Trip Report: Eindhoven to Berlin by train, part I
After Helsinki, I had just two days of school before we had another holiday, the Ascension Day long weekend. So I decided to set off for Berlin, a city I had wanted to visit for a very long time. There weren't any nonstop flights from AMS to Berlin on Lufthansa, so I decided to take the train. Even though the Netherlands and Germany are neighboring countries, and Eindhoven is particularly close to the border, getting from Eindhoven to Berlin required two transfers in each direction. On the outbound, I transferred in Utrecht (a major hub) and Amersfoort (birthplace of Piet Mondriaan). I was pretty excited about this trip since I hadn't been on an international train trip since I was really small.
In Amersfoort, I learned that you look on a poster to find the train you are departing on. Then you can see where to stand (A, B, C, D...) according to which car you have a reservation for. You can see on this poster how similar Dutch is to English: "Vind hier uw zitplaats" = "Find here your sitplace."
The train came, and interestingly it was a Dutch engine (the blue and yellow colors are of the Dutch NS company), together with German cars (the white cars with orange-red stripe are of DB, Deutsche Bahn).
