I have always heard what a bike-crazy and bike friendly city this is, but I am blown away by all of the bikes here!  There are definitely more bikes than cars, and lots of smiling people riding them.

My husband and I arrived yesterday morning.  He is here for a work conference and I got to tag along.  We attended a reception last night (after a quick nap) and met some very interesting people from all parts of the world – the Marshall Islands, England, Ireland, Switzerland and Amsterdam, to name a few.  It was fascinating to speak to lawyers and financial professionals from London to get their take on Brexit.  That was certainly the topic of discussion by everyone, although the U.S. presidential race certainly came up, with the all-too-familiar question we hear from every person we’ve encountered outside our country – “What is with that guy Trump?”

Jonathan is in his conference today and tomorrow so I’ll be setting out soon to explore the city on my own.  We’ve already had some amazing meals (think all fresh food items – no need to ask about cage free eggs or grass fed meat) and looking forward to many more.  I’ll be on foot today, trying not to get taken out by a bike!  You definitely have to look out more for them than cars here.  We will be off our road bikes for about a week so I have to do lots of walking to make up for it!  And I’ll be doing some high intensity interval training workouts – I’ll post more about those later.