Quote Originally Posted by Swiss Peter View Post
This always amuses me. My sister has lived in Berlin since 1978 and now even carries German citizenship, but she would say the locals tend to be brusque, borderline rude. Fantastic city though, agreed.

As a German speaker I'm very comfortable in Germany, but favourite non-British places in Europe (as opposed to favourite countries which I know is the question - but much harder!) would be west coast of Ireland, north west coast of Portugal/Spain and
- my favourite place of all - Corsica.
Haha fair enough. The ones that I met in the local German bars were very welcoming.