
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
This project shares stories from my cycling adventures. It is an urban adventure around my neighbourhood, my city and also includes my travels to other places. I invite you to share your stories too. My experiment to ride my bike for four seasons in everyday life has made it through its first season – summer! As you’d expect, some of my adventures over the summer involved meeting the weather like “Riding in… Read More
Category: Bike culture, Experiment, Sustainability, Travel, Weather Tags: Active Travel, Bargara, Brisbane, Christmas, Climate change, Decisions, Great Barrier Reef, interesting people, lifestyle change, Lord Howe Island, Maintenance, Making choices, Rain, Resilience, Statistics, Summer, The Netherlands
Travelling over Christmas took me to Bargara. This small town hugs a coastline scattered with basalt rocks, remnants of a long extinct volcano, and nestles into the broader reach of the regional city of Bundaberg, which sits twelve kilometres inland. Two years ago, Bundaberg was a focal point of news services across the world because of the destruction and dislocation caused by floods. The city and its coastline is newsworthy for another… Read More
Category: Experiment, Sustainability, Travel Tags: Bargara, Bundaberg, Christmas, Coal mining, Coral Coast, Cycleways, Great Barrier Reef, Iain McCalman, Marine Conservation, Mon Repos, Penguin Books, Summer, The Hummock, Turtles
Christmas means travelling for many people, much of it by car. The highways become clogged with traffic, some people travelling short distances for a day trip, some travelling longer distances for an extended summer holiday. Cars carry surfboards, bodyboards, fishing rods, bicycles, camping gear, loaded in and around the car, on rooftop racks and in elaborate trailers. They might be families on their way to a beach holiday over the school break…. Read More
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
a bike for all seasons