Our team of facilitators woke up at 6:45am. My view from the hostel room makes it worth it though: This is the Rijn (Rhine) river. We needed to move the bikes from the main storage room, which is going to be used during a meeting in a bit. I had Read more…
We woke up early and enjoyed breakfast at the Nieuw Hotel Minerva then started pulling bikes from storage. Downtown Leiden has really great bike facilities too. We used the red bike lanes to navigate to our first wayfinding node and headed out of downtown. The app doesn’t give you turn Read more…
We started the day by helping the group get their travel panniers squared away and get then used to the extra weight. After seeing the students and facilitators set up, I headed back to Schiphol Airport solo to pick up Sandra from UK. She is joining us for the middle Read more…
We caught a tram to head towards Centraal Station for a canal tour this morning. The facilities here are very narrow. You really have to watch for cyclists at the edge of the road at all times here. They always have the right-of-way! We talked with representatives of the Plastic Read more…
We started the day with a pedestrian walking tour and got to see some great woonerfs which allow for frontage roads to share space for all users: They are using these connections to connect the woonerfs across the main motor vehicular lanes. We then met up with Dave from the Read more…
We arrived at Schiphol AMS Airport early in the morning and my first task was finding the rest of our group. Everyone was extremely friendly and helpful. We took the train from the airport and purchases. 3 day pass which allowed us access to the extensive tram system that Amsterdam Read more…
Because of my very limited space in my packs, i decided to try something new and brought a small Kindle Fire with bluetooth keyboard to help stay semi-connected throughout the trip. So far it seems to be working pretty well. Folding Keyboard from Amazon It is a fraction of the Read more…
I will soon be departing to tour the Netherlands with a group of professors, facilities administrators and students to study multimodal facilities on a whirlwind tour over two weeks on a bike. I plan to document this experience here. Fullness of my Packs The bare necessities 100% Packing for 2 Read more…