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The three of us
Força Vanessa, Portugal está contigo!
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A PHOTOBLOG ABOUT ÍLHAVO - THE BICYCLE CAPITAL OF PORTUGAL
The three of us
Hi, welcome to our photo blog. We are a multicultural multiethnic family (♀ from Liquiçá – East Timor and ♂ from Ílhavo – Portugal) and at the moment we are living in Ílhavo. We are not photographers; we’re just a couple who owns a camera. Anyway, we hope you like our pictures…
Bicycles
You will see lots of bicycles in this photoblog. There’s a reason for that. Ílhavo has arguably been the bicycle capital of Portugal for generations, even though its vibrant bicycle culture is now somewhat threatened by consumerism and lack of attention from local politicians. We’ll try to document this folk culture and, hopefully, maybe we can persuade a few readers to leave their cars at home and ride their bikes again…
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Bicycle Culture
- 100 days riding a bike in Lisbon (in Portuguese)
- A bike around the city (in Portuguese)
- Amsterdam Bicycles
- Bicycle - the worlds most efficient form of transportation
- Bicycle in the city (in Portuguese)
- Bicycle in Wikipedia
- Bike rider city (in Spanish)
- Copenhagen Cycle Chic
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- Multilingual Bicycle's Vocabulary
- O Código da Estrada e os velocípedes (in Portuguese)
- Riding Pretty
- Scenes on pedals (in Portuguese)
- The Copenhagen Cycle Chic Manifesto
- Where can you go with 1000 euros? (in Portuguese)
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4 comments:
CONGRATULATIONS FOR JOINING CDPB!!!
I only noticed it now!!!
PARABÉNS PELA ADESÃO À COMUNIDADE CDPB!!! Só agora é que me apercebi!!! Ideia fantástica!!! Se passarem pelo Santa Maria Manuela (que está a ser reconstruído para essas bandas, tirem fotos!!!)
Beijinhos aos três!!!!!
Very true. I was out in the rain myself today on the bike.
I'm new to your blog. Keep it up :) I read your comment about bike helmets - very interesting. I live near Boise, Idaho, USA -- not many people ride bikes in the USA, unless they are getting exercise, health conscience or is a kid. Even with our gas prices rising beyond belief, people would rather drive (I lived too far from anything to ride my bike, it'd take me 2hrs or longer to get to where I was going). So seeing all the people riding bikes where you live is great. About helmets -- Here if your kid isn't wearing a helmet, you as the parent will get yelled at by other parents. Some cities, its the law for minors. For adults, some do, some don't. I figure I survived just fine as a kid without one.
In some areas of the United States there are cowboys who ride horses while working with cattle. If some city slicker from New York showed up there saying from now on they would have to wear helmets when riding their horses, they would probably just laugh and go on with their business as usual. Well, that’s pretty much the feeling of the folks in my hometown. Bicycle culture is not as strong as it used to be when I was younger, mainly due to consumerism, but for many people here riding a bicycle is not sports or healthy alternative living or a new environmental friendly way of transportation, for then riding a bike is just the normal way of going from Place A to Place B. There are even some old folks that keep going to work in the fields riding a bicycle and carrying their hoe leaning against their shoulder. They would just laugh at you if you wanted them to wear bike helmets or lycra fashion and the likes.
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