GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
While I was in Italy, I found that in the larger cities, they tended to be a bit irritated at my speaking English, but in a few of the more offbeat places, I was very popular with the locals while we struggled between Italian and English (though I did use some of my spanish which did help immensely) they were absolute, genuinely good people. Same could be said for Greece, Slovenia, Croatia and of course, Bulgaria (I will say that while in Serbia, I wasn't very popular with those who knew I was an American and I wasn't advertising the fact, either)
In all honesty, there's not much difference between the people in any of those countries or others. They are all full of people who have to pay bills, stand in line at the post office, worry about getting the kids to school on time, making a doctor's appointment, irritated at the rising cost of gasoline, getting to the bank just in time to see the clerk put up the closed sign and a million other daily, everyday things...
In all honesty, there's not much difference between the people in any of those countries or others. They are all full of people who have to pay bills, stand in line at the post office, worry about getting the kids to school on time, making a doctor's appointment, irritated at the rising cost of gasoline, getting to the bank just in time to see the clerk put up the closed sign and a million other daily, everyday things...