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16 Aug, 7 tweets, 1 min read
I could keep this thread going for hours, but here are a few of my favourites.

1. I love the "Zank you for twavelling on Deutschuh Bun" announcements on the train when arriving at your destination.
2. I love that drinking a beer on the way to a party, or on the train is completely acceptable.

I also love that pulling into a beer garden at 11am for a radler is completely acceptable on a summer's day.
3. I love that you go to the bakery separate from your shop, which you do two or three times a week since your fridge is tiny.

The bread is cheap, and there are always belegte (filled) brötchen (rolls) if you're feeling lazy.
4. I love that slapping my hands on my knees when seated, and saying 'Sooooo..." is widely accepted as a signal I want to leave.
5. I love saying 'Servus', 'Grüß Gott' or 'Hallo' to every one of the hundreds of hikers I meet on any of the immaculate trails around my area.
6 I love the windows that open diagonally inwards, and that everyone uses them to air out their rooms.
7. I love railway station döner joints, or sausage stands. Sometimes the grittiest places (looking at you Pforzheim) have the best places.

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Quarantine facilities have been in Oz since colonization.
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So, in my amateur explorations into the 'Dark Age' Alamanni peoples of Southern Germany, I think I've found the first metalhead in history.

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Today, I want to talk about a place I can never go to.

Today, it's under a bypass that runs between Aalen and Nordlingen, here in Southern Germany.

It still bears the name given to it by those who first settled there - Lauchheim.

That's how it appeared 1500 years ago.
The people who came to live there were the Alamanni - a group of tribes who broke through the Limes (the Roman border wall spanning modern Germany) from the north and settled modern-day Southern Germany, the Alsace and northern Switzerland.
Some of these tribespeople, who arrived in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, settled near modern-day Lauchheim, at a place called Mittelhofen.

There, they built a village with farms, a mill, a smith, etc - like that pictured below (a modern reconstruction, elsewhere).
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If there's one thing I know about, it's witch hunts. Witch hunts in Early Modern Europe were almost always predicated on a) fanciful explanations for natural phenomena and b) the settling of long-held grudges - both the realm of today's anti-vaxxers and Covidiots.
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Sudden changes in the weather, therefore, were viewed with terror and awe.
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1 Aug
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I was reminded of this, when researching German folk tales today. Image
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It was a center of culture and learning as the court of the Hohenzollerns, and was a bustling trade centre as a member of the Hanseatic League.

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I thought I'd talk about what it does to me, and how I live with it. Maybe some of you might identify.
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★ Inability to follow instructions.
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All have been present in my life, since childhood.
An inability to follow instructions can be one of the most infuriating parts of living with ADD.

It means that in many cases, I simply cannot follow simple steps in a logical sequence, once they reach a certain cognitive threshold.

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