Originally Posted by Loose Chain

You are the one quibbling. I reported exactly what I saw and the choice of bicycles and equipment and lack of helmets and cycling specific attire was striking, not to mention the smoking while cycling and walking. It is what it is and that was all it was meant to be, a report of what I saw, and at that a report of one person on one visit. Though I have been to Europe before a number of times but did not pay attention to cycling so much, however, nothing I saw in those visits was any different. It is not about good or bad or right or wrong, it is what I saw.