Saturday, February 10, 2007

Bicycle Shed

Today we went to Amsterdam. Parking our car near the Centraal Station is a convenient but very expensive (3.40 euro per hour) exercise. Standing on the canal bank next to the Centraal Station is a multi-level parking lot for bicycles. Easily there are more than a thousand bicycles in this parking lot alone.

In the Netherlands, cycling is very popular. Bicycles are used for various reasons, including recreation, travelling from city to city, tourism or just simply to cycle to the local high street to shop at the supermarket. Many roads have separate cycle lanes marked along it.

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