CW: american privilege
Also doing a bit of Amsterdam and Paris. Not an ideal time with COVID, I know, but... its probably never gonna be a better time, either.
Experiences? Things to try? Avoid?
Hoping to get a feel for every day life in Germany. Don't care too much tourist stuff. First time over the pond, so looking to soak in as much "non-american" stuff as possible.
I'm going to be annoyingly into city/street design, as someone that lives on the edges of the suburbs in America. Germany seems to have a decent amount of walkable (read: normal) cities/towns.
Eh because Germany was bombed back to the middle ages their cities are very car-centric and dull outside of the center. Heidelberg is pretty beautiful because it's the only major city that was never bombed.
Germany is in general more bikeable and walkable than the US and has better public transport, but we've got out share of suburban hell. Netherlands would be far more interesting in that regard, especially smaller towns like Utrecht (although Amsterdam is incredibly cozy for a city of that size).