Very good question, why are they happy? It is not the weather, that's for sure 😅 I think, it is the lazy cozy stressless living there. 😊 And good Air 😊
Fun fact about the Hanse and its founding in Luebek: the Hanse was actually not the first organisation doing that kind of international trade. A little up north from Luebeck was the Viking village of Haitabu. The village itself was something like a central trading hub for goods out of Scandinavias and today's Russia. They also provided for expeditons in those regions as well as translators and a recognised currency to trade with and compare against. But then Haitabu was raided twice and a few years later, actually might've been half a century, the Hanse was established just about 100km south. And the Hanse again used Platt as their main trading language, and that is again, at least according to some theories, the main reason why lower german and many of the trading partners, like the Scandinavias or Britan share so many words. Like Labskaus. It's Labskaus in nothern Germany and Scous in Liverpool, GB. They even call the people of Liverpool Scous. But than again, that might've been just something that came along after the Hanse. But funny nontheless 😃
I'm proud to be born on the North sea. I now live in NRW, but I will always be a "Fischkopf" (Fishhead), yes and Labskaus is a really yummy meal, the only one meal, which I can prepare by myself.
I really love that you check out germany as a country. You are really smart with an eye to detail (I watched this video about 10 times and never recognized she didn't actually take a sip of beer :D ). Also I really appreciate that you like the architecture and the beautiful countryside. It reminds me of how good we have it here, things I usually take for granted. Please continue with the other two parts of this series, and with other reactions to germany! Thank you D :)
Oh - finally a video about NORTH Germany! I was born in Schleswig-Holstein, but have lived in beautiful Lower Saxony since I was 3 years old. It's true that we North Germans are people of few words - but IF we say something, then it comes from the heart ^^ apart from our really beautiful coasts and the cute islands, there is a lot more to discover in terms of landscape: e.g. the "Lüneburger Heide" (heathland of Lüneburg) with its colorful splendor! Greetings from Lower Saxony - the most beautiful federal state in Germany ^^
My wife is from Ostfriesland (east frisia), yes they drinking many tea 😅. We live in Emsland, is only a few minutes away from East Frisia. We visit her parents every week. But I prefer to drink coffee. The tea ceremony was in the city of Leer. The old town and the harbour are really beautiful
1:39 Why are we happy up here? We take everything with a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek humor. Including the Schietwetter.😂 And yes, the origin of that four letter word definitely is from the Plattdeutsch of five centuries ago - for both English and German. It was the most spoken language at the time for all countries with borders on the coasts of the North and the Baltic Sea. The Hanseatic League brought it along with their free trade empire. Including to England. Often the modern Amish and Mennonites still speak a variant of Platt even today. Edit: yepp, Hamburg has more bridges than Venice and Berlin combined: over 2500 bridges total in Hamburg, with Venice at around 400 being way behind. Only New York boasts more bridges in the world at around 2900. However NYC is about three times larger both in population and size. However, there were some accounts of Hamburg having well over 4000 bridges if small pedestrian bridges were included as well. So the counts vary quite a bit. Safe to say no matter the count Hamburg easily beats Venice in number of bridges. Edit 2: the Wattenmeer, the huge mudflats need a bit more focus. They are a shallow coastal mudbank that falls almost completely dry during low tide, but gets flooded by up to three to five meters of water during high tide. During the low tide you can start a hike through the mudflats from one of several islands to its neighboring islands with a local guide. But don't do this alone without a guide. While it is very enticing to try it, we get several lost tourists each year who get caught out by the returning tide. In most cases they get rescued by the DLRG or coast guard. But some get tragically dragged out to sea. And no, you have NO chance whatsoever of trying to swim against those currents. The worst riptides along the American coasts are mild against what happens there twice a day. So as fun (and dirty) as these Wattwanderungen/mud flat hikes are with a good guide, they are not to be taken lightly. Oh, and in case you catch some good weather, bring along some high SPF sun screen that is water insoluble. Don't forget to take good care of the tops of your feet. You'll be slogging through ankle deep water for the majority of your hike. It's clear enough to function like a lense. I had a magnificent sun burn on the top of my feet the first time I did this. When I arrived at the neighboring island I couldn't slip on my shoes I had carried in my Rucksack as my feet were too sunburned. I couldn't take the pressure of the shoes on my feet's top side. 😂😂
Remarque to edit 2: In germany not the coast guard is in charge to rescue people in sea distress but the DGzRS (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger) is with sovereign task; since 1865. In 2007 "Die Seenotretter" was added to "DGzRS" The DLRG (Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft) works at beaches primarily and is the biggest water rescue Organisation on voluntarily base since 1913. Both, "DLRG" and "DGzRS - Die Seenotretter" are none governement organiszation not financed by the german government. With best regards from Bremerhaven
@@torstenmollenberg333 Agreed. You are correct. I see my error. Thanks for the correction. (I mean this unironically; I really appreciate a well-meant correction; it's the only way to learn from mistakes.)
