Bike Trip

Sometimes the Dutch have really good ideas. Like the OV-fiets card (public transport bike card). You have to pay a stupid amount of money to put your own bike on a train here, so instead you can take out a membership for a year which entitles you to hire special blue bikes from any major train station for just a couple of euro. You can cycle around all day, explore new places and return the bikes to the station before heading home. The bikes come complete with locks and lights and are pretty comfortable (much better than my own oma fiets, which is long overdue some TLC).


Me and my friend Debbie did this today. We hired bikes outside Haarlem station and cycled out to the beach at Bloemendaal in the sunshine for a lovely lunch by the sea. Highly recommended!