Typical German
Is there a more typical photo of Germany than this one?
Garbage cans in the foreground, allotments in the background.
Waste separation is almost a national sport in my country (not the worst sport, I guess). Paper goes in the blue bin, vegetable waste in the brown bin, packaging waste in the yellow bin, and the rest in the black bin. Furthermore, there are a million allotment gardens in Germany. No country in Europe has more. We call them Schrebergarten after the Leipzig physician and professor Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber, who encouraged children to play outdoors. Allotment gardens sprang up in German cities during the Industrial Revolution to provide fresh air and food for the urban poor.
I guess we Germans like it fenced in and everything in its proper place.
Onwards,
The Strolling Economist
PS: I took this photo a while ago, on 13 September 2020, while hiking through the federal state of Brandenburg.