An overwhelming majority of Society Hill Civic Association board members approved the gift to Friends of Pine & Spruce during a contentious meeting Wednesday.
We took a flight to Amsterdam for a lengthened weekend once and had a hostel in the Red Lights district, or very close by at least if not on it. Yeah the central was utterly packed with bikers and tourists and boy, you better not wander into the bike lane. as a pedestrian. (Yes I know short depicts Germany instead but couldn’t find the guy just yelling “bike lane, this is a bike lane” and now I don’t know whether it’s a short I’ve seen or an anecdote I’ve heard.) Anyway, my friend had a friend living in Amsterdam Noord, so we took the ferry over. The entire walk+ferry ride from our hostel to the apartment in Amsterdam Noord was at most 15-30 min, with the ferry. (I might be misrembering the crossing time but.)
And Amsterdam-Noord was super chill, no tourists, not really that many people either. (Although it was a Thursday night iirc so…) And not like apartment buildings but like terraced houses etc.
It’s a favourite pastime of some Amsterdammers to scare tourists who aren’t paying any attention and wonder into the bike lane by ringing our bell as we pass within a centimeter of them.
If it wasn’t obvious I’d be forgiving but it’s painted bright red with bicycle symbols on it.
We like to joke the bike lanes are stained red by the blood of tourists
I found Amsterdam terrible. People on bikes shouting at pedestrians. Not because of tge infrastructure but my goodness, that place is overcrowded.
You’re probably talking about central Amsterdam by the train station.
Yea that place is an absolute mess because ~20 million tourists come through there each year.
If you cycle 10min in any direction away from there it’s really nice and relaxed.
Just need to get away from the tourists
We took a flight to Amsterdam for a lengthened weekend once and had a hostel in the Red Lights district, or very close by at least if not on it. Yeah the central was utterly packed with bikers and tourists and boy, you better not wander into the bike lane. as a pedestrian. (Yes I know short depicts Germany instead but couldn’t find the guy just yelling “bike lane, this is a bike lane” and now I don’t know whether it’s a short I’ve seen or an anecdote I’ve heard.) Anyway, my friend had a friend living in Amsterdam Noord, so we took the ferry over. The entire walk+ferry ride from our hostel to the apartment in Amsterdam Noord was at most 15-30 min, with the ferry. (I might be misrembering the crossing time but.)
And Amsterdam-Noord was super chill, no tourists, not really that many people either. (Although it was a Thursday night iirc so…) And not like apartment buildings but like terraced houses etc.
It’s a favourite pastime of some Amsterdammers to scare tourists who aren’t paying any attention and wonder into the bike lane by ringing our bell as we pass within a centimeter of them.
If it wasn’t obvious I’d be forgiving but it’s painted bright red with bicycle symbols on it.
We like to joke the bike lanes are stained red by the blood of tourists