10:00 But the bottle is at least from Bremen, a Haake-Beck, which is since 1981 a subsidiary of Beck's (which is also from Bremen and since 2002 a subsidiary of Belgian InBev company which swallowed also Anheuser-Busch in 2008 and renamed itself Anheuser-Busch InBev), but brews mostly for the regional market. There are also a few smaller and a few young craft breweries in Bremen. 12:35 Between 1768 and 1780 East Frisia had even a "tea war" - in 1744 Prussia gained East Frisia by claiming inheritance and occupied it to secure that claim. Frederick II of Prussia then founded first the Royal Prussian Asiatic Company in Emden to Canton and China, but it failed in the end due to having only 4 ships and due to the outbreak of Seven Years' War (including the occupation of Emden by French Troops). Afterwards Frederick tried to ban tea imports and instructed the Frisians to drink beer instead (which was also relatively germ-free), but the Frisians preferred to smuggle tea and to argue with the Prussian authorities, until Frederick backed down in 1780.
The "Northern" character and humour is pretty well described in a German TV series called "Neues aus Büttenwarder" (News from Büttenwarder) which you MUST watch if you get the opportunity. It´s lot f fun. But I don´t know if there are English subtitles.
For your edification: In North America the often heard curse "sack of sh*t" has its origins in the northern German expression "Schietbüdel". I guess when German immigrants used it to describe Immigration officials, people wanted to know the English equivalent, heard it, liked it and it was absorbed into everyday use in the US and Canada. 😄
To be fair, Venice is much smaller than Hamburg. According to Statista, Hamburg has 2500 bridges, Vienna 1716, Amsterdam 1281, Berlin 960 and Venice 400.
Hi D .... I really love your reactions and I can`t wait to see it on part 03 and 04 (my area = West Germany/Rhineland)🙂... I hope that you once have the opportunity to visit us here especially Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg (and your personal experience movie on RUclips...that would be fun)
Hi, D.! I could say "yes, I think the same way", "I also like this and that very much", (for example brick stone gothic), and so on... So, I just send greetings from (West-)Germany, and thank you for reacting to this video! 😊
Moin! Thank you Sir! A nice and enjoyable reaction video. Do some more of northern germany, i guess you Sir will like it. It would be a pleasure! Hamburg/Lübeck/Halligen/Waddensea and so on....
As a southern German we view our northern brethren as relaxed, laid back and open. Plus Platt just sounds so friendly and relaxed. Not to mention the most legendary German comedian is from Eastern Frisia. And you can hear 'Moin' throughout Germany.
Brick architecture has many advantages: - you can create "pretty stuff" with only simple tricks - it is pretty LOW TECH ... and thus YOU CAN FIX IT YOURSELF with minimal number of tools - just take a BIG box of LEGO "achter" / 2*4 knob bricks and start "planning" your own dream building ... just a few basic rules: a) take SOLID bricks, not the hollow ones you mostly see in the USA, b) your wall has to be ONE PIECE instead of "several next to each other", c) for sufficient strength AND ISOLATION PURPOSES the outside walls need to be sufficiently thick.
you really think your feet would carry you throughout a city like hamburg? you might wanna start small to get used to this new thing called "walking" :D
I am from nothern germany. My hometown is Hannover, the capital of lower saxony. It's very near to Hamburg or Bremen. I personally prefer south germany bc the weather is wayyyy better there. Greetings👋
A fun reaction and a nice video, trying to touch most rudimentary facts about Northern Germany in a very short time. Keep on going, greetings from Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein.
The Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland) are always on top of the happiness list too. Maybe you need bad weather to feel happy.
