Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The Memory Train
Last night I was going over some of the photos from my trip to
Europe last year while listening to Nujabes music. As you might imagine,
I started thinking about taking another trip. I opened my web browser
and visited the website of Deutsche Bahn, the German rail authority. For
those of you who do not know, Deutsche Bahn is the definitive source of
information on European train schedules. In both Italy and Spain I
remember the local train ticket offices using it rather than their own
national websites to check information on trains. As the melodious flow
of Nujabes played in the background, I started typing in various
starting and ending destinations. Paris to Barcelona. Amsterdam to
Berlin. Vienna to Venice. I wasn’t searching for anything in particular,
and it was only for about half an hour, but something about looking up
schedules and examining the maps took me back to those days before and
during my trip when I would sit at a computer with my train pass in hand,
and the possibilities for exploration and discovery seemed endless.
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