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To take a shower is for getting clean or to refresh yourself in the summer. To take a bath is for relaxing or warming yourself up after a long winter walk. Two different things. Not either or.

An Australian friend of mine once asked me why the currywurst stand advertises their sausage as "extra gross". It was funny as hell to explain.

7:39 a lot of German Cities do have a weekly market, if not at least 2 or 3 times a week. My home town has one every day with vegetables and other days there will be a butcher, a fish seller, a poultry seller and other specialties. Do to the fact that these Wochenmärkte are always open during the time when a lot of people are at work during the week , people are not able to go there. But still on Saturday you will find lots of people there. And you can buy some of the best foods there.

The fact you can't remember after your visit to the Czech Republic might be circumstantial evidence that beer _is_ cheaper than water there.

Czech here, yes, beer is cheaper than water. It's pretty much the same situation, water at restaurants gets sold in brand name overpriced tiny glass bottles, but they do serve fruit juices, various sodas (kofola), mineral waters and so on. We were supposed to get the law that there will be at least one non-alcoholic drink on the menu cheaper than the rest back in 2014, but it didn't go through because of "muh government overreach, let us drink our brains out".

The freedom thing is that we have different definitions of freedoms. And I would call the US definition too short and kind of broken: Germany and Europe in General sees freedom as a society thing - it's a question of "Güterabwägung" (Weighing of interests). As an example: You don't have the freedom to hit your child, cause you are shrinking in it's freedom of not getting hurt. The US has an extremist individualistic viewpoint on freedoms: I have the freedom to do st even if someone elses freedom will get shrinked. This is problematic, because freedoms become more and more a privilege of the "strong" ones in society and the one's that just take their freedoms with no regards. It's a system this will collaps on itself with no doubt. We allready see it: Religious fanatics do attack other people's freedoms successfully and claiming their rights to do this on their own freedoms. Abortion, Trans-rights, etc... Freedom was an US Concept that established in an extreme and is doomed to decline on and on, while Europe's understanding is freedom as a process and a permanent newly negotiated social contract of the society, aiming to get the most out of it for everyone. If you ask me, the problem is, that the US didn't really have a liberal movement and the phase of enlightment. The concepts are way more dumb down and without much philosophical background. Wich is not meant negativ - the US became a kind of liberal country, before the concept of liberalism was really elaborated...

Norwegian here. I don't think I've ever bathed once in my life. Well, maybe once, in a hotel when I was a kid. I've never lived in a house or apartment with a bath though. Only shower. I have no idea why Americans would think all Europeans/Germans bathe. Bizarre.

Beer actually was cheaper than water in restaurants. I only know that from my mother because I was too small, but a quick Google search showed that there is an extra law from 2002 that restaurants have to have a alcohol free drink as the cheapest option.

04:33 In the 90s beer was often cheaper than water. Therefore the youth claimed that they rather order beer than water. This is the reason why this law came in to action. So older stories might be true about the past situation here in Germany. But things have changed.

We are Sitzpinkler because we also are bathroom cleaners!

The absolute best movie series ever made is undoubtedly Lord of the Rings. Or is this not considered as a series? Christmassy greetings from Hannover, Germany. Klaus

i think many German cities have a market, but its mostly only at one day a week. the last years it became more and more common to have house markets or have vending machines at farms. here in my area many farmers have a vending machine in front of their farm where they sell products like milk or sausages or you can just go inside their self-service showroom and take what you need and let the money there.

I mean, the whole farmers market situation depends on your expectations. In terms of total calories sold, it IS most likely only third after discounters and more premium supermarkets, however especially in small towns, it's also considered to be a weekly or bi-weekly event and part of the culture. Combined with the other point, that most people in fact do not shop daily, it's the place where many people get the "good" bread and meats once per week for example, while less local, frozen and or industrial food is bought in bulk at a traditional SM.

I am a bit surprised by the part re farmers' markets and places that sell local produce. My medium sized town has a market twice a week in front of the church with the highest tower in the world and the farmers in the villages around sell their dairy and other products at their farms - even farm icecream ! And my suburb has its market once a week ! Go to the pre-alpine region and you find local products in the village shops like cheeses and "Schwarzgeräuchertes" and Speck and sausages as it is more convenient to sell those products INSIDE in winter :)) !

