Aaaaah...beautiful
Near the Dolomites, the bicycle is royalty...
...and is used by brides & grooms
...'Tour de France' types...
...and everybody else too...
...all happily co-existing, doing their thing, their own way...
...including BN3...
...& BN4...
...& HN1
Here...
...cycling...
...is for everyone...
...& everyone does it
...ok...not everyone
And those that do are not put off by little hillocks...
...or steps (if 'vietato a ciclo' sign is anything to go by at top!)
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Why are we Australians such a bunch of woosses when it comes to cycling?
What terrifies us so much about this 2-wheeled activity when in so many other countries it's non-event done by 'tutti' in so many different ways?
Massive sigh from me - SIGH
While you are up that way, try Bozen/Bolzano, cycle share wee bit over 30%, on wonder it is consider to the best place to live in Italy... ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kim, for all that!
ReplyDeleteSadly we head back to Oz tomorrow and I'm dreading it - this last month has been bliss in so many ways, and not only bicycle ones. Now it's back to misogyny and bike-hatred - sigh
What a beautiful place! I've never been to that town. I guess it is impossible to have visited every town in Italy. There were lots of bicycles in Pordenone and Udine (cities between Venice and Trieste) 20-30 years ago and now I see they have city bike sharing.
ReplyDeleteOh, Lagatta, to be anywhere else but here now that I am back!!!
DeleteI just don't get it. Can you imagine a couple like in the 7th picture carrying their three children like that in Australia without the sanctimonious tut-tuts, moans and lecturing? An image like that would probably make the news - for all the wrong reasons.
ReplyDeleteMadness!
Edward, I wish you weren't right but you are...completely.
DeleteIt's so disheartening and so unnecessary.