I took three trains to get from Wuppertal to Brussels. The first one was going to be late (you can make jokes about DB) and I was going to miss my connection but I was early at the station, so I took the one that passed an hour before and had to kill a bit of time in Köln.

There was a vegan demo outside the station and I was stupid enough to walk nearby. One of them started to ask me questions. I said I'm not vegan but I agree in general with their cause, that I'm never cooking meat myself, but still eat it on occasion when I'm visiting family or going to a fast food. But she kept insisting about the exploitation while pointing the bloody images. It made me a bit mad, since I'm at least aware and trying. I managed to walk away but I wanted to go back and ask if any of them were driving cars, because that my obsession and those are also killing billions of animals every year (and a few million humans).

Anyway, I managed to catch my connection and finally got to Brussels for my flight back to Montréal tomorrow morning.

I did plan this day, and I did suspect very much that there would be a train delayed for my journey, but the first one was a bit of a surprise. I'm just glad I'll be home soon, because I did what I wanted to do this week (cycle to and fro between Aachen and Monschau, and on the Nordbahnstrasse in Wuppertal) and now I'm just annoyed by this noisy hotel room.