Miosotis Und Milena Velba

The Frost and the Art of Conducting Bicycle

Quando arrivate in Svezia (o in qualsiasi altro posto nuovo), é abbastanza naturale cercare di stabilire dei contatti sociali. Se ci arrivate da soli, senza portarvi dietro/raggiungere un partner giá esistente, é pure abbastanza probabile che prima o poi vi dedichiate alla ricerca di un/a rappresentante del sesso che preferite, allo scopo di condividere alcuni dei Piaceri Corporali che la Vita riserva ai piú.

Non é che io sia sfuggita a questa tendenza, e quindi, diverso tempo fa, mi capitó di partecipare con altre amiche single a session called Hunting & Fishing in the vast northern plains. During these sessions, the other party usually tends to show off their strengths. In the case of / Swedish, I noticed that invariably flaunt the fact that he / she cross. That is, does gymnastics, movement, sport of some kind.

Irrespective of the presence of an Imperial Panza, at some point in the conversation you will therefore be told that "I'm skiing, I play hockey, go to the gym, walking in the woods, I go on basketball shoes yoga afrodita powergympa beachwolley Innebandy styrketräning konditionsträning jogging and so on. "To give you an example, in one of our first events of the Viking asked me to spend a Sunday afternoon in a spa, with hour of exercise bikes included. Help me .

I must say, are not as ( and it shows). In the jargon Swedish I would be regarded as hopelessly soffpotatis , ie soft couch potato, which is not a creature leaves as you might think, but merely indicates an entity and softened Floating on his liver, like myself. It is understandable, in these social situations, for me it was an embarrassment to the stars.

What the hell of training I invent to impress unlucky?

Found! I'm going to work by bicycle . (I also fungi. Better than nothing, in short: the Viking I wanted the same good)

Ultima Thule Cycling is not the same as run with grace and prowess on the slight undulations of the Po Valley. Here the snow arrives in October and disappears in April, and go above implies that we must learn some survival strategies, especially when one is disastrously lazy like me and do not care to put studded tires. One can also say that if the bruises were permanent, at this time I would have a worthy complexion of the inhabitants of Pandora in Avatar.

After seven years of residence, so I can summarize my temperature in the categories of Education to the road covered with snow.

0 / -3 degrees

Do not be fooled by the fact that it's hot . With these temperatures, the snow is wet, heavy, lazy. You go by bike and you leave behind heavy grooves like the sky in November. The holes hidden beneath the placid white blanket will be revealed suddenly, making you sink, skid, fall Regale your backside in shame. It also happens that the Last Thule bike lanes, clean the rest of the city, are swept especially around the hospital and the University own carelessness: After all, the emergency room is at your feet, and we can go very well for themselves.

During the day it may happen that sometimes the snow melts, forming pools that during the night in recrystallized surfaces with friction coefficient equal to the inverse of Avogadro's number. It is not uncommon for these areas are covered with snow and made invisible, and then the day after the end makes your royal rump above. By the same mechanism, the lock will fill half of your liquid water while you're at work, while at night, when you return to your home, there are no saints in the ice-free raggelatosi. Lycka till.

Fortunately, public transportation is not bad.

-4/-12 degrees

this is the best situation. The snow that falls at these temperatures is soft and graceful, and a blanket covering the streets with compact and stable enough. After several weeks, however, the snow will be compacted so smooth in places quite unpredictable, will form mounds and furrows more or less parallel, and if the wheels would have to take an angle here is unfortunate that the usually regal rump You will have to resigned for the worst. The result is that to survive, the rider must take care to follow his fanatically Furrow.

In fact, the whole cult Cycling Snow has a unique Dogma:

Follow your God Furrow . Who leaves and fallen .

The Dogma of the Furrow becomes important when the snow decides it's time to give a scratch the road: the teeth of the blades are (sadistic?) Marginally wider than the tires of the bicycle, and leave ruts in the ice few inches deep and parallel to the direction of travel. The above snow also sure to leave holes hidden and piles of soft snow suddenly at random points in your path.

A very intelligent, although illegal, is cycling on the pavement, where the treads randomized provide a surface free of ruts.

-12/-17 degrees

see above, more or less. You begin to notice that the lubricant of the pins of the bicycle begins to harden , just a little, to the annoyance of your love of fat reserves.
At these temperatures, the warming is in trouble that the municipality Last Thule generously offers in its main squares and cycle routes with high gradient. The result is that the snow near the asphalt is sciogliucchia, then refreeze, with the formation of a mocking ice mounds in . Since this heating is provided by underground pipes to happen to the ice to melt only just above the tubes, with the formation of, guess what? ruts in the ice. Of course parallel to the direction of travel. If the situation is under control uphill, downhill you will be able to stimulate the adrenaline to good levels.

-18 / down:

not received by the undersigned for crystallization occurred.

I but said that the Public Transport Services (pompously baptized here ULTRA , ie UltimaThule Lokal Trafik ) is not bad, although slightly expensive. I'd be foolish not to take advantage.