These past few weeks have been busy! Mostly Ross & I have just been getting ready for the arrival of my parents, so we've been working every spare moment to clear our schedules. In the midst of it all, his bike was ruined.
We went to a theatre for a lecture by a designer a couple weeks ago, and when we came out, his front tire was bent, and the spokes were broken. He had to get the bike home by balancing it on the back tire and walking it the whole way. We took it to a repair shop to get fixed, and – not so suprisingly – it's a special tire because of it's braking system. The quote to fix it was €250 – €300, when we paid €75 for the bike to begin with. It was a sad time. Ross really did have a beautiful bicycle.
So, what do you do when you need a fiets in The Hague? Well, Ross called our old friend Terry, the eccentric man who lives in an antique store, who sold us the bikes in the first place. Ross went for tea, was serenaded by piano and traded his old frame for a new old set of wheels.
It's a lovely, brown ladies Dutch cruiser that I think is actually smaller than my bicycle, but it will work for the next couple months.
And we found out what happened to his bike in the first place: apparently there's a mechanical gate in front of the theatre, and it just happened to be activated at some point during the night, and Ross' bike just happened to be in the way (we just parked our bikes in a crowd of 3o or so, and neither one of us noticed a sign.) The force of this gate destroyed a few bicycles that night. Sadness.
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Grace & Ross are back in the colonies.
2 comments:
HI Ross and Grace
I bet you cannot wait to see your parents when are they arriving in Holland? I was sad to hear about your bike Ross. Tessa and Keeley and Dale and the kids are coming this way for Easter. So it will be nice to see them Well better go and get ready for bed say hello to your parents. Take care and happy easter Grace and Ross and Janice Lindsay
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