Pole recognised by the Polizei

We managed to survive the huge messe up on Friday evening when all the Hannover trams broke down by catching a bus where the driver kept making German jokes. One of his choice samples was: "This bus is going to Poland" and that made all of his German fellow travellers laugh. It was a peculiarly German joke. When the bus let us off, we got drenched, waiting for a German tram that did go to the Hannover Hauptbahnhof. But when we eventually arrived at Hannover HBf, we were early for our train. Only to meet an Australian who we had rescued because he was leaning on a door and an American guy from Warsaw who insisted that he had persuaded the State Police to ferry him in the back of one of his green wagons...We should have been so unlucky... ®