Tag Archives: Public Transit

In veel steden kunnen fietsers en wandelaars zondag hun hart ophalen. Milieudefensie viert dan de tiende verjaardag van de zogenoemde autovrije dag. De straten in het centrum van 22 dorpen en steden zijn autovrij. Today is ‘Auto Free Day’ in Rotterdam and 21 other cities and towns across the Netherlands.  This is the 10th year that this has taken place, …

Last week when I went to visit my friend Penny in Roosendaal, I realized that it was the first time I was on a train here in the Netherlands in over 2 years.  Since we got our new car! I used to hate having to take public transit so much that when we got the car the long distance public …

Do you have any idea what I’m talking about?  If not, then you are proving something I’ve been asking myself about all the time. I’ve been seeing these ads on trams all over the city but keep missing the chance to take a photo, but the other day on my way home from work I managed to snap this quickly …

The new-ish thing for public transit here in Rotterdam is the OV Chipkaart.    It’s a card that you can charge up with credit and use on the public transit to get around the city. In the past we used something called a strippenkaart which was a long paper thing sectioned into blocks or ‘strips’.  Depending on how many zones you …

When I hear the term “The change of life” I go back in time to when I was a child and my mother had a hysterectomy. My father kept saying that my mother was going through “The change of life” and all I wondered was, what was wrong with the one she had? That’s not the change of life I’m …

Learned two valuable travel lessons this weekend. I had a petsitting job in Den Haag and on my way there my train stopped part way and wasn’t going any further, leaving me with no idea how the heck to get to my destination. Lesson learned: ALWAYS plan an alternate route when using public transit!! On the way back I learned …

Today I had the two worst parts of the Profieltoets, spreken (speaking) and Maatschappij-orientatie (social orientation). Speaking is always difficult because you have very limited amounts of time to think of what you want to say, and the MO was difficult because uhh, well I didn’t even crack that book until two days ago and haven’t been to the classes …

There have been multiple bombings in London today. All taking place within the busses and underground of the city center. That’s pretty scary to think of all those people who were just doing their day to day activities, not having any idea that their bus would be bombed that day. Last I saw there were two confirmed deaths and many …

So Bo didn’t win American Idol. Deep down I kind of knew it would go this way but I still hoped. Can’t say Carrie doesn’t deserve it though.. she’s quite talented. I was so excited about downloading the final episode today. Two whole hours of anticipation (or boredom, if it was just more of Ryan’s stalling tactics rather than actual …

That’s what Xander calls the kids across the street. Mean I suppose, but I still can’t help but laugh when he tells me “The Musical Mongos are on parade!”. It’s that time of year again, when they workers at the special needs school across the street start putting their patients outside for a little sun and fresh air. After an …

I got my new hard disk yesterday! 200 gigs just waiting to be filled with downloaded movies, tv shows, music and whatever else I manage to get my mits on. I was so excited! I couldn’t wait for Xander to get home to put it in my computer! He came home and told me we got an email from our …