{"id":308,"date":"2011-05-18T21:20:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2015-07-02T15:24:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T19:24:51","slug":"amsterdam-netherlands-wednesday-may-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam, Netherlands – Wednesday May 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>So what does one do in a city with 400,000 bikes? \u00a0Apparently Walk ……. for SIX straight hours!<\/p>\n

Does this guy look like a tourist or what……….camera and all?<\/p>\n

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Sure Amsterdam has 37 museums,tall blondes (male and female) everywhere,\u00a0lots of smokers, lots of bars,\u00a0what seems like more canals than streets,\u00a0but what is really amazing are all the bikes.<\/p>\n

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The respect for the bikes is amazing; a separate bike lane, even a separate light at crosswalks for walkers, bikes and cars.\u00a0Rush hour takes on a whole new meaning with the pedalers on the street. \u00a0When the street light changes you look for bikes, cars and trolleys all poised to run you over.<\/p>\n

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The bicyclers, however, are the most intimidating; they’re quite, riding fast and talking on the cell phones.\u00a0So sorry Robyn,\u00a0no photos of museums, just bicycles, bicycles and more bicycles.<\/p>\n

Notice the parking is for bikes (and mopeds), not cars, maybe not such a bad idea?<\/p>\n

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We did manage to see a bit more than bikes.<\/p>\n

Miles of street market offering every kind of (legal) item you could ever want to purchase (and a lot you would never consider buying),<\/p>\n

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fruits and flowers<\/p>\n

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and lots of nuts!<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow we’ll see if we can get another picture or two that does not include a bicycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So what does one do in a city with 400,000 bikes? \u00a0Apparently Walk ……. for SIX straight hours! Does this guy look like a tourist or what……….camera and all? Sure Amsterdam has 37 museums,tall blondes (male and female) everywhere,\u00a0lots of smokers, lots of bars,\u00a0what seems like more canals than streets,\u00a0but what is really amazing are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amsterdam-2011","category-before-the-ride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":77,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}