Spending a week touring The Netherlands by train and bicycle sounded good to me. On my one previous trip to Amsterdam, I had borrowed a friend’s bicycle to get around, including sightseeing as well as mundane tasks like cycling to business meetings. While roaming the streets that flank the canals is a wonderful thing, I was struck by the sheer bicycle usage and the infrastructure dedicated to it. It seemed to me at the time that the Dutch were pretty good urbanists, and any chance to explore how they design their buildings and cities was one I was not going…