Denmark Vs Germany!

I FINALLY moved to Copenhagen a week ago, after millions of problems, I can say that I’m ”happily” living here!
After 3 years living in Germany, now I can clearly see, that many of the things that I hated at the beginning about the Germans, I got used to and now I completely miss.
I thought that these two countries were very similar, but they are not. Here are some of differences that I have found and some peculiarities about the Danish people.

In Germany you wont see a single German flag, which is understandable because of their history. It seems like if Germans weren’t allowed to feel proud of their country. On the other hand the Danes are amazingly proud of their country, their monarchy, their people and their culture so you see the Danish flag waving everywhere.

In Colombia, if you want to cross the street, you just look and cross or don’t look and cross, but something you don’t do, is wait for the traffic light to let you go… well in Germany if you cross when you are not suppose to, you get bad looks and even bad words from the people that are around you. Without noticing I got absolutely use to it and now in Copenhagen, things are almost as in Colombia, so I discover myself being the only person waiting for the traffic light to let me go…

In Germany, there are timetables in each bus stop, subway station and train station, so that the people can check when exactly the bus comes. If it says that it’ll come at 12:00, that’s the time when you will see the bus stopping in front of you (at least 90% of the times). Well, here they have the timetables too; the difference is that there is no chance that the bus actually comes on time. You have to wait forever, and when it finally comes, many times is so full that it wont even stop!!!

In Berlin, you can go out wearing your pijamas and nobody would even look at you funny, fashion is something that Germans simply don’t care about. That’s why in Berlin you see people dressed in such a way, that it almost seems like if they actually spent time looking in their closets for all the things that didn’t match with each other and wear them all together.
In Denmark, that’s not the case! Here fashion and brands rule the streets, even the kids are perfectly dressed every morning at school. People are pretty and look pretty! I love that!!!

In Germany, normally the main meal is lunch and at night you’ll probably just eat what they call abend brot, which is just bread, cheese and salami. In Denmark the main meal is Dinner and at lunch they eat something call Smørrebrød which is an open-faced sandwich, which is just black bread, pate and salmon.

In Copenhagen it is getting dark around 3:30 in the afternoon and its very cold and windy. At 7:30 pm every night, an ice cream truck goes around the whole neighborhood, ringing a bell and millions of kids run after it, even when its snowing!!! That wouldn’t happen in Germany, because they have no concept of the delivery service!

While in Germany you hardly find an American product, and if you do, you’ll pay 4 times the price as in the States. Here, apart from the products you’ll find Blockbuster, Dominos Pizza (with delivery service, nonexistent in Germany…) and 7 eleven everywhere and they’re open 24 hours. Its GREAT!!

These are only my initial observations after living here only a week, Like everything, there are some pros, and some cons, we’ll see how it goes…