As I mentioned in my last post, Margate and Ramsgate loop along the Viking Coastal Trail, we’re often in Kent visiting family, meaning I get to do a bit of cycling down there, in an environment that’s very different to Manchester, in many ways.
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We’re often in Kent visiting family, which means I get to ride down there a few times a year. As we were there for the August bank holiday, I’d packed my bike, hoping for some good weather.
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While for most of our Helsinki trip, I was getting about using City Bike bike share, I did get opportunity to sample most of the city’s other modes of transport while we were there.
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Once we arranged our trip to Helsinki, being as my partner is a librarian, a visit to Helsinki’s fantastic Central Library, Oodi was high on the itinerary. Opened in 2018 and located in Kluuvi district near Helsinki Central Station, Oodi has become a landmark building in the city.
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During our 2023 trip to Helsinki, we were lucky enough to get a guided tour of the fantastic Alvar Aalto designed National Pensions Institute. Guided tours happen every Monday at 2pm. These are free, but you do have to book in advance. Our friends had planned ahead and booked us on the tour during our visit, which I was very pleased about.
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During our visit to Helsinki in 2023, like many tourists, we arranged to do a boat trip over to Suomenlinna (named Viapori in Finnish up until 1918, or Sveaborg in Swedish), the sea fortress off the coast of Helsinki.
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While in Helsinki during our 2023 visit, I was keen to try some of the best examples of cycling infrastructure in the city, making use of the City Bikes bike share to get about. One such example is Baana, an old railway cutting that was once part of the harbour railway, since converted into a 1.3 km walking and cycling path, back in 2012.
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In something of a change from the usual Netherlands, in 2023 we arranged a two leg trip to to the Finnish and German capitals, Helsinki and Berlin for our summer holiday. We chose Helsinki as we have friends who moved there a couple of years ago and we were keen to visit them.
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It all looked so promising back in 2020, when Trafford Council had big ambitions to section off a seven mile stretch of the A56 with cones, to provide safe space for cycling. Now here we are, almost four years on and it looks like what remains of the cones are disappearing week by week, with no signs of them being replaced or anything more permanent happening. Is it the end of the A56 pop-up cycle lanes?
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Following on from last month’s update, some more from the transformation of Kingsway, Stretford as the work continues.
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