A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Rotenburg, Germany by TravelPod blogger Kimandmartin. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com The Kindness of Strangers “And so we made our way back to Rotenburg to see Katrin. I was reminded during our day of travel of The Kindness of Strangers, a book of stories written on just what the title implies, many of them are travel stories. Martin and I had to take three trains to get to Rotenburg from Dresdan as Rotenburg is a small town off the beaten track in Germany. We made our first train transfer in Leipzig and waited for our train to arrive, but there was no train at the platform that had been indicated on our itinerary. The train was late? This just wasn’t possible in Germany where everything runs on time! So Martin went to the conductor of the train on the adjoining platform and asked him if that was the correct train. He asked him three times, saying “Sprecken ze Englisch?” and showing him his ticket, but the conductor kept saying “Nein, nein” and walked away. As the train pulled out of the station, a man and woman came running over to us and asked if they could help. When Martin showed them the ticket, they told us that, yes, that was the train we should have taken. They had witnessed the whole thing and were disgusted that the conductor wouldn’t help us. The man, a Lutheran pastor from a small town south of Leipzig, took Martin to the train information office, explained what had happened and arranged a