Damn you public transort of doom!
So picking up The Bexx went a lot more smoothly than picking up the bunny. I stayed at Isabel's place and somewhere around 4 am got up to go to the airport.
All fine up until there.
Then we found Bexx, almsot instantly, infact, we just got there when Bexx called me and directed us to the right arrival hall and where we met up. All smooth, right?
Yeah, har, the trains were scrambled, nothing left from the right platform, so it took about half an hour to find the right train. Which we hesitantly boarded because it said "do not board" on it but it DID go to where we wanted to go. We boarded this train at 06:09.
We transfered onto the train to Den Helder, we boarded at 06:42. No problem yet...
We get to Alkmaar and we turn into a stop train, but, the nice men of the train tell us, we'll be going slowly because the rails are slippery.
Fine, so I thought it'd be a 10 minute delay, not bad.
Wrong again!
At Schagen we get kindly informed that the train won't go any furhter but will reverse and go back to where it came due to an accident further up the rails.
No one tells us what to do instea,d since there is only one trai ntrack going that way we're kinda pissed.
Busses it is then. By now it's almost 8 o'clock.
The bus to Den Helder would get there at 08:09. So we figured we'd jsut take the bus instead, no problemo!
Bus doesn't show up, at all. Al; busses pass, but not the one we had to take. So we wait and wait and wait and eventually at 08:35 a bus rolls around which is suppoed to take the people fomr the train to the next station where we could board the train to Den Helder again.
Erm.. alright.
So on the bus, with the bus driver of doom who took the scenic route through the country to arrive at Anna Paulowna at 08:57.
Arriving at the train station where we should be getting on the train again we were ditch oned the wrong side of the station, so we had to run all the way around to get to our train, which was already there.
Instead of just waiting 5 minutes for the people who had alreayd bene delayed almost 45 minutes, they just took off even before ANY of the people of the bus could reach the train.
Finally around 9:25 the next train rolls by and we finally arrive at Den Helder.
It took us fucking three and a half hours ot get home.
For those of you not familiar with the netherlands. Amsterdam - Den Helder is about 50 minutes by train.
Now with transferring that adds about 20 minutes but then still it should not take THREE HOURS to get home from amsterdam!
And all of that on only 3 hours of sleep x_x.
I hereby add a Murphy's Law; if you go to pick up international contacts from the airport, the public transport will fail you by default.
All fine up until there.
Then we found Bexx, almsot instantly, infact, we just got there when Bexx called me and directed us to the right arrival hall and where we met up. All smooth, right?
Yeah, har, the trains were scrambled, nothing left from the right platform, so it took about half an hour to find the right train. Which we hesitantly boarded because it said "do not board" on it but it DID go to where we wanted to go. We boarded this train at 06:09.
We transfered onto the train to Den Helder, we boarded at 06:42. No problem yet...
We get to Alkmaar and we turn into a stop train, but, the nice men of the train tell us, we'll be going slowly because the rails are slippery.
Fine, so I thought it'd be a 10 minute delay, not bad.
Wrong again!
At Schagen we get kindly informed that the train won't go any furhter but will reverse and go back to where it came due to an accident further up the rails.
No one tells us what to do instea,d since there is only one trai ntrack going that way we're kinda pissed.
Busses it is then. By now it's almost 8 o'clock.
The bus to Den Helder would get there at 08:09. So we figured we'd jsut take the bus instead, no problemo!
Bus doesn't show up, at all. Al; busses pass, but not the one we had to take. So we wait and wait and wait and eventually at 08:35 a bus rolls around which is suppoed to take the people fomr the train to the next station where we could board the train to Den Helder again.
Erm.. alright.
So on the bus, with the bus driver of doom who took the scenic route through the country to arrive at Anna Paulowna at 08:57.
Arriving at the train station where we should be getting on the train again we were ditch oned the wrong side of the station, so we had to run all the way around to get to our train, which was already there.
Instead of just waiting 5 minutes for the people who had alreayd bene delayed almost 45 minutes, they just took off even before ANY of the people of the bus could reach the train.
Finally around 9:25 the next train rolls by and we finally arrive at Den Helder.
It took us fucking three and a half hours ot get home.
For those of you not familiar with the netherlands. Amsterdam - Den Helder is about 50 minutes by train.
Now with transferring that adds about 20 minutes but then still it should not take THREE HOURS to get home from amsterdam!
And all of that on only 3 hours of sleep x_x.
I hereby add a Murphy's Law; if you go to pick up international contacts from the airport, the public transport will fail you by default.