This Group Is Dedicated To Things That Only Happen In Europe, Here Are 50 Of The Most Interesting Ones
Picture 746 million people living in 50 (+6) countries, speaking 24 (official) languages in a continent that stretches 3,930,000 sq mi. Yep, we’re talking Europe. The precious land of long history, incredible culture, countless destinations, and people, the majority of whom are bilinguals.
But in order to really get the European lifestyle and all the quirks that come with it, you have to step outside the tourist comfort zone. Luckily, there’s a whole subreddit dedicated entirely to all things European, so we can get a better glimpse of the sung “old world.”
With a whopping 2.9M members, r/Europe has a collection of some of the most interesting things that happen here. Be sure to upvote your favorite posts!
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A Bridge For Wildlife To Cross The Road In Veluwe, The Netherlands
In Poland, We Are Slowly Getting Rid Of Advertisements And Billboards Madness
A very laudable decision. Cities shouldn't be looking like shopping malls. Getting rid of all those eyesores improves the quality of life. Well done, Poland!
Medieval House Built In 1509 In Argentan, Orne, France
It’s one thing to see the old European countries, their tiny streets and delicious movies on a TV screen, and another if you actually spend some more time there. It takes time to uncover any country, and we are speaking 50 (6+) crammed in one continent!
Today 20 Years Ago At The Strike Of Midnight, The Mayor Of Amsterdam Married 4 Gay Couples As The Netherlands Became The First Country In The World To Legalise Same-Sex Marriage
Congrats! I wonder how long some of those couples had been together before they were finally able to marry. Let the rights that have been granted, never be taken away.
Belarus People React To Lukashenko's Prohibition Of Pro-Democratic Flags
London, UK
One family of five who call themselves ‘wanderlusters' have been travelling the whole world as they are focused on adventure and travel to all of their bucket list destinations. “We are a family of five, Jolene (Mum), Andrzej (Dad), Katie-Lee, Lily Anabella and Avalee-Rose (our three daughters),” they told us. The family shares their journeys on their Wanderlust Storytellers blog that brings enthusiasm and excitement back to family-focused travel.
With so much hands-on experience and knowledge of various cultures, Bored Panda reached out to them to share their impressions of Europe and how it differs from all the other corners of the world they’ve visited. “Europe is a world in itself, full of culture, music and friendly people,” they said and added that “It is filled to the brim with history, delicious food, fascinating architecture and extraordinary sight-seeing.”
She (Sanna Marin) Is The New 34 Years Old Prime Minister Of Finland
Polish Women Fighting For Their Rights!
In Wroclaw, Poland Each Cathedral And Even The Rivers Have A Tactile Model Nearby For Blind People To See Them Too
Moreover, what’s unique about the old continent is that “Europe is a destination where one can travel through a number of countries in one day, speak and listen to all different languages, immerse in tons of attractions and get to experience the local way of life with ease.”
The Sentiment In Scotland Is One I Fully Agree With
Totally agree and I'm in the South of England. Never voted for the prat and didn't want Brexit.
Tesco In Slovakia Opened With Empty Shelves. They Wanted To Show Their Customers How It Would Look Like If All Bees And Butterflies Would Become Extinct
Trinity College In Dublin, Ireland
The Devil's Bridge (Rakotzbrücke) In Kromlau, Germany
Wanderluster dad Andrzej Ejmont said that what he loves about Europe the most “is the ability to take a number of amazing road trips, eat a vast variety of food, get to meet and become one of the locals, and that all of the European countries are within a skip and a hop.”
The True Heroes Of Greece At This Moment. Firefighters Sleep Exhausted After An Intense Night Fighting The Biggest Wildfire Of Attica In Decades
Huge hug to the true heroes... gosh, it must have been tremendously exhausting..
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Merkel Calling Out Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov For Wearing Mask Wrong
The Netherlands Looks Like An Old Master’s Painting This Weekend
If you’re thinking of traveling Europe, Andrzej recommends checking it out by car. “This way you are in charge of your itinerary and you can venture out to see the 'back streets' of each country and at your own pace,” he said. Moreover, “The beauty of Europe can be found in some of the most unexpected places. And then you can truly be amazed,” he concluded.
