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.