HH attempt to Amsterdam from Meppel
Trip Start
Sep 30, 2005
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Trip End
Dec 10, 2005
Meppel,
Netherlands
Monday, October 10, 2005
Monday monday (10th), I lost count of days already but it was sunny and by mid-day when Esly came back from work we took lunch, get the bag said bye to Guinea pig flippy and head to Westerbork. Which is the remain of a hold concentration camp. We first visit the museum which had lots of personnal story of all the people who passed the camp before being deported to Auschwitz. Then we moved to the site itself which has mostly disappear but has some wonderful monument like a map of the Nederlands on stone with all bricks representing a person coming from the region and been at the camp. Then the day was already advance way too much advance and Esly left me on a highway stop to try to HH but it failed miserably and there was really no car so after more than an hour I went to harrass someone at the Gaz station who took me few stops futher were I got stuck again quite a long long time
Gypsie stone mark of the Deported - Westerbork
. Dark was arriving alreayd then and someone took me to Meppel on a jaguar... the amazing view then has been that on every light pole there was a big birds.. a cigogne/a stork for few km on every single light pole, with the sunset it created an amazing view. From the city then, the spot was good so even if it was dark I decided to HH again and got a ride to Zwolle.Then it was obvious I couldnt go further nobody would read my sign and it wouldnt work so I got left at the station and took a train. But surprise, the dutch train line was broken... so I had to do the whole way to Arnhem to come back to Amsterdam - for 15euros. I arrived before 11hpm at A'dam Amstel and then start to walk to find the place where Stef was living. For a rare moment I didn't find it... only a street nearby and the other train station but I found the place where I would stay the next day. I waited all the time in Rai and tried to get busy... so imagine a lonely weirdos with backpack cutting his nail and toe nails on the stairs of the train station!! thats me! Stef was in Haarlem and struggling with the train as well and finally he manage to arrive in Amsterdam only after 1ham. He run to try to find me at Rai station and it was obvious that he was more worried than I was about my situation :) Then we reached his place, and had some nice long discussion and look over his past journey and trip and the passports. It wasn't before 3h30am that we got to sleep.
