things are not right!
Also they dont represent European culture since every country has it's own!!
Only the EU countries are sharing many common laws but even then every country practise them differently!!
North Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltics seem so far away from the central Europe and the balkans are consider the poor relative!!
We have lots of differences, prejudice and defently this video can't actually help a tourist....
Same with south east Asia. Every country is Similar but not the same.
Basically just respect our values, culture, religious practices and you're fine.
Not true. Europeans are diverse but they are very similar in many things and cultural norms. If we compare them to US or Japan or Saudi Arabia, then Europeans are almost like one country
8:33 greeting with kisses is definitely a thing in Germany but I think it’s more common in the older generation. Like my mum would greet acquaintances with 2 kisses on the cheek right to left.
Younger generations seem to go for a quick hug instead
I hate the fact that in Poland you have to pay for public toilets... tbh, there used to be some places where it was free or cheap, but after covid and.. the war it got way more expensive, especially in tourist spots 😑
In touristic spots restrooms usually are expensive, but I have different experience in other places - they got rid of fee during covid and it didn't came back... so it apparently depend on individual places
In Australia we get 4 weeks annual leave plus 2 week public holidays.
In France it's even legal to drink under 16 but an adult must be with you ortherwise it's illegal.
Same in uk you can legally drink alcohol with eg your parents at home over 5
in germany there is no direct law to stop you from giving alcohol to kid at home or in private with the family, but outside of medicine it could bring child protective service on the plan if you fill your child up. you are not in trouble for giving your child a sip of wine, sparkling wine or eggnog. at age 14 they are allowed to drink in public with there parents/ legal guardians oversight, in resturants they can order most of the booze without a second glance as long as your parents give there okay. as long as the child don´t end up drunk.
in germany you have minimum 30 payed holiday days... this is minimum 6 weeks... i have 40 days in my company because 5 days extra for handicap :)
In Poland most of public toilets are free.
??? Those in malls/shopping centres - yes.
In the UK we don't have air conditioning _or_ window shutters in houses. We just put an electric fan on.
But I think it also depends on when your house was built. Maybe modern houses have air conditioning, I don't know, but a lot of our houses are really old so it's fair to say they generally don't.
Workplaces and shops usually do have air conditioning, though.
Germany has at least 4 weeks minimum vacation. No idea why he thinks it is only three weeks. Personally I have 32 days.
Yea, I think he didn't count the weekends. Vacation isn't counted in weeks, but days
Maybe he hasn't really worked anywhere yet and just said something 🤔
@@zuptreay7540true, they all look like they’re students so they probably haven’t worked yet.
I have 25 days of vacation each year in germany, and I work 38-40 hours a week, the minimum is 20 days they need to give you but it depends on how much hours you work per week
No, it has nothing to do with the hours. It depends on how many days you work per week, according to your contract.
20 days minimum vacation relates to a 5 day week. People who work 6 days per week have a minimum of 24 days of vacation.
It doesn’t matter whether you have a 40 hour per week contract or 20 hours. As long as you work 5 days per week, you have a minimum of 20 days of vacations.
But that’s really the minimum….I don’t know anyone in my profession who would accept only the minimum vacations.
Just for Austria I want to mention something. It's unusual to order water in this day and age at restaurants. The reason being is that Austrian tap water is VERY high quality, especially in the capital Vienna. So why would buy something you can get easily at home. I think it is weird she didn't talk about that. The younger generations in general walk around with their refillable water bottles anyway. We don't drink out of it in the restaurant but ordering bottled water without gas is just a waste of money. They charge you as much as 3€ or more for that. Just no.
I think other people in the comments mentioned it as well, but we also have 5 or 6 weeks of paid holiday, plus 13th and 14th month of pay. So we get paid at the end of June/July one month (that's the 13th month) extra (because summer is the main vacation time) AND at the end of November/December (Christmas and winter holidays), which is the 14th month.
Hey where did Sweden go? She disappeared half way through the video 🤣
Toilet?
she went out to smoke
außerhalb der autobahnraststätten wird sich das bezahlen für toiletten nicht durchsetzen.
allein schon wegen der gesetzeslage , der beschaffungskosten von schleusen & dem backlash der stammkunden.
Sky juice😂❤️❤️❤️
Makes you wonder how they call Milk...
