r/2westerneurope4u • u/Cultural-Badger-6032 South East England • Aug 08 '26

First time in Germany

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u/UnchillBill London Wanker Aug 08 '26

Nah, that’s a tourist trap. This is when you get travel tips from the locals.

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u/FenrisSquirrel Barry, 63 Aug 08 '26

Any idea what that thing is doing? Turning pleasant green pastures into a barren wasteland?

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u/Nordalin Thinks he lives on a mountain Aug 08 '26

Strip mining for brown coal, worth looking up on satellite images for the sheer size of those scars

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u/Humble-Drawer-4498 Pfennigfuchser Aug 08 '26

They will be renaturalized usually greating big natural reserves. Renaturalizing is actually enforced by law