I'm thankful to get to travel on ICE trains!
Like the slow hours to think, to let the fresh memories sink in, to journal…
A couple patiently answered my questions even when they seemed to be having much more trouble from the train cancellation. That couple, I will never forget them, the kind look in their eyes and the way they genuinely tried to help me...
I appreciate my strategic brain a lot. It's just that when my brain plans too much, its plans fail.
My body which was tense, from all the travelings yesterday and the 2-hour tour today, had loosened up after the shower, and now relaxedly lying on the bed. Everything is fine now. I've made it here, safe and happy!
However, the strong wind gusts and that quest for public wifi had led me on a totally different path: instead of experiencing the canals and the countryside, I experienced what it's like to be a student in a prestigious Dutch university.
On the train back to where I started
Memories of the undulating green hills and the never-ending white alps in Garmisch came back to me like warm ocean waves.