[youtube id=”XuBdf9jYj7o” width=”600″ height=”350″] A friend shared this on Facebook yesterday and I found it so interesting. I had no idea there was such a history behind how we got our bicycle paths. I think it’s wonderful that there are so many biking paths in the country and that cyclists can travel safely. Something that is sorely missing in Canada, …
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Today is a holiday in the Netherlands so I have my honey home with me. The weather has been beautiful so we decided to take advantage and go for a bike ride. We packed a lunch, grabbed an old duvet cover (mental note: buy picnic blanket!) and head off. We biked through Zuiderpark, where I almost died with envy for …
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It took a while, thanks to a nasty flu and some nasty weather, but I’ve finally started getting out on my new bike! Today Xander and I went on a lovely 18.8 km bike ride, what a way to spend a Sunday! My new bike is fantastic and riding it highlighted just how crappy my old bike was. I also …
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I have a new bike! WAHOO! Remember Sheldon the Wonder Fiets? Well, I sold him in the fall. He served me well during the time I was using him but I just was not at all happy with him overall. I felt like I was riding around on a coke can that was about to crumble beneath me. Maybe it …
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Rant incoming! It’s about people, and how they suck… and the rules of the road in the Netherlands that I just don’t understand! Today my husband and I were driving to the supermarket, and he nearly hit a biker with the car. We both instantly thought that the guy was in the wrong, and apparently he thought the same about …
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First, let me apologize if you came here looking for info on fishing in the Netherlands. I got squat.. nada. Other than this photo, which I took yesterday during a bike ride near Groene Kruisweg in the south of Rotterdam. I stopped to take a photo when I saw these people fishing, because it looked nice and also because I …
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The map was created with my favorite handy dandy My Tracks application for Android. Today my husband and I went on a nice long bike ride around Rotterdam. He was finally over his throat infection, I was over my minor cold and the sun was shining again… it was time to get out there! Initially we planned on a short …
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Something I’ve noticed, and loved, about biking is that I come across things I probably would never have seen otherwise. There are places just steps away from areas I’ve driven a thousand times, where I see something new that I didn’t even know was there. As we were biking along the Oude Maas the other day I saw this and …
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My husband took this photo of me at about 8am in the morning. We left the house sometime around 7:30am to go for a short ride while the wind was low and the sun was out a bit. It was so peaceful and lovely, I was in heaven! I’m so glad that we are both early birds and enjoy doing …
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Now that I have finally broken the 50 lbs lost point and Project Fatass has made it through winter, it’s time to move on to another goal. I won’t say what it is because I’m still too embarrassed by the numbers, but it’s 8 lbs away. Sound easy, right? Yeah, not really. Having already done 50 lbs another 8 lbs …
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One of the things from my 101 List that I’ve been most keen to do is start riding my bike again. I’ve not ridden my bike in the last number of years because I never found it comfortable. To put it bluntly, I’ve been too fat and self-conscious. We bought it about 5 years ago because I wanted to join …
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