If you compare English to German…
….. some things are so weird!There are quite a few things which are so different between two countries which, at the closest point, are only just over 300 miles apart! Here is a short insight of what I still find bizarre:
English: The decimal point is a dot, certainly not a comma!
German: The decimal point is a comma, certainly not a dot!
English: A billion is a thousand times a million.
German: A billion is a million times a million. (A thousand times a million is a “Milliarde”)
English: You count yourself fortunate if you get five weeks holiday a year.
German: You find it normal to get six weeks holiday a year.
English: A hotel room might not always be en-suite but most likely has tea & coffee making facilities.
German: A hotel room is always en-suite but never has tea & coffee making facilities (Germans wouldn’t drink instant coffee anyway…! he he)
English: Any shop will take your credit card.
German: Not every shop will take your credit card and for those that do, if you paid by credit card, you would look like a yuppie or snob, as people usually pay with cash.
English: You probably still measure everything in feet, pounds, and gallons (but this will depend on your age) despite the EU having made metric measures mandatory for most things. You'll definitely still think of distances in miles and order beer in pints, though.
German: You measure things with the metric system, like all sane countries do ;o). The only exception is that a Pfund (pound) is half a kilogram or 500 grams, although there's no such unit in the official metric system.
English: You open your presents in the morning on Christmas Day.
German: You open your presents in the evening on Christmas Eve.
English: Your beer comes in a pint and hardly has any or no head (you would complain if it did, as a head means less beer in your glass)
German: Your beer comes in a nicely shaped beer glass and your beer has a proper thick head (you would complain if it didn’t, because no head means a badly poured beer) 
Exciting News! We are going to the World Travel Market next week:
WTM 2006 is a business to business exhibition that provides a unique 
opportunity for the whole global travel trade industry to meet, network, negotiate and conduct business.
It takes place at ExCeL London, 6-9 November 2006.
Over 5000 suppliers of travel and tourism products from every sector of the travel industry will be exhibiting at WTM.
I’ll keep it short this time, as I am very busy working on my German blog: http://welcome2london.blogspot.com/ as well as the German website... (link to follow very soon).
posted by Londons Premier Tour Operator @ 7:47 AM
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