We 
just returned from a ‘half-round’ Nova Scotia roundtrip: Lunenburg-Middleton-Grand Pre-Brooklyn-Walton-Maitland, a trip we decided to do over 3 days just so we could stay overnight in a couple of hotels. More about them later.
On our way back to home we noticed that the tide was coming in fast (see picture) so we decided to stop over at the (brand new?) observation deck at the old Maitland bridge. Note I say ‘brand new’ because I’ve never seen it there before. It was also pretty busy there: on both the deck and in the river. People seem to like rafting when the tide comes in. If you like muddy waters, it might be something for you.
Nice picture. For a split second my brain was expecting story about the Tide interrupting a trip with the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch railway).
For a split second my brain was expecting story about the Tide interrupting a trip with the Nederlandse Spoorwegen
I assume that the ‘Nederlandse Spoorwegen’ has
growngone from bad to worst since I left?It’s not bad, I think it’s even getting better.
Okay, I lied a bit.
It’s particularly bad when it’s really hot (white lie: “Overheated machinery and rail tracks”), cold (white lie: “Snow on the rail tracks”), windy (white lie: “Leaves on the the tracks”).
Snow on the rail tracks
(…that’s my favourite Dutch excuse…)
You haven’t seen this, or this.
The infrastructure is getting too old. With the rising cost of steel and even man power, think of it: it’s more expensive to replace older pieces of rails than it was, say, 20 years ago.