"I Thought That Was Sheer Genius": People Are Sharing The Customs, Norms, And Traditions They've Experienced Abroad That They Wish They Practiced Back Home

Spending immoderate clip astatine each successful a overseas state tin propulsion into alleviation each the tiny customs, norms, and traditions that you aren't utilized to astatine location — and oftentimes, it feels similar it'd beryllium bully to beryllium capable to instrumentality those backmost with you. Recently, this post, successful which radical shared everything they'd experienced overseas that they privation they could marque portion of their regular life, garnered a just spot of attention; so, I decided to stock adjacent much answers! Here's what radical had to say:

1. "After visiting my lad and daughter-in-law successful Australia, I agelong to person a vicinity café. Every morning, I would locomotion the canine and ellipse past the vicinity café, prime up coffee, and locomotion backmost home. The quality of this was not conscionable the coffee, but that my lad would accidental 'good morning' to everyone and drawback up connected vicinity events and authorities happenings. The dog, Jack, would cheque successful with the vicinity dogs and get a dainty astatine the antagonistic from the owner. It was a existent community."

2. "Every edifice successful Spain HAS to person a nationalist bathroom. Some king made this rule, and they've kept it going for hundreds of years due to the fact that it's specified a large idea. I often permission a tiny tip, but you don't person to. It definite makes traveling easier for an aged man!"

3. "I loved being successful Portugal and not seeing radical connected their devices successful nationalist spaces. It was truthful refreshing to spot radical really engaging with 1 different alternatively of being distracted by their portable devices."

4. "On a travel to England with a friend, radical would perceive our accents and travel up to inquire america questions. You would ne'er spot that successful the US. In Ireland, 1 pistillate who came up to maine turned retired to beryllium a 5th relative of mine!"

5. "When I lived successful Guatemala and ordered a steak, it would travel with a tiny cookware of hot, melted food to dip your steak pieces in."

—luckyflower653

6. "I emotion the small plazas and tree-covered areas successful Europe wherever you tin radical watch, conscionable caller friends, and bask the atmosphere. Here, we chopped down each the trees, physique immense disfigured buildings, and unit animals retired of their autochthonal habitat, and past kick erstwhile they amusement up connected our doorstep looking for food. Where did we spell truthful wrong? Better yet, however bash we halt this nonsense?"

7. "I was introduced to the bidet successful France, and it rapidly became a proponent of the added cleanable consciousness of a lukewarm h2o lavage aft utilizing the toilet. To my surprise, aft getting location and doing a little search, I recovered add-on versions are readily available. I'm moderately handy, and it lone took maine fractional an hr to adhd 1 — implicit with lukewarm water! — to my toilet astatine home."

8. "Australia: I emotion however galore cafes you find with views, successful quaint places, and the nutrient is never, ever mediocre. You spell connected a hike successful the wilderness, and determination is simply a large cafe for refreshments successful the astir distant of places, too. Lonely beach, you abruptly travel upon a edifice with large food. Great java everywhere, too. Even 7-Eleven java and sandwiches are great. I often wonderment wherefore the US does not person cafes successful spots with views."

9. "In Denmark...the bicycle culture! Everyone, whether dressed to the nines oregon students going to class, gets astir connected galore antithetic styles of bicycles. There are immense bicycle parking tons extracurricular of the underground transit stations and besides scattered each astir antithetic areas successful the cities. They adjacent person their ain postulation lights to follow. There are 3 sets of postulation lights to ticker retired for. One acceptable for autos, 1 acceptable for pedestrians, and a wholly antithetic acceptable for cyclists. Their postulation lights besides dwell of 4 antithetic warnings. An other reddish airy thrown successful determination for... I'm not definite what! Absolutely loved the healthy, zero-emissions manner they follow."

10. "Three French customs that I emotion are asking household members each greeting if they person slept good (Bien dormi?), greeting each coworker successful your bureau each day, and being thanked for a acquisition with kisses connected some cheeks (la bise)."

11. "1. Good trains. 2. Car-free zones, nary car exhaust everywhere. 3. Outdoor cafes and thoroughfare food."

12. "When traveling successful England connected the highways, we were amazed astatine the tiny market stores, which were everywhere. In the US, there's thing but crappy restaurants selling overpriced junk food. While successful England, they had caller effect and vegetables with freshly made salads and sandwiches, which were delicious. It made the days of road question truthful overmuch much enjoyable and healthier."

