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#CatTravels: Goededag, Amsterdam!

By Catherine Toth Fox • August 24, 2013 • #CatTravels, Food

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Amsterdam is a city synonymous with bicycles.

There are about 800,000 people who live here — and there are an estimated 880,000 bicycles, four times the number of cars. One-third of all trips taken within the city — you can walk, drive, catch the bus or tram — are taken via bicycle.

To call this place a bike-friendly place would be a gross understatement.

Everyone, it seems, rides a bike. You actually have to dodge them if you bravely decide to walk the streets along the canals. There are gray-haired women, long-legged fräulein in high heels, men in suits, teens in cut-off jeans — all riding around the city atop bicycles outfitted with three important things: lights (you can get a ticket for not turning on your lights at night), baskets or saddlebags to carry around groceries, and heavy chain locks (theft here is ridiculously common).

So since I’m in the City of Bicycles, I had to get on board, too.

When in Amsterdam, bike.

Here’s what my first full day in this bustling metropolitan looked like:

Walking the dogs

Walking the dogs
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This is a very dog-friendly city. You can take your dogs pretty much anywhere, including most restaurants and on public transpiration.

Follow my #CatTravels adventures in Europe on Twitter @thedailydish and on Instagram @catherinetoth.

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7 Comments

  • Reply Dennis August 25, 2013 at 2:46 am

    Hi Cat! ‘I’ll start using a bike in my exercise routine. I may never see Amsterdam in my life time but enjoy your blog.

  • Reply M August 25, 2013 at 7:08 am

    Hello Cat!

    Great pixs of fuud! It looks so ono!

  • Reply Annoddah_Dave August 25, 2013 at 7:56 am

    CAT: Aaaiiiyyyaaahhh! Fuud Pix! Tenks! Amsterdam has some guud Chinese Fuud as well! Next to Paris, they have probably the freshest seafuud in Europe.

  • Reply Linda August 25, 2013 at 1:27 pm

    Wish I was there! 🙂

  • Reply David Jackson August 25, 2013 at 5:00 pm

    Whose the chick in front of the blue bicycle? Looks local kine to me… 🙂 Love this blog, can’t wait to see more!

  • Reply Danny August 26, 2013 at 12:04 am

    Must – Eat – Indonesian food while you’re there! (order a rijsttafel for a medley of food) Also check out the Tuschinski Theatre for movie – or a drink in the lobby. It’s near Rembrandtplein. Most beautiful interior of any movie theatre.

  • Reply L August 26, 2013 at 4:49 pm

    omg!! please bring home a fresh stroopwafle or twenty for me!!

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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