Low-cost midlife crisis

We didn’t take any trains today (well unless you count the metro, which doesn’t fall under interrail)

One slightly related thing to note though – some  places in the Netherlands don’t take visa or mastercard (either as credit cards or debit cards). This is, as you might imagine, a fairly annoying hassle. I think it is just a Dutch thing. Nobody appears to know why. We’ve fallen foul of this in a few places now. Obviously it’s an annoyance to most tourists, but it’s perhaps of special import to interrailers because one of the practitioners of this “this is a local shop for local people” practice is a supermarket chain called Albert Heijn which appears to have a monopoly on stations (think WH Smith in the UK)

We spent the day enjoying the modern architecture of Rotterdam, and enjoying less the current heatwave in NW Europe.