Sweden Day 7: Back to Eindhoven

This is on 30th march, day 62:

Our night train left Stockholm pretty much on time. We were very well on our way to Malmo. I was on the uppermost berth. It had power points and all. Here:

Azri and I went to sleep after brushing our teeth. Here is a pic of the sunrise at 530am!! NICE RIGHT!!

We reached malmo on time to change to the next connecting train. We got down fast and managed to find and board the other train in time. I forgot my camera's charger and battery though. It was still on the night train, charging. It was too late to go and get it. And here is a beautiful pic along the journey, near copenhagen:

The train was crowded with office-goers. We finally reached copenhagen at 7:17am!! yipee!! Our connecting train was to leave at 7:45. So, we had some time to take pics of Copenhagen :D

And then.. our ICE train finally arrived. It was our first time on a ICE train. The seats were wonderful, like in some aeroplane. It was supposed to take us from Copenhagen to Hamburg. The conductor on board was smart enough to ask us to write the date. So, that's 2 days gone on our ticket.

And we had our breakfast of bread with honey and apples on board :D Roedby was one of the stations along the way. OUR ICE TRAIN WENT ONTO A SHIP!! We had to get out and stay outside of the train for about 45 mins. We went around to see the ship. We then figured out that there were 2 other trains on the ship as well!! And there were busses and cars on another floor. We had to go to the top few floors where there was a restaurant, supermarket and a place to view the sea. The video below shows the journey on a bridge from Vordingborg station to Nykoebing F station and a view of the ship that our train was in on the way to Puttgarden from Roedby:

I saw a lot of windmills as we were leaving Puttgarden. And it is really difficult to take a good picture from inside the train. It moves super fast, my camera takes forever to focus and there is the window reflection problem on top of that. Nevertheless, I managed to take this shot:

And we finally reached Hamburg. You'll see another copy of this picture soon :P

And we managed to again, switch to the connecting train at Hamburg since we had 30 mins in between the trains. We were both tired by this time. We reached Dusseldorf after a good sleep.

And later, reached Kalden Kirchen, which is the last station before getting into Netherlands!! We had to take a small and old train to Venlo which is on the border of Netherlands. We felt at home the moment we reached Venlo. Everything seemed to familiar and comfortable, unlike the places that we've been to.

We got off at Venlo and went to a sheltered place. I then realised that one of my gloves had dropped off somewhere. I last time I wore them was during the ship ride and I wasn't sure where they were. So, I asked Azri to take care of my stuff and ran back to the train to have a look at the place where we were sitting. I checked the place and glove was not there. That was when the door closed by itself! I tried to open it, but couldn't! And then.. the train started moving!! oppsie!! hahah, I went down the train and found 2 conductors chit-chatting. I told them what happened. They checked the train timings for me and told me to alight at Kalden Kirchen to take the next train back to Venlo in 45 mins. Well, I alighted at KK but didn't want to wait for 45 mins for the next train. So, I decided to walk back to Venlo, along the train tracks :D The walk took about 1 hr. I managed to take some good pics along the way though. It was sunset!:I had to crawl through some bushes for this pic of a house along the way:

I had to pass by a depot before entering the Venlo Station. There were some conductors there who approached me to ask me where I was coming from. I told them that I'm from Germany :P They didn't understand everything at that. So, I explained the whole story to them. They then told me that it is forbidden to walk near the tracks and asked me where I was heading to. I said I was heading to Eindhoven. That guy happened to be a conductor and so, he said ".. yea, get on the train! We'll pick up your friend and head on down to Eindhoven!" This will be one of the most unbelievable things that I had heard during my exchange term.

So, I boarded the train and it started rolling towards Venlo in about 10 minutes. I positioned myself at a door where Azri would be standing in front of. I was off by 1 door. I managed to re-position myself in time :D The door opened and he was about to board it! hahaha! He was thinking of getting everything down to Eindhoven first. We found a nice seat, got back to Eindhoven, bid farewell and reached home :D

This post marks the end of the Sweden trip!! yay!