Dear Atlas is Atlas Obscura’s travel advice column, answering the questions you won’t find in traditional guidebooks. Have a question for our experts? Submit it here. * * * Dear Atlas, I love meeting locals when I’m traveling, but I’m never quite sure how to go about it when I’m in a completely new destination. Do you have any tips? We travelers all have the same fantasy. We arrive in a foreign city and head to a bar. Or maybe it’s a restaurant. Or a bookstore. It doesn’t matter where…
