Serkan: Yes, hello again from Seyehat Hikayeleri. Bahar: Hello,today is a cold but sunny Hamburg day. It's not cloudy day.

Serkan: It's not cloudy but it is not as warm as it seems. We shiver with cold.

Bahar: The weather is 1 degree now. Actually we shiver when we are stand. We are going to start a long walk soon. I hope we will warm up at that time.

Bahar: Where are we now? Serkan: We are around of Alster Lakes. This is in the center of hamburg. This is an important lake that divides the north of the city into two.

Serkan: It consist of two part. One of them is small area. We are on the small area right now. Actually, this is the more central part. This part is reach out to north a bit.

Serkan: It will be a long tour that covers the entire area. Bahar: Yes.Today, we will walk around here. While doing this, We will talk about the prohibitions we have encountered so far on Germany.

Serkan: Thus, we will make this video entertainingly and you will be aware of these prohibitions.

Bahar: Prohibition is identify with Germany if we look from the viewpoint of normativeness.It does not restrict freedoms but, very interesting, there are prohibitions that affect daily life.We will mention that.

Bahar: Actually, during this alster tour, we will have the opportunity to show you very beautiful places of Hamburg because we will see beautiful buildings around this route when we reach the big part such as old buildings.

Bahar: For example, there is a very beautiful mosque belonging to Iranians. Serkan: There is beautiful mosque. Bahar: If garden of the mosque is open to visitors, we'll show it and also we will cross over many beautiful bridges.

Bahar: And we will witness the scenes. I think this will be a contentful video.

Serkan: Absolutely I agree. We will do this tour for the first time. The parts he mentions are places we visited as Bahar said but we will complete it all for the first time.

Serkan: People are running or walking there. I did halfway through. We will tour together for the first time.

Bahar: People say the whole takes about two hours, but we will take videos and photos, it will probably take about 4 hours. Serkan: Yes, will probably take 4 hours.

Bahar: Yes it is 12 o'clock now, let's see what time it will end. Let's start right away, let's not waste time, the sun is ending quickly.

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Serkan: This place is very crowded, it seems everyone has thrown out like us.

Bahar: It seems everyone has thrown out like us. Serkan:Yes, in this cold, actually, I did not think it would be crowded that much.

Serkan: We came to some of them but we haven't visited all of them but we've never seen it get this crowded. Bahar: Yes, people have thrown out because of fear of coming restrictions.

Bahar: And there is also this in Germany, in fact, if the weather is not rainy, people comes out in one way or another. People go crazy when they see the sun, like us. You already know that.

Serkan: The cold can not prevent people to going out. We just beat this. It would be arty if we said we were like this from the beginning. Bahar: No,never. Serkan: We live and learn.

Bahar: We learn the hard way. I notice that this is actually our 4th or 5th winter here.I realized that my complaints decreased over years.

Bahar: I was born and raised in Istanbul and I am not used to such cold weather. I will not leave my house in Istanbul in such a weather for all the world.

Serkan: Sit under the blanket and watch a movie. Bahar: Yes I agree, but it is not here. If the weather is sunny, one degree now for example, whoever does not thrown out they feel regretful.

Serkan: There is also something like this, the weather is very cold, but the best weather for the last month.

Serkan: If we do not throw yourself out, we will already at home on other days and we cannot go out because of work on weekdays.

Bahar: We are already in the middle of January and it was only 2 days Sunny. Serkan:We were at home for 28 days.

Bahar:By the way, are those houses view on camera? I wondered. Serkan: Let's show it right away. We also have such a service.

Serkan:These houses show the high quality of life here. Bahar:Our followers ask us, we will move to the hamburg, what part of hamburg should we live.

This may be another video topic, we will explain it in detail, but let me give you a brief hint: The places that are two km away from the alster,

Bahar: maybe 3 km are the places where the quality of life is really high and the beautiful neighborhoods.There are many modern houses and also historical and beautiful houses.

