"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."
Ernest Hemingway
email me if google hasn't got the answer..
What’s missing? What’s the cost of a broken spoke? What’s the cost of an accident? Though the kindness of strangers is amazing. The taxi driver was very accommodating when I let him know I did not have enough for the full fare - he said keep it as you’ll need it for the repair..