{"id":976,"date":"2016-06-20T14:24:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/?p=976"},"modified":"2019-12-30T23:05:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T23:05:53","slug":"northern-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Northern Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cycling-in-holland-a\"<\/a>Here we go, pursuing a cultural\/cycling adventure in the land of bikes–the Netherlands.  Betsy and I, along with our Pittsburgh friends, Mark and Mary Ellen, plan to pedal our way through a Roads Scholar “Touch of Dutch Life: Leisurely Biking in the Netherlands” program for a week.  Then we plan to retreat to Amsterdam and take over a couple apartments for a week with our children and their SO’s.<\/p>\n

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Our cycling route through Holland–the red loops show cycling, the grey loop shows the bus transfers.<\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve already been warned that American cyclists will be ill-prepared for the road rules<\/a> in Amsterdam.  Our goal is not to take down a Dutch cyclist and create an international incident. Maybe my Dutch heritage (c. 1880) will give me native chops when it comes to two wheels in the city–right, dream on, Hans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here we go, pursuing a cultural\/cycling adventure in the land of bikes–the Netherlands.  Betsy and I, along with our Pittsburgh friends, Mark and Mary Ellen, plan to pedal our way through a Roads Scholar “Touch of Dutch Life: Leisurely Biking in the Netherlands” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","category-fam-friend","tag-holland-cycling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/cycling-in-holland-a.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QqGi-fK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}