Seen on the Scene Colours in Central London on Pride Parade Day/ Pink Pedestrians and Pedicabs / tricycles / rickshaws / tuk-tuks

 

Pink and white pedicab. Seen on the scene in central London. 1. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Pink and white rickshaw Seen on the scene in central London. 2. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Pink rickshaw in London. Seen in Central London. 3 Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Pink hats.3 Seen on the scene in central London. . Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

4 Seen on the scene in central London. . Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

You can hire a bike for a day, or hire a bike to sell coffee.

Useful websites

Richshaw/pedicab/tuk tuk rides for birthdays, weddings, events, corporate

https://londonrickshaws.co.uk/tours/

https://www.rickshawhiring.com/

Others

https://www.rickshawslondon.co.uk/

https://www.londongreencycles.co.uk/hire/

https://fatllama.com/rentals/london/hire-coffee-trike--89802190

Do you know these loan words from French, German, Japanese, Korean? (+Museums in Israel and Florida)

Dear readers, friends and friends I have yet to meet
Thinking of foreign words, loan words used in English, borrowed from teh French, Japanese, Germans and Koreans. I hope you have a day full of joie de vivre. Add to your wishlist or bucket list (things to do before you kick the bucket ie die):
1 Visit a Bauhaus Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel or
2 See Bauhaus buildings in Germany, and
3 Visit the
Finish your day with a class of Judo or taekwando, or enjoy karaoke. Meanwhile, enjoy reading this article while munching a lunch of sushi and soy sauce from supermarkets worldwide.

French
joie de vivre - the joy(s) of life

Korean
taekwando (martial art)

Bauhaus Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.

English: Bauhaus Museum, Tel Aviv This is a photo of a heritage building in Israel. Its ID is 3-5000-353
Date	23 November 2010, 09:04:14
Source	Own work
Author	BergA

Camera location	32° 04′ 23.09″ N, 34° 46′ 14.59″ E	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth

German
alphorn (musical instrument you see in orchestras)
Bauhaus (architecture style from German, also in Tel Aviv, like Art deco, angular, flat rooftops)
geist - ghost
gestalt (meaning the whole is more than the sum of the parts)
glockenspeil - clock which makes a sound of chime. Spiel is game. See Glockenspiel museum in Salzberg, Austria, or a glockenspiel at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
hinterland - back country
kaput - broken, not functioning
kitsch - tacky but popular
leitmotiv (a recurring theme in music)
quartz

(That's ten German words!)

umlaut (meaning double dot above letters)
Zeppelin, airship containing hydrogen, first for delivering post (mail), then military, used by German in WWI, later in the USA for both military, and popular with passengers, but that ended with the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 when one caught fire horrifically. You can still see the video and hear the shocked commentator.

(That's twelve German words you know already!)

Japanese
bonsai (small trees)
geisha (female entertainer)
haiku (poetry style with syllable counts)
judo (martial art)
jujitsu (martial art)

kamikaze (suicidal pilot in wartime)
karaoke (singing)
kimono (Long Japanese lady's wrap-around dress with wide sleeves)
rickshaw - hand-pulled passenger cart / seat, often three-wheeled, nowadays revived for tourists
samurai (Japanese knight)

(That's ten Japanese words you know already!)

shiitake mushrooms (long thin stems and small heads)
soy
Sumo wrestler (large fat men on weight-increasing diets)
sushi (snack)
tofu (vegetarian)

(That's fifteen!)
tsunami (harbour wave)
yukata (light summer kimono)
(That's 17 Japanese words you know already!)

 Original: Nicke L Vector: DoktorMandrake - Sushi.png

Description: Sushi Source : Rinaldum Statut : GPL ou fr:GFDL

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USEFUL WEBSITES ON LANGUAGES


INFO / WEBSITES ON TRAVEL

AUSTRIA
Glockenspiel Museum in Salzberg, Austria. (See their website or Tripadvisor.)
GERMANY
Several Bauhaus buildings and museums.
ISRAEL
Bauhaus Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
For tourism info contact IGTO Israel Government Tourist Office in London, England.
USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - see glockenspiel.
Learn about kimonos, see bonsai and eat Japanese food in the Cornell Café at:
morikami.org
Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens
Florida
USA
For admission charges and times see their website

MY OTHER POSTS YOU WILL LIKE

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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Tuk tuk, trishaw or rickshaw, which do I want and does it matter? by Angela Lansbury

Problem With Rickshaw Terminology

I can't tell the difference between a rickshaw and trishaw and a tuk tuk.

Answer About Rickshaws

A technically minded friend tells me:

Rickshaws In Singapore

A rickshaw - the forerunner of the others was pulled by hand.

Usually one man, who could only pull a cart containing one man. An unskilled job, in the early days of Singapore, extremely hard labour.

Horse Power UK

In the UK the rich would have a horse, or a horse and a cart for business, or a pony and trap. Very rich, two horses and a permanent driver. A stage coach would have two or four horses, room for two or four passengers, and driver at the front, and space for luggage.

The horses would race over the ruts and be exhausted. So at the stages or stage posts, the horses, as well as driver and passengers, would stop for water and food and a rest. If passengers did not stop overnight, but were in a hurry, the carriage continued the journey. You would take another set of horses to go back and forth over their section of the road.

A trishaw - was a seated cart pulled by a bicycle. Does it have three wheels? Actually, it often has two under the passengers and the bike has two, so that makes four.

Tuk Tuks - in Cambodia

A tuk tuk is motorised, like a motorbike with a passenger cart, which we enjoyed in Cambodia. In Siem Reap the tuk tuks are the cheap form of transport as there are no buses in Siem Reap. It is the second city - but most popular for tourism - being a half-hour tuk tuk ride from the city to Ankor Wat. Buses run from one town to another but not within Siem Reap.

As you see from my picture, our driver wears a helmet because he is using a motorcycle, quite fast. The tuk tuks weave in and out of traffic, do U turns, cut across oncoming lanes to turn left

Auto rickshaw - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_rickshaw
An auto rickshaw (in India) or rickshaw (in Pakistan), also known as a baby taxi (in Bangladesh) .... Tuk-tuks, introduced in Durban in the late 1980s enjoyed growing popularity in recent years, particularly in Gauteng.

Tips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickshaw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickshaws_in_the_United_States

For more about travel to Ankor Wat and temples and what to see and do in Cambodia see previous posts.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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