And now, at long last ... the last pictures of our European Vacation, an odyssey full of disappointments and delights. It ends, as you'd hope, with snacks.
The bag we got our dinner in one night, which I love just because ``eet smakelijk'' looks like something you might come up with if you were faking Dutch for ``eat smiling''.
Oh yeah, one of the bags of baby carrots that they gave us as we left Plopsaland for some reason. Not just us; everyone got two bags per. I have no explanation for this phenomenon.
And now, sad to say, we had to leave. Here's a view from De Lijn of Plopsaland; you can see the hotel up front and The Ride to Happiness behind.
More views of Plopsaland from afar.
And the the sad last look at Plopsaland, on the train bringing us to Amsterdam. It was a sad evening.
We stopped to change trains in Gent, which I didn't recognize as the Ghent, but we were fascinated by and curious what this handsome-looking building in the distance was. Turns out, it was the (historic) Ghent train station.
We were stumped thinking what it was, having nothing but these remote views. There was plenty of structure above --- and below --- us that was obviously modern train station so it didn't occur to us these were all part of the same train station complex.
One of my favorite compositions of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger looking out of frame. ... In hindsight if I'd paid attention to the Gent-Sint-Pieters sign I'd have realized where we were but, have to admit, we were mostly sad and rushed.
Still, there were pigeons having a good time, so that's nice.
And come the next day we got to the airport, which still had the old-style click-click-click destination board! Mostly; the flight numbers and air liveries were on flat TV screens. But the signs still clicked, like destination signs ought.
Also, a picture of one of the snacks we'd bring back to Michigan with us to have with afternoon coffee break. A Nutri-Score of E means it's Excellent, right?
You can tell this is a quality wafer chocolate snack by its affording a seven-differences puzzle.
Trivia: On its second flyby of Earth, in December 1992, the Galileo probe flew 300 kilometers above the South Atlantic and within one kilometer of the intended target, accurate enough that post-Earth trajectory maneuver TCM-18 was cancelled, saving about five kilograms of propellant for later mission operations. Source: Mission To Jupiter: A History of the Galileo Project, Michael Meltzer.
Currently Reading: A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II, Maury Klein.
