Travel tip

January 26th, 2005

This from a couple of weeks ago, taken from the laptop:

Today’s travel tip comes to you from somewhere high above the North
Sea, where I am homeward-bound. It has been a day of much travelling,
including a very exciting maiden flight on a turbo-prop plane (not least
because of the wind-shear), but my nugget of advice pertains to the trains
in Holland.

I’ve just made the journey from Eindhoven to Schipol and my observations
can be summed up in three easy points: trains in Holland are exceptionally
regular (and therefore convenient); train travel is wonderfully inexpensive;
and the entire system is appallingly badly signposted.

I won’t relate the exact details behind nearly missing my flight except
to say that it was caused by the latter of these observations and rectified
by the former.

Accordingly, my advice is this: take a timetable,
make sure your watch has the right time and ready-reckon your way to
the right stop. You won’t know you’re there otherwise.

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