Vilnius Has Put Up A Statue That Offers A “Portal” To The Polish City Of Lublin, Allowing People To See Each Other In Real Time
Totally cool. If we had that in the U.S., I'd wager at least 1 out of every 10 lookers would be mooning or flipping off the other.
Blood Moon In This Morning. Finland
The Statue Of Jakub Wejher, The Founder Of A Polish Town Wejherowo, Looks Like Darth Vader When It's Snowing
Three decades after the fall of communism, the European Union, which stands at the heart of modern Europe, gets mostly favorable marks from the countries surveyed. Across the 14 EU member countries surveyed by Pew Research Center, a median of 67% hold favorable views of the European Union while 31% have an unfavorable view.
Traditional Gowns And Braids Of The Pomak Village Of Startsevo, Bulgaria
Us Embassy In Berlin Today
'bear And Raven' Is The Finnish Nature Picture Of The Year
In 2018, Annamaria Horvathova, A Roma Girl From Slovakia Won A Running Race Wearing Just Ballerinas On Her Feet. Last Week, She Became A 1500m Champion Of Slovakia In Her Age Group
Shame on anyone blaming her for being 16 and pregnant. I don't know what sex-ed is like in Slovakia or how expensive condoms are, but I'm betting a child who was winning races in ballet flats doesn't have obscene amounts of money or social privilege. Cut the teen some slack.
Meanwhile, many Central and Eastern European countries hold strongly positive views of the political union. 7 in 10 or more in Poland, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and nonmember Ukraine give the EU favorable marks, including at least 2 in 10 among these countries who say they have a very favorable view. Likewise, Sweden, Germany, Hungary, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy also hold a very positive outlook toward the EU.
Newly Discovered Just Outside Of Verona, What Could Be This Year's Biggest Discovery - An Almost Entirely Intact Roman Mosaic Villa Floor!
Neo-Gothic Apartment House In Budapest, Hungary. Built Around 1894
Christmas Market 2019, Dresden, Germany
Meanwhile In Germany
Some background: This is some spot where it is perfectly acceptable to bathe and sun naked. (People in western and northern Europe are not half as hang-up about nudity like the US.) The sow stole his laptop (in the yellow bag). After stepping in the box, the sow lost speed and dropped the bag reuniting the man with his laptop and providing mankind with some really hysterical pictures. Yes, the woman taking the pictures asked for the man's permission to post them on social media, good for her.
According to Pew Center, views of the economy play a large role in how people generally view the European Union. According to their study, those who think their country’s economic situation is good are more likely to have a favorable opinion of the EU in most countries surveyed.
“In Sweden, for example, 81% of those who think the Swedish economy is in good shape also have a positive view of the EU; just 42% of those who think the economy is functioning poorly share that sentiment,” the study stated.
Experiment In Estonia: Instead Of Getting A Speeding Ticket, Drivers Who Exceed The Limit Have To Stop And Wait For A 'Time Out' To Pass Before They Can Continue Their Journey
Oldest Door Still In Use In Rome, At The Pantheon. Cast In Bronze For Emperor Hadrian's Rebuilding, It Dates From About 115 Ad. Each Door Is Solid Bronze 2.3 M Wide & 7.5 M High, Yet So Well Balanced They Can Be Pushed Or Pulled Open Easily By One Person
European Parliament Has Voted In Favour Of A Universal Charger For Mobile Devices. 582 - 40
As there should be. There should also be a price cap on stuff like this.
Swedish Fans Excited About Today's Match
In Germany You Can Play Pong With The Person On The Other Side Of Traffic Lights
They should have these in Rome too! You wait forever for the green light and once it's green it's like 'YOU HAVE ONE AND A HALF SECOND TO CROSS GOOD LUCK'
The Netherlands - 1966
Sailors Saluting A War Veteran, Leningrad 1989
An Old Albanian Lady Dining With Her Dead Husband & Children Who Were Killed In 1999 During The War
A French Woman With Her Baguette And Six Bottles Of Wine, Paris, France, 1945
Heat Wave In Rovaniemi, Finland (66°30′n)
Even Rudolph and his buddies decided to go to the beach for the day!
