10.9.15 Amsterdam

Just a couple of quick posts. We are in the wind down of our odyssey. We woke in Amsterdam and we're off on an excursion first on a couch and second on a canal boat cruise. The weather was perfect and we spent free time strolling around before cocktails and dinner on board.

 

Must say a few words about the bicycles in Amsterdam. The Dutch people take some degree of pride in their bicycles. However they also take a large degree of liberties and you'd better not get in their way. Yelta, our guide from our first time here, informed us that nobody buys a nice bike for fear of theft that sounds pretty common. It also means that the Dutch like the Mormon church who speak of numbers of members, they speak of how many bikes they have per capita. The reality is that for every bike that appears rideable there is at least one that is clearly not.

I do applaud them for showing the rest of the world how it can be done in a large city not to mention the tram and bus system.

 

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