They have taken the metro four times already, and every station boasts a different design, this metro system is almost as splendid as the suites of Sanssouci, the castle of Frederick the Great, at Potsdam. The tunnels lie hundred fathoms deep under the ground, and it takes several minutes to get from daylight via long escalators to the platforms; then there is pushing and jostling to get in and out, but once in the carriages, people are sitting and standing perfectly calmly in the crush, some of them reading books.