6:00 Some people have an easier time learning languages, some less so but I mainly blame the way we teach languages in school (all around the world). I took 4 foreign languages in school and my first Spanish teacher (the best teacher I ever had) was the only one doing it right. None of us spoke a lick of Spanish, obviously, but he just spoke nothing but Spanish and we learnt very quickly (essentially by immersion, at least a bit, as it should be). And don't get me started on how we teach Latin... I don't care what people need it for, you need to speak it to learn it quickly and properly, end of story. Sorry for the little rant but it just baffles me that we can't just do it properly instead of wasting our time 😅
You should really visit East Frisian Cities like Leer, Emden or Wilhelmshaven or even better for you the East Frisian Islands because they are car free.
Bavarians, especially the ones from the capital Munich, are known for being grumpy (grantig) and they are swearing all the time, hence called "Grantler". Berliners are complaining most of the time and make rude remarks. They think it is funny but the rest of the country feels insulted. But do not mistake them. A car mechanic may say something like "If your car was a horse I would shoot it" when you have a serious breakdown, but then he will do his best to get it fixed. In some parts of the north, though, the prejudice against locals being morose is wrong. While you were trying to get your car fixed they will be gathering around you and discuss how you could do it better. And then someone will indeed say nothing, push you aside and repair it.
Wind is when the sheep has no curls anymore.
HAHAHAHAHA! True, true!
Why we are the happiest here in North Germany - cause the Weißwurstäquator is far away and there are no Mountains that are in your sight.
lol
Und dann kommen wir aus Bayern auch noch zu euch zur Erholung 🙈🙈🙌♥️
Flat land❤
I live in Northern Germany and it's really beautiful here...... and sometimes even WE have good weather.... lol
tl;dr "live like a pessimist expecting the worst ... and all surprises are positive ... thus making you happy."
Very good question, why are they happy? It is not the weather, that's for sure 😅 I think, it is the lazy cozy stressless living there. 😊 And good Air 😊
Damn... just had my comment finished about the Strandkorb and suddenly the video starts talking about it
Fun fact about the Hanse and its founding in Luebek: the Hanse was actually not the first organisation doing that kind of international trade. A little up north from Luebeck was the Viking village of Haitabu. The village itself was something like a central trading hub for goods out of Scandinavias and today's Russia. They also provided for expeditons in those regions as well as translators and a recognised currency to trade with and compare against.
But then Haitabu was raided twice and a few years later, actually might've been half a century, the Hanse was established just about 100km south.
And the Hanse again used Platt as their main trading language, and that is again, at least according to some theories, the main reason why lower german and many of the trading partners, like the Scandinavias or Britan share so many words.
Like Labskaus. It's Labskaus in nothern Germany and Scous in Liverpool, GB. They even call the people of Liverpool Scous.
But than again, that might've been just something that came along after the Hanse. But funny nontheless 😃
My living ,born & Reised part of germsny❤😊
I'm proud to be born on the North sea. I now live in NRW, but I will always be a "Fischkopf" (Fishhead), yes and Labskaus is a really yummy meal, the only one meal, which I can prepare by myself.
I love your Moin 😅, sounds perfect
I really love that you check out germany as a country. You are really smart with an eye to detail (I watched this video about 10 times and never recognized she didn't actually take a sip of beer :D ).
Also I really appreciate that you like the architecture and the beautiful countryside. It reminds me of how good we have it here, things I usually take for granted.
Please continue with the other two parts of this series, and with other reactions to germany! Thank you D :)
Oh - finally a video about NORTH Germany! I was born in Schleswig-Holstein, but have lived in beautiful Lower Saxony since I was 3 years old. It's true that we North Germans are people of few words - but IF we say something, then it comes from the heart ^^ apart from our really beautiful coasts and the cute islands, there is a lot more to discover in terms of landscape: e.g. the "Lüneburger Heide" (heathland of Lüneburg) with its colorful splendor! Greetings from Lower Saxony - the most beautiful federal state in Germany ^^
My wife is from Ostfriesland (east frisia), yes they drinking many tea 😅. We live in Emsland, is only a few minutes away from East Frisia. We visit her parents every week. But I prefer to drink coffee. The tea ceremony was in the city of Leer. The old town and the harbour are really beautiful
much not many 😅
@@pilex3915 thx, I'm constantly confusing this😅
Dont start by confusing him ... with "east Frisia" being "in the West" of Germany.
Hi D , I almost watch these video's just to see your reaction. Always funny always entertaining. Bye bye love from Belgium.
Moin !
6:30 The ship was build in 2004. Some would say it was yesterday.😆
Yepp, it is in my hometown "Lübeck"
1:39 Why are we happy up here?
