If you were visiting Europe but tried to avoid Germany, which of its neighbour countries would you prefer?

[Peter King]

Why would I try to avoid Germany?

Until a little while ago you had to have a negative test to enter Germany

 

[Rumpelstil]

Until a little while ago you had to have a negative test to enter Germany

Don't you think that was quite sensible?
And not a reason to avoid Germany, but rather the contrary.

 

[Quag]

Until a little while ago you had to have a negative test to enter Germany

So that could be a reason why Germany would want to avoid someone but not why someone would want to avoid Germany

 

[Rumpelstil]

So that could be a reason why Germany would want to avoid someone but not why someone would want to avoid Germany

Well put!

 

[Rumpelstil]

@ Visiting France

It takes me just 15 to 20 minutes to get there by car.

I hope it will soon be possible to go there again - just for lunch and back again.
And have a Riesling or an Edelzwicker there - in the Alsace.

 

[Evilroddy]

Just see it as a poll about the popularity of Germany's neighbours - counted clockwise

Rumpel:

You left out one neighbour. Russia! It's Novichok for you! Tsar Vlad will not be pleased.

Cheers and be well?
Evilroddy.

 

[Rumpelstil]

Rumpel:

You left out one neighbour. Russia! It's Novichok for you! Tsar Vlad will not be pleased.

No fear!
Germany and Russia have no common border.
When I said "neighbour countries" - that meant countries that share a common land border with Germany.

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Btw: I have been to Russia.
Twice to Perm near the Ural, and once to Krasnodar in the Caucasus.

 

[Threegoofs]

Nope! Polish ones are best! And often spelled, 'kolacky'!


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I know you’re a conisseur!

In Slovak, it’s kolačky or kolačh

 

[Chomsky]

I know you’re a conisseur!

In Slovak, it’s kolačky or kolačh

I love Polish food! Goral Polish food. The best kind!

 

[Rumpelstil]

Do you have Powidl in your Kolatschen or Golatschen?

 

[Evilroddy]

No fear!
Germany and Russia have no common border.
When I said "neighbour countries" - that meant countries that share a common land border with Germany.

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Btw: I have been to Russia.
Twice to Perm near the Ural, and once to Krasnodar in the Caucasus.

Rumpel:

Yes, my brain malfunctioned. I was thinking about Kaliningrad but that's surrounded by Poland these days. As always I blame the Pruussian Junkers! Yup, I make a mistake and the Junkers are blamed. I like it!

Sorry to screw up your very nice thread with Junker propaganda spawned error by me.

Krasnodar eh? Why?

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.

 

[Rumpelstil]

Krasnodar eh? Why?

Because Krasnodar and my city are twin cities.
Krasnodar is a fine place, btw.

 

[Rumpelstil]

I was thinking about Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad is still known as Königsberg here.

 

[Evilroddy]

Kaliningrad is still known as Königsberg here.

Rumpel:

More Junker propaganda, eh? Did your lot hide the Amber Room?

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.

 

[Rumpelstil]

the Amber Room?

I know where it is - but I won't tell.

 

[Rumpelstil]

Now even 14 out of 23 say: at the end of the day I would visit Germany, all the same

Surprising!

But politically correct Germans tell everybody all the time that Germany is a very very bad country where everybody is a Nazi - except those few politically correct people themselves. And that Germany is a very racist and fascist and imperialist and neo-colonist country - and that every German is a racist and a fascist and an imperialist and a neo-colonist - with the exception of those few politically correct people again.

 

[Peter King]

Don't you think that was quite sensible?
And not a reason to avoid Germany, but rather the contrary.

Well some border workers were not able to go to work, there were actually a few people who could not leave their homes because the only way out of their property was over German streets, they could not even go and get a test.

 

[Peter King]

So that could be a reason why Germany would want to avoid someone but not why someone would want to avoid Germany

Because they could not get a test or did not want to get a stick in their nose for a visit to Germany.

 

[Quag]

Because they could not get a test or did not want to get a stick in their nose for a visit to Germany.

Stick in the nose I can see but unable to get the test would be a reason they cant go to Germany but not a reason why they would not want to go.

 

[Taylor]

Now even 14 out of 23 say: at the end of the day I would visit Germany, all the same

Surprising!

But politically correct Germans tell everybody all the time that Germany is a very very bad country where everybody is a Nazi - except those few politically correct people themselves. And that Germany is a very racist and fascist and imperialist and neo-colonist country - and that every German is a racist and a fascist and an imperialist and a neo-colonist - with the exception of those few politically correct people again.

But you make the cutest little clocks!

 

[Rumpelstil]

But you make the cutest little clocks!

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You are right!
And they are made right here in the Black Forest.
Not in Switzerland, as somebody says in that famous film "The Third Man".

 

[Rumpelstil]

If you were visiting Europe but tried to avoid Germany, which of its neighbour countries would you prefer?​

One reason for choosing the these countries: There is a clearly defined list now!

If I had just chosen some European countries at random, then the usual protest had arrived:
"You forgot X!"
"You forgot Y!"
"Why did you not include Z?"

But by choosing a clearly defined list, nobody can claim that I had "forgotten" any country.
And in the end I even included Gerrmany - though Germany is no neighbour of Germany, of course!

 

[d0gbreath]

One reason for choosing the these countries: There is a clearly defined list now!

If I had just chosen some European countries at random, then the usual protest had arrived:
"You forgot X!"
"You forgot Y!"
"Why did you not include Z?"

But by choosing a clearly defined list, nobody can claim that I had "forgotten" any country.
And in the end I even included Gerrmany - though Germany is no neighbour of Germany, of course!

Germany is by far Germany's closest neighborhood.

Thanks all for the Kolache education. I guess I'll stick with the ones that I like, the best Texas ones are made in the city of West, 19 miles north of Waco.

 

[Rumpelstil]

7 out of 27 now say: France