Ever since I remember I like to cycle! My favorite memory of the time I lived in France is going to the forest on Sundays cycling with my family. I remember picking chestnuts… Good times!
Now in The Netherlands, it has a special flavor, and it’s not just because it’s all so plane!
Here when you drive you have to look everywhere for other cars, bikes or pedestrians… There are so many people and lanes for all kinds of transport.
When you walk, you have to give priority to bikes (you have to be very careful), you have to wait for the fire signs to change (and they take long, because it’s the slower transport).
When you cycle, everything seems so much closer. The pedestrians and the cars give us priority when we turn, we just have to put one finger out to the side we are turning (you will have to pay attention to the cyclists…) and the traffic light for cyclists is faster also.
And we still have to consider that almost everywhere you could have to pay to park your car, meanwhile, you can park your bike almost everywhere without paying and you have free parkings in the center!
I just want to go everywhere cycling!
Now in The Netherlands, it has a special flavor, and it’s not just because it’s all so plane!
Here when you drive you have to look everywhere for other cars, bikes or pedestrians… There are so many people and lanes for all kinds of transport.
When you walk, you have to give priority to bikes (you have to be very careful), you have to wait for the fire signs to change (and they take long, because it’s the slower transport).
When you cycle, everything seems so much closer. The pedestrians and the cars give us priority when we turn, we just have to put one finger out to the side we are turning (you will have to pay attention to the cyclists…) and the traffic light for cyclists is faster also.
And we still have to consider that almost everywhere you could have to pay to park your car, meanwhile, you can park your bike almost everywhere without paying and you have free parkings in the center!
I just want to go everywhere cycling!
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