Here are my silly observations on Germany, these are road based.

• Chevrons on steep corners are red and white. I suspect John may be a little red/green colour blind! Lots of steep corners have bushes behind the signs.
• Road signs on non-motorway roads are yellow – with my British background it feels like I’m permanently driving through road works
• Lots of places are 30K speed limit, which feels very slow
• The speed limit is “walking pace” through housing estates
• Many towns have a slower speed limit at night to reduce traffic noise
• Motorways sometimes have a higher speed limit at night
• Lots of motorways have speed limits but where they don’t you get an amazing draft from cars that go “tonning” by. (Bertie is over 3.5t and therefore always has a speed limit).
• There is no Google street view, I understand the privacy issues, but we use street view all the time to check the route that the tom tom has suggested, particularly if it takes us down country lanes.
• People stick up kinder (children) signs outside their houses, These are cutouts of a kid with a ball or similar and basically are to say slow down
• Drivers stop for you, at zebra crossing and when you are on a cycle track that crosses the road
• Cycle lanes are everywhere and these have right of ways at junctions