Rotterdam is a major port city in the Dutch province of South Holland. The Maritime Museum’s vintage ships and exhibits trace the city’s seafaring history. The 17th-century Delfshaven neighborhood is home to canalside shopping and Pilgrim Fathers Church, where pilgrims worshiped before sailing to America. After being almost completely reconstructed following WWII, the city is now known for bold, modern architecture.
Monthly Archives: December 2020
Sunday Morning Podcast: World News From Zurich, London And Stockholm
Monocle’s Emma Nelson covers the weekend’s top stories with Vincent McAviney, Florian Egli, Guy DeLauney – and Tyler Brûlé.
Outdoor Sport: ‘The Path Less Paved’ – Gravel Biking
For decades, cycling disciplines have diverged, and in some cases, even polarized from each other. Road bikes stay on the road and mountain bikes stay on the trails. But in our contemporary age of cross-functional design and innovative engineering, bikes have more recently started to transcend their own genres.
Take gravel biking. This relatively “new” sport is actually a reboot of what cycling was up until the mid-20th century, before concrete and asphalt roadways spread across the developed world. Now, gravel has taken the backcountry freedom and exhilaration of mountain biking and blended it with the speed, efficiency and achievable distances of road cycling. Skinny tires, but not too skinny. Powerful yet light hydraulic disc brakes. Gear ratios that encourage speed both up and down the terrain.
Gravel bikes evolved due to an insatiable demand for riders to explore. Not just a Trailforks route or a Strava segment, but capitalizing on the thousands of miles of dirt and gravel roads that exist in rural regions. The result is more bikes rolling through more of the landscape, unhindered by the need for constructed trails or an asphalt surface.
Gravel follows the path less paved.
Conservation: Mapping ‘The Great Barrier Reef’ To Help It Survive (BBC Video)
The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
Travel & Hiking: ‘Dixie National Forest, Utah’
We spent the day hiking in beautiful Dixie National Forest which is located next to Bryce Canyon National Park. It was a pleasure to spend a day at this often unvisited location.
Dixie National Forest is a United States National Forest in Utah with headquarters in Cedar City. It occupies almost two million acres and stretches for about 170 miles across southern Utah. The largest national forest in Utah, it straddles the divide between the Great Basin and the Colorado River.
Travel & Adventure: ‘Biking In Greenland’
Connected by a beautiful ring of light, traversing the fields of ice that form the majestic wilderness of Greenland is an experience like no other. Hard to reach, with an almost prehistoric terrain, and a climate that feels imagined for a novel—there is something both daring and challenging about the world’s largest island. But it poses a uniqueness, something strangely difficult to find in a world of global travel and instant messaging.
During the dim wintry months, these vast plains are stacked with three to five meters of snow. Not many people travel to these immense ice masses in January, even fewer to cycle across. But that is what Tobias Woggon and Philip Ruopp settled upon for their next adventure. In Nordic Cycle, Woggon explains that not many people who took their tour had experienced biking at minus 30 degrees. “I consulted our friend Max,” he explains, “who had been riding his bike in Lapland, Finland the year before and was already experienced with the necessary technology and knew how to handle the cold.”
Technology: ‘How Big Can Wind Turbines Get?’ (Video)
A wind turbine, or alternatively referred to as a wind energy converter, is a device that converts the wind’s kinetic energy into electrical energy. Wind turbines are manufactured in a wide range of vertical and horizontal axis.
Walking Tour Video: ‘Edinburgh – Scotland’
Walking in Edinburgh city Centre, capital of Scotland is the most enjoyable walk what can you do. Our journey will start at Royal MILE – Lawnmarket , passing St Giles Cathedral down to Cockburn Street , crossing Waverly bridge to princes street an we will close our walking in Edinburgh tour on ROSE Street.
Time and Date: 7 December – 10AM
Edinburgh is Scotland’s compact, hilly capital. It has a medieval Old Town and elegant Georgian New Town with gardens and neoclassical buildings. Looming over the city is Edinburgh Castle, home to Scotland’s crown jewels and the Stone of Destiny, used in the coronation of Scottish rulers. Arthur’s Seat is an imposing peak in Holyrood Park with sweeping views, and Calton Hill is topped with monuments and memorials.
Travel Video: ‘Monterosso al Mare’ – Cinque Terre
Monterosso al Mare is a town and comune in the province of La Spezia, part of the region of Liguria, Northern Italy. It is one of the five villages in Cinque Terre.
▼▼Video Timeline Links▼▼ 0:00 Drone Intro 1:10 Walk begins on Via Roma 3:07 Largo Sandro Usai 6:19 Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi 7:55 Outdoor Market 12:48 Church Bell Tower 14:00 Church of San Giovanni Battista 15:04 Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi 16:07 The Beach (Old Town) 29:52 Hike up to convent 33:18 St. Francis Statue 35:11 Church of San Francesco 37:50 Monterosso Cemetery 42:08 St. Francis Statue 45:24 Walk into New Town 47:33 The Beach (New Town)
Aerial Travel: ‘Lagos’ In the Algarve Region Of South Portugal (Video)
Filmed and Edited by: Bruno Baillet
Portugal Lagos Algarve is an incredible region displaying breathtaking landscapes. We were based in Lagos Portugal, which is a very pleasant coastal city and very convenient to travel all the Algarve.
Lagos is a town in southern Portugal’s Algarve region. It’s known for its walled old town, cliffs and Atlantic beaches. Steep wooden steps lead to the sandy cove of Praia do Camilo. The nearby cliffs of Ponta de Piedade offer sweeping headland views and a lighthouse. Igreja de Santo António, an ornate 18th-century church, sits across from the Castelo dos Governadores, a castle with a baroque facade and watchtowers.
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