In late June on our journey around Europe, we made our way to Amsterdam in the Netherlands – the last time I was there was back in May 2015. It was sweltering hot (so hot they had to spray …
Tag: Overseas learnings
Photos of the Day: Return to Copenhagen
Way back in 2010, I first visited Copenhagen, as reported here back in 2016. Copenhagen really is one of the top cycling cities in the world (competing hard with Amsterdam), so I took various photos of interesting cycling facilities …
Flashback Friday: Groningen and Zwolle – the best for cycling?
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Greetings from Ireland! My partner and I have arrived in the Emerald Isle for the first time, having just spent the past few days in Amsterdam and elsewhere around the Netherlands. The last time I was in the Netherlands was …
Flashback Friday: Christchurch Will Never Be Amsterdam
Greetings from Rimini, Italy, where I’m just wrapping up attending the Velo-City Cycling Conference here. After that, my partner and I will be taking in a whirlwind journey on to Venice, Zurich, and then Amsterdam. In a blogpost back in …
Flashback Friday: Cycling in Bristol – more photos
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Another week on the move around Europe with my partner; in recent days we have been through Vienna (Austria), Prague (Czechia), and now exploring Berlin (Germany). Along the way, I’ve probably been doing a bit of a mix of both …
Flashback Friday: Cycling around Perth
Greetings from Europe! My partner and I have made it halfway around the world… In between getting over the jet lag, we have so far explored the beaches and coastlines of Santorini (Greece) and Dubrovnik (Croatia). A little over a …
Europe here we come!
By the time this post is published, my partner and I will winging our way from Christchurch towards Singapore on the first leg of our nearly-6 week long tour around Europe. And, as you can see from our itinerary below, …
Flashback Friday Guest Post – Cycling in Lisbon
It’s coming up to D-Day when my partner and I head off to the other side of the world for a few weeks – more details about that tomorrow… In the meantime, we’re busy putting the finishing touches on our …
Guest post: Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and Cycling
Occasional guest blogger Jim Pickles has a few observations from overseas that could be applied to Christchurch…
Over recent years there have been extensive additions to Christchurch’s cycling network. At the same time some of the local streets that make …
Flashback Friday: Todd Litman in Christchurch – May 13th
Hot on the heels of the recent visit through our fair city by John Simmerman from Active Towns, let’s cast our mind back to when other international active mode experts have graced our shores. The list has included Dan …
Photo of the Day: John Simmerman visits an Active Town…
While I was at the Transportation Conference last week, one of the people I met up with was John Simmerman, an American health professional from Hawaii who runs a non-profit organisation called Active Towns. Over the past decade …
Flashback Friday: Hey world, have you heard of Christchurch?!
The media have just picked up the announcement from Christchurch City Council that our fair city has been named the most bicycle-friendly city in Asia and Oceania and 38th globally (I’d like to think they got the heads-up from an …
Cycling in Chch 2025 in Review: Slow and Steady wins the Race…
And just like that, we’ve reached the end of 2025! As we herald the New Year, let’s look at how things have gone in the cycling world over the past 12 months…
While the signs were looking somewhat worrying at …
Flashback Friday: Cycling News from Across the Ditch – Perth
While this post is getting published, I will be slowly winging my way back from Perth, having just attended a road safety conference there this week. And as many of you know, I was also over in Perth back in …
Flashback Friday – Cycling in Singapore: A study in contrasts
Today is gearing up to be a busy one as Tracey and I prepare to head over to Perth tomorrow for a conference next week – still a bit of bag packing and finalising presentations before getting up rather early …
Flashback Friday Guest Post Part 6 – Cycling in Porto
Tracey and I are currently looking at plans for where we might head to in Europe next year. One of my friends is currently touring around Europe and recently visited Porto, the “City of Bridges”, in Portugal. And over a …
Flashback Friday: Bikes for earthquakes
Yesterday marked 15 years since the first big earthquake hit Christchurch in the early hours of Sept 4th. Little did we know an even more devastating one would show up a few months later… Transport options are an interesting consideration …
A heads-up about the bike helmet rule
There’s been an interesting flurry of discussions in the past few days, following the news that Regulation Minister David Seymour sought advice on the possibility of removing mandatory cycling helmet requirements. The upshot (for now at least) is that …
Flashback Friday – Unterhaching, Munich: Cycling and good planning
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This week we have hosted a young German at our place, who hails from outside Cologne. Ten years ago, I got to explore a fair bit of Germany, both big and small places. In the southeastern part of Germany, this …
Christchurch moves up in the @PeopleForBikes City Ratings – and a few more NZ cities show up too…
Another year has passed since the North American based group People For Bikes undertook their last ratings of the bike-friendliness of cities in the US and beyond. As we mentioned last year, Christchurch is in the mix and doing …