
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
With campervan packed and bikes loaded on the back, we went travelling old roads with new eyes. This is the fourth story from my recent road trip in South East Queensland. It was a Monday morning and we rode inland along Bargara Road. Week days bring out the life of a town. You see its workings more clearly – who does what and when, how things get done. Of course, it’s only a glimpse but sometimes… Read More
Category: Experiment, Travel Tags: Active Travel, Australia, Bargara, Beach, bike-riders, Bundaberg, Canefields, Cold, Coral Coast, Decisions, Drums, Facebook, Happiness, Holiday, Holidays, inspiration, interesting people, lifestyle change, Making choices, Mon Repos, Nature Reserve, Neighbourhood, Personal Change, Queensland, Sunshine, Transformation, Turtles, Values, Well-being, Winter
This is another guest post from Jen Cooper. In her previous post, Big Bikes Little Bikes, it was decision time. Now let’s see how these Bromptons ride. Here is the second of Jen’s bicycle stories… We had been searching for a solution to taking bikes on our camping and kayaking trips, and being able to carry and store them easily. After research done at intervals over a period of eighteen months, we found and purchased Brompton bikes. Bromptons… Read More
Category: Bike culture, Experiment, Travel Tags: Active Travel, Adapting, Bike commuters, bike-riders, Brompton, Camping, Car, Chic, Decisions, Folding Bikes, Health, Hervey Bay, Holidays, Hybrid, innovation, inspiration, interesting people, lifestyle change, Making choices, Speed, Well-being
Gothenburg is a city of commerce, bustling the length of a long thin harbour and along narrow cobble-stoned streets where shops furnish Swedish style and advertise Global Blue Tax Free shopping. The city was doused in hues of grey during our stay, except for one day when the clouds cleared and Nordic blue swept the sky clear. Sunshine sent the flowers into rapture and I joined them. I walked that sunny day,… Read More
Category: Experiment, Travel, Weather Tags: Active Travel, archipelago, Bicycle Hire, Cold, Cycleways, Exhilarating, Food, Gothenburg, Health, Holidays, Infrastructure, inspiration, Nordic, Public transport, Renewal, Scandinavia, Shopping, Spring, Strava, Sweden, Tourism, Trails, Tram, Trees, Well-being, Wind
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