Sitting at the train station waiting for the train – this is really nothing noteworthy in my life since I seem to spend much of it on trains these days. But you realize that you are spending too much time in train stations when you begin to recognize members of the cleaning train cleaning crew. It may be not too surprising to recognize them since these are the people who stand and wait at the station at the end of the line (where I get off) in fact these are the people I see most often at the station. Even though I am also beginning to become familiar with the train crews.
Today is different. Sitting with a big yellow suitcase on my way to Norway is the first leg of the journey. Tomorrow the real trip begins: it’s off to Marrakesh in Morocco. Besides being a trip away from a cloudy 14 degrees to a sunny 35 degrees minimum it is also an adventure to new sights, sounds and smells.
The heat demands poolside relaxation during the day so I carry relaxing paperbacks: Heather “The Fall of the Roman Empire”, Sen “The Argumentative Indian”, Murakami “Kafka on the Shore” & Auster “The New York Triology” – as you can see I am planning to do some non-work related reading. But not to worry, there is a laptop discretely tucked away in the suitcase.