Day: May 16, 2015

I love travelling by train. Each time I need to get to Aix-en-Provence I take the train. It’s easy. I hop on the bus in Cognin, walk to the train station, jump on a first train to Lyon. I change trains in Lyon to catch a TGV to the south. Sometimes, I’ll go as far as Marseille and back to Aix. Other times, I’ll stop in Aix-En-Provence TGV station. From there, I get to the town centre and walk to the seminary. Easy.

Today, the SNCF took me on a different route. Rather than going all the way back to Lyon town centre, the train dropped me at Lyon Airport TGV station. It is a spacious, open, modern building. It was purpose built for the TGVs. It avoids trains to go to the town centre, which would waste time.

I am now waiting for another train that will take me back to Chambéry. It is the 16:41 train from Paris to Milan. If I wanted I could go all teh way to Italy under the alps. I love travelling by train.

I was in Aix-En-Provence for two seminars in John Calvin Seminary. On Friday afternoon, we had four hours lectures on Nietzsche. It was heavy, but not too bad. The most difficult was to do it without coffee. The person who is usually in charge of preparing coffee for the break was away.

I won’t give you more details about what we heard. There’s too much to digest. But it was an encouragement to read Nietzshe and consider his impact on the 21st century, especially in the West.