Bruno,
LOL. At least we're able to express ourselves in multiple languages ;-) Yes it is absolutely amazing that ticket conductors on those trains can converse with passengers in French, German, English without batting an eyelid. Elsewhere they'd be made Professor of Languages at their local college. ;-)
As for the trains- I actually enjoyed it all. A community that runs trains like clockwork has one fewer problem to worry about. The train WILL come and you WILL be on time.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
