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Good food and beerCopenhagen Cycle Chic
Photos:
1. Elegant shades of bluish grey on a white bike
2. Three young women in blue
3. Cycling home in high heels after the opera
4. Cycling to work in high heels on a Monday morning
5. Red boots and a matching bike
My absolutely second favorite website in the whole world (after VirtualTourist) is a site called Copenhagen Cycle Chic.
Have a look and you'll see why.
I hasten to add, though, that all the photos on my VirtualTourist pages, including those on this tip, are ones I have taken myself. I have never stolen any photos from anywhere, not even from Copenhagen Cycle Chic!
The site is run by a journalist, film director and photographer named Mikael Colville-Andersen, who notes that the bicycle "served to liberate the working classes and, in particular, women back in the tail-end of the 19th century." He says that in the post-war years, the bicycle was relegated to being merely a toy or piece of sports equipment, and that Copenhagen Cycle Chic "aims to take back the bike culture by showing how the bicycle once again can be an integral, respectable and feasible transport form, free of sports clothes and gear, and how it can play a vital role in increasing the life quality in cities."
Cycling in high heels, by the way, is no big deal in Copenhagen. Ask some of the women and they'll tell you that riding a bike in high heels is a lot easier than walking in them. You don't pedal a bike with your heels, after all, so they just hang there and don't get in the way or cause orthopedic problems.
http://www.copenhagencyclechic.com/
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