Today was a somewhat special day for me. I got to make lots of new friends. And those new friends helped me make even more friends. What happened? First, there was Hardy and a couple of guys who are friends with my sister. And soon after we had been introduced to each other, and after Hardy realized that we were quite eloquent English speakers (well, for my Canadian friend who’s been traveling with me that shouldn’t surprise very much), he had an idea. A spontaneous, wonderful, brilliant idea: “Would you like to meet Grace?” Grace is from New Zealand, traveling the world, and after he met her last week, he had learned that while staying with friends in Germany, she had broken her arm the other day. Now Hardy wanted to visit her, to cheer her up a little, and since our English is quite proficient, he asked us if we would join. So, the five of us scrambled into a car to meet Grace, who didn’t really know anyone of us, but who in …