Becoming Dutch: Bicycle Hunt

So here's the thing. The situation now with the pandemic isn't getting any better. There are more and more people being infected with the virus and sadly, a lot of people died all around the world. In The Netherlands, there are now more than 18, 000 people tested positive and more than a thousand died. In my country in The Philippines, there are more than three thousand positive cases and a hundred deaths. This is why people are advised to stay at their own homes, avoid social gatherings and keep distance of 6 feet or 1.5 meters.

And since the number of positive cases is increasing, we still don't know what lies ahead. The government here has not implemented any lockdown to prevent huge jump of economic loss. Anyhow, we still are told to be prepared by any means.

That is one of the reasons why I needed to have a bicycle myself. If ever there'll be things in the future that we cannot use any fuel-automated vehicles, at least we have each our own means of transportation. Another reason is, I am integrating myself into the Dutch system so I needed to learn and have one myself.

Our first option was to look at an online site where we can find second-hand bicycles. If you're living in The Netherlands, you might have heard of the website Marktplaats, or no, you absolutely know about it. It's like the OLX of The Philippines.

We found some nice ones on the website but the thing is, we need to go to the owner's place so we can have it. In this time of calamity, it is not a good idea to go house to house. That plan, just can't.



Then finally, my husband thought of visiting another website, where we find good stuff at an affordable price. Yes, Decathlon, why not! We just took a glance and in an instance, we found the one.


I did not have any doubts, the first time I saw it, I was hooked. The next day, we went to the nearby city where there's the nearest Decathlon store and we bought it. The one I've tried was a small size but finally, we got the medium bike. We went to the fast-food chain beside the store, ate at the parking lot then went home. Just imagine how happy I was when they handed me the keys to my bike (that's the keys to the locks haha!). When we got home, I tried it, but the wind was so hard that I suffered cycling ad fighting the wind when we were on our way back home. I thought we shouldn't have biked that far. Anyways, I'm happy I have now a bike. There are a lot of adventures waiting out there, can't wait for my next ride!