Bahar: Also,you can easily reach the edge of the lake and you can do sports and cycling. Alster is a good place for those who want to live in hamburg.

Serkan: There are still nice places as you go out of 3km. Bahar: Definitely. Serkan: but I heard that the south side have lower possibilities than this area, but I haven't seen it yet.

Serkan: I can not tell for sure but you can take the alster as a reference point.

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Bahar:This is the word that we do not know Turkish but we know German. I guess the meaning is canoe. there are clubs for training, and also restaurants here.

Bahar:You can eat dinner here and spend time watching the view. Let's show that if you want to do or learn activities like this, you can register here. Now let's talk about the prohibitions in Germany.

Bahar: Let me start with the first one. Here we noticed that while people are arguing with each other, they argue politely without insulting in public.

Bahar: This was interesting to us. When you are angry, you use bad language to someone or walk on it, but there was a reason why they didn't do it, we learned that later because we wondered .

Bahar: here you are punished for your insult. There is a penalty difference between calling someone stupid and swearing at them .

Bahar: It is interesting to us.So if you can prove that someone has insulted you, with a witness or view, that person can really take huge punishments. Even if you make a lot of money, your penalty gets bigger.

Bahar: It was interesting to us. We have witnessed this in our daily lives. You must learn to argue without insulting.

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Bahar: Now we have decided to buy a coffee. We always wear a mask while waiting in line, even in open air. This is important. They tightened the rules.

Bahar: We do not take the coffee cups we showed in the previous video with us because they do not want to touch anything from outside. Normally, they do not have promlem with this but these days they don't want to do this. Now I have a beautiful view behind me.

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Serkan: We take our coffees, I want to continue where we left. These 3 euro coffees are protect us in these cold weather a little bit.We will chill in 10 minute again.

Serkan: By the way, I would like to talk about a restriction in Germany referring to the scenery behind me. You cannot go fishing here freely. More precisely, you cannot go hunting. People are fishing in Istanbul.

Serkan: In Eminonu ,there are a lot of people who take their fishing rod and catch fish. They hang out there for hours. If you don’t have a certificate, you cannot do this here.

Serkan: you will be punished.Germans have no tolerance on this. I want you to know that, and not related to fishing, you can't see electric skateboards.(some describings)

Serkan: If you use it at a speed of more than 6 km per hour, there is a penalty. it is not possible to see them in Germany because it is not safe. the place we came from was crowded, but this place is more crowded.

Serkan: we thought it was getting less and less. There are also those who make music here. Let's leave you with some music. I hope we do not violate copyright

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Bahar: Now we are walking and stop again and again because the surroundings of Alster and the views that offers are so beautiful.

Bahar: Every time we are like” this point is very nice, let's stop here and take a picture, this point is very nice too so let's stop here and take a sip of our coffees”

Bahar: that's why we move very slowly. If you notice that the sun is going down. The mosque that we mention at the beginning of the video now appears on the opposite shore.

Bahar: We'll show it closer in a moment, but of course, let's continue with the topic of the video while talking about what we have seen and what we have visited.

Bahar: We really like to share surprising things that what we face in daily life. We have been living in Germany for three years and we haven't seen anyone washing their car or carpet on the street or on their balcony.

Bahar: Why we haven't seen this? Because it's forbidden.

Bahar: Why? Because if you do this, those foamy water flows and then leak into the soil and sewers . Thus, it pollutes the water or kills the creatures there.

Bahar: It kills the insect and the ants that live there. They put such a ban to prevent them. I call myself a environmentalist so I totally agree with this.

Serkan: On the way we saw a place selling fries. We got hungry and lined up like everyone else. some of them are waiting. We will also order and wait for it to be ready.

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Bahar: The smell of fries make us feel hungry. Serkan: Yes, I hope it prepared quickly so that we can take and eat.

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Serkan: We're in one of our favorite places in this area right now. I really like here, furthermore, I shared a photo from here on instagram a few months ago.

