We all love public transport!

Normally it it takes 17 minutes by coach from Breda station to my stop in Etten Leur. If you travel by train from Breda to Etten Leur, it's a 7 minute journey from station to station. Today this trip took me 2.5 hours!

The train station in Roosendaal was closed, cause of a gas leak or bomb...? That meant the trains to and from Roosendaal didn't drive anymore. That means the intercity train to Etten Leur didn't drive and that also meant that all people who where going to Dordrecht/Rotterdam/Amsterdam were still in Breda cause theire train could not pass Roosendaal station. And that means it was very busy at Breda station!

What do you do if the trains don't drive? You go by coach. That was my first choice anyway. Normally if the trains don't drive for a good reason, the national railways makes sure there are enough coaches to surrounding city train stations. But cause of the new time table of the coaches (the existing lines drive more frequent now) there were no coaches left.

The first two coaches to Etten-Leur/Oud Gastel/Roosendaal were full under a minute. We waited 10 minutes till the next regular coach came. The driver who went to Etten Leur decided he would only take people who lived the most distant away?! That simply meant people who lived not even close to Etten Leur got to go to Etten Leur and people who needed to go to Etten Leur (and old people which didn't do a lot of elbow work) stayed in Breda.

25 minutes later we finally got on a coach to Etten Leur. Someone in that coach had a bad karma I think, because this coach broke down on the motorway. So we got kicked out off the coach next to a forest. Everybody got a little bit annoyed, and we decided to see if we could order a taxi. The answer was clear after one phone call, there were no free taxi's in the area anymore.

The only thing we could do was walk to Etten Leur (not that far away about 5 km, but still). Of course the normal asphalted path was temporary gone, they're making a new cycle path. So we did a little hiking through the forest (with my almost new boots).

Luckily I needed to go to Etten Leur, most people needed to go to Roosendaal (about 30 km further away).

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