Coming back home after three weeks in Asia one realises how often people in Germany are unfriendly and square headed. Some of the first German words we heard were a rigid "Halt! Wohin?" (Stop! Where you´re going?) by a border official when we didn´t find the right way to the luggage pickup at Frankfurt airport, because the terminal is being renovated at the moment. The sad bloke in his uniform was standing with his arms stretched out wide as if he wanted to catch two convicted murderers. The way he shouted that phrase appeared as if he had served long years on duty along the iron curtain. We´re sure it would have been a polite "Sir, may I help you?" at Changi airport in Singapore.
Next was the conductor on the train to Cologne who spend ages looking thru our tickets and started complaining one was surely not valid because the wrong voucher had been ripped out on the outward train journey. Or did he really think we sold the voucher in Thailand for enormous sums of money? In a sudden act of mildness he finally ripped the other voucher out and stamped the ticket with deadly precision. He surely wasn´t enjoying his work on Saturday. So we only could ease his sorrow with a "Have a nice day".
So we can´t recommend Germany for your next holiday...