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Bonne Mecanique - café and bicycle workshop

Yesterday it was time for a meeting with Travel Massive in Stockholm. Travel Massive is an organisation that brings together travel insiders, such as travel bloggers, journalists and travel industry professionals.

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A few times a year it's time for a meeting, and since Travel Massive doesn't have its own premises, the meetings always take place at an interesting venue that offers to be a partner. Yesterday, the meeting took place in a slightly unexpected place - namely a combined café and bicycle workshop.

Bicycles for schoolgirls in Ghana

Good Mechanics is a bicycle workshop and bicycle shop located at Medborgarplatsen in Söder in Stockholm. But as you may have realised from the introduction, it is not just a bicycle workshop. There is also a café with organic coffee and a daily soup of the day. How often do you eat lunch at the bicycle workshop? In the South, anything is possible!

Vélosophy Bicycles presented its bicycles and its partnership with UNICEF: for every bicycle sold, the company provides a bicycle to a schoolgirl in Ghana. Awesome!

Mingel på Bonne Mechanique
Mingle at Bonne Mecanique

About cycling holidays and "TBEX"

There was of course a nice mingle with both known and unknown people in the travel industry. We also got to listen to a presentation about cycling holidays "light and luxurious", with only a few kilos of packing and accommodation in "castles and huts". Provence or Majorca were suggestions for the beginner who wants to go on a cycling holiday. Have you ever taken a cycling holiday or would you like to?

We also got information about the conference TBEX (Travel Bloggers Exchange) which is actually organised in Stockholm this year. The conference will gather about 900 people and it sounds undeniably attractive and interesting. Before and after the conference, tours are organised to showcase and promote various beautiful places in Sweden, so that the bloggers write about them.

It would be great to participate, but it's not entirely free ($157 per blogger) and it's still a bit unclear where the pre- and post-tours go and who gets to go on them.

Mingel på Bonne Machanique
Juice, veggie sticks and dips on offer at Bonne Mecanique

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