The Train
Delft, Helmond, Antibes, Gouda, Alphen aan de Rijn, The Hague, Arnhem, Rotterdam, Enschede and Utrecht.
Those are some of the cities I lived in, went to school to and studied in before I settled down in Amsterdam.
The first three cities we lived in before I turned three. Then we lived in Gouda for 15 years. That is where I grew up. Then I went to several schools in several cities looking for one where I would be happy.
All those years I spent hours and hours sitting in trains reading books. I must have spent thousands of hours traveling from and to schools.
I have a meeting in Eindhoven today and decided to go there by train. I love being in a train again. Sitting there, thinking about my life, reading books or just staring out of the window seems to have taught me more and given me more insight than many of those schools put together.
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Boris on a train? I thought that he hated trains.
Obviously there was no delay with NS. Otherwise you wouldn’t be that positive, I guess… Or am I wrong? ;)
On topic: what new book have you been reading during the trip?
We did have a short delay in Utrecht. But I wasn’t aware of it until they announced the reason for the delay once we left…
I agree with Boris on this point. A train (just like diving) can be meditative sometimes due to the constant situation. It allows me to let (associative) creativity, my feelings and inner peace to come to the fore.
@Jeroen: due to the rise of mobile technologies and the mobile internet (with Twittering and RSS feeds a.o.) waiting has new meaning for me. Except for some highly important, deadline driven meetings/presentations, a delay is not so bad at all….at least not like 15 years ago from my perspective.