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Curzon

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March 21st, 2009

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Regarding Bicycling

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

Ernest Hemingway

Too true. Having done several distance cycling journeys, I truly believe that bicycling is a wonderful form of travel (and when it comes to traveling over water, I like boats).

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Catholicgauze
March 21, 2009
3:08 pm
Very true. In Iraq I have biked around oases and wadi walls. It truly is a way to encounter and feel the landscape. One does not get the same feel for a place while being fully enclosed in a car. The geographer J.B. Jackson thought the same.
Felix
March 21, 2009
4:44 pm
I've just started motorcycling. I think it's also an excellent way to see a country.
Alfred Russel Wallace
March 21, 2009
7:03 pm
We're just back from a short cycle ride on a sunny, crisp day - ideal cycling weather. Cycling provides the appropriate speed for natural historians with an eye for plants, birds and bees - walking is rather slow, and motorized transport too fast. Cross-country skiing is pretty good too, especially for seeing turkeys and flying squirrels...
DJ
March 22, 2009
4:15 pm
I road a bicycle through the Cotswold in the UK. That was really the first time I noticed how much more you see compared to riding in a car.