Home decorator Lara Winter is one of Ideal Home's Open House contributors, sharing her thoughts on revamping a 200 year old cottage to make it right for modern family life. See the rest of her articles here.
There are, of course, the obvious differences. The British ability to apologise when someone else steps on them. The fact that dishes here seem to get washed in approximately one teaspoon of bubbles before being left to “air dry” in full soap glory. And British men removing their shirts in public the second temperatures hit double digits and the sun appears for roughly four minutes. A level of optimism Germans simply cannot compete with.
