For major foreign vacation trips to areas where it's culturally /historically very different from your area, do you read abit about the area in advance?


Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. For instance, I've barely read much about Czech history..just tiny bits about Prague. I know more about Germany in general, but not much more and will be relying heavily on dearie's knowledge, since he has personal knowledge for certain parts of southern Germany, whatever I know about Germany post WW II, differences in baroque, renaissance influence there vs. in France, Italy in art, architecture and music.

And Danish history is even more remote to me. Actually all of the Scandinavian countries. Am reading bits about Copenhagen, etc.

There are certain parts of the world where I've had an interest to read over a very long time period because the areas are just interesting to me. Hawai'i is one area where I began reading bits about the history, culture...ie. 25 yrs. ago, but didn't go on lst trip until 8 yrs. ago.

I consider Hawai'i "foreign" enough because its cultural history and original people are significantly different from mainland US.