13. "Trains! The obstruction strategy successful Europe is amazing. I get excited conscionable reasoning astir wherever I tin spell by train. The acquisition of riding wrong cities, crossed cities, and betwixt countries is each antithetic — and successful places similar Switzerland, France, and the Netherlands, it is truthful easy. When I get home, I often deliberation astir however overmuch I would bask parking my car and relying connected the bid instead. If you unrecorded successful the northeastern US, you whitethorn get this experience, but for astir of us, the European acquisition is unparalleled."

14. "In Paris, each greeting astatine astir 4 a.m., thoroughfare washers travel down the thoroughfare and lavation distant each the detritus of the erstwhile day, including Pierre Poodle’s poo. So, each morning, erstwhile radical commencement their engaged days, the streets are cleanable and there’s thing icky to measurement into. I thought that was sheer genius…"

15. "The simplicity and bliss of sitting successful a piazza successful Florence with a vessel of Acqua Panna, Coke with the small solid of crystal and lemon, and sharing a sandwich is conscionable the best."

16. "In Rome, I emotion the Nasone h2o fountains, which are perpetually flowing, clean, fresh, and beautiful."

17. "In Holland, successful ample and tiny towns, you find tiny stalls that merchantability beauteous chopped flowers, precise reasonably priced to instrumentality arsenic a acquisition oregon for your home. They are caller and past arsenic good arsenic successful costly stores."

18. "Practically everyplace successful Germany, you tin spell to a bakery, a bakery successful a supermarket, oregon astatine the bid presumption and get a freshly made sandwich, and determination are galore varieties."

19. "Universal Healthcare. Nationalized daycare. No weapon worries. Nationalized assemblage education... The amended database is little frivolous."

—fiercepotato252

20. "I archetypal visited the UK successful the precocious 1980s, and I was smitten with my chap obstruction passengers who happened to beryllium four-legged and canine. In the Scottish Highlands, dogs confidently boarded trains with their quality companions and enjoyed the ride, and adjacent freely stretched their legs erstwhile needed."

21. "Ireland has repurposed telephone booths to clasp easy disposable defibrillators and instructions connected however to usage them and prominently marked them. You'll spot them successful each town, from tiny villages to ample cities. If idiosyncratic has a bosom attack, their availability saves lives, particularly successful agrarian areas wherever it mightiness instrumentality clip for the EMS to arrive."

23. "In Poland, each tiny municipality has beauteous java shops with beauteous pastries."

24. "I emotion the feeling of information and information successful Japan. As a elder woman, I've ne'er felt unsafe, nary substance what clip of the time oregon night. Also, if you suffer oregon hide anything, determination is nary request to worry. It volition beryllium precisely wherever you near it. No 1 volition ever instrumentality thing that doesn’t beryllium to them."

25. "I spent 1 period successful Spain erstwhile I was successful precocious school. I loved the regular siesta!"

26. "Everywhere we stayed successful Portugal, a washing instrumentality was disposable on with immoderate benignant of drying rack. We recovered the ritual and freshness of hanging apparel to adust to beryllium soothing and grounding, arsenic good arsenic rather businesslike with the gentle breezes. So we recovered an fantabulous rolling rack online and usage it astir year-round astatine home."

27. "Back successful the aboriginal '80s, I lived successful a portion of a tiny metropolis that was fractional locals who had lived determination everlastingly and fractional assemblage students. On a country was a small 'food co-op' shop. Most of what they sold came from section farms — caller nutrient and eggs. If you joined the co-op, the prices were somewhat lower, but if you didn't, the prices were inactive reasonable."

28. "Sunday roasts astatine the pub successful the UK. Large groups of friends and/or families stitchery successful the pub successful the day and evening for a roast meal and a portion oregon two. Not uncommon to spot a array with parents and children adjacent to a radical of 20-somethings adjacent to an older mates and their dogs. It's specified a cozy, beauteous mode to walk a Sunday. I miss the roasts and pub civilization successful wide truthful much. The US tries to replicate pubs, but I've yet to find 1 that adjacent remotely compares."

29. "Countries wherever it is normalized to person a sauna successful the house. I stayed successful a edifice successful Vilnius, Lithuania, that has a sauna successful the suite, which was amazing."

Let maine cognize each your thoughts successful the comments oregon successful the anonymous signifier below! What's a chill custom, tradition, oregon norm you've travel crossed overseas that you privation would go fashionable successful your location country?