Miniature Traffic Playground In Copenhagen Where Kids Learn To Bike In Traffic
A Banner At The Pro-Eu March In London Where One Million People Have Turned Out To Protest
Here In Italy Bars Are Starting To Use Pasta As Straws To Reduce Plastic Use. Our Technology Amazes The World Another Time
A 9-Year-Old Boy From Amsterdam During The Dutch Famine Better Known As "Winter Hunger" From 1944 To 45. Many Children Carried Spoons With Them Wherever They Went "Just In Case"
Also children from cities were relocated to farms which were less likely to get bombed. Many had nothing not even clothes so parents ashamed of that fact packed big winter jacket with them in summer just so it looks like they have something. True story from my Dutch side of family. They're still friends to this day and now lady comes at least once a year to visit 90 yo grandma who sheltered her in those years.
My granny went to such a farm too. She told me they were called Haagse bleekneusjes
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Audrey Hepburn was living in Arnhem during this time, and she had to go under the pseudonym Edda van Heemstra so as not to attract attention to her English name. She recalls having to make flour out of tulip bulbs.
It has been said that that experience contributed greatly to her inability to gain weight, her lack of stamina, thus ending her dreams of becoming a ballerina and her several miscarriages as well as her final cancer. F*%k the nazis.
Load More Replies... It's been more than a year since that child was getting adequate meals. I hope he survived to adulthood.
Looked at the original post, his name is HENKIE HOLVAST. He survived but two of his siblings did not.
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My dad's parents were both from the Netherlands, and they still had a lot of family back in the old country well into the 1960s. I found a stack of letters from my grandpa's cousins and aunts and uncles from the "Winter Hunger" period, and in each letter they always included a short list of the things they needed the most, if my grandparents could afford to send anything to them. Most of the time it was clothing, stockings, and other useful household items, but 1943-44 it was almost always a list full of food that could survive the trip.
Interesting studies on genetics show that babies were born underweight right through until the late 1970s as a result of the mass famine during the war
And there were other effects, like an increased tendency toward diabetes.
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The long-term genetic effects of the Hunger Winter were passed on not just to the survivors children, but even to their grandchildren. Increased mortality, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease just to name a few. There's new evidence that PTSD changes genetics, even in animals. It's fascinating and terrible all at the same time.
I am ashamed that I did not know about this until I saw this post. How was this not included in my history books when they talk about Market Garden?
Unfortunately there is a lot of history that is disturbing, not everything can be included.
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Poor baby.I hate having to see a child suffer so much, and just thinking about all those little babies starving like that just makes me so heartbroken.
Better known as "Hunger Winter". Fact checking, as usual, minimal or non-existent.
Eating is necessary for survival, so when it's out of balance, this trauma can create a lifetime of eating disorders.
no child should ever suffer like this. and today, we see children starving in Yemen and the world just watches.
My grandmother was forced to eat flower bulbs to have some kind of food, and when the war ended, she was sent to a resting place to gather strength. My grandpa was luckier, he was hidden away at a farm (because he didn't want to enlist and deserters were shot), the farms had food. The cities had barely anything.
Oh yes the bulbs. My granny freaked out when she saw or smelled flower bulbs for the rest of her life. I never really understood it as a kid but my parents told me. She herself couldn't...
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We were occupied by the Nazis, and they stole all our food to feed their troops
Let us not forget this was less than 100 years ago. We must act from repeating history.
I was not sure who had caused this, I know they had the Channel Island on starvation diets but not this, thank you for informing me.
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Did not know this of the Netherlands. I'll have to ask my Dutch relatives how our family survived. (Grandad emigrated to U.S. soon after WWI, and our branch of the family, in the U.S., never spoke about this period in our family's history.)
