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In our family we have a word for those trains that are to be found in any tourist attraction to take lethargic tourists around: 'nerd' trains. I am not ashamed to admit that we have taken our fair share of these trains, but today I think we had the ultimate nerd train experience.
At Tropical Fruit World we had followed the given program by first touring the plantation in a wagon drawn by a tractor. Then our guide stopped at this rather normal looking playground and told us to get on the train which was soon departing. This "train" was no more than 40 cm high and looked like it was produced by ToysR'Us. The entire group (mainly adults) did as told, without further questioning. They straddled the little train and crouched down on it with their knees coming up to their shoulders, packed tightly together. Our guide then sat on the "locomotive", pulled the chord that started it like a lawn mower and told us to hold on. We then putted along the track, uneventfully, around the playground to the sound of the little motor while our guide was blowing the trains whistle regularly. Minutes later we were back to where we started and instructed to move along so the next group could get on and so that we could get on the boat. We were not quite sure of what the point of this train trip was - maybe candid camera? Tropical Fruit World was pricy, but the laughs that we have already had a the thought of that train make it well worth it.
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