On Tour
Travel to another city and move yourself with your own bicycle! So you can start directly at the station und discover the city. Or you leave the car at a place where parking is still free and you continue with the Brompton. Like this I visited already a lot of towns.
Once I have taken the Brompton with me on a flight to Berlin. Because I was on tour for a weekend only, I only had a small backpack for the hand luggage. So I could leave the Brompton as a normal piece of luggage at the check-in. I looked for possibilities to protect something particularly, but did not find anything. Just the two screws of the hinge clamps I removed and a belt I lashed around the Brompton. I handed it over without cover, so that the carriers did not get the idea to throw this piece of luggage.
At right the Brompton lies in the luggage rack of a train. For reasons of safety I fix it always with a belt. So I avoid the bike falling down when the train is shaking. Like this I can take the bicycle with me even in german ICE-trains (where normal bikes are forbidden)! In the train I always use my selfmade cover for the Brompton. First I am not always interested to get curious glances and secondly I avoid discussions with the personnel (just to be safe).
Like this I traveled to Lübeck. At the way back I had a stay of a quarter of an hour in Hamburg for changing. Well, I used it for a small tour in the city - risky.

But usually I drive by car and have the Brompton always with me. The inventor of the new car "Smart" said someday, his criterion for the new car is "Two persons and two boxes of water bottles". On my last trip to Paris I had "2 bicycles and 2 boxes of beer" in the trunk - not mentioned the  4 persons in the front... and this by going with 4.8L/100km, but this is another theme... (see "Ecomatic"). In the picture at right the boxes with the bottles are missing, but you see half the trunk still being empty.
Driving the Brompton in Paris (see below) I find especially exciting. It is a comletly new feeling to dicover the town like this. You get a real idea of its size - and after my experience, Paris is rather small. For cyclists red lights are unimportant. You roll as far as you can see the whole crossroads and continue if nobody is coming.
The Frenchmen were especially interested in the Brompton. My friend and me were asked more often than in Germany. With pleasure I take the 20 seconds time to fold and unfold the bicycle. "C'est magnifique!"
I still have some plans for journeys: My dream is New York with a bike. I hope it succeeds in 1999. This year I will be on tour in Morocco with the Brompton. Some pictures you can see in january '99 on this website.