All aboard: Going round Germany by train

Graceful: Regional train crossing the Schluchsee near the Black Forest. - Photo from Tourismus-Marketing GmbH Baden-Wurttemberg/MCT

Taking the DeutscheBahn in Germany is a piece of cake.

WITH my passport safely stuffed into a zipper pocket and the plane descending for an on-time arrival, there was nothing to be wound up about. But I couldn’t help checking my watch as I climbed into a taxi headed for Berlin’s train station, the Hauptbahnhof, literally “main railroad yard”.