Love these new updates! I have to say, though, that I will always prefer WDW to DLP because of (among other facts) the better weather! To me, somehow, Disney is all about warm weather and the sun shining, so I really enjoyed DLP when we visited in summer, but somehow I can't really connect these (albeit so pretty!) winter-wonderland-in-snow pictures with a Disney park
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Talking about the lack of queueing (oh dear, did I spell that correctly?) abilities in mainland Europeans: You are so right, I am really embarrassed about it!
Germans can't do it any better than French, if not even worse. You would not believe what embarrassing scenes DH and I have witnessed in airports in the UK, when waiting to embark on Germany-bound flights and the announcement came "Please stay seated, the flight will be called in a few minutes". WHOOSH, the sound of a hundred Germans jumping up and absolutely rushing to the podium - with all the British looking on from their seats and silently shaking their heads.
Even though I pride myself on being a rather polite person who has learned good manners and uses them too, I must admit that it is really hard being any different if everyone around you does not queue - because if you are the only one who does, you will always come last
. So I'm probably no better, really!
However, I always enjoy being in the States or the UK where everyone is more polite and can queue, and then I also know how to behave (or so I hope!
).
That said, I do admit that the degree of politeness embedded in English language and culture sometimes comes across as "way too much" for a German. This is no doubt one of the reasons why we Germans often come across as impolite when speaking English - we just do not adorn our language with as many polite addons, and fillers, as is customary in English, even if we are intending to be perfectly polite.
So when we learn English at school, we are also taught that to speak good English, you have to insert a whole lot of "pleases", "thank yous" and "would you kindlys" that we wouldn't ever use to the same extent in speaking German.
I would not want to create the impression that we are all a bunch of impolite and inconsiderate folks - actually, many German men and even some young boys would never step ahead of a woman when boarding a bus, for example, but wait for her and indicate that she can go first -, but yeah, to cut a long story short:
We can't queue. At all. Sorry folks.
Never a chance of that in Florida!!!!
A girl can dream...
Thanks!
