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There's a lot of things I complained about while in Italy, most of which I accepted as cultural difference. They have their siesta times during the day where everything shuts down, which sucks because if I am hungry midday, everything is closed. Venice, Florence and Rome was consistently dirty, with trash scattered everywhere. People are always yelling at you, even if you just trying to buy soda from their shop. A lot of people I encountered were arrogant and rude. And man, the thing that got me the most was when people would just cut lines. I would stand in line for an hour to buy a train ticket, and a lady would jump over the lanes, and stand in front of me, then motion her husband and kid to join her. When I would make a remark, she would bark at me in Italian. Something like this would happen almost everytime there was a line.
I'm in Cologne right now, my third visit to a German city, and there's certain aspects that leave you in awe. The tube for example - the metro, the underground, the u-bahn, whatever you want to call it- it's amazing. It's amazingly efficient that you can change trains on the same platform, instead having to run around the station getting out of the exit of line A and finding the entrance to line B, and so on. The trains itself fold and adjust according to the height of the station. There's big screen televisions showing advertisements and cute little cartoons. People here are reserved and polite. They most also think of every possible scenerio how a tourist can get lost, because it's near impossible to get lost. Every place states exactly what it does, which is more than what the train station in Brussel was like, where people were running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Cologne at least, is a wealthy city, and from mz impression, so are the people.
This all is a bit too inhuman and creepy and a tad bit depressing for me. In a Fight Club moment, you just want to burn down your IKEA clad, picture perfect apartment.
I'm in Cologne right now, my third visit to a German city, and there's certain aspects that leave you in awe. The tube for example - the metro, the underground, the u-bahn, whatever you want to call it- it's amazing. It's amazingly efficient that you can change trains on the same platform, instead having to run around the station getting out of the exit of line A and finding the entrance to line B, and so on. The trains itself fold and adjust according to the height of the station. There's big screen televisions showing advertisements and cute little cartoons. People here are reserved and polite. They most also think of every possible scenerio how a tourist can get lost, because it's near impossible to get lost. Every place states exactly what it does, which is more than what the train station in Brussel was like, where people were running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Cologne at least, is a wealthy city, and from mz impression, so are the people.
This all is a bit too inhuman and creepy and a tad bit depressing for me. In a Fight Club moment, you just want to burn down your IKEA clad, picture perfect apartment.