Amersfoort

Train services in the north and east of the Netherlands were brought to a standstill for several hours on Tuesday morning, which was the day of Prinsjesdag, which might or might not have been a coincidence, after metal pipes were placed between the tracks at dozens of locations.

Rail infrastructure manager ProRail has described it as a coordinated act of sabotage, and the pipes had been attached to the tracks overnight on routes between Amersfoort and Almelo, and around Meppel, and if you ever travel to the north of the country by train or from the north, then you know that Meppel is an absolute bottleneck in the Dutch railway system.

And they placed these metal pipes at locations where train detection sensors were installed.

And as a result, the signaling system believed that all of those sections of tracks were occupied, automatically bringing other rail traffic to a halt.

And then in my mind, I was also thinking, "Okay, then afterwards I'm gonna be out again," because I knew in the German organization there's not, uh, there was not a role really, uh, after that business is sold.

So I thought, "Okay, I'm gonna see this through, and then I will look for another opportunity." And during that time, I really connected to the headquarter in Amersfoort, which I...

The whole process was more on local level, so I didn't have that connection, and was really intrigued by the company, by its purpose, and also by the opportunities if you're willing to build something and, yeah, have an impact.

So in the end, would have never thought, it's another pivot.

Uh, it landed me in a role in the headquarter in Amersfoort.

And I know we're gonna talk about that in a moment, but I think this is an important point because change is so much part of our world these days, and people do deal with it in different ways.

They can find sometimes it's very challenging.

Now, as you breathe normally, let's head back to the mysterious disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon.

Kris Kremers and Lisa Vroon came from Amersfoort, a city in the center of the Netherlands.

They'd been friends for years, and by twenty fourteen, they were sharing a home and for a time waiting tables together at the same restaurant to save money for the trip that would take them to Panama.

They were, by every account of the people who loved them, exactly the kind of young women you would want them to be.