Wanderlust!

Wanderlust! 

It was cold and windy, and they for spelled snow today, though I decided already yesterday that I will go out. Zwolle is the city where I wanted to go to,  Zwolle is  the capital city of the province of Overijssel just like Almelo and Nijverdal. It lays 120 kilometres northeast of Amsterdam, and it has about 120,000 citizens. Usually I pick the train what passes Nijverdal, but in Nijverdal they are building a huge tunnel, so that train has delays until March/April from this year. So, I had to take another route, that was quit easy. Though the trip would be 30 minutes longer, but I didn't mind. Plenty of time today. I left at 10:45 and walked towards the train station, it's a short 15 minute walk. The train left at 11:22, count a hour on that and I arrived in Zwolle at 12:22. 

Train station in Almelo, no this wasn't the train to Zwolle, this huge train was going to The Hague.

It was the first time I travelled with this train, this train was different, smaller and slower. The route was different too, I liked it. I like seeing different places, I enjoyed it. Arrived in Zwolle I recognized the train station from the early days, it's been more then four or maybe even five years since I was here.  In my old village Nijverdal I travelled always to Zwolle, (by train) and from there I travelled almost everywhere, to every big city or village in Holland. Zwolle has a good connection, with many trains going to almost every direction in Holland. Nowadays I use Almelo for that. Almelo is not as big as Zwolle but that's alright.  Even though it was a long time I was here, I knew precisely almost every road. Though I walked aswell different roads, I wandered around and saw many nice sight seeings. 

I was surprised at the many statues in Zwolle.

I had a nice afternoon, took many pictures, and saw many nice new things around me. There was the market, the nice old and aswell new buildings. There was the nice little harbor and the churches. There were aswell some Jehovah witnesses, they stopped me and started talking with me. First they came up to me with the question, "May I ask you something?
 I didn't know first what they wanted, until they came up with the word God and Jesus. I think their age was about 25 or 28 something, what they were telling me was here and there quit interesting. My story about my Dad's passing came along aswell, I told them that I had some kinda peace with it that my Dad passed away, I told aswell about how I felt at the funeral, that it was awkward but mostly sad. 

Coffee in a shop to warm me up!

But it seemed they weren't that much interested in that, They were more interested in their own story. At the end of their story they handed me a flyer, and they invited me to visit one day 'this' church in Zwolle, "Sure," I told them, I shook their hands and walked further, lol. They were nice guys, but I don't know, they had something fake over them aswell. In my eyes they were just a bit to much of a Christian, lol. I made a end of this visit to Zwolle by buying my last few of groceries there. I walked many miles this day and I really could feel my legs. At the train station in Zwolle I helped a black man out, he had to go to Almelo too, just like me. But he had no clue where to go. I told him to stay with me, cause I was going where he had to go. Fun thing was that he liked it to talk in English, I loved it. 

A nice cat in the window, there were more, but this one cathed my eye.

I loved to chat with him a bit in English, he was a nice guy. Once when we arrived in Almelo, he had to take the bus, so, I walked with him towards the busses, cause again, he hadn't had a clue where to go. He shook my hand and thanked me afterwards, good feeling. I felt exhausted once at home, but it was so worth it. I cooked dinner, and after that I sat down and didn't get up, lol. Tomorrow will be a resting day for sure, it's needed. The pain and pressure in my chest I felt today too, but it was handable, I think I know what it is, and that gives a bit of a relief.