Hopped on my bicycle right in front of my house and 8 days later got off in Copenhagen. Along the way, me and my cycling companion slept in people's gardens, sheds, on the floor of a second-hand-store and in the attic of a student building We also made cycling trips through the whole of the Netherlands, to Cologne, Paris, London and Berlin.

History: The development from the earliest farmers villages into town and eventually full scale monumental cities in Turkey, The Levant and Mesopotamia (Iraq) The Roman Empire Chinese empire The Mayas and Aztecs the Incas Al-Andalus: Morish Spain The medieval merchant cities of The county of Flanders, the Duchy of Brabant and the rest of the later Burgundian Netherlands: Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels, Mechelen, Leuven, Tournai, Liege, ... Italian city-states like Milan, Firenze, Napoli, ... European colonialism from the 15th century to the 18th century The civil Rights movement in the US in the second half of the fifties and first half of the sixties