A few corrections: in Bulgaria we get our IDs at age 14, not 18. We also have a very common drinking culture, so most of us are being taught to drink alcohol in our early teens. We also usually keep the homemade rakia in a labeless bottle of soda in the fridge so everyone of us has been thirsty and taken a sip of rakia from fhe infamous "coke bottle" as a kid. The legal age for drinking is indeed 18, but most kids deink alcohol at parties by age 15-16. Also, clubs are full of kids age 16, even if you have to be 18 to get in. It's just that oftentimes people break the law, because they "know some guy" and it usually by far has had no repercussions. Smoking is also illegal in closed public spaces, yet some restaurants allow smoking, just for the sake of clients, plus the inspectors rarely visit after 8 pm. Legal age for smoking is also 18, but you can see kids with vapes and regular cigarettes everywhere, so they manage to buy those anyway. We have laws, but our culture of "I know a guy" and "I'll do whatever I want" seems to be stronger. We have a huge problem with that, especially when you read the stats on DUIs and speeding as we can't seem to lower the numbers of deaths on the road. We also happen to have a lot of cases of underaged non-licenced kids driving and crashing their parents' cars. It's just recently that these problems started to get regulated through methods like you get the toll cameras to detect and evaluate your speed and if it fits the max permitted per the distance passed. So people have started to drive slower. Also qe got a few very significant cases of famous people drunk driving and using drugs on top, so under the public pressure after the court kf public opinion has canceled these celebs, the laws have gotten tighter in the past year. The overall drinking and smoking i doubt will be fixed anytime soon, but allowing and teaching kids how to consume alcohol responsibly at a teen age has done some public service as by the time we hit 18 we have already learned what "the cool thing about drinking" is and it's not as much of an outburst as it would have been. We simply get to learn and try it in the presence of our parents, instead of on our own while our hormones are raging and out of adult supervision - we'd be doing it without our parents anyway.
No. Spain has the 2nd longest high-speed rail networks in the world. Germany is the 4th
Watch the video, they were asked: “What do you think about Europe?”. So he was talking about Europe, not Germany. He said Europe has the 2nd longeat high-speed rail in the world. And it does, after China. But you are also right, Spain has the largest high-speed rail in Europe. Viva España🇪🇸
But its not Europe, its in Spain because you can go from Madrid to Berlin in high speed train, so no. Its just Spain lol He also say: ‘we also have this new technology window shutters’ una persiana hijo. De toda la vida.@@masaru340
@@RacsoLeinadof course you can go from Madrid to Spain on high-speed trains. And he doesn’t say “new technology”, he said “another”
You can't go on high-speed directly from madrid to berlin xD @@masaru340
@@RacsoLeinadyeah so you transfer, no problem. You’ll still be on an EU high-speed train.
OK I have clearly no idea where Zuzia lives in which part of Poland, but where I live for over 40y now there is no paywalled restrooms in the malls... surely, I am aware of paid self-standing modern well-equipped restrooms in cities heavily based on tourism like close to sea or close to mountains but I live in a big city in the middle of the country and never ever spotted paid restroom inside a mall...
The Swedish girl left at the end? 😂
she went out for smoking
In Spain we do have to pay to go to the toilet in some places, even though it's not the everyday case. It happens in places like stations (let's say, for example, Alicante or Barcelona-Sants train stations. You pay like a €1 fee but they are really clean and convenient.
Is the Spanish girl alright?? They have A/C blasting on full power every time I go there xD (but to be fair I've only been to South of Spain which is hotter)
Except the North of Spain, the green strip from.Galicia to the Pyrenees, the rest is boiling hot in summer, some exceptions are places located on mountains.😂
You can't sleep well at night because it's so hot. 😮😢
The greeting with kisses thing depends highly on the country. Usually the more you go to the south of europe, the more hugs and kisses you will get but there are exceptions for instance Romania. This is also reflected in the personal distance that people keep during conversations. In Argentina two people talking to each other stand 2.5 feet (0.76 meters) apart, but in Germany it is 3.3 feet (roughly 1 meter) and in Romania it is 4.5 feet (1.37 meters). If you get as close in Romania as you do in Argentina, Romanians would find it EXTREMELY intrusive. In Germany we say: "eine Armlänge Abstand" wich means "one arms lenght distance".
How many Americans could speak another language as well as these kids speak English.
A lot of Americans speak more than one language , as a foreign language is an required course in high schools in the US.
@@marydavis5234Studying for 4 years I haven't seen almost none speaking fluently another language!!
In southern California and Florida, English has become a foreign language
About 20% of Americans speak another language. But lets be honest, English is a little bit easier to get into since many places speak English (especially in Europe). You just get a lot of casual exposure to English as well as mileage out of speaking the language because it's the most commonly spoken one.