German here. Definitely a bather, cannot stand showering. Love bidets, have rarely seen any, though and do not own any. Our farmers market is twice a week and my family shops there only once a week and gets anything not available there at the supermarket next to it in the same go. Never touched alcohol, hate all alcohol, especially beer, love water. I always ask for tap water for my meds at german restaurants and always get it for free. Ask for it for your medication and you will much more likely get it for free than when you ask just for tap water. I do need it for my meds but they do not check.

I live in Germany and it's funny how much I can learn from him about Germany. Stuff I didn't know😂

In my city we have in fact a market every day in the week , the thing is, from monday to friday they are smaller versions of the one big market on saturday and they are located in a different place every day along the week . Greetings from north Germany

About the farmers market thing: While I wouldn’t obviously go to a market every day for convenience reasons, in bigger cities there often are markets every day in different locations. For example: the nearest market to me is on Wednesday and Saturday, in my mom's suburb it’s Monday and Thursday and I bet I could find one on Fridays as well… But being German, i would absolutely not drive my car around the city to go to a market everyday (also because they are often on parking lots, so no parking space for the time being)

Showering - I can see where this myth comes from - as many (cheaper) apartments in Germany only have bathtubs. And still people usually just stand or sit in the bathtub and take a shower. In more modern/higher priced apartments you will have usually both or sometime two bathrooms - one with a shower cabin(sometime referred to as Gästebad) and one with a bathtub - or even one with bathtub and shower and one with shower only and sometimes an extra rest room - but that’s for the rich and fancy ;-)

The exception to the supermarkets v. markets thing are the seasonal stalls - asparagus in spring, strawberries in summer - which everyone uses.

I’ve been living in Bavaria for about 3 years as an American. My town doesn’t do farmers markets. Beer typically is cheaper than water, but how you said it is pretty true about volume to price. Never seen a bidet here but it is typical to pay to use a good bathroom. Shower in the summer but bath in the cold winter months. Overall a good experience moving here!

German here. I prefer bathing over showering BUT it is more wasteful and takes longer. So showering is for becoming clean, bathing is for relaxation

As an European, I also find the term "bidet" very confusing because traditionally, a bidet is something very different over here. My family owns a vacation home in Spain which has a bidet in the bathroom. It basically looks as though a toilet and a sink had a baby. The bowl is toilet-shaped but it's smaller and closer to the floor. Also, there are taps (one for hot water and one for cold water) rather than a button to flush). The idea is that after using the toilet, you get up, walk over to the bidet and sit down on it. These traditional bidets can also be used for other purposes; for example my family always uses ours to wash our swimsuits after returning from the beach rather than cleaning our butts. You can even use it as a mini-bathtub if you've got an infant. What Americans call "bidet" would be called "Klosomat" in German. They are indeed very rare in Germany, outside of maybe hospitals and retirement homes. When I think of Klosomats, I generally think of East Asia. I used to live in South Korea where I had one in my apartment and most public bathrooms were also "smart toilets". In recent years, Americans online have been going absolutely insane over these Klosomats but personally, I find them pretty overrated. I always felt a bit awkward when my toilet talked to me with the voice of a barely legal Korean high school girl. And while having your ass sprinkled with warm water feels nice, it's not enough to make you clean. You still have to use toilet paper (or hop into the shower). Overall, the crazy blinking and talking and sprinkling is a fun gadget but that's about it. It's like having flashing LED lights and your favorite song play every time you enter the living room. Fun but ultimately useless. Once you get used to it (after a few weeks/months), you basically use those things like any other toilet.

As a German, I agree to what you say, but I am an exception at one thing: I go grocery shopping every day to every other day, partly because we share a fridge and I don't have that much fridge space. But also, I like to be spontaneous about what I want to eat and I love fresh Brötchen, so you'll find me in a supermarket quite often.

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Well... To go into your Czech beer story... As a very young guy, I had my first trip behind the Iron Curtain. It was a school trip that allowed us to really hit the ground running, while we were otherwise poor students at home who couldn't make any big leaps. This was because the Deutsch Mark was worth between 10 and 11 times more than the Czech crown. So in one week we blew away the value of the average Czech's income for a month. And back then the restaurants were divided into different price categories. If you went to the cheapest place to drink, you would be served a beer immediately and without ordering. Since the Czech and German beer are of equal quality, we were satisfied. And when converted, a beer like this cost 20 pfennings. If you now convert that to American money, where the dollar was worth a good 2.70 DM at that time, an American ends up with a price for half a liter of beer at around a nickel...

even in France, markets aren't every days, called "permanent" (except in some cities, big enough to have permanent markets). in small cities, it's usually once a week. for everyday groceries, if not going to the supermarket, you can go to small shops in town (butchers, bakeries, etc...).

