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Amsterdam - Time Lapse
Biked from Uilenstede to Amsterdam centrum and back taking one picture per second.
Answers From Amsterdam: Part Eight
What mode of transportation do you use most frequently and on average how far do you have to travel this way to get the necessities?
Biking, the lifeblood of the transportation system of the Netherlands. Biking is to the Dutch as driving is to Americans. They bike to school, to the supermarket, to the movies, to other cities, and even all the way across the city just to find a cafe bathed in the glow of the afternoon sun (something to be treasured in the usually raining/cloudy weather of Amsterdam). And by ‘they’ I also mean me. I literally bike everywhere, whether it is five minutes to the grocery store or campus, or 30-45 minutes to a cafe/bar on the far side of the city (I live in suburb south of the centrum of Amsterdam), and 60-90 minutes to a a nearby city or the beach. Rain or shine, cold or hot (well semi-warm because I’ve yet to experience hot weather), day or night, with winds up to 30mph, and even snow and ice, you’ll find me biking (or sliding when it is snow and ice) around the city. Being able to bike anywhere anytime creates a feeling of ultimate freedom. I really can’t imagine a life without a bike, and I’m already wondering how this will change my life upon returning to the States.
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Street Art and Update
As June wraps up my last courses abroad are coming to an end. I’ve finished my final paper for Philosophy, Cognition, Brain (a 30 page beast of a paper), and have one more paper (shorter) to write for Psychology of Religion…though I haven’t worked much on the last since my brother (Nathan) has been visiting for the past week. We met in Helsinki, Finland last week and stayed with a Finnish friend and a few other Americans I’ve traveled with over the course of the past year. (I’ll have more to say about Finland in its own post soon)
Since returning to Amsterdam Monday, I’ve been showing Nathan around the city via bike, and catching up on paper writing while he explores museums on his own. One such bike trip around the city included a visit to the middle part of Spuistraat to see some of Amsterdam’s street art. Later in the week we biked along the southern part of the IJmeer (The Netherlands inner sea) to visit castle Muiderslot (in a small town about 20km south east of Amsterdam).
For now it’s back to paper writing…
Link reblogged from words of love and despair
biking in amsterdam →
Every level of society is represented on the bike paths; there are businessmen dressed in suits, children as young as eight and adults as old as 80, tourists, natives, and immigrants, and an equal number of male and female riders
(Source: xysmas)
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Haarlem Part One: Biking From Amsterdam
About a 25km ride from Amsterdam to Haarlem, which would have only taken 1-1.5 hours, except the luggage strap on the back of Cole’s bike became mysteriously intertwined with the back axel and gears. We walked the last 5km to Haarlem and opted for the 15 minute train ride to Amsterdam for the return journey (which conveniently allows bikes).
