and they look so comfortable I almost wish there was an adult version of this
that music could push me around outside
hey guys what's up it's Kelly again and welcome back to my channel in contrast
to all the doom and gloom that has been filling our headlines for the last
several weeks I thought that I would make a really light-hearted video so
today I'm going to talk about the 15 things in Germany that I find to be
adorable charming delightful and otherwise just sweet so let's get
started the first thing that I find to be so
sweet is when the cashiers help an older customer pay for their groceries I've
seen older ladies hand their entire change purse over to a cashier for the
cashier to then sort through all of the coins and find what they need in order
to pay for their groceries and I just think this exchange is full of trust and
compassion and it's so so sweet to see the next thing is the ample mention
which basically translates to little traffic light man and of course refers
to the lip of pedestrian signal the city of Berlin has a very famous Ampelmännchen
who's wearing a wide-brimmed hat and he's even become somewhat of a
tourist souvenir item with an entire shop dedicated to selling items
featuring his likeness but Berlin isn't the only city with a sort of cute play
on the pedestrian signal the city of Mainz which is the city I lived in has a
few pedestrian signals featuring the likeness of the mainzelmännchen. the mainzelmännchen
is a very beloved comedic cartoon that was on German TV in
commercials or little animated spots and their characters didn't speak at all but
they each have their own very distinctive personality which would come
through in the clips the mainzelmännchen themselves are adorable and so
are the pedestrian signals that pay them tribute in the town of Freiburg there
are pedestrian signals featuring Elvis because if you didn't know Elvis was in
the US Army and was stationed in Freiburg from 1958 to 1960 there are
also special pedestrian signals in Augsburg Ehrfurt Trier and Bonn
and I think that this is just a really sweet way to celebrate and honor
different historical icons of the past and speaking of pedestrian signals I
find it so thoughtful and caring that a lot of Germans are very cognizant and
aware of the fact that children are always watching adults and modeling our
behavior and with this in mind a lot of Germans take great care to make sure
that they only cross the street on a green light so that way they are setting
the example and helping to teach the young children how to properly and
safely cross a street I've even seen signs telling people to make sure
they're adhering to the pedestrian signals because children are watching
them and I just I find this to be very thoughtful another thing that I find
adorable are all of the little signs that restaurants and cafes and even
hotels will put out that often say Lieber Gast or Hartzlich Wilkommen or Gruss
Gott and these signs mean dear guests and they're offering guests a warm
welcome but it's said in a way that I find to be very endearing I also really
love how Germany has its own traditional welcome drink which is sekt or sparkling
wine I found it so charming to go to a party or some sort of event and be
handed a glass of sekt upon my arrival and even the German embassy here in DC
maintains this tradition and hands out glasses of sekt to their guests at the
different events that they host now I grew up with dogs and I am definitely a
huge dog lover and I found it incredibly delightful to see so many dogs out and
about in Germany and allowed to be in restaurants and on trains and so on it
really just brightened my day to see so many dogs now the euro currency has
a few more coins compared to the US dollar currency including the 1 & 2 euro
coins and also the 2 euro cent and let's be honest the 50 euro cent because we
hardly use any of our 50 cent coins in the US the 2 euro cent coin is about the
size of our penny which means that the 1 euro cent is even smaller making it the
most adorable little teeny-tiny coin ever it doesn't even feel real to me
because it's so small and light another thing that I find adorable about Germany
are all of the little tissue packets like these that everybody seems to carry
with them at all times especially in the winter we have these in the US but
they're just not nearly as prominent as they are in Germany I will never forget
seeing them being thrown out into the crowd during the Rosenmontag parade I
went to in Mainz which I found to be hilariously charming and also incredibly
praktisch. at Christmas markets and different fests some of the huts that
are selling sausages and french fries will have these huge udder like
containers of different sauces like ketchup and mustard hanging from the
roof of the hut that you can squeeze to push out the sauce onto your food or
dish I find these to be so incredibly delightful because in the US we just
have these boring old containers that will sit on the counter top and you pump
it with your hand in order to get the sauce out so these udder- like containers
are just very novel to me Albeit a tiny bit creepy
I find the smiley faced and bear shaped meats that are sold at the grocery
stores in Germany to be so cute I've never seen anything like that before I
lived in Germany and I think it's really sweet that kids have a sort of extra
wonderment about their otherwise very boring sliced meats also at the grocery
stores I've seen little tiny pretzels made of meat which again I thought was
so cute pretzels are so
an icon a German cuisine and to see meat take on the form of a pretzel really
just made me smile and then at the zoo in Munich I saw all of these signs that
used a pretzel to demonstrate how you shouldn't feed the wildlife and I loved
how they used a food with such an obvious and distinctive shape that also
happens to be really an iconic German food item. also at the Munich zoo and
maybe they're in other places too I saw this special hand dryer designed just
for people to be able to dry their glasses if their glasses had fogged up
from going in and out of the different temperature buildings to see the animals
and I thought it was just a small but very thoughtful thing for people now in
the u.s. of course people will push their children around in strollers but
not in the prams like what I see in Germany and these prams are just so much
more charming compared to the strollers that I see here in the US and then to
take it even further these children that are in the prams in germany are often
snuggled up in their own little miniature down sleeping bag and they
look so comfortable I almost wish there was an adult version of this that Misha
could push me around outside and I just think it's so incredibly adorable
another thing that I find absolutely charming are all of the ice skating
rinks that pop up throughout Germany during the winter there are some ice
skating rinks in the US of course you probably know about the famous one at
Rockefeller Center in New York City but in Germany it seems far more common and
there's something just so special about seeing people ice-skating in front of a
centuries-old castle or Palace or other buildings and the last adorable thing I
will talk about in this video is how when there is a massive massive traffic
jam we're talking miles or I guess I should say kilometers worth of cars just
sitting on the Autobahn because there was some horrific accident ahead
and there's really no way that they're going to move for several hours everyone
will get out of their cars and sort of create a hodgepodge community I've even
seen people playing a little bit of soccer or running around with children
playing with their dogs sharing different food and drinks that they
might have in their car with them and I just find it to be so sweet to see this
happen and it almost reminds me of an American tailgate party without the sporting
events and usually nobody has any grills out there but if you don't know what a
tailgating party is I did an entire video about it so make sure you check
that out all right guys that is it those are the
15 things that I find to be so adorable and charming and delightful and sweet
about Germany I hope that you enjoyed this video and that maybe it brought at
least one if not two smiles to your faces and kept your mind off of all of
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