Berlin Two of the meetings I had while riding the rails between the Netherlands and Germany were actually fun and involved good conversation and even some good food on a trip marked by a lot of baguettes in — where else? — train stations. One evening on my wild day in Berlin I had a …
Month: June 2007
Ship’s Hold
Rostock, Germany Left den Haag, took my last sleeper out of Brussels near midnight, dropped my gear in the Berlin Hauptbahnhof, and caught another train to Rostock. This was a different platform experience than usual. For example, there were a lot of very large police! There had been problems over the weekend in Rostock in …
Dutch Activist and Humanist Foundations
Den Haag — The Hague Two huge foundations supported by both Dutch citizens and the Dutch government are Oxfam NOVIB and HIVOS. NOVIB is the activist arm of these developmental enterprises and allied with Oxfam more than a dozen years ago as part of a worldwide federation of a number of bodies under the Oxfam …