Omg !! This touched me deeply. This photo should be in everyone's kitchen so we all APPRECIATE our food before not being happy for what meal our family prepared.
My Oma had terrible anxiety which everyone attributed to the famine. She died before 60 from her second heart attack, also think she had undiagnosed type 2 diabetes. My Dutch side of the family does not waste anything, its ingrained in us.
That’s so heart breaking. Most of us just take food (among many other things) for granted.
My late Dad was in the Canadian Army during World War 2 and he told said it was the hardest thing to see. The Canadian Army did what they could to help the Dutch recover from this horrible event.
Spindles for legs.....heartbreaking. I would love to know if this child survived and what became of him.
And the dutch caused centuries of famine & forced labour on their dutch east indies colony
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/marshall-plan-1
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Climate Protest In Cologne. They're Standing On Ice Blocks
Moloch Of War (1966). Photo Of A Soviet War Veteran Near The Eternal Flame On The Anniversary Of Victory Day
Eating A Haring In The Hague, Netherlands
Swiss Fans Threw Shaqiri A Wheel Of Cheese After His Winning Goal
This Is Not The Queue For The Dover Ferry. This Is The Queue For The Queue For The Dover Ferry
After A Recent Bush Fire In Wicklow Ireland, A Sign Is Again Visible Which Was Created To Warn Wwii Bombers They Were Over Ireland And Not England
Most likely to discourage German bomber crews. It didn't protect them completely though as Dublin was bombed (accidentally). Downed aircrew (from both sides) were interned in a pretty agreeable fashion until the end of hostilities. Most (upon their personal assurance and personal guarantee that they wouldn't do a runner) were allowed out of camp - even down to the pub in the evening! How civilized!
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Two things: 1) Many of theses things are not "only in Europe". and 2) I really wish you'd stop copying the titles straight off when gathering your content - especially when they claim they refer to "today" or "last week" or even "recently", as the date they originally referred to can be years back by now. It seems so lazy. *grumbles*
. I've been to Europe, and honestly, yeah, some of it is amazing, but not like it's not amazing elsewhere in the world. Can we see South/Central America? Or Australia? Or, y'know, anywhere that isn't Europe or North America? Please, BP?
Oh cool, articles about interesting things in Europe but the only articles about the US are reasons why it sucks. No double standard here…
I am German. Whenever a post is sth. about modern germany, someone, often an american, writes a racist slur about germans. Every Nazi still alive is around 90 years old. We all live double standards. No pount in crying.
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There's a brilliant article in Denham and Trow's 'Weird War Two' where they discuss the official guidance of how not to offend British people when in the country. Very endearing and still hilarious - https://amzn.to/399OEDt
I don't think they do - not the ones with brains. All countries have faults. All countries have morons and smart people.
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Aren't you sensitive... and to think that the right calls the left "snowflakes"...
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Two things: 1) Many of theses things are not "only in Europe". and 2) I really wish you'd stop copying the titles straight off when gathering your content - especially when they claim they refer to "today" or "last week" or even "recently", as the date they originally referred to can be years back by now. It seems so lazy. *grumbles*
. I've been to Europe, and honestly, yeah, some of it is amazing, but not like it's not amazing elsewhere in the world. Can we see South/Central America? Or Australia? Or, y'know, anywhere that isn't Europe or North America? Please, BP?
Oh cool, articles about interesting things in Europe but the only articles about the US are reasons why it sucks. No double standard here…
I am German. Whenever a post is sth. about modern germany, someone, often an american, writes a racist slur about germans. Every Nazi still alive is around 90 years old. We all live double standards. No pount in crying.
Load More Replies... There's a brilliant article in Denham and Trow's 'Weird War Two' where they discuss the official guidance of how not to offend British people when in the country. Very endearing and still hilarious - https://amzn.to/399OEDt
I don't think they do - not the ones with brains. All countries have faults. All countries have morons and smart people.
Load More Replies... Aren't you sensitive... and to think that the right calls the left "snowflakes"...
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