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Sounds like I should read the book and revisit the city some nice fall day.
9 months agoGreat photo!
9 months agoWhat a wonderful day!
9 months agoMe too - I’ve a lot of middle aged and older women on bikes wearing skirts and doing errands.
9 months agoI love seeing folks using bikes as transportation!
9 months agoI read this - or at least parts of it - years ago. Morris’s writings are a lot of the reason we included Trieste on our journey from Dubrovnik to Barcelona. It’s too bad the Piazza was clogged up with viewing stands for your visit. We were there in late September and it struck me as one of the most impressive public spaces in all of Europe. We really do need to go back. https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/dubrovnik2018/in-trieste/
9 months agoSmart move to replace it after your crash.
9 months agoYes, we will be watching the replay today or tomorrow. As for the tour, I still haven’t decided if it will happen this fall due to other things in life. It’s looking like it would be a solo trip as all my cycling buddies who expressed interest have backed out.
9 months agoWow - when was he over here? Still thinking of Provence/Southern France next year?
9 months agoMy Iowa LBS told me that any hard impact in a fall can create invisible microfissures and/or compression that weakens the foam and reduces protection.
9 months agoYou betcha!
9 months agoYes, they keep my faith in humanity alive. I couldn’t believe how quickly he jumped down from the cab to help - he had VG up on his shoulders before I realized what was happening
9 months agoYes, he was very careful not to drop it
9 months agoThanks Jacquie. Will you be watching the Tour today? It’s going thru some of territory you’ve planned for your volcans tour, I think
9 months ago
I love the priority and flexibility usually shown to cyclists in Europe. No way that happens in NA.
9 months ago