It makes me so happy to see you enjoyed it here and i love how you spent your time here. Many other tourists should go outside of Amsterdam and see the true Netherlands. Hope we will be able to welcome you back in the future! 🇳🇱🌷🚲🍻
The cobblestones are left in to slow down car traffic on mixed use roads, so maybe its not as nice to cycle on, but they are helping keep you safe! Glad you liked the horses. The farm animals here are very friendly in general, you can bring a carrot to get their attention. Just watch out for cows drooling on your shoes haha The free roaming sheep and other animals along the bike lanes are used for natural grazing, so the municipalities dont need to use mowers. Its free food for the animals and it helps the nesting birds and the insects to survive, plus it keeps our herding tradition alive.
1:06.. Purmerbos in Purmerend. I saw it as meadows for years and then they started planting this area with trees in 1988 with the purpose of cutting these trees down after 25 years to be used as bio fuel for the bio-fuel city heating plant. Not the whole area was cut down at once, just a few trees at a time and replanted trees on the open spots. Wonderful multiple use area. In the Twiske there is also a public naturist area. Lots of people of our age on a sunny day. Great swim in the clear lake. Nice to see my own living space through your eyes. Thanks.
Don't travel south west direction on bike in NL ! 😉 The same advice I can give on West Scotland, not to travel westwards, but eastwards. Otherwise you'll have head winds all journey !
Why the HELMETS??The fact that you are riding on the bike lanes means that a helmet isnt necessary!But the people in the Netherlands dont were helmets because there is no risk of injury!!
@@jimwilson6118 Well ok,there is of course always risk of injury.But compared to the situation in the states and the situation in the Netherlands,the risk off injury is a lot less here than in the states..
I live in the area. I never get enough of its beauty and wonderful bike infrastructure.
It makes me so happy to see you enjoyed it here and i love how you spent your time here. Many other tourists should go outside of Amsterdam and see the true Netherlands. Hope we will be able to welcome you back in the future! 🇳🇱🌷🚲🍻
Amazing video. Thanks for sharing.
The cobblestones are left in to slow down car traffic on mixed use roads, so maybe its not as nice to cycle on, but they are helping keep you safe! Glad you liked the horses. The farm animals here are very friendly in general, you can bring a carrot to get their attention. Just watch out for cows drooling on your shoes haha
The free roaming sheep and other animals along the bike lanes are used for natural grazing, so the municipalities dont need to use mowers. Its free food for the animals and it helps the nesting birds and the insects to survive, plus it keeps our herding tradition alive.
The best country on planet Earth to cycle around. 👍
1:06.. Purmerbos in Purmerend. I saw it as meadows for years and then they started planting this area with trees in 1988 with the purpose of cutting these trees down after 25 years to be used as bio fuel for the bio-fuel city heating plant. Not the whole area was cut down at once, just a few trees at a time and replanted trees on the open spots. Wonderful multiple use area.
In the Twiske there is also a public naturist area. Lots of people of our age on a sunny day. Great swim in the clear lake.
Nice to see my own living space through your eyes. Thanks.
Headwinds, those are our mountains. And they can be brutal.
Don't travel south west direction on bike in NL ! 😉
The same advice I can give on West Scotland, not to travel westwards, but eastwards. Otherwise you'll have head winds all journey !
Such a nice and relaxing video. But what's with the helmet? 😉
@jim -- were you on analog or e-bikes?
We were on analog bikes. Next time we will likely do e bikes
Half were on e-bikes, half not on analog. I was riding an analog.
I’m ready! How do you get signed up for such a trip?
You just book a flight or a ferry to get here, you can rent a bike at any bike shop, and go!
Why the HELMETS??The fact that you are riding on the bike lanes means that a helmet isnt necessary!But the people in the Netherlands dont were helmets because there is no risk of injury!!
Oddly enough my wife fell on the bike path when we were there. Cracked her ribs…thankfully she had her helmet on!
@@jimwilson6118 Well ok,there is of course always risk of injury.But compared to the situation in the states and the situation in the Netherlands,the risk off injury is a lot less here than in the states..
cyclists with helmets are tourists...
smart ones!
We were required to wear helmets by a our group operator. Why so sensitive?
@@jimwilson6118 Its perfectly fine for people of a certain age to wear a helmet, dont listen to this guy, hes being mean for no reason :)