Cycling at night in Paris
One of the things I really love is cycling home at night after the opera. This is even more magical in Paris because you not only have the opera going Read More …
Tag: Cycling
A double market town
Markt Bibart is a town at the southern edge of the Steiger Forest, on the main railway line between Würzburg and Nürnberg. The first known mention of Bibart in any Read More …
:D in Scheinfeld
Scheinfeld is a happy town in the Steiger Forest in Franconia, northern Bavaria. You can tell it’s a happy town because some internet-savvy person has written “:D” with a felt-tipped Read More …
Since when is Frankfurt in Bavaria?
In the database of the now-defunct website VirtualTourist (VT) there were four places in Germany called Frankfurt. One was a large city in Land Hessen called Frankfurt am Main, which Read More …
Market Market Pocket-Village
All you loyal readers of my Markt Bibart post (thanks again to both of you) will no doubt recall that there are 386 towns in Bavaria which bear the official Read More …
Saving the right bank, step by step
For nearly half a century, from 1967 to 2016, this is what the right bank of the Seine looked like in the center of Paris. An endless stream of motor Read More …
Paris Beaches
One of the more vicious acts of vandalism in recent Paris history was the destruction of the right bank in the 1960s for the purpose of installing the Voie Express Read More …
Vélib‘ 2007
The first-generation Vélib’ bike sharing system in Paris began operations on the afternoon of Sunday, July 15, 2007. Unfortunately I wasn’t in Paris on that day, so I can’t give Read More …
Vélib‘ 2008
In the summer of 2008 I took out a seven-day subscription (for a mere five Euros at the time) to the Vélib’ system of short-term spontaneous bicycle rentals and spent Read More …
Santander (or whatever) Cycles
Although I arrived in London on a Thursday, I soon decided not to try out the Santander Cycles until Sunday, in hopes that the traffic would then be somewhat less Read More …