Speed limits in Paris
In the spring of 2014 there was a brief flurry of media stories claiming that the new mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, had ordered a speed limit of 30 km/h Read More …
Tag: Cycling
Cycling in Besançon
Before leaving home, I took out a seven-day subscription to VéloCité, Besançon’s bicycle sharing system, at their website www.velocite.besancon.fr/. This cost me all of two Euros — exactly a quarter Read More …
Concert venue Hôtel de Ville
On summer evenings in July and August the courtyard of the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) in Geneva’s Old Town is used as an open-air concert venue for classical music, Read More …
A rainy night in Hamburg
While I was riding around St. Pauli, near the harbor, the wind came up and the clouds started getting darker, so I found a sheltered place under a roof where Read More …
We waited thirty-five years for this!
From the photo, you might think this was just an ordinary pedestrian and bicycle crossing on an ordinary city street leading from an ordinary strip of city park to another Read More …
Cycling in Ghent
When I was in Ghent (= Gent, Gante or Gand), a lot of the bicycles had little signs on them reading “Weer een Auto Minder”, which means: Again one less Read More …
Cycling in Toulouse
“The Toulouse City Council works to promote the use of bicycles in the city, and to make cycling safer and more spontaneous.” So it says on the city’s website. In Read More …
A walking tour of Montmartre
At 9:30 on a Sunday morning a group of VirtualTourist members met here at the Café des 2 Moulins at the suggestion of Paul Smith, who used this as the Read More …
Paris bicycle route # 1
These bicycle route signs are at the corner of Rue de Provence and Rue de la Chaussée d’Antin in Paris. What I especially like about this corner is the lovely Read More …
Cycling in Milan
This young mother in her high heeled boots, hip-hugging trousers and fur stole, with her child’s seat on the back of her bike, was one of the many Milanese who Read More …