2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

[McApple]

A couple of pics from the turn around point of today's 20km ride:

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The tree behind your bike in that last pic looks near pornographic.

 

[Base]

Different scenery this week
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[Stefan Mikes]

Greetings from a city on River Rhine!

I saw the river back in 1990, it must have not changed since Cologne, Germany.

A lot of Mett (tartar steak) this time A waiter:
– You have already had beer then Schnapps and now are asking for white wine? How come?
– Ich bin Polnisch...
– Ah, dobrze!
I won his heart!

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Greetings from a city on River Rhine!

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I saw the river back in 1990, it must have not changed since Cologne, Germany.

A lot of Mett (tartar steak) this time A waiter:
– You have already had beer then Schnapps and now are asking for white wine? How come?
– Ich bin Polnisch...
– Ah, dobrze!
I won his heart!

Spent a beautiful day in Cologne on a Rhine River cruise. The city's a diamond in the rough of a highly industrialized and very busy lower Rhine.

Spent all day exploring the city and surroundings on a rented bike while the missus listened to hours of the usual church-and-castle crap on a tour bus with not a second of dead air from the guide.

Boy, did I win that round!

Must've cruised the wonderful MUP along the river half a dozen times. An endless stream of cargo and work boats of all sizes paraded by the waterfront — which only made it better for this lover of all boats. Many of the work boats bristled with deck equipment designed for tasks I couldn't even guess.

 

[Art Deco]

Its my birthday today, and the 25th Anniversary of 9/11.
Kinda been overshadowed

You might be a memorable character @Chargeride , but I don't think a birthday overshadows the 9/11 anniversary quite yet. Happy Birthday , anyway.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

You might be a memorable character @Chargeride , but I don't think a birthday overshadows the 9/11 anniversary quite yet. Happy Birthday , anyway.

I understood his birthday was overshadowed by the anniversary.

 

[Rás Cnoic]

Must've cruised the wonderful MUP along the river half a dozen times. An endless stream of cargo and work boats of all sizes paraded by the waterfront — which only made it better for this lover of all boats. Many of the work boats bristled with deck equipment designed for tasks I couldn't even guess.

I love watching boats. The best bike/boats combo I ever had was cycling in Amsterdam. Swooping along the bike roads through the city and straight under the central train station via the amazing bike tunnel and out onto the banks of the river with boats of every size. Then straight on to one of the many (free) walk or bike ferries and across the vast river enjoying all the river traffic and then off the ferry and on to more bike roads that snake out throughout the whole country. The joined up transport thinking of bikes, trains, ferries just blew my mind and really made me mourn that more places haven't had such foresight. It is improving (Paris!) but still at a snails pace in a lot of countries where blindly the car is king.

 

[Chargeride]

I understood his birthday was overshadowed by the anniversary.

Actually I was referring to the shooting overshadowing the 9/11 anniversary, at my age opening a mars bar trumps a birthday.

 

[Art Deco]

I understood his birthday was overshadowed by the anniversary.

It was a joke, Stephen . Obviously not a good one.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Back At Home

This time, I could only see River Rhine from a 20-yo Embraer 170 STD. The original plane broke in Warsaw so the airline dug one of their first acquisitions (LOT was the launch customer for Embraer on 17 March 2004). At least the replacement plane worked!