Tam On Transit

I woke up with a plan, a very good plan, to take every form of non-automobile transport easily available in Amsterdam. Bike to Rijkmuseum Bike to the bookstore district  Take the ferry from behind Central Station  Bike around Noord Amsterdam  Ride Metro back with my bike before rush hour  Drop my bike at the hostel Take a bus out Take a tram back What I actually did: Slept in too late for the art museum Biked to the bookstores Ferried to Noord Amsterdam  Biked up through Noord to a Metro station ...and realized I missed the last train before rush hour that would allow bikes on board. So, I biked around Noord Amsterdam neighborhoods for the rest of the day, ended up at a light industrial waterfront area that had been redeveloped into design offices, restaurants, and what I think of as "the usual" attempts to spruce up an old port or industrial area to attract high income people to work and visit in an ar...

It was a multimodal day! We woke up early to a delicious breakfast buffet to power us for the day ahead. (How many cheeses and fresh baked breads and veggies and yummy goodness?!? I don't know because I forgot to take a pic.) I chowed down and nabbed the new rental bike--adjusted to my particular leg length the day before--to zip on down the hill to the ferry. Was I almost run over in that 5 minutes? Not that time. It felt like a car might hit me at any time in the shared lane. I ran a bit late, but managed to get to the ferry to Ærø Island with some minutes to spare. I've never taken a vehicle onto a ferry before, so riding our bikes into the hold was kind of cool. Bikes, cars, and a dump truck full of soil parked in the hold.  Most of us in our crew went up top and outside to enjoy the views and "fresh" air. (Why the air quotes? The ferry's diesel exhaust occasionally drifted down to us. Plus, what seems like a lot of Danish people still ...