On Mon, 22 May 2006 20:41:20 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

I agree that the ticket machines are unfriendly in terms of payment
method. But they *do* have instructions in English to get a ticket to
Centraal/Schiphol - that's a lot better than most systems; does a LUL
ticket machine at Heathrow have instructions in Dutch??

There are probably so few Dutch people who don't speak perfect English
that's its not worth bothering with :-)

Notices about the penalty fare (EUR35) are entirely absent - at least
English ones are, I can't read the Dutch signs. Once again, when did you
last see a Dutch sign about penalty fares in London?

FWIW, there are, or at least were, a handful of road signs in Hull in
Dutch (or possibly Flemish. Or perhaps really bad German).
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK