If you get stuck on an isolated train station (e.g. St Johns), you are pretty reliant on the ticket machine. Dutch train ticket machines are awful. The ones on the station in Nunspeet were not accepting cards nor notes, which meant I had find 20 euros in change (the smallest value coin is 2 euros). Apparently, if you tried to buy on the train, you would be charged 30 euros penalty on top of the fare. Very annoying. Furthermore, the local restaurant refused to give change when asked. So had to get a ticket to the stopover and then buy another ticket from there. Funny, how they are hardly no tunnels in the Netherlands. It's probably because the country is newish, particularly with land being reclaimed, etc. But it's mainly because it is flat.
Also if you want to upset the Dutch, tell them that you think Holland and Netherlands are the same. Apparently not so. Technically, Holland is part of the Netherlands.
Sport
Tiger Woods failed to win after leading going into the final round. YE Yang won the USPGA becoming the first Asian winner of a golfing major. Usain Bolt broke the 100m record down to 9.58s when winning the World Championships.
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