"As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience."

- Jostein Gaarder. The Solitaire Mystery.

No Lederhosen/Dirndl. No Weißwürste and Sauerkraut. Germany does not only consist of Bavaria, you know.

Let's take the Ruhrpott for example. Nice, and almost as wonderful as Berlin. And we do have trees!

Even though it is disappointing that other Germans do not know what an "I-Männchen" is. Seriously, guys?

U-Bahn passenger. Lying on the rooftops of Berlin. Sitting at the riverbank of the Rhine.

Pick one.

Reading Rat. That's what we say. Not bookworm, phh.

Same with: I only understand railway station. Yesss!