A Simple Trip Abroad

(Vier jaar geleden ging in naar Estland voor een workshop over ov-chipkaarten, het liep iets anders dan verwacht)

It started so simple
A plane deep into the night
Starting at CPH, landing in TLL
I went to bed
I woke up at the 23rd floor
Seeing this view of Tallinn

I went to city hall,
To an office without a window,
But with a beautiful soviet era phone

We went to a Datcha
8km out of the city.
Jeroen, our dutch expert arrived.
Bringing the first signs of what was to come
His flight was the last out of Copenhagen

Our Civitas workshop worked effectively
The Slovenians and Estonians
Debating on what ticketing system they would use.
Creative, and Outspoken
As any LFA inspired workshop would like to be.

And then our lovely Estoniuan host surprised us,
By inviting us all to the Sauna.
It would be very rude not to oblige.
And the Saku beer tasted nice

The workshop continued the next day.
But our minded wandered off
To what the Volcano would bring us

We decided to act,
And after some deliberations,
We reserved a place on the Tallink boat to Stockholm.

We had some time to visit the centre of Tallinn,
Looking at its Hanseatic centre, Ancient Reval
As two guys from the city that destroyed that League

The HMS Victoria gave us a smooth ride
Lovely food, and Cuban dancers.
Before entering Stockholm at is most beautiful
Through the Archipelago

A small trip with the use of Stockholm’s ov-chipcard equivalent
Brought us to a crowded <T-Centralen.
But a hero from VTI
Already arranged Tickets to the city of the Mermaid

After a quick coffee with some Swedish friends,
Our X2000 tilted across the Oresund
To an even fuller Københavns Hovedbanegård

We somehow managed to get in the ready-to-depart train to Hamburg,
And after a quick ferry,
We were pickede up in Oldenburg,
By Gert, another hero in this story,
who brought us back to the United Provinces