Utrecht Crowd Surfing

A few times a week I travel through Utrecht CS (Central Station), one of the busiest train stations in the Netherlands. If you have never been there: the main hall is basically a large, rather open space that is often full of people. As a matter of fact I think CS secretly stands for Crowd Surfing. Well, to transfer trains I need to walk from one end from the station to the other end and most of the time at rush hour. But even when it’s very crowded, I can cross the hall without any problems and even without thinking much about all the other people around me. And so does everybody else. When I first thought about this, it looked to me as if the crowd is organized in some way. As if someone or something is constantly coordinating everyone, creating pathways in all kinds of directions. In a way like: “you go a bit to the left and you’re going to walk behind him, you need to slow down a little, etc.”.

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Some things are better left the way they are..

This summer I went to France for holidays, doing a little road trip with some friends. Half way through our vacation we came in a very touristic place called Vallon Pont d’Arc, famous for its caves. I can tell you that when a city is famous for something, I want to see that something, so we went to the touristic information office and got a list of caves to visit in the neighborhood. One cave caught my eye, because it had a multimedia tour, so (of course) I was immediately interested and curious what that would be like. Did they manage to find a way to make a cave visit a greater experience by adding different kinds of media? I wanted to check that out!! The folder said that is was a three star cave.. I didn’t know they gave stars to caves, but is must be good then, you would think..

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