Travelling Season

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During the summer vacations, older people should let the younger ones do the travelling. Trains and hotels are crowded. Nowadays, you have to have a lot of patience to enter museums and art monuments. In our youth, generosity towards late trains was needed at best. Everywhere you could find space and there were no waiting queues. I like to walk up and down the platforms of our main station, mentally rummaging through the past. Yesterday, I remembered Evelyn Waugh’s famous travel notes, When the Going was good (1946). Nowhere does he mention people waiting in long lines. And the author seemed to be happy about his fellow travellers.
„I soon found my fellow passengers and their behaviour in the different places we visited a far more absorbing study than the places themselves.“ I like to walk up and down the wide platforms, which have just been rebuilt and adapted to modern times, and imagine what comment Waugh would have had ready for an idle stroller among hurrying travellers. Well, my short German leather pants are a pleasant garment for hot days. So he might have eyed them appreciatively.