za 30 aug, 2014 18:03
Hallo!
We are two French in love with Netherlands or more precisely with the Dutch people and culture. Each time we have the time we rush there to find the civilization we are missing in France*. Rather than hitchhiking (as we used to), we plane on traveling across the Netherlands by bike as it will be much easier to meet people. We plan to buy 2 cheap bikes somewhere there since renting them looks more expensive, and also it'll be less stressful and more relax (no fear to damage them, no renting delay, more freedom to go wherever and whenever we want to go... ).
As usual, we will hitchhike from France but this time because we don't want to waste 15 days out of 25 just to go to the Netherlands or to come back (we live in French Brittany, Vannes)
As we can't take the bike back we us (we will also come back by hitchhiking), we will leave them in the Netherlands. We are thinking of lock them somewhere, maybe in a small city for a year (or 6 months, we don't know yet) before the next trip... So the question is the question is: where can we lock a bike for such a period of time?
We don't want to put them in a place where they could bother people (such as in front of train station). We heard about the 100€ options to secure them for a year but since our bike won't cost more than 50€ (hopefully even less!), we are looking for free and safe options/advices. Would it be a good idea to park them somewhere in the North in a small city ? Less risk of theft ? But what about the police, would they allow it?
Any advice concerning these bike parking issue would be warmly appreciated !
Thanks !
*: we find Dutch people much more flexible, open, critics about the things they hear, much more involve in community, in brief more interesting and less individualistic: we get the sun, you guys have the "savoir-vivre"... if only we could exchange!
We are two French in love with Netherlands or more precisely with the Dutch people and culture. Each time we have the time we rush there to find the civilization we are missing in France*. Rather than hitchhiking (as we used to), we plane on traveling across the Netherlands by bike as it will be much easier to meet people. We plan to buy 2 cheap bikes somewhere there since renting them looks more expensive, and also it'll be less stressful and more relax (no fear to damage them, no renting delay, more freedom to go wherever and whenever we want to go... ).
As usual, we will hitchhike from France but this time because we don't want to waste 15 days out of 25 just to go to the Netherlands or to come back (we live in French Brittany, Vannes)
As we can't take the bike back we us (we will also come back by hitchhiking), we will leave them in the Netherlands. We are thinking of lock them somewhere, maybe in a small city for a year (or 6 months, we don't know yet) before the next trip... So the question is the question is: where can we lock a bike for such a period of time?
We don't want to put them in a place where they could bother people (such as in front of train station). We heard about the 100€ options to secure them for a year but since our bike won't cost more than 50€ (hopefully even less!), we are looking for free and safe options/advices. Would it be a good idea to park them somewhere in the North in a small city ? Less risk of theft ? But what about the police, would they allow it?
Any advice concerning these bike parking issue would be warmly appreciated !
Thanks !
*: we find Dutch people much more flexible, open, critics about the things they hear, much more involve in community, in brief more interesting and less individualistic: we get the sun, you guys have the "savoir-vivre"... if only we could exchange!