We take everything with a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek humor. Including the Schietwetter.😂 And yes, the origin of that four letter word definitely is from the Plattdeutsch of five centuries ago - for both English and German. It was the most spoken language at the time for all countries with borders on the coasts of the North and the Baltic Sea. The Hanseatic League brought it along with their free trade empire. Including to England. Often the modern Amish and Mennonites still speak a variant of Platt even today.
Edit: yepp, Hamburg has more bridges than Venice and Berlin combined: over 2500 bridges total in Hamburg, with Venice at around 400 being way behind. Only New York boasts more bridges in the world at around 2900. However NYC is about three times larger both in population and size. However, there were some accounts of Hamburg having well over 4000 bridges if small pedestrian bridges were included as well. So the counts vary quite a bit. Safe to say no matter the count Hamburg easily beats Venice in number of bridges.
Edit 2: the Wattenmeer, the huge mudflats need a bit more focus. They are a shallow coastal mudbank that falls almost completely dry during low tide, but gets flooded by up to three to five meters of water during high tide. During the low tide you can start a hike through the mudflats from one of several islands to its neighboring islands with a local guide. But don't do this alone without a guide. While it is very enticing to try it, we get several lost tourists each year who get caught out by the returning tide. In most cases they get rescued by the DLRG or coast guard. But some get tragically dragged out to sea. And no, you have NO chance whatsoever of trying to swim against those currents. The worst riptides along the American coasts are mild against what happens there twice a day. So as fun (and dirty) as these Wattwanderungen/mud flat hikes are with a good guide, they are not to be taken lightly.
Oh, and in case you catch some good weather, bring along some high SPF sun screen that is water insoluble. Don't forget to take good care of the tops of your feet. You'll be slogging through ankle deep water for the majority of your hike. It's clear enough to function like a lense. I had a magnificent sun burn on the top of my feet the first time I did this. When I arrived at the neighboring island I couldn't slip on my shoes I had carried in my Rucksack as my feet were too sunburned. I couldn't take the pressure of the shoes on my feet's top side. 😂😂
Remarque to edit 2: In germany not the coast guard is in charge to rescue people in sea distress but the
DGzRS (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger) is with sovereign task; since 1865.
In 2007 "Die Seenotretter" was added to "DGzRS"
The DLRG (Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft) works at beaches primarily and is the biggest water rescue Organisation on voluntarily base since 1913.
Both, "DLRG" and "DGzRS - Die Seenotretter" are none governement organiszation not financed by the german government.
With best regards from Bremerhaven
@@torstenmollenberg333 Agreed. You are correct. I see my error. Thanks for the correction. (I mean this unironically; I really appreciate a well-meant correction; it's the only way to learn from mistakes.)
Thanks for your kindly reply. 21 years I worked at The "Hermann Rudolf Meyer", rescue boat in Bremerhaven.
Therfore I had to reply😎
10:00 But the bottle is at least from Bremen, a Haake-Beck, which is since 1981 a subsidiary of Beck's (which is also from Bremen and since 2002 a subsidiary of Belgian InBev company which swallowed also Anheuser-Busch in 2008 and renamed itself Anheuser-Busch InBev), but brews mostly for the regional market. There are also a few smaller and a few young craft breweries in Bremen.
12:35 Between 1768 and 1780 East Frisia had even a "tea war" - in 1744 Prussia gained East Frisia by claiming inheritance and occupied it to secure that claim. Frederick II of Prussia then founded first the Royal Prussian Asiatic Company in Emden to Canton and China, but it failed in the end due to having only 4 ships and due to the outbreak of Seven Years' War (including the occupation of Emden by French Troops). Afterwards Frederick tried to ban tea imports and instructed the Frisians to drink beer instead (which was also relatively germ-free), but the Frisians preferred to smuggle tea and to argue with the Prussian authorities, until Frederick backed down in 1780.
I like your reaction so much. Greets from Vienna
The "Northern" character and humour is pretty well described in a German TV series called "Neues aus Büttenwarder" (News from Büttenwarder) which you MUST watch if you get the opportunity. It´s lot f fun. But I don´t know if there are English subtitles.
After Jan Fedder passed by it wasn't that good anymore sadly. But 1 Köm on Erlentrillich.^^
Moin ⚘️
My hometown❤
That s all we know,the weather.but there is no such Things as Bad weather, just Bad clothing,as my grandpa said😂
Ja, den Spruch kenne ich auch 😂
@@dianafromgermany1513
Vermutlich kennt ihn jeder 🤣,aber es steckt wahrheit drin.
