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 …

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 …

Amsterdam I want to stress that I have learned more about Europe and the European sensibility than just how the trains work (and might work better without me!). Not everyone (I hope!) will have to take a crazy criss-cross trip across some of these small countries, but I would like to share a couple of …