A big travel day, so very little video and just a few pictures.
Rob Mee and John (me) have been travelling in Norway for the past week. I met Rob at Scarborough Music Camp in 1971. Rob was first trombone in the band, and I was first trumpet. Great friends ever since.
Ben Pon joined us this morning in Copenhagen. Ben grew up in The Netherlands, and I met him at the back of the first Physics class in University of Toronto Engineering Science in 1973. Again, great friends ever since.
The three of us rode the trains from Copenhagen to Berlin today, with a change of trains in Hamburg. In Berlin, Rob set off by himself for another week of travel through Germany and Switzerland. Rob will continue to entertain us with his wonderful photographs.
Ben and I had planned to get to Poznan, Poland after Berlin, but long delays heading into Berlin made the connection impossible. Instead, we have made it eastward as far as we could, to the Polish border in Frankfurt (Oder). Tomorrow morning we’ll board the early train to Poznan.
Notable today were the beautiful wooden arch structure of the old Copenhagen train station, and the recently opened very modern station in Berlin. Incredibly, this station has three vertically stacked levels of incoming and outgoing trains, with Berlin’s subway system running underneath all of that. The trains enter from various directions. It’s like a scene from the old cartoon The Jetsons.
