This blog is a continuation of my previous blog, we went to track number two to catch the train that was going to Amersfoort(a city of Netherlands) and from there we need to catch the connecting train to Gouda(a city of Netherlands). Then from Gouda we need to catch train to reach our destination Zotermeer and it was a great experience. From this, I felt like in Netherlands we won't get lost because wherever we are there will be some information about that place and near by places in all railway stations, you can find a sample image and video of it in below and also people in Netherlands were ready to help with smile.
We reach Zotermeer around 12:23PM and the trains will arrive and depart at exact time and we can't find that punctuality in our country. Then we went out of the Zotermeer railway station where Velshankar's relation's friend(Sandeep) was waiting for us. In his car, he took us to Media Market(One the Europe's largest shopping mall). Initially I thought of buying some gadgets but after seeing the prices, I changed my mind not to buy here because price for the gadgets were slightly higher compared to our country.
Then Sandeep told us in surprise, Hey guys coming to Europe and not buying any gadgets! I told him that its expensive compared to India. Then he told okay and asked us, what's next? I asked him to take us to some chocolate shops to buy chocolates for our Indian colleagues. Then he took us to one of the famous chocolate shop in Zotermeer, there we brought some three kilogram of chocolates. Then he took us to his home for lunch and after a week we had good Indian meal. Then Velshankar and I played with his daughter(two and a half year old) for a while and around 4:30PM we told Sandeep that brother we are leaving.
He told NO NO, be for some more time, we told him that in night along with this cold Netherlands climate its too hard to walk one and a half kilometer. Then he told okay fine at least have coffee and then leave. We told him okay, then he asked his wife to prepare coffee for us. After having coffee, we started around 5PM from his home by his car and he dropped us in the railway station. Here also we faced the same problem for booking tickets as we faced in the morning. But this time there was a young couple who helped us for booking tickets using their debit card.
We reached the Hub(where the guests has to prepare food on their own on weekend) 7:15PM and we had some food over there. Around 7:40PM, we reached the castle since Hub was half a kilometer from our castle. Hub was also a great place to visit our castle, it will be silent and very pleasant to be there. You can find some photos of Hub in the below pictures.
Thanks,
Ramesh Kumar Gurusamy.
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