Of some 36 Railway Stations …

The weird thought occurred to me of capturing the various places I went to in Railway Stations. Anyhow over the past 2 months or so I have traversed a large part of Western Europe by train, so this is my tribute to the journeys, the fun, the boredom, and most often the adventures with crazy friends and crazier timetables … This one is not in pictures but in station names and anecdotal captions to try and captre the “Moments” that occured in that place … I hope those of you who are reading this and were with me at those stations and were part of those moments are reminded of those fun/crazy/adventurous times

1. Schiphol (Netherlands) – The one with the Entry !

2. Den Haag Hollands Spoor (Netherlands)  - The one with the chilly midday changeover …

3. Delft (Netherlands) – The One with the TU Delft and all the new friends I’ve made

4. Delft Zuid (Netherlands) – The One that is closest to the room but has no trains going through it … like EVER

5. Den Haag Centraal (Netherlands) – The One with the Aliens Police and Madurodam

6. Leiden Centraal (Netherlands) – The One with Keukenhof

7. Utrecht Centraal (Netherlands) – The One with the bloody Domtoren

8. Den Haag Centraal (Netherlands) – The One with Scheveningen

9. Amsterdam Centraal (Netherlands) – The ONE !!

10. Antwerpen Centraal (Belgium) – The one with the missed train to Lille

11. Bruxelles Midi/Zuid (Belgium) – The One with all the Late Night Drama

12. Bruxelles Noord (Belgium) – The One with the Free Bus Ride to Paris

13. Paris Gare de Lyon (France) – The One with a Midnights Excursion all round Paris

14. Paris Gare du Nord (France) – The One with the TGV

15. Lille Europe (France) – The Other with the TGV

16. Tournai (Belgium) – The One with the Journey through the Belgian Countryside

17. Zürich Hauptbahnhof (Switzerland) – The One with THE 12 Franc Shower

18. Winterthur (Switzerland) – The One whose name sounded funny when the metallic Swiss announcer on the trains said it

19. Wil (Switzerland) – The One where we assessed the people going to Sonisphere … “Yeh apne tarah hai lag raha hai … thoda unpeirced “

20. Schwarzenbach SG (Switzerland) – The One with Metallica

21. Luzern (Switzerland) – The One with the Free Lake Ride which everyone else was dying to take

22. Engelberg (Switzerland) – The One below Titlis

23. Hergiswil (Switzerland) – The One to go to Rivendell

24. Interlaken Ost (Switzerland) – The One with My New Swiss Knife

25. Lauterbrunnen (Switzerland) – The One that Inspired Rivendell

26. Bern (Switzerland) – The One where I got down from an ICE and onto a Inter Regio

27. Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall (Switzerland) – The One with the RhineFalls

28. Schafhausen (Switzerland) – The One in the Opposite Direction (in the hope of finding faster trains going through there)

29. Basel SBB (Switzerland) – The One with Three Drunk SriLankans and One Sober Nepali

30. Köln Hauptbahnhof (Germany) – The One with the Cathedral, 1 Euro Burgers and 4 Euro TShirts

31. Bonn (Germany) – The One with Nothing !

32. Nijmegen (Netherlands) – The One with One Half of a WC Quarterfinal (And yeah the BIG Brown Building)

33. Rotterdam Centraal (Netherlands) – The One with the Tour de France and some alone time in an Awesome City

34. Bruxelles Midi/Zuid (Belgium) – The One with the Waffles, the Atomium, The Mini-Disaster(read Europe in place of Disaster)

35. Brugge (Belgium) – The One with Belgian Chocolates and a quaint city with cobblestone streets and magnificent Gothic Cathedrals

36. Amsterdam Centraal (Netherlands) – The One with the World Cup Final … 100,000 people at the Museumplein … one AWESOME experience … although the Oranje lost … Well Viva Espana

(One Weekend Left lets see if anything gets added)

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