Commuting by Numbers: Netherlands edition
The latest entry to Commuting by Numbers comes from far from (my) home: the Netherlands! Tse Moana, who I’ve known for many years via the online politics game NationStates, did some counting on a three-hour(ish) train ride from Winsum to Leiden (”north of Netherlands to middle part of Netherlands.”)
So, here’s our first European Cx# entry (see, I’ve even created an almost-indecipherable acronym!) All her selections lend this entry the flavour of the originating country - I think it’s rather wonderful. Thanks Tse.
Commuter: Rianne
Location: The Netherlands
Commuting time: A 3 hour tour
Route: By train from Winsum to Leiden
Bridges & Overpasses: 96
Soccer Goals: 82
Childrens’ Climbing Play Things: 8
(I have no idea what they’re properly called in English) [me: hmmm, try “climber”, “play set” or “jungle gym”]
Cows: 5 (1 ‘proper’ and 4 Scottish Highlanders)
Sheep: about 500 or so, in 25 different flocks and groups
Construction sites: 9
Mills: 2
Wind Mills (the high white ones): 6
Train Stations: 28
Passing Trains: 33
Olympic Trains: 4 (orange painted trains made to transport our olympic athletes)
Buildings with things sticking out: 6 [huh?]
Dolmen: 1 [me: I had to look this one up in wiki]
Horses: 88
People playing golf: 3
Plastic garden chairs tossed away in the woods: 2
Prisons: 1
Military Excercise Grounds: 1
Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 03-01-2007 | 11:03 PM
Posted in: Commuting
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I forgot to mention that my commute also has several megalithic tombs in it — 218 of them.
Yeah, really….
Jungle Gym, that was the word I was looking for
And yeah, the buildings with things sticking out kinda phased me at some point as well. I included the category because I expected us to pass a particular building that has (as decorative element) a huge chain and anchor coming out of it at the top (it must be somewhere between 10 and 15 floors high) which goes round it a bit and then into the ground. And then, of course, we passed all kinds of buildings but not this one. So I included buildings that had lots of pipework and tubing sticking out, like factories
But glad you like it.