After a few days in Berlin with no cycling, I was feeling the need to get on a bike and explore. So on our third proper day in the city, I headed out with our eldest to find some Nextbikes and go for a ride.
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As I’ve mentioned in previous Kent posts, whenever we’re down in the county visiting family, I usually try to fit in some rides. That was the case for the October 2024 half term, where in addition to the usual rides around Maidstone, I was able to do a ride along the Crab and Winkle Way, starting in Canterbury.
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Following our trip to the top of the TV Tower, we decided it’d be good to spend the afternoon visiting one of the many flea markets in Berlin. Having looked at the different markets running on Sunday, we thought the ones in Mauerpark looked interesting, especially the location and opportunity to see some remnants of the Berlin Wall.
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As with the Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag and the wall, Berlin’s TV Tower (Berliner Fernsehturm in German) is definitely one of the city’s most iconic landmarks. If you’re in and around the central Mitte area, it’s pretty hard to avoid. Indeed, we had a running joke during our visit that it was following us.
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In the summer of 2023, after our week in Helsinki, we arrived in Berlin for the second leg of our trip. Having done a fantastic job of selling Berlin to the rest of the family after my trip to the city in 2022, they were all really keen on going there. I fancied Copenhagen myself, but we’ll save that for another year!
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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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