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How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman | The New Yorker
«Where are our helmets?” my daughter Harper asked. We were standing outside a cycle shop in the Dutch city of Delft, along with Harper’s older sister, Lyra, and my wife, Alia.Sun Sep 15 09:07:04 2019 - permalink -
“We didn’t buy any,” I replied. Along the dark green Wijnhaven canal, confident Dutchmen and Dutchwomen whizzed around, their blond heads exposed to the soft northern sun. “In the Netherlands, only tourists wear helmets.”»- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/how-i-learned-to-cycle-like-a-dutchman?source=EDT_NYR_EDIT_NEWSLETTER_0_imagenewsletter_Daily_ZZ&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_091419&bxid=5be9c8333f92a40469dd3263&cndid=49713540&esrc=&mbid=