Sights and sounds on my way to work

Most days of the week I head to Rotterdam for work, but on Tuesdays and Thursdays I work at our Amsterdam office, located on the Westerdok. Although it's still bitter cold out, I always look forward to my 17 minute bike ride. This is roughly the ride I take (right).

This morning was unusually sunny, so I decided to strap my camera around my neck and take pictures of the everyday life I see on the streets. I didn't look through the viewfinder (safety first!), I just clicked away.

Starting on my street, with trusty Rosa and my pack, some of the things I saw included: trams, people, cafés, coffee shops (like the Amsterdam kind), bikes, people on bikes, really hip people on bikes, road work (men shuffling around bricks), road blocks on the canal streets, a postman on a bike, a postboat, strange pipe installations, small Smart cars (the shared system), more trams, old men on ladders talking to eachother, ladies in fur coats, window washers, trash day on the classy 9 Streets, cars barreling under the train tracks with me, walking up the bike/ped bridge on the Westerdok, the crazy architecture of the Westerdok, and more people on bikes. Phew! Always an exciting adventure!