Planes, trains, and automobiles
First off, I'm still using my phone, so I apologize for the higher than usual number of typos which my nearest and dearest have pointed out to me. Someday I'll be able to type on a regular keyboard again.
On this trip, we've used a lot of different types of transportation... the above mentioned planes and trains as well as subways, buses, and trams. You may be wondering, though, about the automobiles.
Those of you in the U.S. are probably not aware of the scheduled transit strike that will happen on Tuesday. I didn't know about it until I received a notification from the Anne Frank House about it. You know, that time I discovered I had bought out tickets for the wrong day. (Friends of P.'s can use them, so that worked out alright.) But other than figuring out how to get to the train station, I hadn't given it much thought.
Well, two days ago, as we're reading and hearing more about it, we discovered that there was a significant chance that regional trains, such as the one we had tickets on, could very possibly be impacted. No one knew for sure, though, even when we contacted the train company. They would change our tickets for free to avoid the problem.
That would be great, except that there were no trains scheduled for Monday, the day before we had to leave. So here we were with an early flight out of Heathrow on Wednesday and no confirmed way to get to London to make the flight. We spent significant time brainstorming how to get to Brussels to use our connecting train ticket to London.
(To our children at home who may be reading this for the first time... We were pretty sure we would figure out a way, so didn't want to add undue worry and concern to your already full plate.)
Now we have a solution and are all set to make our Brussels' train: we have rented a car. Yes, tomorrow we will be driving to Brussels and turning on the car at the train station. Sounds like an adventure, huh? It will probably be less thrilling than trying to actually rent the car in the first place, truth be told.
And now, the weather is warm and the sky is blue, so knowing we can get home we will enjoy our last day in Amsterdam.
On this trip, we've used a lot of different types of transportation... the above mentioned planes and trains as well as subways, buses, and trams. You may be wondering, though, about the automobiles.
Those of you in the U.S. are probably not aware of the scheduled transit strike that will happen on Tuesday. I didn't know about it until I received a notification from the Anne Frank House about it. You know, that time I discovered I had bought out tickets for the wrong day. (Friends of P.'s can use them, so that worked out alright.) But other than figuring out how to get to the train station, I hadn't given it much thought.
Well, two days ago, as we're reading and hearing more about it, we discovered that there was a significant chance that regional trains, such as the one we had tickets on, could very possibly be impacted. No one knew for sure, though, even when we contacted the train company. They would change our tickets for free to avoid the problem.
That would be great, except that there were no trains scheduled for Monday, the day before we had to leave. So here we were with an early flight out of Heathrow on Wednesday and no confirmed way to get to London to make the flight. We spent significant time brainstorming how to get to Brussels to use our connecting train ticket to London.
(To our children at home who may be reading this for the first time... We were pretty sure we would figure out a way, so didn't want to add undue worry and concern to your already full plate.)
Now we have a solution and are all set to make our Brussels' train: we have rented a car. Yes, tomorrow we will be driving to Brussels and turning on the car at the train station. Sounds like an adventure, huh? It will probably be less thrilling than trying to actually rent the car in the first place, truth be told.
And now, the weather is warm and the sky is blue, so knowing we can get home we will enjoy our last day in Amsterdam.
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