Trip to Zotermeer

Hi All,

Last Saturday, Velshankar and I went to Zotermeer, a town hundred kilometer from our castle. In this blog I wish to share those experience with you all. On last Wednesday, When we told Hans Don that we are going to Zotermeer for the weekend. He told us, if we need he will arrange for cab for weekend trip. But we told him that we will use public transport instead of private mode of transport because if we use public mode of transport, we can gain some knowledge about Netherlands. The we asked Hans Don details regarding how to travel from Putten to Zotermeer using public transport. He guide us, how to reach Zotermeer by public train service using Google Maps. Also he gave his visiting card and he added, if we need any help we can call him anytime.

As we decided on Saturday, around 9:30AM from castle we started walking to Putten railway station, which was some one and half kilometer walk and we reached around 10AM. We need to book tickets for our trip, so I asked one guy who was waiting for some train in the station. He redirect us to the ticket machine, since there was no ticket counter there. I tried to book tickets but I was not able to do, because my debit card didn't work and ticket machine shows its a invalid debit card. We didn't know what to do?, but there was another option for payment using coins.

We didn't have coins, only Euro currency in papers. So we asked help for the guy who redirects us to the ticket machine and he told us that he will pay using his debit card, so that we can give him equivalent amount. Since ticket cost for both of us was twenty seven Euros, we were not able to provide exact amount in return because we had denominations of 10,20 and 50. We gave him thirty Euros but he told us, he didn't have change and I went to get change from some shop. But no shops were opened at that time.

That guy told us, it's time and he need to caught his train and went. We were waiting in front of the ticket machine for getting help from someone. One old man came on the way after some fifteen minutes, smiled and told to me Good Morning, I thought better to ask help from him. So I approached and asked for help for booking tickets. Thank God! without any problem, he booked tickets for us and gave handshakes and told have a nice day and he went.

To be continued..

Thanks,

Ramesh Kumar Gurusamy.