• MadMaurice@discuss.tchncs.de
    42·
    8 months ago

    To be fair. That’s the Christmas market on the Altmarkt in Dresden and there’s a huge parking garage right below it. 😄

      • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
        272·
        8 months ago

        i mean… I’m basically the only American i know that has actually chosen to walk as a real way to get somewhere in the last 5 years.

        the idea that most Americans literally never walk anywhere isn’t inaccurate. especially for anyone living outside of a city.

      • Norgur@discuss.tchncs.de
        9·
        7 months ago

        Well, I was in a student exchange to Boise, Idaho about 20 years ago and did a daily walk around the neighborhood for some fresh air. Three days in, I was stopped by a frantic police officer with his fucking gun drawn because someone had reported me as some kind of child molester who was scouting for victims, because someone just walking was a completely alien concept there.

        I was taken to the fucking police station because the policeman thought I was making shit up either. My host family had to wiggle around with my German passport and threaten to get the Embassy involved until they decided I wasn’t worth the hassle and dropped the whole thing… So I learned two things from that exchange:

        1. 'Muricans do not know what “walking” is
        2. US police is next level power tripping
  • thefluffiest@feddit.nl
    29·
    8 months ago

    Given the amount of alcohol involved in these christmas markets, it really is a good thing that there’s not much parking space.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    8 months ago

    What if I told you a car is not necessary for travel. Take the red ticket, and it all ends. You board your flight and go back to the west, back to your long highways and calculated suburbs. But take the blue ticket, and I show you how far these two feet can walk.