Navigating the path of love in a foreign country is undeniably tricky, so this Valentine's Day The Local's team of inter-cultural dating experts has come up with ten top tips to help in dating a German.
The date went well, and now you want to stalk them on Facebook. No chance; Germans take data protection and online privacy very seriously and if they haven't given themselves a fake name they may well have a completely private profile.
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