Serkan: It was right here, I'll add it somewhere if I find it. Now I want to continue talking about prohibitions. Our topic is actually interesting restrictions in germany.

Serkan: I want to talk about the Sunday restrictions. If you live in an apartment in Germany you should not make any noise at all.

Serkan: You can neither pound nail on a wall nor use a vacuum cleaner. You shouldn't do any of these. You shouldn't make any noise like this. If you do, you can be punished.

Serkan: When a neighbor complain you to the police, you will be punished directly. I talked about these restrictions on my own channel.

Serkan: Some followers living in Germany wrote comments saying "irrelevant. They are not forbidden. You are wrong.". They said we always do these things.

Serkan: That's right, you can, but you should to thank your neighbors. Under normal circumstances, I think if you get a complaint, you can't. Also, you pay a penalty.

Serkan: So everyone who wants to come to Germany should know these. You should not do these activities on Sunday at home. Of course, there are things you should be aware of outside the house.

Serkan: You should pay attention not only to home activities but also to these. For example, you can't mow grass or take glass vials and convert. All of these are making noise.

So if you do these, you will probably get punished.

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Bahar: I guess we have finished fifty percent of the tour because we made a u turn, isn’t it?

Serkan: Yes,we completed the circle. sorry, we completed half of the circle.

Bahar: There are beautiful houses next to us that you see in the back, and on the other side there is the lake. We actually walked slowly because we stopped constantly but we cover a lot of ground.

Bahar: We liked it because we haven't seen the lake view for a long time. We walked by taking video and the crowd slowed us down but it was nice.

Serkan:Yeah, definitely. So what bans are we going to talk about now? Bahar:Prohibitions have no end in Germany. Serkan:Yes, it has no end. Which one should I tell?

Bahar: I will say something. I heard from someone. I guess a Turkish brother told us. I was surprised.

Bahar: There is a great punishment to cut a tree in your own garden without asking the authorities. The penalty increases depending on the type.

Bahar: We heard a story like this. Let people pass. A Turk brother decided to cut his sycamore tree in his garden to open the well, I guess, and he cut it.

Bahar:Do you what happened after that? Did you remember the amount of penalty? Serkan: I'm trying to remember it. I know it's a big punishment. 20.000 euro maybe. Bahar: 36000 euro!

Serkan:36.000? Bahar: He was punished for cutting the tree in his garden. You cannot cut a tree without permission.

Bahar:There must be a reason, if you are going to cut it, and you have to report it.

Bahar: I think they probably cuts on their own because it is safer.If they will make you do it, they will let you.

Serkan: As far as I can, they try to transfer it to another area, if possible. It is not cut directly. There must be a serious reason. Bahar: There must be a reason.

Bahar: Definitely. Serkan: Well, there is another thing actually. Bulbs. Bahar: Ah, yellow bulbs.

Serkan: I need to mention that. For example bulbs that non-energy saving yellow light bulbs we use in our Turkey. There are energy saving bulbs and non-energy saving bulbs. Yellow one. I don't like them. I don't like poor quality bulbs. Bahar: Yes. Cheapest one.

Serkan: Using non-energy saving bulbs is forbidden. Bahar:I think it was banned recently. Serkan: I don't know when it was banned, but you can only use the energy-saving bulbs. You also need to know it.

Bahar:It is not selling in the markets anyway. Serkan: If you will be brought from Turkey, you cant use it. Bahar: Will they bring a light bulb?

Serkan:Maybe. If you brought all the furnitures, I am telling you for your information.

Bahar: Is there someone here that the turkey bulbs? I am very curious. Serkan: It's worth 2 Euros here but 2 Liras in Turkey. Maybe they calculate it, I don't know.
Bahar: You may be right, it's true.

Bahar: Or they don't want to throw it away because it is still working. Serkan: Yes.

Bahar: This interesting ban came to my mind.Uh! Cutie! I also thought of a dance restriction. Serkan:Dance ban. Noone dance in Germany. They beat you , if you dance. just kidding.

