Our time in the Netherlands and our temporary home at the Amsterdam hostel called The Generator has come to an end.
Today, we had an early morning getting packed and ready for the train that left from Amsterdam Centraal Station at 07:34am. We packed our small backpacks and set out.
Our train journey was one that involved a few transfers. From Amsterdam, we boarded a train that would take us to Maastricht, in the southern region of Netherlands. From there, we transferred to a train that would take us to Liége-Guillemins. Liége-Guillemins was in Belgium, but we were just passing through. From Belgium, we were travelling by trains and buses to a small village in the country of Luxembourg called Berdorf.
While travelling on the trains, we saw many sights. One sight included a castle up on a hill. I did not get the best picture of this so I have taken some creative license with the image part of today’s blog as we drive on the train through the mountains. Initially being a yellow and blue train, until we swapped to a red one.
The buses proved somewhat interesting. While waiting, at the precise right time that our bus was supposed to arrive, a school bus pulled up. We did not think things through before hopping on that bus and taking a seat. We were promptly informed by both the bus driver and Luxembourg school students this was not the correct bus. Upon exiting the bus it would seem that the rear automatic doors would not close correctly and kept opening again. While we do not feel we were at fault for the bus breaking, it certainly led to a traffic pileup with a few horns being honked.
As we hopped on the correct bus and headed on our journey Mitchell noticed subsequently, our bus received a new status inside our Google Maps app had been marked “departed late”. We did not feel like we were to blame but we did get some looks of curiosity from the students as they drove off.
Once we were done with all that, we arrived at our camp site a short time later. We checked into the campground and pulled the tent out of our day backpacks. We got to work setting it up which is of modest size as can be seen below. Mitchell’s backpack almost went over the 7 kg limit bringing this on the plane to get to Europe.
We also unpacked our beds and interiors. Ready for this one night in the outdoors.
On our front lawn, we noticed a bumblebee which are not found in Australia. A rare opportunity to see insects which are a part of so many stories that we do not always come to see down in Australia. Winnie the Pooh comes to mind in his never-ending quest for honey.
My nature photography was not ideal this afternoon so I therefore once again took some creative liberties in having artificial intelligence improve my work for purposes of public display. I usually request AI to do these types of images in watercolour pencils which gives a good artistic effect.
We ventured to the shops and I purchased a few things for tomorrow. Two apples, bag of lollies and maybe also a bag of popcorn for tonight.
Tomorrow we set forth on a walking adventure into the hills and valleys of north east Luxembourg. It is unknown how many kilometres we will do tomorrow, it could be 15 or it could be 30. Mitchell tells me that some direction around Route 2 in the map below called the Mullerthal Trail is quite likely. There are other tracks available in his AllTrails app that Mitchell may choose.
The ultimate goal is to have tomorrow night at the booked accommodation in Scheidgen, Luxembourg. On the second night, we walk towards Germany and spend the night on the German side of the river Mosselle. The town being Wasserliesch. After which we return to the city of Luxembourg for a few nights to recover.
I will report back tomorrow with the adventure of walking from town to town in the hills and valleys Luxembourg.