Using your bike in the winter? Of course you can, you just have to dress the part and take some precautions if the ground is icy or snowy, like in the park today. Then you take it a bit slower or if you like, change to winter tyres! Besides the technical part, the sensation of winter biking is pretty nice, after just a couple of minutes you start to feel warm, your cheeks turn a healthy red...
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Yesterday I attended the Oxfam Italia event "The Women's circle 2012" to raise funds to help fight poverty and injustice around the world. Together with Oxfam, Annie Lennox has set up The Cirlce, a group of influential women who have come together do use their profiles, ideas, skills and resources to connect with women living in poverty around the world. If women get educated and indipendent they often tend to help the family out of starvation and poverty, being the main engine of the family. Annie Lennox and the Italian singer Elisa performed during the fund raising event which registred a sold out evening. To support Oxfam Italia and The Circle click here. ...
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Tonight we'll meet in Via Solari, to break the silence, toghether with the movement #cyclesafe (in Italy #salvaiciclisti) to demand higher safety measures on our streets. The more we are on the streets (bikes and pedestrians) the safer we'll be! I support the initative and will be there, riding my bike of course. Remember to check the lights on your bike and to wear something in a reflective material, it's important to be visibile at night! pic@Mauro Rongione...
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Farmer fili is back in town, ready for tonight's show of Chetempochefa, but a bit of the blues always hits me when we pack up and leave the countryside. (even my trolley has the blues...
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