{"id":7039,"date":"2017-08-31T07:23:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T07:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2017-08-31T07:23:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T07:23:25","slug":"final-thoughts-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/08\/31\/final-thoughts-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"Final thoughts \u2013 almost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few final thoughts from my trip to Germany:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The eastern part of Germany is full of wind farms, fine railway stations (Go to Leipzig!), and a lot of new roofs, but it feels empty<\/li>\n<li>Germany\u2019s social divisions have become regional. \u00a0The Economist says that there is now there's a north \u2013 south split as well as an east \u2013 west one, but, comparing Dresden and Bremen, the south of the east looks and feels better in many ways than the west of the north<\/li>\n<li>Mrs M's writ is less powerful in the east where locals are happy to run red pedestrian lights: it must be that legacy of being told what to do all the time and how to think.<\/li>\n<li>Their health service is clearly better than the NHS though not without issues.<\/li>\n<li>German black pilsner (e.g. K\u00f6stritzer\u00a0Schwarzbier) seems much superior to its Czech cousin.<\/li>\n<li>It's odd to see huge ads on German streets glamourising smoking, and to realise that circuses still have 'wild' animals.<\/li>\n<li>I'm wondering whether I shall ever buy a German car again.<\/li>\n<li>I'm already looking forward to my next trip.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This was almost my last thought. \u00a0Tomorrow I'll round off this series of posts by returning to VW's cheating and its consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few final thoughts from my trip to Germany: The eastern part of Germany is full of wind farms, fine railway stations (Go to Leipzig!), and a lot of new roofs, but it feels empty Germany\u2019s social divisions have become...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}