One of my three packages journeying across the world with me was Corinne's Bianchi, packed with love by Corinne's mom Chris, her brother Paul and I nearly a month before we (the bike and I) left. Shipping being prohibitively expensive, I brought it as an oversize bag - 200$ (but for the last minute removal of Chacos, vitamins and those damn travel books, I would have had two). The other day, she and I assembled that Bianchi, brought it to a shop to get checked out (all safe!), and started riding around. The next day Corinne biked off to school on the Bianchi for the first time, and I rode the
City Bike, Sweden's version of Mpls'
Nice Ride, around town for a little tour.
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| The assembled Bianchi! |
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| The 'City Bike' - the Swedish Nice Ride |
The Stockholm roads have bike lanes built into most of them, as I have mentioned - and it is sometimes double curbed. Here are a few pictures of the lanes.
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| Bike lane - Corinne signalling right (correctly for Sweden - signals made for bikes!) |
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| Where the 'bike' image is, the curb is cut out for the bike lane (those barriors will be featured later) |
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| Notice the bike lane to her left (she is not on it) |
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| Double curb! Featuring my City Bike on the right |
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| Car-stop line with bike lane, bike zone in front of the cars! |
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| Scooters can ride on the bike lanes. This is insane. |
It had been a while since I had been on a bike and both Corinne and I had sore legs at the end of the day, but before that - I saw some more of Stockholm! Here are the parks in Djurgarden. Enjoy!
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| One chimney, three styles |
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| Lots of Stockholm looks and feels like northern MN |
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| Pretty! |
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| Lots of scary, foreboding statues of stern looking Swedes. Gustav III here. |
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| Northern MN! |
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| City Bike station. Can't you see it? It's right there! |
Yeah, me neither. On my map it was 200 yards (meters) to the left of here - several blocks. I had given up and was heading home when I saw this. Yay! Finding it allowed me to pay a visit to the National Library, which was pretty neat.
And after it all it was time for something rich and delicious - assuage that thirst. Corinne and I met and enjoyed two tall (and overpriced) beers
here. AND I learned some calculus!
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| Can anyone find the mistake? Kerry? |
x^2 dx = (x^3) / 3, not (x^3)/2, if I'm reading your handwriting correctly. Meanwhile 2 dx = 2x. Add the two back together for x^2 + 2 dx = (x^3) / 3 + 2x. Total area should come out to 84 if I'm not mistaken.
ReplyDeleteSo jealous of you two biking Sweden! Looks amazing. Hope you're having an amazing time.
HA! Just saw that this was from 2010! How did I get here!?
DeleteRegardless, hope you two are doing awesome. Been missing myself some MN family recently... and MN biking.