I (and book)
but they know already that they are sitting pretty funny? "Asked the guard as he checked tickets and reservations. of course, had the conductor right, but if you forced me to my ride in a loud windy grossarumabteil with plenty of leg room and view folding seats on two spending, while next to me, a Russian with long hair and leather jacket was sitting in a turquoise book sat, the Cyrillic title decipher I could not ? I am from Germany, I would have liked to say, as one looks rather out of his seats themselves. Yes, I would say only, but I have a reservation, I prefer not to just get back. The conductor shrugged his shoulders and closed the door of the compartment.
II (the salesman)
Warsaw shortly after passed the catering venture. the man opposite me was trying with a mix of German and English to a coffee . Bestellen I translated "coffee", "small" and "gross", "EUR" and "one fifty" into Polish and back. do they maybe a coffee? asked the man. I politely declined and took my hand back to the newspaper. Do you live a long time in Germany, shortly after the man asked, resting my hopes on not fulfilled, but once again the expectation that men, preferably sooner than later, and always completely unsolicited by you to change it. but as always I found a simple "yes" not one. I live a long time in Poland, so I said. you see not look like a Polish woman said the man. I have seen on the same face. He spoke with an accent any Arabic, but I did not tell him, he do not look like a German. what are you doing? asked the man. I study history, I said so. business? asked the man. history, I repeated. and? interesting? asked the man. I just nodded. I have never managed to learn this language, the man spoke again. I always need an interpreter. I do business, you know, in Poland. I have three days and three nights not sleeping. said the interpreter, perhaps you can, working three days without sleep, but I can not. I hoped very much, he would not ask me whether I could interpret. Do you know what the difference between diamonds and is brilliant? he asked instead. some are crude, the other ground, I said. I would rather not know what were the for business.
viva germania! cried the man as the train station in frankfurt or imports. alleluia!, I thought, as he got off at Ostbahnhof.
III (the provincial)
was rarely the train so empty. there were only two, as it was finally obvious about remarque and franzen start a conversation, so that at the end of the trip was not one of the two novels are read. in between turned out that begins at the Ruhr eat, but that parts of the city already belongs to the Rhineland and there is a very nice cultural program, which manifests itself, inter alia in the fact that Cologne is just around the corner. It almost sounded as if West Germany sometimes quite bearable and even comfortable, just why did it anyway at some point all to berlin, I still do not understand.
in Frankfurt and joined an older man, he was expected, mustache, and schiebermuetze jacket and tucked next to an aldi bag a briefcase on the format of a frightening rate gepaeckanlage. in the Aldi bag a family pack was housed ariel color, the briefcase took the man ham a family pack, but neither one bottle of two oettinger even the cheap wine brand with the so removed names to the french reminding that it is only the house brand of a Lower level could act discounters. limit after which he pulled the phone from his pocket and said, in a rarely heard, oddly elongated into dialect, his was opposite but apparently not very talkative, so put the man the phone back in the bag, ate carefully, a disk-ham after another from the family pack, which apparently travel provisions and constituted dinner in a , and flipped in a angelentlich lidl leaflet, he had also taken his briefcase and apparently also came from Germany. now and then went out by the gang on a very blonde woman who stiefelabsaetzen her a bit advanced age, with height, short skirts and low-laminated board. the gaze of the man followed her from always the first to the last moment and hung Connect a little lost in thought as in the air before it to be cooked ham and lidl Prospectus returned.
took three hours drive to the man once again the phone from the pocket, but be invisible to was not in the meantime become talkative. "I'm sorry if I disturb you, but here in the departments are only German, I can talk to anybody," he said into the phone. in Kutno he got out, not without the briefcase before but still one of the two oettinger bottles just in Kutno, this so-proverbial ideal image of the Polish province, and we were more than surprised to see are also those blonde woman in Kutno station platform on the that the look of our traveling drawn so constantly to be had. this gave Inter the occasion did speculate - but how justified was the assumption that Kutno drive train station berlin nutten would provide training, while the Kutno husbands against their home-clad women with puffbesuche waschmittelhamsterkaeufen in Germany. darling, that's ariel all ... - The province seems an eternal riddle.
IV (return)
the man who came compartment in my, was not very young, as they say, he was overweight, he was wearing tshirt a gray, gray socks jogging pants, gray, almost gray hair, perhaps, thought he saw only because of the clothing from the vagueness of form and colorless. he smelled a bit like a guinea pig, whose cage a few days late been cleaned. with the German conductor, he said, a very ordinary English, from the wars-lady he wanted to know the currency in which one could pay in-vehicle-restaurant - zloty and euro, was the answer, but he had only dollar. anyway, he found the prices overpriced cutthroat, he spent the whole trip in the compartment. as the train pulled away, he asked me, as the stations were called in berlin, how often and how long the train stopped on the road would be whether border controls, whether we need poland now only an identity card, yes, and like the earlier but have been to the border control was ... He gave me no time to nod, he asked: how came from Warsaw to Kielce, whom one had to ask because if I have lived in Germany lived if I studied there, how to cope in warsaw way would and whether more labor to perform them - but of course, it was like anywhere else, either they found work or not, because everyone was to blame - and whether in Warsaw so many cars and would be so much congestion. - He just came back from Canada, he says, and who knows, I thought, how many years he spent there, he was actually a bit like from another star. Europe it must have been very strange. Finally, he lay down to sleep after 24 hours of travel. whether he snores, he asked me in between, which he was sorry. I smiled kindly and listened to the rest of the trip music.
V (the foreigners)
both spoke English with accent, but each with its own, even though it means always the case in Spain, it would easy to learn the Polish language, the pronunciation would be actually very similar. It looked like a summer love, which inevitably, however, confident that provides bewaehrungsprobe of the first round, she came after four months back, he drove the first time in history that land in this, and you could only find that they are no better season as the search could've november, who was known for a half in suspended gray sky, rain and snow. but the train was heated and lit and downright homey, and the dining car finally dispelled all doubt: "a lot of vodka, a lot of beer - I'm going to like this country, "sagt der Spanier ueberzeugend, und seine Freundin laechelte Dazu, und dann aus stiegen August.
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