Some notable things:

– cars stop at zebra crossings

– all shop assistants wish “a nice day”

– it rains on most days

– it is 20 degrees colder than Japan

– it is extremely difficult to get decent photo supplies in Niedersachsen (“Lower Saxony”, postcode 3xxxx); mentioning sheet film creates blank gazes

– the photo fair was a bunch of old geezers with mostly Leica and Rollei stuff talking to each other; all I bought was a Polaroid 545 holder at a decent price

– many wind power generators

– beer very tasty!

– many nice cars

Counting the days till our return to Japan, which I started missing a little bit…