YUL Gourmand

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About every three months or so, I take off to another city for culinary exploration. I have a few tenets to my trips:

I travel during off peak season and/or off peak days. I typically travel Saturday to Tuesday and often during what is called shoulder season – that lull between high and low season. I want to experience a city when it is having fun (Saturday), relaxing (Sunday) and working (Monday).

I stay at smaller “boutique” hotels or Bed and Breakfasts just off the beaten bath but within walking distance of the action. I usually get a good deal.

I only go where I can take public transportation to 90% of the places I want to dine or things I want to do. Google maps comes in real handy for this. I just plug in where I am staying and where I want to go and select walking or public transit directions. This is also how I decide which place I am going to stay – if I find my lodging is too far away from what I want to do – I keep searching. You learn a lot about a city by walking from point A to point B.

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Team Sky Riders Kennaugh, Stannard And Swift Extend Their Contracts

Written by | Wednesday, 31 December 1969

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The rider, who joined Team Sky from Italian outfit ISD, impressed last year when he clinched third place amid atrocious conditions in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, and this year had British fans gripped as he rode off the front of a breakaway group in... However, one of the team's more seasoned British riders, Russell Downing, is now trying to secure a new team for 2012 with no new conract forthcoming. He also played a leading role in the Great Britain team that supported future Team Sky rider Mark Cavendish&rsquo. s top young road cycling talents, Ian Stannard, Peter Kennaugh and Ben Swift, have signed new contracts with Team Sky, which finished the 2011 season in second place in the UCI WorldTour ranking. The trio of younger riders, like Downing, all signed with the team when it was launched in the run-up to the 2010 season, with Swift&rsquo.

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Rabottini Holds On For Dramatic Win

Rabottini holds on for dramatic win

Eurosport.com ASIA | 31 Dec 1969

Cunego threw caution into the wind and attacked once again on the final descent, the Italian almost coming off his bike on one of the many tight bends of the narrow, slippery and winding road. His countryman, the lone leader Rabottini,

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A Bike Ride In The Forest Proves Tougher Than Expected

Independent Publishing Group | 31 Dec 1969

I had fond memories of this bike. I sold my ultra-light Italian road bike when we moved to New Gloucester after taking one trip down Woodman Road's washboard dirt roadway on tires that were ridiculously skinny and meant for tar and not eight-inch-deep

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Francisco Ventoso Takes Stage 9

Francisco Ventoso takes Stage 9

ESPN | 31 Dec 1969

AP FROSINONE, Italy -- Francisco Ventoso of Spain won the ninth stage of the Giro d'Italia in a sprint finish Monday after several other contenders fell at the last turn. Ryder Hesjedal, a Canadian with Garmin-Barracuda, kept the overall lead for a

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L'eroica Bike Race: Blast From The Past

KKCO-TV | 31 Dec 1969

A bike race from Grand Junction to Glenwood Springs takes riders back to a simpler -- but definitely more uncomfortable-- time. The race is called L'eroica, which is Italian for “hero,” and it is based on a ride that started in 1899 and lasted through

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NATO Blog: The Stage Is Set For Summit, Protests

NATO Blog: The stage is set for summit, protests

Chicago Tribune | 31 Dec 1969

She said that she was hurt when a Chicago Police officer in a bicycle barricade reared up his bike against her. She also said she jumped on top of a moving police van that she said was threatening the crowd. "I was on the hood of the van trying to hold

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Road Bike Maintenance

Road Bike Maintenance

English or Italian? The BB threads in most road bikes are 'English' pattern ... Some bikes (mainly Italian- brand road bikes) have 'Italian' threads (marked ...

Creator: Guy Andrews | Sports & Recreation2008-05-01

Publisher: Falcon Pr Pub Co


Bike for Life, How to Ride to 100

Bike for Life, How to Ride to 100

Classic Italian road racing geometry, but you could ride it on rough ... Nothing else like this — halfway between a clunky touring bike and a road bike. ...

Creator: Roy M. Wallack, Bill Katovsky | Health & Fitness2005-04-18

Publisher: Da Capo Press


Cycling Italy

Cycling Italy

WHAT TO BRING The well paved vie (roads) of Italy are perfectly suited to road bikes or stocky touring/hybrid frames with slick tyres. ...

Creator: Eilee Thalheimer | Sports & Recreation2009-07-01

Bicycling

Bicycling

Or maybe it's the old lugged-steel Italian road bike with the dried-up rubber brake hoods that you lent to your brother-in-law, but he's never ridden. ...

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Graphis, international journal for graphic and applied art

Graphis, international journal for graphic and applied art

The tradition of the steel-frame Italian road bike with its sleek aerodynamic lines was, and still is. sacrosanct to many racing enthusiasts. ...

Creator: Verband Schweizerischer Graphiker | Art1999

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