Amsterdam to Aachen

Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport is an all-in-one airport. After we collect our luggage and pass the passport control desk, we tried to look for a train station. We have already bought a train ticket on the internet in Malaysia from Amsterdam to Aachen, it cost us approximately RM110. You may buy the train ticket on the spot at airport as well, they have the ticket machine there, but I am not sure whether these machines are manned. We bought the train ticket from "B SNCB Europe", alternative, you may try DB Bahn too. We printed out the ticket and have it with us all the way. Surprisingly, there weren't any ticket checking counter nor a ticket inspector before entering the train. But this doesn't mean that you can take free ride, because they do surprise ticket inspection. If you get caught for deliberately cheating, they'll fine you heavily. 

We are total in 3, one is S.Lady and another one is Lgirl, because she look just like a little girl though we share same birth year. L.girl has prepared a small note about our train routes and station information, and we depend a lot on that note. Not only to show people the station we wanna proceed next when we couldn't pronounce it correctly, also for us to remember which station we should get down. 

From Schiphol station --> Amsterdam Zuid --> Utrecht Centraal --> Heerlen --> our final station, Aachen Hauptbahnhof (Aachen Central Station), it took approximately 3 hours.

Scenery all the way from Amsterdam to Aachen was great, green wide countryside field with trees on horizon and blue sky above, white fluffy sheep, black and white dairy cattle, horses... WOW!!! 

hahaha, sorry if I sound like an idiot, but that's really super amazing for me. =D

Some might ask why don't we spend some time at Amsterdam before travel to Germany. We need to take a placement test in Germany before our class starts, activate our Blocked Account with Deutsche Bank, register ourselves in Aachen state and others, and with 30kg weighted luggage for each, that would be so difficult to move around. Thinking back the moment 3 of us getting our 6 months luggage up to train-floor level and next station moving it down to platform, it was like a tragedy!

Aachen Hbf, our final destination

First day in Aachen was a mess, after we got our apartment key, we spent our another half day cleaning it. Two bed rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. Our apartment is just next to street, on second floor, 7 mins walking distance to city, 3 mins walking distance to market and convenient store... Just great situated. But we having difficulties in recognize the road in our first day, we thought we are living in a rural area, no shopping center, no market, no nice restaurant... we found all these the second day.

Our first meal in Germany, it cost us 4,80€. I started to miss Malaysia food so much... Nasi lemak, sambal, roti planta, 幹撈板面, 雲吞面, char kuew tew, curry mee, taufu bok, slurrrp... even maggie mee!!!