I live and work in SW Florida, and many of your Countrymen come here to live part of the year, or even permanently. I work at a Marina, and we maintain lots of boats owned by Germans.

They are sometimes apologetic that their English is not so good, but I always tell them it is certainly better than my German.

Funny little story. Many of my male customers bring a sometimes younger looking lady with them, and usually she is attractive. One time I was having some fun with one such couple, and I said to the man "Some day I must visit Germany, because all the women I see are so pretty." He had to translate that to her, and they both laughed about it. But then he said to me " No, don't go to Germany looking for pretty ladies..........we leave the ugly ones at home and travel with the pretty ones." We got a good laugh out of that one.


Don