Traveling Like a Local
On Sunday, I arrived in Germany with my family. This is my fourth trip to Germany, including a 3-month internship in 1991 (while I was still in college). I speak enough German to get by and am familiar with the culture and interactions. While I don’t turn down anyone who offers to speak to me in English, I generally try to blend in and act like a local. This is in complete contrast to our trip to Taiwan in 2015. There, I was stuck being a tourist -- I did not speak or read th