France, Germany, and Switzerland are amazing in the Spring!
If you’ve visited France, Germany, or Switzerland in the spring time, then you know how amazing it is. The lush green countryside is filled with bright flowering patches of rapeseed, or Raps in German:
Now, I don’t know the fine subtleties between rapeseed and canola, but I do know this is one amazing sight:
It’s more than a bit frustrating when you see a field like this, because you never really know how the plant will be used. Some of it is used for cooking oil, but at least in Europe, a huge fraction is used for biofuels.