Thursday, October 15, 2009

Top Euro Idiosyncrasies

A parking spot is anything you can fit your car into....no rules, ever, no joke.

You cannot find anything without a serious GPS navigation system like Garmin. Why, you may ask, because even if you google map it before hand only about every 4th street has an actual sign with the name on it.

I may have seen about 5 actual lights at intersections, everything is a round about or a stop sign.

With that said, traffic lights go green, yellow, then red.

Every radio in every car plays the traffic at the same time. If you are listening to a CD it will shut off and still play the traffic at least in Germany and Slovakia.

Grocery stores have a recycling area at the beginning and give a voucher for that store for the worth of whatever you were recycling. ~Pretty smart;) Very green and progressive!

If fans don't like the calls of the referees they spit on them after the game, seriously, they don't miss. I feel bad for them sometimes:(

There are no bands at games, the fans bring they're own drums.

Every residence has a separate room for the toilet, it's own little uncomfortable 5x5 room.

Fresh bread (baguette style) is mandatory in the grocery store, its super cheap also, about .03 per loaf. It's difficult to find sliced sandwich bread.

Sheep cheese and dumplings is one of the most popular Slovakian foods.

There is no such thing as a free refill, free water, or free sauce at any restaurant or fast food joint.

3 comments:

  1. Welcome to Europe! I hope you will have a great time.

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  2. Thank you! I am already loving it!

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  3. That's great! You should come to Belgium as well :D

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