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Just visited Germany, have some questions I couldn't get answered while there
Hello all,
I am an American that visited Germany for the first time (specifically Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden), including some smaller towns nearby. It was a great vacation and I absolutely loved the country. I did have some good conversations with folks at bars and biergartens, but here are some I could not get answered:
1) **No turnstiles or ticket processers for the local trains:** A bartender explained to me that although they don't always check the tickets on platforms, they do randomly. In American "thinking", not having to pay for the metro or train is a blessing and I know it would be a shit-show here if we had this type of honor system. Do most locals actually buy tickets? I can't imagine that clean and well-processed of a subway system working without funding coming their way.
2) **Longer Route Train Reservations:** When we traveled from Hamburg to Berlin or Berlin to Dresden, we had both first class tickets with the tables as well as regular tickets. When we got the regular tickets, we figured out that we can sit wherever seats are not reserved. However, we noticed a lot of empty reserved seats as well. Is this common?
3) **Tiny Homes:** We noticed tiny house communities across many of the towns and cities of Germany. Many were bunched together. What are these communities?
4) **Where are all the Amazon packages**? lol. In America you see them all over the place, and I barely saw any in Germany (which is pretty cool), but I am wondering what the Amazon delivery system is like in Germany.
I absolutely loved Germany. The culture, the food, the beer- everything. I sort of felt ashamed of my own country while visiting as well, because Germany seems to take care of its people and makes the United States look like a joke in that regard.
Hello all,
I am an American that visited Germany for the first time (specifically Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden), including some smaller towns nearby. It was a great vacation and I absolutely loved the country. I did have some good conversations with folks at bars and biergartens, but here are some I could not get answered:
1) **No turnstiles or ticket processers for the local trains:** A bartender explained to me that although they don't always check the tickets on platforms, they do randomly. In American "thinking", not having to pay for the metro or train is a blessing and I know it would be a shit-show here if we had this type of honor system. Do most locals actually buy tickets? I can't imagine that clean and well-processed of a subway system working without funding coming their way.
2) **Longer Route Train Reservations:** When we traveled from Hamburg to Berlin or Berlin to Dresden, we had both first class tickets with the tables as well as regular tickets. When we got the regular tickets, we figured out that we can sit wherever seats are not reserved. However, we noticed a lot of empty reserved seats as well. Is this common?
3) **Tiny Homes:** We noticed tiny house communities across many of the towns and cities of Germany. Many were bunched together. What are these communities?
4) **Where are all the Amazon packages**? lol. In America you see them all over the place, and I barely saw any in Germany (which is pretty cool), but I am wondering what the Amazon delivery system is like in Germany.
I absolutely loved Germany. The culture, the food, the beer- everything. I sort of felt ashamed of my own country while visiting as well, because Germany seems to take care of its people and makes the United States look like a joke in that regard.
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