Those picturesque markets and personal relationships with the farmers are definitely reality in rural areas and towns, even certain areas in cities hold on to this tradition. The request could have been fulfilled 100%. :) Daily shopping is very common in cities, if not the norm. In the countryside, where people have to rely on their cars to go shopping, they might go only once or twice a week to save time.

Usually in Germany you can buy directly from a local farmer and there is a food market every Saturday in many towns. Often farmers also deliver to people’s home directly. But never heard of everyday markets

For #2: some German supermarkets make the pavement like in a original market to encourage buying more pricy but better quality vegetables and fruits. Original markets are only in very few cities in big halls open every day. But in many small villages you can have great markets Saturday and or Sunday!

Haha yes we have a bathtub in our house but it is practically never used at all because we all prefer the shower. I regularly check the bathtub and run a little water to prevent the drain from running dry. We do have a bidet though..

Well... since it's always southern germany that stands as an example for germany when it comes to these kind of videos, I always have the urge to fix things a little bit up. In northern germany we do have "farmers" markets (Wochenmarkt) all the time. You will find one in the surrounding villages or cities around you pretty much 5 out of 7 days a week. But not everyday in every village, so you still need a car to get to one. But we have a lot of farmers here and in almost every village you can buy local stuff at there house shops. (cheese, sausage, milk, eggs, vegetables and so on). It's enough that you wouldn't need a supermarket at all.

You don‘t have to go to Spain, France or Italy to find beautiful daily markets on historic market places in the middle of the town, surrounded by historic buildings. We do have many that look almost exactly as in the "dream" pictures. They are all over Germany - just not everywhere, not in every small village, and in small towns not every day. In France there are many beautiful markets, too, but I would say you will find way more markets like those in the pictures in Germany than you‘ll find in Italy or Spain. There you‘ll find some amazing market halls that are also definitely worth a visit, but in my opinion, most outdoor markets there are not half as romantic as many of our markets here. I buy most of our vegetables, bread and other fresh products on the farmer‘s markets in my city, and I am by far not the only German who does that. Farmer‘s markets are still „a thing“ here, and many of them are truly romantic and absolutely not comparable to what you usually have in the USA.

Actually, in my village we have a farmers market twice a week. It’s honestly pretty much like the images 😂 and we do use wicker baskets!

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There is a law that the cheapest drink(same volume) have to be non alcohol drink in Germany

Re shopping frequency - in bigger cities it's not unusual to go food shopping for a few fresh items every other day or more frequently just on the way home from work since there are usually smaller supermarkets in walking distance that you can pop into during your public transit commute. In more rural areas one big trip to 2-3 supermarkets by car and a trip to the farmers' market each week is fairly normal in my experience.

In Vienna we have markets that are open every day. But this is more of a city thing than a village thing. In the village, markets tend to be one day a week or even just once a month... and the farmers often travel from one village to another

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Fresh markets are still a thing in Poland. They might be in semi enclosed spaces to protect it from the weather. You can find there fresh produce, all kinds of pickles, meats, fish, flowers etc. Even clothes and bags or makeup. Nowadays also spices and stuff from around the world (depending on the city/town). There will always be an old grandmas or grandpas selling small amount of things they grew or harvested themselves like berries or honey. My own grandma only shops at these markets and especially takes a tram to the city center to get groceries.

In the small town where I live in Germany, there is a farmers market once a week and a mobile farmers market that drives around to people's houses to sell vegetables, fruit, eggs and even one variety of pasta, as well as several subscription services that deliver boxes of assorted veg and fruit on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.

I take shower everyday to clean of surface dirt, but I take a bath once a week to actually feel clean and fresh (and and for better exfoliation). I cannot imagine living in an apartment without a bathing tub.

In Austria we have this farmer markets in big towns like Vienna, Graz every day and not only one, but severals!

In Czech republic, beer is cheaper than water. the averagy beer was around 2 euros, including in restaurants. Only in the supermarkets, water is cheaper.

