Copenhagen a day of work
Delft Return of Alan
In 1977 I had the pleasure to first visit Delft.
In 1982, Merry and I came to enjoy Delft.
Then again in 1990 when I was working in the Netherlands in
Noordwjick I caught a train for the day and returned
to both Delft and Amsterdam.
Yesterday I travelled from Copenhagen, Denmark to
Delft, an 11 1/2 hour trip.
My journey has consisted of travel days, wander around
days, tour days and just hang out with people days.
Yesterday was a travel day.
Arise at 6:00 to prepare to taxi to the Centraal
Station for my 7:55 am train to Hamburg to Osnabruck
to Amsterdam to Delft.
From Copenhagen to the seaside was a very pretty ride
passing vast farm fields of corn and other vegetables
with occasional fields with horses, cattle or sheep.
The day started out with ground fog giving nature a
mystical, magical look. The clear sense of every
field, town, village or forest was order, complete
order.
The total day was a day that required the use of the
"I 'll laugh about this some day so why not start
now."
I had to change trains in 3 different cities in three
different countries. It was very hot and humid.
Perspiration was an ongoing experience unless I stood
next to an open window on the train. Being one of the
last weekends of the summer in Europe and the rest of
the Northern Hemisphere the trains were exceptionally
crowded with people not just tourists and families but
also the backpacking Europeans and Americans all
heading home.
Traveling by plane tends to be much easier than by
train regarding luggage. At an airport you simply go
up to the counter and check your large luggage and
wander off. During the train excursion if you are
changing lines, countries, cities you carry ALL your
luggage which tends to change in weight and size the
longer your trip. What starts out as a handbag and a
simple backpack ends up feeling like a fabric wrapped
loaded refrigerator and 3 ton safe covered by a
blanket. This is made worse when you are trying to
jump on and off in a few minutes and have to run from
Spor 1 to Spor 15 a/b and can not find the sign for
number 1.
The beauty of nature made the day enjoyable. Thinking
about how to benefit personally from the experience
helped. Thinking about how I would use things that
happened during the day in programs or stories later
also helped.
Then I arrived in Delft.
There was my Cyberspace Creativity Friend, Marc
Tassoul, creator of the very first Creativity focused
internet discussion list/group: CREA-CPS based in
Delft at the Delft University. His smile and hello
eliminated much of the 11 1/2 hours of on again off
again discomfort and hours of exhaustion setting in
from perhaps too much in too short a time.
Off we went to meet up with Helga, his wife. Then off
we walked to have a wonderful and experimental meal at
one of their favorite Indonesian restaurants.
After a couple hours of talking and enjoying many,
many dishes we went for a wander through the older
section of Delft near Marc's home.
Following some more talk and internetting we drove off
to Helga's home....their other home for the night and
more talking. Which was all followed in the morning
with more talking about our favorite topic creativity.
Today we have spent at the TU of Delft where Marc is a
professor of creativity. A brief driving tour of the
beautiful campus with all its departments:
engineering, science, design, etc.
Lunch at the main cafteria with his department head
and two other faculty members and a visit to their
relatively new technical library, largest in Europe
which has a lawn for its roof. A very dramatic
design.
This evening I am off to Utrecht to have dinner with
two 2001 Springobard Group 4 members Nienke and Bert.
Wandering Alan
In 1977 I had the pleasure to first visit Delft.
In 1982, Merry and I came to enjoy Delft.
Then again in 1990 when I was working in the Netherlands in
Noordwjick I caught a train for the day and returned
to both Delft and Amsterdam.
Yesterday I travelled from Copenhagen, Denmark to
Delft, an 11 1/2 hour trip.
My journey has consisted of travel days, wander around
days, tour days and just hang out with people days.
Yesterday was a travel day.
Arise at 6:00 to prepare to taxi to the Centraal
Station for my 7:55 am train to Hamburg to Osnabruck
to Amsterdam to Delft.
From Copenhagen to the seaside was a very pretty ride
passing vast farm fields of corn and other vegetables
with occasional fields with horses, cattle or sheep.
The day started out with ground fog giving nature a
mystical, magical look. The clear sense of every
field, town, village or forest was order, complete
order.
The total day was a day that required the use of the
"I 'll laugh about this some day so why not start
now."
I had to change trains in 3 different cities in three
different countries. It was very hot and humid.
Perspiration was an ongoing experience unless I stood
next to an open window on the train. Being one of the
last weekends of the summer in Europe and the rest of
the Northern Hemisphere the trains were exceptionally
crowded with people not just tourists and families but
also the backpacking Europeans and Americans all
heading home.
Traveling by plane tends to be much easier than by
train regarding luggage. At an airport you simply go
up to the counter and check your large luggage and
wander off. During the train excursion if you are
changing lines, countries, cities you carry ALL your
luggage which tends to change in weight and size the
longer your trip. What starts out as a handbag and a
simple backpack ends up feeling like a fabric wrapped
loaded refrigerator and 3 ton safe covered by a
blanket. This is made worse when you are trying to
jump on and off in a few minutes and have to run from
Spor 1 to Spor 15 a/b and can not find the sign for
number 1.
The beauty of nature made the day enjoyable. Thinking
about how to benefit personally from the experience
helped. Thinking about how I would use things that
happened during the day in programs or stories later
also helped.
Then I arrived in Delft.
There was my Cyberspace Creativity Friend, Marc
Tassoul, creator of the very first Creativity focused
internet discussion list/group: CREA-CPS based in
Delft at the Delft University. His smile and hello
eliminated much of the 11 1/2 hours of on again off
again discomfort and hours of exhaustion setting in
from perhaps too much in too short a time.
Off we went to meet up with Helga, his wife. Then off
we walked to have a wonderful and experimental meal at
one of their favorite Indonesian restaurants.
After a couple hours of talking and enjoying many,
many dishes we went for a wander through the older
section of Delft near Marc's home.
Following some more talk and internetting we drove off
to Helga's home....their other home for the night and
more talking. Which was all followed in the morning
with more talking about our favorite topic creativity.
Today we have spent at the TU of Delft where Marc is a
professor of creativity. A brief driving tour of the
beautiful campus with all its departments:
engineering, science, design, etc.
Lunch at the main cafteria with his department head
and two other faculty members and a visit to their
relatively new technical library, largest in Europe
which has a lawn for its roof. A very dramatic
design.
This evening I am off to Utrecht to have dinner with
two 2001 Springobard Group 4 members Nienke and Bert.
Wandering Alan
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