In these town I was today with the car. I started my journey in the morning from Essen and used the federal road B224 to Gladbeck and turned into the motorway / free way A2 (in Germany free way it’s called Autobahn and then we have an „A“ in front of the number). The A2 goes from Oberhausen to Werder in the area of Berlin, the capital of Germany. I used the A2 to the motorway junction Bottrop to the…
I started to travel last Monday (10.08.2015) with the trains from Essen to Vlissingen, via Mülheim, Venlo, Breda and Roosendaal. Breskens my destination is situated in the north of Zeeuws-Vlanderen, a part of the Dutch province “Zeeland”. But Breskens is only a village with 4.800 inhabitants, a quarter of Sluis, but is the ferry habour of this town. The reason for staying I don’t know. I found a little bed & breakfast for 32,50 Euro per night (with a comprehensive…
Yesterday I was in Roermond in the Netherlands. Roermond is situated in the south of Venlo and in the north of Maastricht at the river Maas that has a branch to the city centre. Even a little harbour has the city and a very good train connections to Amsterdam via Eindhoven, Maastricht via Sittard or Nijmegen via Venlo. The last connection with Veolia others with the Nederlandse spoorwegen (NS). Due to my wish for working in the Netherlands I was…
In the last four days I was in Dordrecht, a town in the south of Rotterdam, that has 119.000 inhabitants. Yes, it isn’t small but not so big as Rotterdam or Amsterdam. First I took the train from Germany (from Essen) to Dordrecht. I’m attentive about the emphasis „Germany“ because there is a town in Belgium at the Belgian / Dutch border with the same name. You can take the train from Dordrecht to Essen (Belgium) in 1 or 2…
Yesterday the inauguration took place of a new section of the line 109 (Essen, EVAG, Germany). The tram line 109 connects the station Essen-Steele with the quarter Essen-Frohnhausen. In the past, since 1898 there was a flow of the lines from the place Porsche via Rheinischer, Berliner and Limbecker to the Frohnhauser Street. From 1907 the ex green line had got the number “9”. The end point was the station Hamburger Street in Frohnhausen but due to the new generation…