MDAO Forum
Support for People with Mood Disorders => General Discussion => Topic started by: Pleeb on June 18, 2022, 07:36:43 am
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I was going to go to Germany for the first times since I was 3!.....in the next few weeks.
I speak German (never spoke English to parents=they spoke lousy Englishl
I haven't spoken German in 20 years - no parents to speak with. I'm 75 (years young) I would explain this to people, which would open doors to further conversation with strangers. They may be surprised I speak (rusty) German after all these years.
I hope to stay in a hotel for a few days, if they'll have me....partly because I'll feel like "I'm bargng in on them", since we're barely in touch, except for the odd email.
Peter
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I changed my mind - instead of visiting cousin and then Hamburg, I'm going to Munich.
Cousin and Hamburg is too confusing.
Also, I chose Munich because it's kind of "exotic" - food, accent - probably hard to decipher!
Peter
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Didn't go to Munich...hard to explain why.
I went to St. John's, Nfld. Nice place, but small. Nice scenery around the city.
One negative thing - my hotel was far from downtown, where the action is.
Re thick, hard to understand accents - I only met one person like that, but a lot of people had trouble understanding meee!
Highlight of my trip: I was walking down the street, lugging heavy shopping bags. A middle aged woman (a stranger) pulled over ahead of me, offered me a ride to my hotel! How heart warming. That would NEVER happen in Toronto...not sure about the rest of Ontario.
Peter