In lieu of Snark collections, I will be doing Travel Blogging, which is a collection of observations, ruminations, and the like stimulated by the change of scene. The first of these is that at the Amsterdam airport Schiphol there were people smoking cigarettes, something you rarely see in the States these days.
The Dutch use a lot of bicycles, and the reason is that the country is flat, flat, flat. Bikes are much more feasible when there aren’t hills to climb. Our river cruiser offers the fit bicycle tours at some of our stops, these provided by local vendors I believe.
It didn’t take long to see a Skoda auto, it is a Czech brand never distributed in the States. I expect to see some other automotive oddities as we wander about. Some makers don’t find our fussiness about air bags and emission controls worth bothering with.
The other DrC is off sightseeing in a small Netherlands village, and the visibility is less than 100 yards. Fog is the culprit. I don’t think their windmill photos will amount to much today.
