Mostly I am rather satisfied with the Dutch public transportation (bus, train and so on), but there are days…
Last Friday I did not feel very well. A cold as can be seen by the many people at the moment. So at the end of the day (we had an important meeting at the company) I was glad to go home.
From Hoofddorp with a train to Schiphol. Nothing wrong so far. At Schiphol I would take a train that would bring me directly to Hengelo, which is close to ideal for me. But here the terror started, the heating of the train was broken. So it was very cold in the train. For a healthy person this is already not nice, for someone feeling bad as me it was very awful. To be honest, I think it was not very responsible of the train company to have this train running. It could have been a disaster for sick and old people, not even to mention little children. I started to feel more lousy with the minute.
At the city of Apeldoorn it was announced that at Almelo there was a problem and people for the direction of Hengelo/Enschede should travel over Zutphen. The train to Zutphen would be standing to next platform where the train would arrive.
This was wrong…. on the moment we arrived another train was standing there. This train brought us back to Amersfoort, a city we just passed.
In Amersfoort again, there was not real warm place. And I was so freezing cold that I couldn’t stop shivering. I felt very very bad and here I had to wait another 30 minutes for the next train.
A little luck happened here, the problem at Almelo was solved so the train could go directly to Hengelo. And of course in at last in Hengelo, the bus to Haaksbergen just left, so another 20 minutes I had to wait.
When I arrived home after 4.5 hours travelling, I felt very sick. Most of the weekend I have spend in bed and luckily I start to recover a bit now. If possible, I have to travel back tomorrow. Next week there are some important things planned.
I am happy that we were home when you arrived in Haaksbergen, so we could put you in a warm bathtub and make something warm for you to drink.
I felt so sorry for you.
Yes, I am also happy that we were there to help you. And I am glad that you start to recover.
Huray for public transportation.
Get well soon.