Today is the day that team SETH is set to join up in Leiden, near ESA’s ESTEC facility in Nordwijk!
The route from Kiel to Leiden should only take about 7h20 by train. However with a signal failure and damage to the overhead line in Hamburg and a cancelled train from Osnabrück to Amsterdam, the journey is all but straight forward. After getting off in Osnabrück HBF at short notice, we caught a local train to Hengelo. The Netherlands welcomed us by canceling the next few stops of our newly made up route due to an broken train on the track.
After checking the next options, we chose an Intercity train going to Amsterdam and connecting to an IC heading to Vlissingen via Leiden Centraal! We arrived in Amsterdam with a delay of about 25 minutes, missing this train.
Thankfuly there was another train departing for Rotterdam over Leiden. With a total travel time of 10 hours and 10 minutes we will finally make it to our destination at 19:13.