April 28, 2012 | 2 Comments

Like most travellers typically do, I check a few adventure sport agencies to choose what activity I would prefer to do. Without much deliberations, I rent a bicycle for $5 a day from one of the bike stores and decide to embark upon an ambitious journey beginning in hills of Baños ending all the way to the Amazon basin some 62km east. Well, not quite ambitious, since this is a standard bicycling r...
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September 6, 2011 | 6 Comments

One of the crucial advantages of living in downtown Toronto is the fact that you are always around streetcars (trams) and bicycles. As you may know, I don't have a car and therefore I am solely dependent either on public transit or on my bicycle. And I love them both dearly....
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April 17, 2010 | 12 Comments

Interesting bike streets in Montréal I was in Montréal, Quebec a fortnight back and I found the city’s cycling infrastructure quite interesting. While four days are grossly insufficient to gauge the cycling culture of a city, it was quite evident that biking was a popular mode of transport. Bikes parked outside the Mont Royal station. [...]...
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June 23, 2009 | 8 Comments

Volume 1, Edition 21 ‘Toronto Tuesday‘ is a weekly photo feature about random stuff (landmarks, people, culture, seasons, etc.) in the city. My battery charger is dead so unfortunately I don’t have any current pictures. I’m posting these pictures from my bike trip earlier this spring. Bike Trail We took a GO train from downtown [...]...
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April 7, 2009 | 27 Comments

Volume 1, Edition 10 ‘Toronto Tuesday‘ is a weekly photo feature about random stuff (landmarks, people, culture, seasons, etc.) in the city. Bike Stands City of Toronto has a good infrastructure for cyclists. Off-street bicycle racks like these are present every few meters on most (if not all) sidewalks in downtown Toronto. Bike Racks. It [...]...
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March 3, 2009 | 23 Comments

Volume 1, Edition 5 ‘Toronto Tuesday’ is a weekly photo feature about random stuff (landmarks, people, culture, seasons, etc.) in my city. Where’s my bike? Student bikes at University residence. I always keep mine in my room! There was lot of snow earlier but last few days it has been bright and sunny between -20 [...]...
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January 28, 2008 | 30 Comments

This blog post is part of my Israel travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: TiberiasNext post: Ancient city of Beit She’an A 72km bike ride along the Sea of Galilee coast checking out prominent Biblical sites. Caution: This particular blog-post is going to be excessively long. 7:30, I start with the sunrise. Sea [...]...
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January 27, 2008 | 22 Comments

This blog post is part of my Israel travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Old City of JerusalemNext post: Cycling around Sea of Galilee From the desert to the green belt. Continued from previous post. Moonrise over the Sea of Galilee, Tiberias Don’t get terrified by the edited picture above. Spending an evening [...]...
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