Three Countries Corner
All over Aachen there are bicycle route signs pointing to Dreiländereck, meaning Three Countries Corner, where the borders of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands all come together. The distances are Read More …
Tag: Cycling
Sunny days in Copenhagen
Copenhagen is often described as “a city of cyclists” or “the world’s cycling capital”, but you will also hear the opinion that there aren’t any “cyclists” in Copenhagen, just normal Read More …
Rainy days in Copenhagen
In the middle of my visit to Copenhagen I was treated to one of their famous Baltic low-pressure areas, which brought thirty-six consecutive hours of drenching rainfall. This had a Read More …
Cycle tracks in Copenhagen
In lots of cities, including the one I live in, there is an ongoing discussion about whether bicycles lanes should be painted on the street or on the sidewalk. If Read More …
Right-turning motor vehicles
One of the greatest dangers for cyclists in any city is the risk of being run over at intersections by right-turning motor vehicles. (Left-turning in the UK.) Copenhagen has come Read More …
Cycling in the Tauber Valley
The Tauber Valley is a popular cycling area with two more or less parallel routes. Down here in the valley itself is the “classic” route which is mostly flat, or Read More …
Tauberrettersheim
Tauberrettersheim is a town of 839 people in the Tauber Valley just five-and-a-half kilometers upstream from Weikersheim. It is also nearly three kilometers upstream from Schäftersheim and roughly the same distance Read More …
The Weikersheim Planetary Trail
The Weikersheim Planetary Trail begins on the Tauber Valley Cycling Route at the northern edge of the city of Weikersheim. A yellow sphere, about one and a half meters in Read More …
Street Market on Boulevard Edgar-Quinet
“SPAM” does not necessarily mean the same in French as in English. Although French computer-users may know the English word SPAM meaning unwanted junk e-mails, in French the letters S.P.A.M. Read More …
Einstein lectured here
In 1905 Albert Einstein, who was then a 26-year-old employee of the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, published four scientific papers which among other things solved the long-standing problem of Read More …