Nothing beats a basic city bike with a terugtraprem, in my humble opinion. Over here in spain they are importing used dutch bikes as the only thing you can get here are carbon fiber 35 gear mountainbikes with suspended forks. Great on a mountain trail (I guess) but utterly useless in the city.
I've been here. "2 square miles of rocks and goats", while technically true, does not do the place justice. It's massive, impressive and the spaghetti vongole at the restaurant is probably the best I ever had....
That should be
"Another barf that has mastered the art of defensive vomiting" right ?
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