The Netherlands
"When I moved to the Netherlands a few years ago from the USA I deliberately wrote down the things that struck me as strange a few weeks into it because I knew I wouldn't remember later, and here are a few.
Bicycles are everywhere and are a far more common mode of transport than cars... yet no one wears helmets.
A Dutch person telling you "I speak a little English" is like Stephen Hawking saying "I know a little physics." I really had no idea it could be so easy to move to another country where you don't speak the language, and that's because the Dutch are so amazing at English (unlike other countries, for example, TV here isn't dubbed but instead in original language and just subtitled).
Big Bird is blue in Holland! I mean, they claim he's Pino, Big Bird's cousin, but I'm not fooled. You know he really just moved here to explore an alternative lifestyle."
Iceland is way ahead of any other country concerning gender equality.
I'm a vegetation ecologist, and that valley bottom has had the sh#t grazed out of it, whatever natural vegetation that occurred there has been destroyed by that grazing.
#13 Not just in Germany, in many european countries the escalators work that way
#29 In Lisbon parking a car is a challenge so the people are very creative. In others towns of Portugal t's not so caotic.
which is especially funny considering Germans generally prefer carbonated water.
Iceland is way ahead of any other country concerning gender equality.
I'm a vegetation ecologist, and that valley bottom has had the sh#t grazed out of it, whatever natural vegetation that occurred there has been destroyed by that grazing.
#13 Not just in Germany, in many european countries the escalators work that way
#29 In Lisbon parking a car is a challenge so the people are very creative. In others towns of Portugal t's not so caotic.
which is especially funny considering Germans generally prefer carbonated water.