In Freiburg im Breisgau every morning from Monday to Saturday is a farmersmarket around the minster in the center of the city. In the districts the farmersmarkets are two times in the week.

Since I live in a town in Germany where If have grocery stores in 2-5 min walk distance I actually buy a lot of things on a daily basis. I get veggies from the weekly market. If I need organic food I have a half-hour bike ride to the bigger city, which I would do once per week. I guess that's average shopping custom over here. A lot of people, especially those with a more tight work schedule though prefer driving to the supermarket (like Aldi) only once per week. I suppose what would be more shocking for Americans are the opening hours of german shops. No 24/7 shop opening hours over here.

Beer was cheaper than water in restaurants but than it got illegal that the cheapest drinkung is alkohol

Number 2: If you want this in a village, it's actually possible, but I experienced it only in summer and autumn and then once a week

11:08 at homes i sit. Everywhere else, like everyone else I stand.

I absolutely prefer taking a bath to taking a shower, but I rarely have time for that more than twice a week. (More often in winter, when I have a cold.)

7:17 We have a market on the town square on two days a week. To give a little context it's a mid-sized town near the Dutch border.

I don't like beer. I don't like football. I don't like cars. Needless to say, my father considers me huge disappointment.

to be fair, i don't know how other cities in germany handle it but the one i live in has a farmers market 5 days a week(all but sunday and monday), they have different days for each part of the city and move around. The one close to my home is on tuesday and the one close to my workplace on thursdays, those are smaller than the big one on saturday in the city center tho. There are also several farm shops where you can buy directly from the producer and other local farms they cooperate with within the city limit. It might take a slight detour but the prices are comparable to normal supermarkets if not cheaper. Of course they can only offer what they have on hand and sometimes you need to bring a bit of time with you but when you get asked to wait for 5 min since the shop staff has to grab you your salat from the field real quick, i call that time well spent for top products. also to the end question: no, the first one was good the second was ok and the rest i can't remeber so it wasn't noteworthy.

I'm from Spain here almost every city has a market, where you can buy local vegetables, fruits and fish (if you are in the coast). Chesse and meat arent so common but it's not imposible to find them. In my home town it's open every day, but it's bigger twice a week. I would say that IS more common un small cities and towns than in bigger ones

Actually, we do have a market several times a week in different areas of my hometown - which isn't particularly small or rural.

We have a market in our village but only on Saturday

The markets are kind of a thing in some towns in Germany. My hometown has with a population of 38,000 four market days.And there are mostly local farmers and resellers.

Freiburg has a market every weekday morning from Monday thru Friday

We do not have a bathtub. We had one but as our bathroom is small we installed a large shower instead. It is more convenient.

My Grandfather used to say you havent been to Munich if you havent been to the Viktualienmarkt, one of the daily Markets in Munich

I have step in with markets. While most towns do not have a market every day, they have one or two markets per week. This is the case in many south German town and also in larger cities. For example in Kiel we have a market on Wednesday and Saturday at the Exerzierplatz and at other days in other parts of the city. The concept of Wochenmärkte is quite common. Yes it is not daily, but we get our food primarily from the market once a week. That is enough. And it is just a 10 minutes trip by foot. Others come from further away, but it can be reached by bike and bus, easily. As the food from the "farmer's market" is usually way more fresh than the stuff sold in supermarkets, it can last over the week without a loss in quality. Things linke cheese are by design able to be edible for weeks. As week cook every day from fresh ingredients, we need quite a lot of food, but it usually all fits in our shopping back pack and a shopping bag.

My mother used to do groceries nearly daily - but she was a SAHM and it was her way to have "outside contacts" and later in life, it was her way of getting her bum up off the sofa and getting some exercise.

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In my experience daily markets is more a thing for cities of a notable size. A smaller town is more likely to have something maybe once per week, and it will be a smaller stall that is linked to one of the sellers in the bigger cities.

Haha, my parents actually have a bidet in their bathroom, but it NEVER gets used. Literally NEVER. And yes, I have NO idea, how I'd be supposed to use it without flooding the entire bathroom. I guess the thing was just part of the toilet-sink-ensemble.

A shower is just for cleaning or cooling down (in summer). A bathtub is for recreation - a mini Spa. No.

