The Rhine Rider in Nimes – 4
Continuing the series, here is the Rhine Rider just alongside a Roman canal in the southern French city of Nimes.
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The Rhine Rider at Béziers – 3
Continuing the series, here is a snap of the Rhine Rider in front of a statue of the famous French engineer Pierre-Paul Riquet, who built the famous Canal du Midi that connects the southwestern French city of Toulouse with the Mediterrean Sea.
The Rhine Rider at Béziers – 2
Continuing the series, here is the Rhine Rider in the Centre Ville of the southern French city of Béziers: Interestingly the Centre Ville in Béziers is not the same thing as the Centre Historique, sometimes called the Vieux Ville.
The Rhine Rider at Béziers
Here is the Rhine Rider, taking a break at the top of a hill in the southern French city of Béziers, just in front of the Cathédral Saint-Nazaire,
GUEST BLOG: The Dangerous Summer -or- Matador scrutinizes the Rhine Rider in Nimes
Continuing the series, A guest blog, by Chuck Ritley “Manuelito stood there waiting for the bike to charge as had all of the bulls in his career and all the bulls before that when he was young and he twitched the cape hoping to see some action so the crowd wouldn’t think him a coward […]
The Rhine Rider at Lake Zug
The Rhine Rider at Lake Zürich
Since 1997 I’ve followed the tradition of naming my vehicles. In 1997 while studying physics and living in Urbana, Illinois, I bought a 1983 Oldsmobile for USD $200 from a good friend of mine, Andrei Botschkarov, at the time one of the top semi-conductor physicists in the world. (He was not personally a semi-conductor, but […]
The amazing Nimes trams
Is it a bus? Is it a tram? It runs on tires – but are rails a requirement for a tram? What exactly defines a tram? Well, the inhabitants of the southern French city of Nimes refer to it as a tram. I am not sure if it is of the same make and construction, […]
The incredible Canal du Midi
The Canal du Midi was an incredible public works project engineered by Paul-Pierre Riquet in the eighteenth century. Here you can see it running across the Béziers countryside in southern France, As this blow-up shows, today it’s mainly used for recreational boat traffic including houseboats,