For your edification: In North America the often heard curse "sack of sh*t" has its origins in the northern German expression "Schietbüdel". I guess when German immigrants used it to describe Immigration officials, people wanted to know the English equivalent, heard it, liked it and it was absorbed into everyday use in the US and Canada. 😄
To be fair, Venice is much smaller than Hamburg.
According to Statista, Hamburg has 2500 bridges, Vienna 1716, Amsterdam 1281, Berlin 960 and Venice 400.
Hi D .... I really love your reactions and I can`t wait to see it on part 03 and 04 (my area = West Germany/Rhineland)🙂... I hope that you once have the opportunity to visit us here especially Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg (and your personal experience movie on RUclips...that would be fun)
Nice tom eet you. Reactions!breathtaking sharing~ )
Hi, D.! I could say "yes, I think the same way", "I also like this and that very much", (for example brick stone gothic), and so on...
So, I just send greetings from (West-)Germany, and thank you for reacting to this video! 😊
Moin!
Thank you Sir!
A nice and enjoyable reaction video.
Do some more of northern germany, i guess you Sir will like it.
It would be a pleasure!
Hamburg/Lübeck/Halligen/Waddensea and so on....
As a southern German we view our northern brethren as relaxed, laid back and open. Plus Platt just sounds so friendly and relaxed. Not to mention the most legendary German comedian is from Eastern Frisia. And you can hear 'Moin' throughout Germany.
Ja, Moin 😊
Brick architecture has many advantages:
- you can create "pretty stuff" with only simple tricks
- it is pretty LOW TECH ... and thus YOU CAN FIX IT YOURSELF with minimal number of tools
- just take a BIG box of LEGO "achter" / 2*4 knob bricks and start "planning" your own dream building ... just a few basic rules: a) take SOLID bricks, not the hollow ones you mostly see in the USA, b) your wall has to be ONE PIECE instead of "several next to each other", c) for sufficient strength AND ISOLATION PURPOSES the outside walls need to be sufficiently thick.
you really think your feet would carry you throughout a city like hamburg? you might wanna start small to get used to this new thing called "walking" :D
I am from nothern germany. My hometown is Hannover, the capital of lower saxony.
It's very near to Hamburg or Bremen.
I personally prefer south germany bc the weather is wayyyy better there.
Greetings👋
Wunstorf
Moin
Moin 👋
@@nicoleeilersstruever4920
That ship in Lübeck was built in the late 1990s
Hamburg has more Bridges than Venice, Amsterdam and London together!
A fun reaction and a nice video, trying to touch most rudimentary facts about Northern Germany in a very short time. Keep on going, greetings from Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein.
By the way: Old Saxon is the oldest phase of English, brought by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes from Northern Germany and Denmark to England.
Moin D!
The Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland) are always on top of the happiness list too. Maybe you need bad weather to feel happy.
6:00 Some people have an easier time learning languages, some less so but I mainly blame the way we teach languages in school (all around the world).
I took 4 foreign languages in school and my first Spanish teacher (the best teacher I ever had) was the only one doing it right.
None of us spoke a lick of Spanish, obviously, but he just spoke nothing but Spanish and we learnt very quickly (essentially by immersion, at least a bit, as it should be).
And don't get me started on how we teach Latin...
I don't care what people need it for, you need to speak it to learn it quickly and properly, end of story.
Sorry for the little rant but it just baffles me that we can't just do it properly instead of wasting our time 😅
You should really visit East Frisian Cities like Leer, Emden or Wilhelmshaven or even better for you the East Frisian Islands because they are car free.
Iam from Mecklenburg 😊
i live in hamburg, i will nerver try labcause
Bavarians, especially the ones from the capital Munich, are known for being grumpy (grantig) and they are swearing all the time, hence called "Grantler". Berliners are complaining most of the time and make rude remarks. They think it is funny but the rest of the country feels insulted. But do not mistake them. A car mechanic may say something like "If your car was a horse I would shoot it" when you have a serious breakdown, but then he will do his best to get it fixed. In some parts of the north, though, the prejudice against locals being morose is wrong. While you were trying to get your car fixed they will be gathering around you and discuss how you could do it better. And then someone will indeed say nothing, push you aside and repair it.
Moin✌
Dont say Moin Moin - you will talk too much... ^^
Moin 😁