Berlin….. full of students (who all seem to talk with a mix of their home town accents and some faux Berlinerisch, wa). loads of unemployed. too many drug dealers doing there thing openly on the streets. loads of “alternative” bars and people… so much so that “alternative” is now mainstream.
sure, there are some nice areas, but they are massively outnumbered by the shitty ones.
Leipzig, Dresden, Cottbus and lots of the former East Germany….
run down, massive unemployment, a slight Nazi-undertone in some places (lots of fascist political posters around), a funny accent, lots of abandoned buildings and awful soviet architecture. rather depressing at times.
paradoxically, much of the countryside is beautiful and much of it untouched.
Ruhrpott area…. (area round Duisburg-Essen-Dortmund).
Just one massive conurbation. it’s hard to tell where one town ends and the next begins. bah!