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Poster at Soltau train station<\/p>\nPoster at Soltau train station<\/p>\n
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Tosca in the bus after 24 km. walking. Because the train didn’t come a bus transferred us to another station.<\/p>\n
Today is the day of the Homecoming. <\/span>Homeward bound. <\/span>24 Km. <\/span>walk to Soltau. <\/span>There I reached the major European international E1 hiking trail from Southern Italy to\u00a0Norwegian Cape North, as I described yesterday. <\/span>Gives me the idea\u00a0having reached another mile pole.\u00a0I did not<\/span>\u00a0not really so, but yes, you have to keep motivating yourself someway. From <\/span>Soltau\u00a0by train, 5 hours,\u00a0to Aachen in Germany, which is 15 min. from my home.\u00a0<\/span>The later in the day I go, the later I’m home and\u00a0the more\u00a0expensive the Fahrkarte (train ticket). <\/span>After some calculations, I decided to leave the hostel\u00a0at 8.30 a.m. No pausing,\u00a0 no more looking for a nicer way but straight\u00a0heading for Soltau at top speed. <\/span>So that worked out well. <\/span>IThe weather was dry,\u00a0a little sunny, the wind was not too crazy\u00a0 and we constantly followed the\u00a0cycle path along the way. <\/span>Not even a\u00a0chicken in the street the first few hours. <\/span>“Karfreitag” Good Friday. <\/span>Apparently a German holliday<\/span>. <\/span>That day is not used for bikeriding etc., but for sleeping, apparently. <\/span>I\u00a0finished my 24 km. <\/span>in 4.5 h.\u00a0<\/span> I ordered\u00a0my Fahrkarte\u00a0at a complicated machine,\u00a0snuggled on the platform in the sun on a bench and began to open\u00a0the food packets for Tosca and\u00a0 for me.\u00a0From another platform\u00a0I hear an official of Deutsche Bahn, according to her suit, calling\u00a0 in German to the <\/span>man with dog (that’s me): The present\u00a0train does not come, you need\u00a0the special\u00a0bus to go to another station\u00a0! Definitely because of a suicide, I thought! Anyway the bus took us the same\u00a024 km back that I had walked this morning? The entire stretch\u00a0<\/span>that I this morning finished in a race pace. Rather demotivating. At the station I saw a poster ” der Weg ist das Ziel”<\/span>. Photo.\u00a0 I do not quite agree. This applies particularly\u00a0 in case you do not reach your goal. “the road is the goal” is true, if you are roaming with only a vague target in mind <\/span>. I do not stray around and my goals are clear:\u00a0 Cape North before winter, ping ping for Mama Alice. I am curious\u00a0<\/span>whatever the road will bring or will teach me. That’s fascinating, exciting, sometimes annoying, but\u00a0always worthwhile. But it’s the goal that I want to reach.<\/span><\/p>\n I also had to think of the text message on my cellphone yesterday\u00a0when Funds told me, that a pathologist, friend whom he had walked with\u00a0a lot,\u00a0told him, never trust your doctor. E<\/span>ven so my 1-April announcement that I chucked it. <\/span>The\u00a0pathologist <\/span>is always right. <\/span>Doctors\u00a0 diagnoses are not the definite truth but are probabilities. <\/span>The pathologist usually has the last\u00a0say regarding the diagnosis.\u00a0But he necessaraly needs<\/span>\u00a0tissue: thus cutting, puncturing, material to check under the microscope. <\/span>And because\u00a0cutting\u00a0usually not\u00a0is very pleasant, gp’s\u00a0keep going on stating probability diagnoses, and fortunately often\u00a0those are\u00a0 right\u00a0<\/span>Never trust a lawyer. <\/span>To advocate\u00a0BS was asked the question what to write on his\u00a0 tomb stone after his death. <\/span>He replied: “an honest lawyer\u00a0is resting here.” Then <\/span>everyone will say: that’s BS! <\/span>So every profession has its jokes. <\/span>And\u00a0this way I entertain myself during my walk Yesterday on facebook ponyanddogtrip I watched the broadcast of Broadcasting Krijtland\u00a0 on Mama Alice and my journey. <\/span>I hope Mama Alice ‘s street children in Peru will benefit from it.
\n<\/span>I also noticed the masses signs\u00a0 for salvation bringers: oriental movement techniques, buddha’s, Indian gods, heilpraktikers, crackers, strings, massages of all kinds, heilgymnastik. <\/span>Apparently there is a large market for all those good therapists.\u00a0Whether<\/span> their qualifications exist, if those are nationally recognized, whether they are subject to standards like\u00a0a possible disciplinary action remains to be seen? No idea<\/span>. <\/span>Maybe I should even consider\u00a0 hammering such a shelf against\u00a0my front\u00a0door. <\/span>There seems to be much demand for salvation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Tomorrow we will celebrate Easter with the family: grandchildren, looking in the garden for hidden eggs,\u00a0 hidden by the Easter bunny, you know. <\/span>Monday night family reunion of Sonja’s side in Nijmegen. <\/span>Burglars who read my blog\u00a0must first pass the of course raging bull bison in my garden, a group of Scottish highlanders with\u00a0terrible horns and then our hungry shepherd dog. <\/span>He loves you! <\/span>That’s not worth\u00a0a few\u00a0brass utensils, right?
\n<\/span>And then Tuesday I’ll from Dutch Nijmegen back to German Soltau, where two friends with their bikes wil join me for a week.\u00a0Will be<\/span>\u00a0great fun again.
\n<\/span>Because there are dog people reading my blog, just a few comments about Tosca: she was actually intended by her previous owner to be a police dog. <\/span>She is very watchful, barks quickly, but unfortunately also to crowded, screaming or playing children. <\/span>Balls\u00a0make her\u00a0extremely enthusiastic. <\/span>In particular, the combination of the previous situations. <\/span>That provides\u00a0 adverse reactions. S<\/span>he\u00a0 eats everything that is dirty and no greater pleasure than wallow in manure or rather in a stinking cadaver. <\/span>That’s difficult when you arrive at a guest house or in the bus. <\/span>Fortunately, she is housebroken and also learnable. <\/span>In recent weeks several trips by\u00a0bus\u00a0she behaved well. <\/span>Today in the train also,\u00a0exept for a few\u00a0barks. <\/span>It is still remarkable that the first conductor told me\u00a0that I had to buy a children’s ticket for Tosca, but he didn’t impose. <\/span>Just before Aachen\u00a0 control again, now by another conductor. <\/span>He looked at Tosca, but said nothing. <\/span>You see, everywhere just nice people. <\/span>Or\u00a0do I look by now like\u00a0a poor pilgrim? <\/span>Tsjuus.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n