bikes

bike parkinglot
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Headlights and mudflaps and trunks oh my. We’ve spent days riding around town. When peddling with groceries in hand it’s a challenge to decide which hand to keep free. One is good for the brake - the other - the ringer! Do I let people know I’m about to hit em [...]

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This windmill is down the road from the houseboat. It’s spins in the evening and is on the tourmap for travelers. There is a bar below the windmill and next to it is a eetcafe that we stop by most everynight for a drink before heading home. With our bikes locked up [...]

We spent the day peddling around Amsterdam… the first sunny day since we’ve been here. The houseboat comes with two bikes and we set out this morning to first see the De Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam and then ride around town some. The Botanical Garden was suprisingly close to our neighborhood by bike… but after a [...]

Maybe it’s because I understand about one word in one hundred here (often it’s not the sexual reference I think), but there is much less talk about protecting the environment and much more action here in Holland. Each day I see something else that seems so simple but in the US it would be revolutionary. [...]