ON OUR BIKES

Bikes were everywhere in Amsterdam, but not your funky mountain and race bikes! Lucky cos probably a bit harder to master. Instead we had bikes straight from the 1920'2 or there abouts! The ones where you brake by pushing backward on the pedals! Heehee (note to self - much harder to brake in this fashion when going down hills)














We navigated our way around the streets and canals to find the parks of the city. We hung out in vondel park where all the hippies gathered, way back when our bikes were brand new. Fair to say i was impressed with our efforts, only a few slight crashes, like Mon into a man and me into some dog crap. A beautiful sunny day, unfortunately not a dry spot to lie down in the sun. And so the search of park bences went on.














We look quite confident here but if we had taken a photo of us going through the main streets in the dedicated bike lanes...........our faces would have a few more wrinkles and our knuckles would have been white from holding on so tight! And probably the people in the background would have been laughing!