It's the first New Year's Eve that I've actually spent in Berlin... and I'm terrified. Images of The Purge flash through my head as people talk about the pandemonium of a Berlin New Year's Eve—dodging fireworks and drunkards, and, more often than not, drunkards with fireworks. If you make it through the night unscathed then you'll know it will be a good year... or so they say. Exaggerations aside, here are a few new New Year's related words for you.
How will you be ringing in the new year? Let me know in the comments. As they say in Germany—Einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr! Sooo... have a good slide into 2016. I'll see you on the other side.
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It's been said many a time before - Germans, they like their rules. It might be a stereotype, but after you've been shouted at one too many times for cycling on the pavement or crossing the street when you shouldn't be you realise that there's some basis to the stereotype.