Thursday, July 20, 2006

Encounter with Amsterdam' schedule

Amstedam old town is layout in a fan shape of a radius of half an hour cycling time, on a map, the fan shape seems an inpressive graphic with web of narrow streets and canals lined with cute narrow old dutch houses. In reality it's a total confusion in chaos for tourists/visitors due to the the substandardness of road networks and double function of places and yet an complete order in chaos for the locals due to having known its operation dimension.

As a representative city of Netherlands, Amsterdam has no doubt, to my guess, operated in a typical Dutch serious philosophy way, a straight forward (hence efficient) and no nonsence and yet no-easy-way-out operating mechanism.

I proved it with what I encounter everyday making the half an hour cycling to work from the far South to the North point of the fan shape in th city.

Due to not needing to catch public transport, my set off time can be a bit flesible, and for months I didn't not have my watch and I still quite know what time is it when I go through the city

7:00 neighborhood bakery open, people picking up breakfast
8:00 cleaning truck, clearing last night mess.
8:30 stream of cyclist going to work, kids on in the front bucket,
http://http://www.bakfiets.nl/index.php?ch=7&pg=10&ac=639644
being cycle to care center or bigger children on their own bike trailing behind
the parent going to school.
8:45 tourists that make effort to get up early holding map searching for direction.
9.00 Ops, then I am too late to get to work...but you probably will see more tourist on the bike (mac bike)