About the bd: never had that in Germany and when I moved to Portugal, I was also first like, What is that thing for? It just takes up space". But now I'm like, How did I live without it? 😂

in my german hometown we have a market that is open once or twice a week but Ive never been there since I usually go to the grocery store. older people do though

I would Like to add to the Market Point that while it is true that you rarely See daily markets, there are a Lot of "Bauernläden" Farmers Stores where you can daily buy directly fromm the Producer in a small Shop rather than at a Discounter or supermarket

30+ years ago there actually were places like bars, discos etc. where alcohol was cheaper than water. Later some places even had flat rates for drinking including alcohol. Both were reasons to pass the law that at least one non-alcoholic drink on the menu must be cheaper than alcohol.

I'am Kaltduscher and Sitzpinkler and have 2 Bidet (in 2 Bathrooms) but we live in northern Italy

We have Wochenmärkte /weekly markets), but you could also go directly to the farmers, some sell vegetables, fruits, eggs, sausages, milk, directly. No it is not.

I live in northern germany in small town and we do have food markets but only on the weekends

in the Czech Republic it depends on the brand and whether it is on sale, but it is not a problem to find lower quality beer that is cheaper than water

You can order tap water - and normally they won't charge you. Except probably a small amount for dish washing and serving, like 50 cent or something.

Beer cheaper than water - that´s not totally out of the blue. Only in the mid 1980s the federal state of Bavaria implemented the rule that any restaurant, bar, nightclub etc. need to offer AT LEAST ONE soft drink or water that is cheaper than beer. And since a lot of american troups used to be stationed in Bavaria they brought back the then correct notion that beer is cheaper than water .... i guess :D

7:55 I am from Switzerland- the only city I know with a daily market is BASEL -6/7…except Munich

There are Farmer Markets in German Citys and villages. But they Take place mostly once a week and are called "Wochenmarkt" mostly they Take place at the Marketplace from 8:00 to 13:00

in many vending machines is beer cheaper than water, at least in bavaria where i come from. beer is most of the time way cheaper than softdrinks in supermarkets

3:06 and it’s actually a good thing, that beer is more taxed. I am German and the amount of people I know, that consume unhealthy amounts of alcohol is huge. I’ve you want you can get wasted with as little as 5€/$.( a Liter/ little more than a quart of cheap Wodka for around 10€!)

To Lie 2: I actually live in a small village (about 5000 people) and we do have a market and my fav childhood memory is going there with my friends after school and finding our moms there drinking coffee and chatting. We used to play there and then go home. But it’s not like the pictures you showed 😂 First, this market is only once a week and the sellers go to a different market every day to a different town. The stands aren’t that cute, more like trucks convertible to stands and in our town there are only like 10 of them. Everything is really expensive, because the food you can get there is mostly organic, handmade, fair trade and so on. So it’s kind of a luxury to buy stuff there. sits worth it tho because it tastes great and you support local small businesses. Still, it’s kinda rare. Most of the small towns are two small for sellers from elsewhere to come there for a market, and the local shops already have shops that everyone in the town knows. If a town is too big, and i‘m not talking big big, just like 10.000 people, there aren’t calm places where you can have a market like this. There are exceptions in cities with a „Altstadt“ so a part of the town that’s really old, still has old streets and market places. They have markets of course. In big cities like munich or Hamburg there are markets to, but they’re not romantic at all. The romantic ones are in really small towns, i think more in the south of germany. But you can’t visit them so easily because they’re barely any hotels or places to sleep. It’s not this easy 😂

I buy groceries in Germany almost daily But you have to factor in that my closest super market is 5 seconds away from my front door (1 minute if you add the stairs)

Some people would say, that Kölsch is basically water xD

Hello! I cannot agree on that grocery market on market places. I live in a small city (80,000 ppl) in northern Germany close to Bremen and we have three times a week (wed, fri, sat) a grocery market. Two times on a market place in the city entre and the third time it is run on the marketplace in a city district about a mile away from the centre. In Bremen the closest bigger city (400,000 ppl) there are grocery markets on serval market places in the city. So there is usually a market in 'bicycle range' each weekday (except sunday). It definetly depends on the size of the city. In towns (of course) a weekly market on saturday is the usual thing... Same goes for the "how often do we buy fresh fruits and grocery stuff"... If you live in the city centre and not in any suburbs (which is much more common in cities in Germany) then you have the opportunity to go shopping each day and buy your stuff for each day everyday. If you live more rural you go once a week - although the distances to drive into the next city / town are not that big as in the states. Is it more fresh? No, because the people who sell do not buy fresh everyday by their own. More important: It is cheaper not to buy everyday because planning and buying stuff and using it even on the next few days prevents from throwing away too much stuff. I have some colleagues who do their daily shopping each day on their way home from work to buy what they want for dinner and in comparison they usually buy more than me in my weekly shopping tour and they pay much more because too much have it's way into the trash bin...

