For me, sparkling water is, and always will be, very fancy. It's the thing you order at a restaurant to impress rather than your normal request of 'just tap water, please'. Imagine my surprise then at finding my world views turned upside down upon arriving in Germany.
Coffee, coffee, coffeeeeee
I like coffee. No scratch that, I love coffee. No, scratch that, I LOVE good coffee. In Berlin the coffee is occasionally hit and miss. My heart sinks when my coffee comes out with that tell-tale over bubbly topping which suggests the foam came out of a machine. The benefit is that you do always seem to get a biscuit on the side with these coffees though. So, y'know, plus sides.