Mid-life gap year Tanya and Craig

Warning, before I begin to tell you about cycling in Copenhagen, this blog contains random images from our time there that are not cycling related. Copenhagen, a city where there are more bikes on the road than cars. A city where cycling infrastructure is as good if not better than it is for cars. I am a nervous road cyclist, having seen and heard too many times the consequence when cars / trucks and bikes meet. I have become very uncomfortable cycling where there is no real separation between bikes and other vehicles. Today we had the pleasure of cycling in Copenhagen. Imagine a separated car-lane wide cycle-way on either side of the road that has no potholes or obstacles and there is no risk to riders of car doors opening.  Then imagine dedicated cycle-way street lighting, intersection traffic lights and dedicated cyclist merging lanes. Then imagine how many more people would ride. Today Craig and I had the pleasure of cycling around Copenhagen in peak hou...

Thanks to a tip from Tanya's aunt, “there is a good motor museum in Mullhouse”, on a wet day we ventured to it. Anticipating a small but interesting collection of vehicles, we were pleasantly surprised to learn that Cite de l’Automobile is the French national motor museum.  At the entrance are life sized models of 1950's race cars suspended on wires and passing though the glass façade. The collection consisting of some 600-700 cars from the 1880s on, but largely consisted of the rarer 1880s – 1930s vehicles.  The collection includes some 100 Bugatti’s. Ettore Bugatti was born in Italy but set up his car manufacturing factory and design house in Mulhouse. Walking through the collection i t was easy to see the influence that designers like Bugatti and Porsche have had on the broader car industry.  Ferdinand Porsche designed the original VW Beetle, he then worked for Mercedes and then went on to establish his own label. Below is his 170H model Merc...