Zak is just critical about the helmets but we just don’t have that issue here.

Bike parking isn’t left to individual businesses. That’s handled by the city and in the Netherlands everything except a handful of protected locations are open for parking. That’s why Amsterdam looks like it does. So no, McDonalds probably don’t usually supply bike parking… nor auto parking.

If you say something negative or indicative of a necessary improvement, your positive stuff will seem truer. It’s like the best CDs being ones with happy and sad songs: They make each other seem happier or sadder… people are like this, too.

Not that it is role but check out how much Zak in Copenhagen criticizes the Danish national government… I have heard some negative stuff about the Dutch counterpart and I live outside and talk to one guy (who happens to be the head of a dept. at a hochschule there). I am sure you know a lot more.

By the way do McDonalds there have bike parking?

The traffic is terrible. Driving my Escalade here is just an exercise in frustration because the streets are so damn narrow and there are bicyclists everywhere and they don’t even follow the rules of the road. Parking is nearly impossible. Gas is crazy expensive.

The Mexican food in Amsterdam totally sucks and I don’t think there’s a single Salvadoran restaurant here.

There are no mountains in the entire Netherlands. Nor is there any hunting. I can’t even carry my gun.

I’m normal height in the rest of the world but a shrimp in Holland. Half the women are taller than me here.

Some years summer never happens. It just goes from Spring to Fall.

There are 50 kinds of dairy products I’d never seen before but only about five breakfast cereals that only come in one size package.

They don’t sell Wonder Bread here.

L from France (Nantes) … @ sorry for my english ^_^