Bahar: Dancing is a loud thing. There is a gutfriday on Easter. I don't know what does it mean in Turkish and I don't know exact date but it is in mid-April. Dancing is forbidden during this day. There are special days like this.

Bahar: The number of these special days is about 15 days per year. You are forbidden to dance. It makes no sense. What would happen if you dance? What would happen if someone saw? Serkan: On the street, Especially in your home, nobody can see you.

Serkan: If you dance the halay or if you dance Center of Anatolia Halay or East Anatolia Halay , you may have trouble. Bahar: This restriction is made for religious reasons. This is forbidden to respect holy day. Interesting. Serkan: We want you to know.

Serkan:Now we're on our way and there are a lot of canals and bridges and next Our ban will be all about bridges. I wanted to tell you here. On April 23 and May 19, students and soldiers march in Turkey. It is strictly forbidden to cross bridges that way. You may ask why.

Serkan: In 1831 ,In the United Kingdom, 74 soldiers broke down the bridge because they crossed this way. There were also deads and injured people. Due to this tragic accident in 1831, this is prohibited in Germany.

Serkan: If it happened there it can happened here. Thus they forbid this so people cannot pass the bridge crowdedly. It is still in the wild and laws change in Germany rarely. New law is not made for no reason in 3-5 years.

Serkan: I wanted you to know that too just in case you walk in public crowdedly. Probably it won't happen but there is a law that restrict you to do this.

Serkan: There is interesting and meaningless law here.

Bahar: We've been talking about the mosque from the beginning of the video. We finally got there. It behind us. This place is called the center of Islam.

Bahar: It is both a mosque and A place that gives information about the religion of Islam and make activities. Mosque fountain now closed but I think this garden would be very beautiful in summer.

Bahar: Its architecture is very different. The mosque belongs to Iranians so it is full of tiled. It looks different. This region one of the richest areas on Hamburg . This mosque is at a great spot among the villas against the view of the lake. I liked it very much.

Bahar: Now we say it is forbidden but how do you know when something is forbidden? As you can see here on the signboard, if the word terborten passes on a signboard, it means there is a ban. If you don't speak German, definitely try to translate the sign you read. here it says no entry. Why?

Bahar: Because the ground can be slippery in winter. If you have an accident, your insurance will not be covered and you will cover yourself. Is there anybody entering? Yes, but these people are responsible for all . Hence, we do not forget the ferbotten word .

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Bahar: The view is beautiful. They set up swings but there are trees blocking the view. Let's cut the trees. Is it okay Serkan? Serkan: There are trees and bushes here. 36.000 euros for each. OKAY. Bahar: Forbidden!

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Serkan: Yes, all rivers fall into the sea. Bahar:Yes,the point we started is there. Serkan: Yes, we came back. We started the video right from behind. We finished the tour and we came here.

Bahar: Yes, it's got dark. It really took 4 hours as we guessed. Like i said, It took 4 hours to get here because we came here by stalling and taking photos and videos. Normally, it takes 2 or 2.5 hours i think.

Bahar: I think it was nice. My phone is surprised now because normally , we sit or we just take small walks. Today, we took 13000 steps. Serkan: The phone thinks "What is happening? There is an abnormality.”."I wonder if I was stolen?" Bahar:It was a very pleasant walk for us.

Bahar: Especially nowadays that we were staying at home, we threw out ourselves and tour around a great lake. I enjoyed it very much. Serkan: I enjoyed too. I was cold but worth it. No problem. I love such things. It is necessary to force the body from time to time. Bahar: Exactly!

Bahar:Thanks for watching us here and for accompanying us. I wonder which of the prohibitions we told you surprised you or was there anyone you didn't know or is there a ban that we haven't told? Please comment us as always. Serkan: We are waiting. All the time. So, let's do our classical farewell.

Serkan: Don't forget to subscribe if you are not subscribed and don't forget to press the bell button. You will see our videos every week. See you in the next video. Bahar: Goodbye.

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