Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Now this is what I call a great inovation: Bikely. It plots bike paths, and users’ favourite on-road bike routes, on a street directory, and lets you look at the map in three views: standard street directory, Google world satellite imagery, or the latter with key roads superimposed (‘hybrid view’). Check out the 10 km [...]
Cycling, Good as hell, Parks, Rides, Walks, Yarra Bend Park, Yarra River |
Friday, November 10th, 2006
The Fitzroy and Collingwood Sketchbook also told me this: “St Vincent’s, the most easterly of these great [charity] hospitals, became closely linked with the residents of the inner suburbs. Today it is still conducted by the same order of nuns who founded the institution [the Sisters of Charity]. The more recent extension of the hospital, [...]
Cycling, Entertainment, History, Victoria Street |
Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Given how big and successful Bicycle Victoria is, how popular cycling is becoming in Victoria, and how many fantastic bike paths there are, the signage of bikepaths, and their ease of use is astonishingly bad. For a long time after moving into Abbotsford, I remained confused about which of the two possible ways to proceed [...]
Cycling, Yarra River |