{"id":8176,"date":"2018-02-08T16:24:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=8176"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:44:38","slug":"week-netherlands-fall-2017-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/week-netherlands-fall-2017-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week in the Netherlands in Fall 2017 – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Visited Dee and Gerben in Spring in Amsterdam. Now they are back in Mirns – a good time to come over for a week and enjoy the quiet countryside.
Got another one of the less than 100\u20ac Euro travel train tickets both ways. Early in the morning, I got up and walked down to the bus station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"6:38 <\/picture>
6:38 at the bus stop – not a nice time for me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"7:13 <\/picture>
7:13 in the train with a few croissants and coffee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"7:56 <\/picture>
7:56 in a new train – the other one broke down! After 20 minutes, I can take any train, not only the trains that are printed on my ticket. Great on the way back, so you can catch a faster train. Does not help on the way to the Netherlands. The last train station is so small that there are only a few trains a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"9:49 <\/picture>
9:49 – along the Rhine River<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"8 <\/picture>
8 seconds later<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"11:57 <\/picture>
11:57 and some time to kill in D\u00fcsseldorf. It is very ugly next to the train station here. So I had a beer in the cold and walked back to catch the next train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"13:05 <\/picture>
13:05 on the next train<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"14:37 <\/picture>
14:37 and we have been in the Netherlands for 4 minutes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"15:47 <\/picture>
15:47 on the next train at Zwolle train station<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Big <\/picture>
Big sky with the church tower of Wirdum in the back<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"16:58 <\/picture>
16:58 at Leuwarden train station<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"17:47 <\/picture>
17:47 close to \u200e\u2068Wijtgaard\u2069 in \u2068Friesland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"And <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finally, at the last train station<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
The old part of Stavoren\u2069 is built at the harbor. From the train station, you walk over the bridge, and you are right in the center. Somehow, it is amazing how you can travel from a big city to nowhere with a few train rides. Still, I do not really like to ride the train. Hmmm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"View <\/picture>
View from the bridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Walked <\/picture>
Walked down to the shoreline to catch a view over the water<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"This <\/picture>
This is what I call a room with a view – if you have this room<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
The light towers mark the way for the ships to get to the harbor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Walked <\/picture>
Walked back to the city supermarket for some food. Gerben will pick me up from here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nice <\/picture>
Nice one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2,19 <\/picture>
2,19 \u20ac for a small bag of pimped toast bread?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"There <\/picture>
There he is – Gerben with the Yellow Submarine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Close <\/picture>
Close to Warns – the dike to the right<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Friendly <\/picture>
Friendly Frieslanders<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Most <\/picture>
Most of the road is on the dike – great views!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A <\/picture>
A nice drive that is<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sunset <\/picture>
Sunset at the house in Mirns<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hello!\" <\/picture>
Hello!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
The house<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nestled <\/picture>
Nestled in a green corner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It <\/picture>
It comes with a little shed full of garden chairs and stuff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
The garden towards the water in the day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Happy <\/picture>
Happy Monkey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hello <\/picture>
Hello horse!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Even <\/picture>
Even happier monkey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Beer <\/picture>
Beer o clock – waiting for the showo’clock<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"This <\/picture>
This chair!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Now <\/picture>
Now that is what I call great cinema<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visited Dee and Gerben in Spring in Amsterdam. Now they are back in Mirns – a good time to come over for a week and enjoy the quiet countryside.Got another one of the less than 100\u20ac Euro travel train tickets both ways. Early in the morning, I got up and walked down to the bus…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,224,208],"tags":[463,334,459],"class_list":["post-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mirns","category-europe","category-netherlands","tag-europe","tag-mirns","tag-netherlands"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/a1a7.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Marc Hastenteufel","author_link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/author\/marc\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/a1a7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14332,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions\/14332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}