I was on a train in Switzerland. The train came to a stop, and the conductor‘s voice came over the loudspeaker and delivered a message in German, then Italian, then French. I had made the mistake of not learning any of those languages before my vacation. Everyone started getting off the train, and an old woman saw I was confused and stressed (I had to catch an overnight train to Rome, and I was flying home from there).

She spoke some English, and she told me that an accident had happened on the tracks. She asked me where I was trying to get to, then went and talked to some workers, and came back to tell me that we‘d have to hop trains 3 or 4 times to get there.

I was really glad she was headed the same way, because it would have been hopeless for me to figure it out on my own. So we went from one train station to the next, getting to know each other along the way. She was really the sweetest woman.

It was a 2.5 hour journey in total, and when we finally made it to the destination, we got off and said our goodbyes. I had made it just in time to catch my train to Rome, and she told me she had a train to catch, too. I asked her how much farther she had to go, and it turns out her home was 2 hours back the other way. She had jumped from train to train and traveled the whole way just to make sure I made it. I was in shock but I managed to blurt out, pticalathely, “you are the nicest person I‘ve ever met“. She smiled gently and hugged me and told me I‘d better hurry off so I make it home. She seemed unreal. I was really convinced I was saying goodbye to an angel.

I‘m not a very emotional dude, but I cried my face off that night (dammit, I‘m doing it now, too). A woman spent her entire day sitting on trains taking her hours away from her home just to help out a confused tourist visiting her country. No matter how many countries I visit or sites I see, I‘ll always say the most beautiful country in the world is Switzerland.

那时我正在瑞士的一辆火车上。火车缓缓驶入一个站台，列车长的声音从扩音器里传来，他先后用德语、意大利语、法语播放着同样的一则消息。我有些后悔我没有在出发前学习这三门语言中的任何一门。每个人都准备下车，一个老太太看到我又迷茫又紧张的样子（因为我需要搭去罗马的夜班车，然后在那里乘坐回家的飞机）。

她用英语说了几句话，然后她告诉我前面轨道上出了些事故。她问我准备去哪里，然后去跟几个工作人员聊了聊，回来告诉我我们需要转3到4次车才能到那里。

我很高兴她也要去同样的地方，否则的话我自己找到那个地方几乎是不可能的事情。所以我们从一个站台走到了另外一个，路上我们聊了聊自己的情况。她真的是一个很好的女人。

旅途大约需要2.5小时，当我们抵达目的地时，我们下车互相道别。我刚好来得及坐上去罗马的火车，她告诉我她也需要去赶火车。我问她她需要走多远，结果她的家在我们来的方向，需要2个小时才能回去。她转车并且跟我走了一路只是因为想要确认我能够及时搭上车。我很震惊但是我不假思索地说：“你真的是我遇到过的最好的人。”她微微笑了一下，拥抱我，然后叫我抓紧时间回家。她看起来是那么不真实。我确信和我道别的她是一个天使。

我并不是一个很情绪化的人，但是我那天整完都在哭泣（妈蛋，我现在也在哭）。一个女人用了一整天的时间坐上了一辆离她的家越来越远的火车，只为了帮助一个迷失的旅人去参观她的国家。不管我去了多少国家，多少景点，我都必须说，瑞士真的是世界上最美丽的国家。