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…
In September 2012 I‘m going to visit the town Malaga in Spain. I‘ll take the plane from the airport Dusseldorf to Zurich. There I must change the plane in order to fly to Malaga. For the first time I fly with Swiss. I didn‘t fly with Lufthansa from Dusseldorf to Malaga with a nonstop-flight because they only fly two times in the week (Saturday and Sunday). When I was young I was several times in Spain. I visited the Canary…