The question mark is a touch rhetorical… Of course it is! There are bicycles everywhere and cycle lanes take you from anywhere to anywhere. That’s really not surprising, but… Contrary to what the ‘everything-about-cycling-in-Britain-is-rubbish’ crowd would have you believe, there’s a large minority here who wear helmets, a fair number who are fully clad in Lycra and a good number who ignore the traffic lights. What’s more, Copenhagen isn’t a city that has banished the car by any stretch of the imagination; what they do appear to have been successful in doing however is building a city where both cars and bicycles co-exist and neither is seen as a marginalised minority activity for the few. Yesterday afternoon I arrived from the south – not the nicest of approaches to the city – but after having decided to stay at the campsite 7 km to the north I cycled along one long road that was far more pleasant and interesting on many levels. One thing I noticed was just how many cycle shops there were so, this morning as I cycled back into the centre, I took a photo of all 18 of them… More Copenhagen thoughts and pictures later (if I haven’t just broken my camera when my bike toppled over in the wind. Yes, it’s still blustery and cold!)