TERROR ON THE TRAINS- AGAIN

I've decided that it is just me- and trains- and trouble. It took 7 hours to get from Zermatt to Munich yesterday- plus three different trains. It started out fine- got out of Zermatt on the cog train- and then got to Zurich again without incident. We left Zurich on the SBB line which is the Swiss train- and I didn't know it was going to happen, but we ended up going back through Austria again for a short time enroute to Germany so that was an unexpected pleasure. But then, once we got into Germany- I realized that the conductors had shirts that read DB which meant Deutsch train lines.

Well at about the 5 hour mark all of a sudden the doors to our car burst open and in comes this camera crew with a gigantic tv camera, microphone boom and a guy doing interrogating followed by about 4 people in green uniforms, big guns and patches that read ZOLL!

They came in and zoomed right in on these people who were behind us- the people spoke English- and finally with a german accent the interrogator said, "Ve are filming a documentahry for Cherman television"- I tried to sneak a couple of shots when they weren't looking-

Well then the cops end up back right by our seats and start interrogating the guy who has been sitting across from us. He, interestingly enough, looks JUST like Tom Bosley who played the dad on Happy Days- so the whole thing is pretty surreal- he hauls out his ID and they keep asking him questions (in German of course). Finally they seemed to be accepting whatever he was telling them- and the guy with the cop with the gun sits right next to me, with the gun practically sticking into my stomach.

Now I've seen enough of those movies about WWII to know that this situation doesn't end up good-

and the conductors were all so nervous- there were FOUR of them gathered in our car- and you're lucky if you ever even see one on your whole trip. One of them was so animated talking with the police that he even opened up a package of cookies and gave them each to the cops. I SO WANTED one of those cookies- cause they were my favorite kind like Schoolboy cookies you can get in the US only the real German ones with the rich milk chocolate- but I had to tell myself, STAY OUT OF IT!