you sort of collect your plastic and glass bottles and you go put them there and you get money back that you can spend in the supermarket and finally on the topic of rubbish is things being left outside apartments when you walk through berlin you might get the vibe that it's kind of dirty and chaotic one of the reasons you might think that is because outside people's apartments you will just see bags full of clothes full of saucepans sofas just overflowing onto the street and the idea is that you have anything that you want to give away just put it there and people will take it and i've copped some secondhand books that way i even copped a jumper that way it looks a bit messy but it works beauty standards for women this is such a refreshing culture shock for me i feel like in london generally like people make an effort to look good or to be high fashion to look cool women generally wear makeup and love it they look great sorry my camera ran out of battery i'm back yes i love a good outfit but i do also feel like there can be quite harsh beauty standards on women as there are in many places as there are online but something i really enjoyed about germany is women don't really wear makeup that much there's nothing wrong with makeup and a lot of the time i'd see beautiful artistic makeup but it was also just very refreshing to see their faces to see spots and acne just owned easily and also german women are just so strong and cool also talking about fashion berlin's fashion is so focused on all black clothing and sort of a grungy look and even though i love wearing a bit of color something bright after a while the all black fashion just gets to you i found myself gravitating more towards black items wanting to wear like baggy loose cool grunge clothing bureaucracy in germany is such a joke like the amount of paperwork and legal stuff that you have to go through just to live there to get an apartment they don't make it easy for you which is ironic because the german stereotype is efficiency i found it very inefficient another interesting culture shock is so many restaurants wouldn't let me have free tap water like yes i know you want to make money out of me but let me have water i feel like that's just that's just a basic human right if it comes out of your tap for free and it's drinkable let me drink it also interesting is german people tend to love sparkling water more than english people i think maybe it was just the people i hung around but i felt like that was something i noticed and finally christmas markets they are stunning it puts london's winter wonderland to shame so many beautiful handmade items being sold delicious glue vine which is like mold wine the christmas energy the people singing songs i absolutely love spending christmas in berlin of course there are so many similarities between english and german culture for example people are very weatherproof if it's pouring it down with rain you honestly wouldn't tell half the time because british people german people you just keep walking you just get used to it the weather was also grim there like disgusting got dark at NUMBER_TOKENpm which we're also used to here people just troop on through it yeah i absolutely love berlin because i feel like it's a city which gives you the freedom to be yourself in whatever way you want that to be for me as someone who's vegan it just is the capital of veganism
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