3:00 one might get an öttinger pilz for 70 ct cheaper than most bottled water. Even though nothing beats the 14ct discounter water. (Both 0,5l without deposit)

It's ok for restaurants to ask for money for tap water because what you pay for is not only the product itself but mainly everything behind it: Time and salary of the person bringing you the water, salary of the person who cleans the dishes, rent of the room etc. You don't pay 20 or 40 bucks for the steak because the meat costs 20 or 40 bucks but because its costs the restaurant 15 or 35 bucks from the moment they buy it and prepare it until they serve it to you.

There is a law (maybe) coming up where you are allowed to buy and smoke cannabis in germany And in germany youre allowed to have two citizenships

There are weekly markets on saturdays on the market place And actualy it pretty much sucks somewhat similar to "lie 2" but the town where i live is rather small 40k inhabitands

When we went camping in France in the nineties with our daughter we thought is was funny that her 2 dl of cola was more expensive than our two cups of coffee. Then colas in cafes were small and expensive and coffee was much cheaper compared to Denmark.

7:56 try for example Schwäbisch Gmünd in south germany, but it's also once a week.

Beer is cheaper then water in CZ, maybe not for long but it is now (we expect the same "cheaper beverage" law). 0,5l Pilsen is usually 50Kč and 0,33l Mattony water is 50Kč as well. (same goes for sodas and so, same price for everything, but only beer is 0,5l else is 0,2/0,33l. If you go out of Prague the difference gets more pronounced as beer is cheaper but the sodas/water stays the same price. On tourist spots in Prague the beer price gets way higher because there is lot of "hidden local pubs" that czech ppl goes into and nobody seems to bother when tourists get ripped off a bit.

No, but the first one is pretty great and I whistle the main theme constantly ;) Also, you once asked why so many of your subscribers are Germans, and the answer is fairly simple: we're waiting for you to make a mistake so we can say "AHA! Ju häff noh kluh!" :=)

You feel more “free” in the US bc you’re; • White skinned • (Cis) Male • Straight • Better off than most financially Nothing against you at all, just if you weren’t those things you might feel safer in other countries (European/Scandinavian)

6:51 The third image I think is an AI-generated image of my city in Austria :D Not exactly the same, colors and the shape of the buildings vary and certainly not as wide. But we have a Weekendmarket there (just two rows)

i shop daily. since I don´t get any % for buying for the week and I have three supermarkets in five minutes walking distance. (Germany)

I think you got something really worng. There are a lot of markets in germany. I even think, that every city and almost every village has a market. Its just not held every day, and the farmers mostly are not the ones who sell the goods

As for shopping agree that local market are rarely open more than twice a week, because no-one needs it. When I was young in the early sixties, many people did not have a fridge. They had an icebox and so did we until I was 4 or 5. In the summertime this device was not able to keep milk, cheese and meat cool, so you had to shop almost every day. As for bathtubs. When we renovated our house in 2007 here in Germany we reinstalled a bathtub, but my wife and I have only used it 2 to 4 times. We only installed it to get a better price when selling our house. When our Danish daughter and her family comes to visit us, our grandchildren will most often use the tub, because they have not got one themselves. In Denmark many summer cottages have a whirlpool so that the German tourists will pick exactly those ones, but to me jacuzzis are expensive to use and too noisy. They will grow out of fashion like saunas have done too. I suppose with the raising energy prices bathtubs are bound to go too. At least 100 litre of warm water is quite expensive compared to 10 or 20 litres used for showering.

Every big city is having a market 2-3 times a week. The markets what you mean are in the south of Europe and espacily Balkan 😋(croatia, Serbia, etc. They are awesome there)

I buy groceries 3 times a week because I don't have a car and therefore can't carry so much. So my shopping trips are smaller and usually for 2-3 days. The exception is when holidays like Easter or Christmas approach. Then I ask my parents to get their car and buy enough for one week. But I actually hate big shopping trips.