June 17, 2010
1. Stores have shorter opening hours than is helpful.
2. When you buy produce at a grocery store, you have to weigh and price it yourself or the cashier will have to leave their register, go to the produce section and do it for you.
3. Any food can be dipped in Nutella.
4. Nutella jars are far too small.
5. The difficulty of writing posts.
6. The smell of cigarette smoke is more common than fire hydrants.
7. Young American backpackers use Canadian flags attached to their bags as a sort of talisman against...bad things. (Some readers may know the folly of Americans using Canadian flags is one of my pet peeves.)
8. Construction is perpetual; all tourist sites are under restoration.
9. Cobblestone streets are everywhere and women insist on wearing fancy dresses and high heels on them.
10. The German word for jewelry is Schmuck.
