Ride Boldly!

Alkmaar, best known for a cheese market or something like that (never been there), now gets international media coverage for a drunk guy on a bike on top of a car. He got the Dutch equivalent of public intox (yes, they have one), but not a drunk driving charge. He wasn’t driving, after all.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bike Ferry, originally uploaded by Days Between Stations. A bicycle ferry to get bikes and pedestrians over a canal near Delft, the Netherlands. Price to ride: 1 cent (Euro-cent).

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } golf cart?, originally uploaded by Days Between Stations. In the Netherlands, these small cars (or golf carts, really, based on size) are allowed to share many bike lanes and paths with [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bicycle, originally uploaded by Days Between Stations. On this bicycle in Amsterdam, note the integrated front-end carrier. Most people use them for small children, although they seem handy for grocery runs [...]