Bike Riding

Bike Riding is huge in Denmark.  Most streets have bike lanes, there are walking/bike paths all through the cities and even many intersections have separate lights for bicycles!  As we've posted before, we all got bikes pretty quickly after moving over here.  Chad rides his bike to work every day, I pull Lexi in the trailer to and from her school every day and now that the weather is good, Myra's school class has started taking bike riding field trips.  Last summer, Myra was pretty close to riding a bike, but we just didn't have a good place to practice, so she was never quite able to. But, once we got her out on the bike here, she was riding really well after just a couple of practice sessions.  Her being able to ride has opened up so many new exploring possibilities for us. We can now ride our bikes to the train station, instead of taking a bus.

 This cuts down on a ton of travel time and we can leave whenever we want, instead of waiting for whenever the bus comes around.  Also, we've been able to go out exploring the neighborhood in the evenings.  Once we started taking these little trips, we've been shocked at all the beautiful places that are just within a couple of miles away from us.

 There are seriously bike paths everywhere, so we've just been getting on one and seeing where it takes us.  We end up riding about 3-4 miles.  We stop a lot and take pictures and just explore.  It's been so much fun.  Denmark is so beautiful.  I hope that we have a lot more nice days exploring the neighborhood.  And now that the sun isn't setting until 10pm or so, we have long summer nights to enjoy the outdoors.

Herstedvester Kirke, dates back to around the late 12th century.

Zip Line at a park

One of the MANY playgrounds.

Swans with their cute babies