ON A BIKE LIKE A DANISH PRINCESS

Yes, I do feel like a Danish princess at least until the moment I leave home. Even as I face the morning traffic chaos, I am sure that the bike is still my best friend.

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So we make our way along the right edge of the road, because we still don’t have bicycle tracks on every street. Somehow I reach Partizanska which is a paradise for cyclists. At least until someone, standing on the right lane with 4 turn signals, opens a car door to run to the cigarette shop, without looking, or until you come across talkative ladies who, on their way to the Bunjakovec market decided to “catch up” right there on the bicycle track.

Still, I get to my son’s kindergarten. I take him down from the seat and think: I have to take the child inside, I have to hand him over to the educators, but the bicycle can’t be inside, and I have nowhere to leave it. Mental note – on the next parent council I have to make a suggestion for a bicycle parking in front of the kindergarten.

So, I lean my bike on the fence and quickly go in and out so that no one can steal it in the meantime.

This morning I am in a zen mode so the high sidewalks and streat lights in the middle of the bike track don’t annoy me as usual. It is somewhat like a slalom for me to go around stray pedestrians who did not expect a bicycle track in that precise location and cars whose drivers saw a non-existent sign for allowed parking right on the track.

But I do get to the city square, and like a queen, not a princess, I park my bike on my Coca Cola bicycle parking. There are reasons why I smile contentedly while drinking coffee with my colleagues: I arrived before everyone, I did cardio, I was not annoyed by the extreme traffic and my boss did not frown because I was 15 minutes late for work looking for a free parking space to park the car. And not just today – every day is a “Bike-to-Work” day for me.

Riding a bike is priceless right?!

Source: www.coca-cola.mk