A brief Interlude: Biking
A couple of times over the coures of our week at Castle Stoutenberg, Corey and I borrowed Carolien and Marco's bikes to visit the nearby towns--Leusden, Hoevelaken, and Amersfoort, the last of which is the epi-center of the area, a 750-year-old village of just under 150,000 people. Here are some of our observations:
- Everyone bikes in Holland.
- Cars must (and usually do) yield to bikes.
- No one wears helmets.
- Biking and texting: almost worse than texting and driving...
- Dutch bikes have built-in locks on the back tire. Pretty nifty.
- Biking is super easy because it is so flat.
- Biking is not so easy in gale-force winds. Think biking on I-90 between Mitchell and Chamberlain.
