Bicycle Rental

... . This is when life got very exciting for me. First thing to know: The City of Paris decided some years back to install bicycle rental stations around the city, called Velib. The idea being tourists and locals could rent a bike easily and get from one ...

... with them at the apartment and headed out to look for Velib' bikes.  Velib' is the name of the Parisian bicycle rental system, which is generally quite efficient.  There are Velib' stations located every few blocks all around Paris.  You ...

... six miles doesn’t sound like much to some people, especially our friends Joe and Ellen, from home who are currently riding their bicycle across the United States, but for us, it got the job done and it sure felt good to get out and get some ...

... a couple of Jammer Jokes (Red Bus driver one liner’s) from yesterday that I forgot to include: Question: In the park, what do you call people on a bicycle? Answer: Meals on Wheels! Question: What do you call people on motorcycles? Answer: Fast ...

... enough to shake me up a bit, but surely not enough to make me tired for a good sleep. The green zone and the bicycle / runner lanes along the river are in excellent quality and stretch over several kilometers, so anyone can explore ...

... a nuiscence to continue arguing with, and they finally agreed to accompany us back to the guesthouse and help explain this "situtation" to the rental shop. In the end we were able to obtain our refund and passport, and lose our bicycles. We were able to ...

... tower with nine tiers each representing a different spiritual level. We were walking towards it through the park when we saw a bike rental stand. Thinking to get more mobile we approached. There, we were greeted with a sight too amazing to pass up. A ...

... see Koutarou and Yu on the elephant! We waved and headed back to the train station. By the time we reached the bike rental it had stopped raining. We still had some time before the train so we wandered around the village and bought food. Jen wanted ...

... - with proper bedsheet and english toilet / hot shower. Chiang Khong After getting refreshed a bit - hunted for a bicycle for rental - there is a bicycle rental facility as move out left off the Chiang Khong hotel. Current rates are 20 TB for one ...

... ticket not required) further to the north.  At about 5pm, we ended sightseeing for the day and headed back to the bicycle rental shop to return the bicycles. The shop owner told us that there would be fireworks this night but transportation back to ...

... on imperfect bikes, we hit the road (after agreeing a rental rate of 70 rupees per bike for two hours.)  Apparently bicycle rental in India is normally much cheaper, but these were quite nice mountain bikes.  Actually there is even a mountain ...

... there to help. But all our conversations evolved into them recommended their tours, their restaurant, their ticket service or their bicycle rental. They didn’t seem genuinely friendly and were a tad bit too enterprising for our liking. They did ...

... After devouring the meaty baozi and tasty donuts, we decided to return our bicycles and retrieve our deposit. When we arrived at the bicycle rental station, it was swarmed with people with a line at least 40 people deep. We were then instructed by a ...

... take some photos at the southeastern corner of the city wall and above the railway station. On our journey back to the bicycle rental location, Liz was on the receiving end of a bicycle collision which resulted in her flipping over her bicycle and ...

... ’t help, I am not sure why I thought it would and I knew at once that we were in just a little bit of trouble. The bicycle rental man was an ugly fat fellow and seemed in no mood at all to humor us, he wasn’t the friendliest of chaps when we ...

... the previous day. We got off the motorboat, bid Chú goodbye and proceeded to the main road. A short walk and we came to a bicycle rental shop. Thanh went in and the shop owner took out six bicycles with baskets for us to put our belongings. We also had ...

... ’s white cruciform towers once excited visions of the industrial-age city of the future, so Vélib’, Paris’s bicycle rental system, inspired a new urban ethos for the era of climate change.     In Paris 80 percent of ...

... along the town's many canals. We retired fairly early without having accomplished much of anything at all--except maybe to check bicycle rental rates. Our final day in Haarlem, we woke up bright and early around 10AM and headed down to the station to ...