In a recent post I talked about how cycling is becoming ever-cool. Exceeding the lycra-clad fitness freaks and Dutch-style heavy roaming commuters, cycling has reached a young(ish) audience with low-maintenance, fast, light and affordable bikes, spurred on in part by the urban culture trend towards fixed gear bikes. The movement, if it is that, isn’t [...]
I’ve waxed lyrical here and on the twitter device (among other places) about the fact that it is a long held belief of mine that cars are, for the most part, utterly useless creatures in a city. Sitting in traffic jams listening to mediocre radio while you commute to/from work in a tin box that [...]
Dublin is in a nice part of the world. We don’t gain or loose much with global warming. Nothing extreme about our weather – our variance is just different levels of wetness for the most part.
However since mid-December we’ve had a bit of a cold snap, but avoided the same snowy tundra of other northern-European [...]
Amsterdam is a generally peaceful, nice place. Especially in winter. You can see in this video, most people are gliding along gracefully on their single-gear bikes and going about their daily business.
However, one plucky man (I’m guessing a student by the hat & attitude) walks up to this gentleman who’s selling Christmas trees on Heinekenplein [...]
So, thanks to Sony PlayStation’s office here in Dublin, I managed to swing some tickets to the big Top Gear Live show in the RDS. My showing was Friday at 3:30PM, where I was seated next to the lads from BurnAllZombies.com.
So, we arrived just as the show began. In fact, when we walked into the [...]
