Dirty Dozens. A Best and Worst

Best Things

1. A shot of water served with coffee in Prague.
2. Beer! It's cheap, good, and you can take away bottled beers from clubs or pubs. The practice of charging you €1 deposit for your first drink to make sure you bring back the empty bottle is pretty good too as there aren't any empties that the bar staff have to collect during the night.
3. Public transport actually works. Integrated tickets and trains every 3 to 5 minutes going where you actually want to go.
4. Countdown on red lights in Thailand. No more getting annoyed at waiting for the lights to change.
5. Good cafes, pubs and clubs. Berlin had so many nice, friendly places to go it was amazing.
6. Crazy language differences. Prague doesn't have 24 hour shops or venues, it's always "Non Stop", such as "Non Stop Casino!"
7. The exchange rate. Prague was so cheap and had some of the best food on our trip so far. The menu is best described as "hearty", with such rich food and so many dishes served with dumplings.
8. Coffee. I thought it was impossible to have good coffee at an airport, it's like some sort of UN agreement. Finland and Berlin proved us wrong.
9. Most people speak English. It was funny trying to order things until a certain point when bar staff deviate from the little we know. We then have to break down and resort to "Bitte in Englisch?" or "en anglais s'il vous plaît?"
10. Free food. Seriously, if you're in Dresden stay at Lolli's Homestay. Free (vegetarian) dinners on Mondays and Thursdays and walks into the National Park are awesome. Even if they do cripple you.
11. Everything is so close. The trains make it easy as well, no checking in and you can get up and walk around the train during the train. No checking of passports, no getting crap confiscated out of your carry on, and they all run on time.
12. Bar tabs. Almost everywhere will start you a tab without even asking or having to put down a credit card.

Worst Things

1. Open-air urinals in Amsterdam on the street.
2. Working out new public transport systems. Do I have to validate my ticket before I go somewhere? What ticket do I even buy? WHERE AM I? Just as we start to get good at it we leave and go somewhere else.
3. Pay toilets. What the fuck Europe? I have to pay to go to the toilet?!
4. Almost dying when crossing the road. We keep looking right instead of left and having to jump out of the way of suicidal bike riders.
5. Shared dorm rooms in hostels. Only really a problem with shady characters and shitty hostels.
6. Being lazy makes you feel bad. We felt like we were wasting so many days in Dresden when we had the flu.
7. The exchange rate. I'm paying how much for breakfast?
8. Coffee. Seriously Amsterdam, with that many "coffee" shops you'd think they'd have worked out how to actually make a coffee. Thailand's coffee is best described as "hot mud", with Brussels not far behind.
9. Stairs in Amsterdam. It's not the middle ages any more Amsterdam, time to put in a lift and maybe think about replacing that ladder that you seem to think is the staircase up to our room.
10. Coinage. The damn Euro coins are in sensible sizes, which plays havoc when you come from a ridiculous system like Australia's where the $2 is smaller than the $1. We also keep trying to give people 20c instead of a €2 as they are almost exactly the same size and colour of our $2 coin.
11. Interchangable commas and decimal points. It's easy to get confused, we would would write $12.31 whereas most prices are written €12,31.
12. Cobbled streets. While initially they look nice they hurt your feet, and when you're looking at the pretty architecture and scenery it's quite easy to sprain something with the uneven pavement.