Amstel Gold Race -18th April -257km

[Bala Verde]

my favorite spot coming up....

 

[auscyclefan94]

You might think we're this tiny, miniature country where everything's around the corner.... But we ain't that small, and traffic is horrible.

Would you automatically go all the way to Perth if the 'biggest Australian race of the year' was located there?

It takes 38 hours straight of total driving from melb to perth!

From den helder to maastricht it takes 3.25 hours of driving.

 

[Jamsque]

You might think we're this tiny, miniature country where everything's around the corner.... But we ain't that small, and traffic is horrible.

Would you automatically go all the way to Perth if the 'biggest Australian race of the year' was located there?

I take your point that the Netherlands aren't that small, but don't go comparing yourselves to Australia. That is a fight you are not going to win.

 

[Moondance]

It takes 38 hours straight of total driving from melb to perth!

From den helder to maastricht it takes 3.25 hours of driving.

3.25 HOURS!?! Are you high?

It takes about 3.25 hours to get past the gigantic freeway f-ck-up that we have around Eindhoven.

 

[auscyclefan94]

boom has popped big time! put on a big show for a few moments and then byebye amstel!

 

[ak-zaaf]

It takes 38 hours straight of total driving from melb to perth!

From den helder to maastricht it takes 3.25 hours of driving.

Maybe, on Christmas day at 4 in the morning.
The rest of the year you'll be stuck in traffic every 10km.

 

[jaylew]

Would you automatically go all the way to Perth if the 'biggest Australian race of the year' was located there?

Get what you're saying but you can't honestly be comparing ANY drive across the Netherlands to a trip to Perth.

 

[Moondance]

I take your point that the Netherlands aren't that small, but don't go comparing yourselves to Australia. That is a fight you are not going to win.

Without this cloggy Australia might not even exist!

Abel Tasman btw for those not familiar.

 

[auscyclefan94]

3.25 HOURS!?! Are you high?

It takes about 3.25 hours to get past the gigantic freeway f-ck-up that we have around Eindhoven.

ok, lets compare km's then.

294 for the holland trip
3423km for aus trip.

please don't compare a minnow like you to a giant like aus. you won't win.

 

[ak-zaaf]

Without this cloggy Australia might not even exist!

Abel Tasman btw for those not familiar.

Didn't we also have a guy who managed to sail around Australia without actually discovering it?

 

[The Sheep]

I have taken the train from Utrecht when I went. Takes 3 hours

 

[msjett]

Without this cloggy Australia might not even exist!

Abel Tasman btw for those not familiar.

lol............

 

[ak-zaaf]

ok, lets compare km's then.

294 for the holland trip
3423km for aus trip.

please don't compare a minnow like you to a giant like aus. you won't win.

We're like Australia without the useless stuff.

 

[Moondance]

lol............

?

Did i get the exploits of Tasman and Jansz confused again?

I did that on a history exam once.....

 

[Bala Verde]

ok, lets compare km's then.

294 for the holland trip
3423km for aus trip.

please don't compare a minnow like you to a giant like aus. you won't win.

Unless you are not used to drive more then 20km a day, because everything beyond 20k will be considered a major "drive" in people's perception in a small country.

It's all relative

Any major contenders that didn't start?

 

[Jamsque]

Didn't we also have a guy who managed to sail around Australia without actually discovering it?

Wasn't that Tasman? I thought he discovered Tasmania but missed Australia completely, because he was having a shmoke.

 

[auscyclefan94]

We're like Australia without the useless stuff.

you mean brothels and strip clubs?

Holland is like a crammed bookshelf. No room for anything else other than people. australia has room for everything.

 

[msjett]

?

Did i get Tasman and Jansz confused again?

I did that on a history exam once.....

Nah, you just cracked me up....and reminded me of history classes at school.

 

[Publicus]

ok, lets compare km's then.

294 for the holland trip
3423km for aus trip.

please don't compare a minnow like you to a giant like aus. you won't win.

2.833 persons per km^2

354.7 persons per km^2

 

[msjett]

From memory Australia was called Van diemens land....sounds dutch to me, but I am an aussie, what would I know...lol

 

[ak-zaaf]

you mean brothels and strip clubs?

Holland is like a crammed bookshelf. No room for anything else other than people. australia has room for everything.

Then why is my city surrounded by agricultural nothingness?
Having room is nice, having a climate that actually allows you to do something with that room is even better.

But enough of this

 

[auscyclefan94]

2.833 persons per km^2

354.7 persons per km^2

seriously publicus, comparing a trip across perth from melb and a trip across holland is ludicrous. two very different trips.

 

[Moondance]

you mean brothels and strip clubs?

Holland is like a crammed bookshelf. No room for anything else other than people. australia has room for everything.

I could make some horrible, in poor taste joke about what happened to your Native peoples.....

But I'll stay classy

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

you mean brothels and strip clubs?

Holland is like a crammed bookshelf. No room for anything else other than people. australia has room for everything.

except for a tour winner apparently

Indeed aus is quite big in comparison.

 

[Jamsque]

I could make some horrible, in poor taste joke about what happened to your Native peoples.....

But I'll stay classy

Again, is treatment of the natives really something the Dutch are in a position to lecture people about