THINGS YOU DO NOT NEED IN GERMANY🇩🇪

hi guys welcome back to my channel I hope you are all doing really well so as you can see there's a bit of a change of scene I thought I'd try something a bit different I am actually on my way into verburg I'm going to catch the train to meet up with some of my girlfriends for dinner we like to have a girls night once in a while and this is my night that I have free I'm so excited and I thought do know what I am just going to film this video on my way and yeah leave home a little bit earlier so I'm just going to stop here I have got about half an hour until my train comes this place is a little bit more hidden um so just yesterday actually I received a video requests from a lovely Instagram follower and she asked me what I would recommend her not to bring when she visits Germany so she was planning to visit Germany for 3 months she didn't want to bring a lot of luggage she wanted to be a little bit more minimal with what she brought to Germany and she just asked anet what is absolutely not essential to bring to Germany please can you make a video about this or just tell me what you recommend me not to bring sorry the Train's going past and so I did make a video like this years ago but I think it's time for an update so this is in no particular order but something that I think you just don't need to bring if you're coming to Germany is really sort of fancy jissy formal clothes I have talked about how most Germans have a pretty casual sort of practical sense of style and I don't mean that they dress in a sloppy way like you do not often see Germans wearing sweet pants and really like sloppy clothes but I would say the German style is pretty much sort of smart casual so I'm heading out soon to a nice restaurant in the middle of the city in verburg and I would say I'm dressed pretty casually so I am just wearing like a linen blouse and it's a little bit hard to show my entire outfit but this is something that I would wear during the day as well and I would not feel out of place wearing this in the evening here in Germany I feel absolutely fine in it and I would feel overdressed if I wore anything more fancy going out to a restaurant here in Germany so yeah I just feel like in general Germans dress in a pretty casual way but a lot of Germans they do take pride in how they dress they just don't wear lots of glitzy glamorous clothes even when they're out you know even when they're in restaurants and you know going out to an opera or something like that I don't know maybe I'd wear something a bit more fancy to an opera but yeah I would still probably feel fine wearing this to be honest and the same goes with shoes you do not need to bring fancy high heels to Germany for quite a few reasons the main reason is that there are so many beautiful cobblestone streets around here at least in the area of Germany where I live I'm in lower Franconia Bavaria and everywhere you go there are just cobblestone streets for Miles you cannot wear high heels when you are walking on cobblestone streets so when I moved to Germany many years ago I was in my 20s and I used to like to go to some the German nightclubs with my husband my then boyfriend and I brought with me like three pairs of heels I think and I remember my favorite heels actually broke they got caught like the heel got caught in one of the cobblestones and it snapped off and I've heard this is quite a common thing in Germany you know foreigners come to Germany they wear heels and they realize it's just not going to work and yeah so just flag the heels don't bring heels German women don't really wear heels very often so these are the shoes that I'm wearing tonight and they have just a little tiny wedge on them honestly these are the closest thing I have to a heel at the moment here in Germany I used to own so many heels and I just don't need them here cuz no one wears them and they're just so unpractical so if I was going to a wedding or something um you know I'd go out and buy a pair of heels but I don't need to wear them here and you don't need to bring them them when you come to Germany and honestly I'm going to be 100% honest I was actually quite tempted to wear my Birkenstock sandals out tonight I'm serious I've got these really nice birken stocks in this tan brown color similar color to the widges with this quite big Buckle like a gold buckle and I was going to wear them tonight to the restaurant and I would have felt fine I wouldn't have felt out of place so basically you just need to wear like if it's summer you need to just bring a pair of good sandals I would say Birkenstock style sandals you know if you don't like Birkenstocks not everybody does you can find some you know good quality sandals with a decent sole on them like comfortable sandals and you just need one pair of those and a neutral color and a pair of sneakers maybe one pair of boots and you're good to go like you don't need any more shoes than that and they have to be practical good quality you're going to be doing a lot of walking and you're going to be walking through a lot of cobone street so Comfort is number one here in Germany when it comes to clothes and shoes something else that you do not need to bring in Germany are too many bags like too many different purses and things like that you just need to bring a backpack and maybe like a little purse if you're going out in the evening backpacks are so popular here in Germany because they are just so practical and yeah I never wore backpacks until moving to Germany and now I wear my backpack all the time I'm a growing woman in my late 30s and I love wearing my backpack and you can get some really nice quite stylish ones and honestly you don't even need a handbag like I wouldn't feel weird going to a restaurant with my backpack on I do have my handbag tonight but I mean if you want it to be really minimal just take a backpack like a neutral color backpack but I would recommend you take like a little handback as well and maybe put that inside your backpack and yeah then it wouldn't take up too much space so yeah don't bring all the fancy purses you're not going to need them um another thing is you do not need to bring lots of cosmetic products and toiletries and things like that of course if you have some specific products that you can only get in your country then bring them along but Germany has the best drugstores I've talked about this before I've done lots of German drugstore hauls has DM Rosman Miller there's probably more these drugstores are amazing and they have everything you need from makeup to body washers deodorants shampoos just just everything you could ever want and the German products are so good and so inexpensive even some of the sort of store brands like Bia at DM their products are so so good and really high quality and they cost like I don't know you can get some really great products for like12 in New Zealand beauty products and makeup is so much more expensive so you know just don't stock up on lots of makeup and bring it to Germany you can buy all of that there just bring a few essentials and go to a d or a Rossman and you will have an absolute ball just finding all sorts of things so yeah you don't need to bring all of that stuff um something else is sun block sunscreen you don't need to bring any of that it's just going to take up room in your luggage and it's always a bit risky packing you know liquids in Germany the sunscreens are very very inexpensive and really really good so yeah don't bother bringing that I think I may have mentioned this in my previous video but I do want to mention this again because this still applies if you're coming in wintertime do not bring too many big bulky sweaters you know those big chunky nit sweaters that are really nice but very heavy and take up a lot of room in your suitcase you don't need to bring those because the heating system in Germany is just so much different to in New Zealand so in Germany and the shops inside the homes and restaurants it is very very warm like hot when it is wintertime they are very well heated I should say the contrast in the temperature when you're inside and outside in Germany is massive I actually struggled with this quite a lot when I first came to Germany going from cold to hot to cold to hot because in New Zealand it's pretty cold inside in wintertime because our heating is not as advanced and yeah but what I'm getting at is that you are not going to feel that comfortable if you are wearing just really thick Woolen sweaters you're going to just have to be continuously taking them on and off and on and off and then you're also going to be wearing a big thick coat and yeah you're going to get sick of that pretty easily so I would suggest just bringing some light tops like long sleeved maybe light sweaters or just like cotton tops or something like that and bringing a really good quality thick jacket or coat and if you don't have one there are plenty of places you can go to buy really great coats and jackets here in Germany so yeah flag all of the really heavy winter winter woolies and just pack some really lightweight clothing and a really good thick warm jacket you can wear when you're outside anyway guys I think that was about it for this video I am about to go catch my train to bburg to meet up with my girlfriends I cannot wait thank you so much for watching guys if you enjoyed this video then don't forget to give it a big thumbs up I would love you to consider subscribing to my channel if you haven't already I know that so many of you who watch my videos are not actually subscribed so if you would consider subscribing that would mean the world to me feel free to connect with me on Instagram I've been posting so much more content lately on Instagram I have been really enjoying Instagram so if you would consider following me on Instagram I would just love that thank you again guys and I will see you again really soon bye