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Summer Wheels A Lot Of Fun !!!
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When you are growing up (if you remember) somewhere
along the line you learned about "the wheel." You learned
it goes round. You learned it takes you places. And then
you learned how to ride a bicycle. It meant Freedom. But
it also meant you had mastered a device that was a moving
connection with all that is around you. There is nothing quite like watching -from your own eyes- the world go by as you ride that bicycle. The one common ground that many of us have shared. The knowing what "balance" is. When you wonder just how far a bicycle can take you the answer is: across oceans ... but what do we find. |
To some Holland and Amsterdam may be interpreted as
"comfortable", "friendly", and -- a place where "rules of oppression meant to destroy lives" do not exist. But on
a bicycle you always see more than the surface view.
Time to take a ride.
In Amsterdam, as in all of Holland, bicycles are as much "a
form of transportation" as: trucks, cars, vans, trains, taxis,
and trolleys. In fact, it is a country where 12 million bicycles
are owned by 15 million people. And there are 6,200 miles of "bicycle lanes." The round blue signs with a white bicycle in the middle. In New York where people consider themselves - the cutting edge- they have even put some of their police on bicycles. Holland is the first Police department in the World to put its officers on Roller Skates. Wheel serious. |
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Okay, now we are looking at Holland
a little differently. Tulips. A windmill
here and there. Beautiful countryside. What else ? How do we get around ? By bicycle ??? Most cities in Holland are accessible by train. There are 350 railway stations in the Netherlands. So it is easy to transport your own bike by train. (Although, in Holland you must buy a separate train ticket for your bicycle.) You can always rent a bicycle by the week or by the day near any of the train stations. And if you are "the really hungry type" you can arrange culinary cycling tours and hit the road with your bicycle over Holland's waterways by Boatel. If it is winter you are concerned with -- there are many planned bicycle events all year round in Holland. Most would say winters are relatively mild there. So let's go ... We'll stay at the centrally located Best Western Eden Hotel on Amstell 144. Coffee Shops proliferate on every major thoroughfare and on some side streets. |
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Bicycle courtesy of Steven Rosenberg, Windmill courtesy of Netherland Board of Tourism, Horses in the Field --Bettina Cirone.
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story and photos by
Bettina Cirone
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Bicycle (above) courtesy
of Steven Rosenberg is
known as a "Recumbent
Bicycle." Comfortable. |