Up early and off to the Hauptobanoff for my first train ride. Now everyone gets around Berlin on the U or S which all connect to the Banhoffs. Everything is on the honor system. There are no attendants or turnstiles, you buy a ticket or pass and get on. This was the first time I cheated and just got on. I mean it was 8 am on Sunday morning. It was empty until the first stop, when 3 people in uniform got onto my car which only had one other luggage toting gal. They came up to me and asked for my ticket which I did't buy. I tried the "I am an American and don't understand you." It didn't work in Munich 42 years ago and it was working that morning. As I was surrounded on the moving train by all 3 Subway Cops, one of them asked if I was on the way to take a train. I was and when I showed them my train ticket, I was told that you can ride free to the train station if you have a ticket. Ah, I escaped the Germans again. On the EC 43 Berlin-Warsaw Express.
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Here in Paris you can take the risk but a 70 Euro on the spot fine if caught. You got lucky!! I've been stopped 3 times in Paris but have been legal.
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