Your travelogue is as enjoyable a read as ever. I love the lithe humour and small detail at travelling with you via this futuristic medium. Also, I like how youu obviously experience the same thing as I do: utter helpful kindness from The Natives to more or less fluent and or well-informed strangers who visit or live in their country.
Have heard from too many how french people would be snotty and whatnot and have hardly experienced this here myself; au contraire. Sometimes I even wonder if it just might have anything to do with the attitude one brings along oneself as their guest? I cannot imagine a Berlin teenager greeting me with a friendly "Guten Tag, meine Dame" (Bonjour, Madame) at helping me along, though I hope it happens and it´s only me being prejudiced toward my left-behind Fazerland...
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Date: 2010-12-29 07:47 pm (UTC)Have heard from too many how french people would be snotty and whatnot and have hardly experienced this here myself; au contraire. Sometimes I even wonder if it just might have anything to do with the attitude one brings along oneself as their guest? I cannot imagine a Berlin teenager greeting me with a friendly "Guten Tag, meine Dame" (Bonjour, Madame) at helping me along, though I hope it happens and it´s only me being prejudiced toward my left-behind Fazerland...
So nice to see a seldom picture of you, too!