Maybe I've been spoiled by cosmopolitan people like Oliver, but I thought most young germans spoke english these days. Unfortunately this turns out not to be the case. When I tried to book tickets for Blue Man today I had to call the german ticket-hotline multiple times because of all sorts of problems.
None of the people I got on the phone spoke english. Well...there was one, but that was only after her colleague passed her the phone, asking her to deal with the strange english person. I guess she was the only one that could. Unfortunately I had to call again and finally completed the booking by stretching my german skills to the breaking-point. I *THINK* I now have tickets for Blue Man, but I'm not at all sure.
OK, I shouldn't be drawing conclusions based on this little debacle, but still:
Another illusion down the drain.
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