My little trip through Germany in a nutshell:
loads of fun, but it’s still Germany!

Starting early in the morning with Daniel Karnatz to travel to Karlsruhe/Brummsbach/Flehingen (Baden-Wuerttemberg) to celebrate Sören Potratz’s birthday was quite an adventure. On our 9h journey the bus driver was probably the best – he told the same jokes at every station we went to. 

Meeting my old travel mate Sören was one of the best things we could do. Reunited we laughed about all the good old days, when we used to live in a car with John Harder, the pig. All the insiders we had, the adventures we went on together, the food we ate and the missing hygiene we had during those days are just a tiny impression of what it is like to live in a car for 6 weeks with just 3 guys.

Just driving with the FlixBus on the Autobahn is pretty boring … Chemnitz, Nürnberg, Stuttgart and finally Karlsruhe. They look nice but not special to us after what we have seen. The landscape was pretty much the same everywhere – from flat to a little bit hilly, with the same trees and bushes. Their houses look a bit different than the eastern Germany ones and they have so many foreigners that I felt like I am in a foreign country. 

We knew before we started, that it’s gonna be a hard one to understand their accent. Arriving in Karlsruhe everything was fine, everyone spoke proper English. Then we went to his home, where he talked with his parents with his accent. Every second sentence we had to ask what they were saying, as if they would speak another language. It was hilarious!!

The first party he brought us to, was a home party with those people who spoke weird German, which was funny to listen to, even we just understood 70%. Our Điếu Cày (Vietnamese bamboo bong) supported us to make friends and create some curiosity – as usual  Swimming, slacklining, enjoying the sun that was hiding the whole time since I arrived in Germany and talking to strangers was nice, but not the same like far away travelling. As I always say: “it”, the thing, is missing in Germany!

The second party that he brought us to, was a village party called “Voll gut Feschd (un so)” which was very hilarious too, since there were many young people compared to what I am used to at village partys… We played a round of flunkyball – with very weird rules. Completely different than what I am used to in the East. Same country – not even the same rules 

His mum treated us veryy well, so I have to say that German hospitality is awesome! Also, it is very hard to make people understand that I don’t wanna study the traditional way and rather go travelling again. We always have to hear the same question: “Don’t u wanna do something serious with your life?” Not easy to argue with them and tell them that there is no better thing in the world than travelling. Nowhere else you learn as much about yourself, people, cultures (and business if you want to). But I can’t be mad with them, they don’t know any better.

The dude who drove us home was a very aggressive and moody bus driver. He talked to passengers without any respect and guess where he came from: Good old Saxony haha 

Anyway, I wish you all the best for your future – Happy birthday bro!

Stay tuned and go with the flow, Cheers