Hints and tips:
...by using bike lanes....
...By having their own local warehouses, couriers and fleets of e-bikes, the model enables companies to achieve quick delivery times of minutes....
...Philip Lane, chief economist at the ECB, has suggested there is no alarm surrounding transitory inflation stemming from temporary supply side bottlenecks (instead of demand overheating)....
...In most of Paris, even with protected bike lanes, cyclists confront cars at every intersection....
...By the time I got to “Van Gogh’s Chair”, part of me started to miss the tourists. After all, people-watching at a gallery is first rate....
...Mani Peninsula Pamela Goodman We parked just beyond the village of Stavri where the narrow lane peters out into a dusty turning circle almost at the cliff’s edge....
...– Evan de Barra Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton, Allen Lane/University of Chicago Press, £30 A book that reminds us that Greece is not just the Byronic birthplace of European...
...Around town, bike lanes are replacing car lanes. Many European cities are moving the same way....
...“In some areas in Delhi, we deliver on e-rickshaws. In some areas, we cannot run commercial vehicles during the daytime, and some roads are too narrow for vans to go in....
...At the port of Laem Chabang on Thailand’s eastern seaboard, the sun beats down on a busy six-lane highway and a railway freight line....
...McKinlay Kidd, a Glasgow-based tour operator, offers the chance to go one better, driving the route in a Jaguar E-type....
...Pieces from writers including Zadie Smith, Adam Gopnik and David Adjaye take readers from the Maidan-e-Pompa in Kabul to the Place des Vosges in Paris....
...Renaissance right up to Rubens and Van Dyck....
...The e-bike solved that problem for me, instilling the confidence to compete even with the most ill-tempered white van....
...A clean Ford Galaxy van arrived early and took me there smoothly – at twice the price of my former, less predictable journey to John F Kennedy International....
...Carlos Slim struggles to prevail in battle for KPN As the owner of several works by Vincent Van Gogh, Carlos Slim should know all about troubled Dutch masters, writes Henry Mance....
...Moniker Art Fair, October 17-20, Brick Lane, London An art fair that “challenges the establishment”....
...In 2014 world growth should be stronger but it will be a three speed world – emerging economies in the fast lane, the USA gathering speed in the middle lane, Europe in the slow lane....
...“We believe in investing in structural change and that’s something that you see in Latin America, especially Brazil,” says Peter van Rooyen, of Cyrte Investments, a Netherlands-based investment house with...
...Penny Lane 5=. Eleanor Rigby/Help! Most frequently picked Bach pieces: 1. Concerto for two violins in D minor 2. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring 3....
...Every Sunday we’d e-mail our results back to him, along with our weight, resting pulse and sleep patterns....
...British institutions: the BBC To comment on this article, please e-mail magazineletters@ft.com...
...and Dries Van Noten (Nationalestraat 16; www.driesvannoten.be)....
...Additional reporting by Aline van Duyn and Tom Braithwaite...
...to be about £15bn ($24bn), which could self-fund over 10 years by a combination of profits, the sale of buildings, staffing reductions from 110,000 to 35,000, and a vehicle fleet contraction from 10,000 vans...
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