bVacation/b Time. 4 weeks paid bvacation/b are guaranteed by law. And, as generous as this sounds to Americans, it's actually standard in many countries. Germans are shocked when they hear that many Americans have no paid bvacations/b at all and are even required to work on public holidays! ... The countryside starts at the end of the city, town, or village-- densely populated residential street here, brye field/b/forest/meadow there, with no transitional McMansions between them. ...