Let's go ride a bike...

Today, Leish and I finally got to tick off a goal for Denmark - to ride a bike. The opportunity arose at our vocational day (Leish and I were doing ours together after a slight change of plans). After a morning session with one of the planners at Aalborg Kommune, we grabbed a couple of bikes and headed for the city. The first picture below is a perfect representation of how we saw ourselves cruising around on our wheels.

There was, however, a small problem. The bikes were too big for us. My grandma has always said to me that good things come in small packages, but today being vertically challenged didn't prove to be so good. We simply could not reach the ground. Getting onto the bike was feat in itself. It involved straddling the bike, setting the pedals at an optimum angle for take-off, jumping on and hoping to hell that our balance would prevail and we would head off in a relatively straight line. (Just to clarify, and before anyone points out the obvious, the seats wouldn't go down any further than they were because of a strategically placed basket on the back that couldn't be removed).

Needless to say, carnage ensued. There were multiple close calls, who knows how many frustrated Danes trying to get around us on the bikeway and one stack that will be etched into my brain for a long time. I wasn't even close to bring coordinated enough to get photographic evidence of our first time on bikes in Denmark, but the below sketch gives a pretty good representation of what happened.

So, currently it is Denmark bikes 1, Leish and Lauren 0. Not to worry though, we still have a few more days left to even up the score!