Sentences with phrase «when rickshaws»

After debuting almost eighteen months ago, the electric - assist vehicles have been rejected by their drivers («pullers» in Indian parlance, a holdover from when rickshaws didn't have a bicycle attached to the front) as having too much added weight and the batteries being too slow to charge, taking nearly a full day once depleted, Indian Express reports.An unnamed official of the Delhi Municipal Corporation said,

When I visited Amanda in Hyderabad back in 2006, I had my «poverty tourist» moments — being shocked by the slums, throwing up all the time, taking an absurd amount of photographs, crying like a baby when the rickshaw driver ripped us off — but Amanda never looked down her nose at me or chided my efforts, even though a few weeks before she had held a dying little girl in her arms and a few weeks later she would severely burn her leg on a motorbike.

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According to the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA), four members of a Christian family were travelling to celebrate Easter with family in Quetta when two men on a motorbike opened fire on a rickshaw the family was on.

Ride a Rickshaw: When you're walking down the streets of Charleston, you'll notice a bunch of guys on bikes driving people around town.

The best things to do when you're on a budget Beijing hutong tour: Rickshaw and Walking Tours of Old Hutong, Siheyuan, Folk Arts, Houhai and Family Visits to get a sense of how the ordinary Beijingers

The film Margot (Michelle Williams) and Lou (Seth Rogen) are five years into a comfortable but stagnant marriage, when she falls for artist and rickshaw operator Daniel (Luke Kirby).

When she's not writing, Barbara is likely travelling — she's ridden a camel in the Sahara, a rickshaw in Tokyo, a hot air balloon over the Valley of the Kings, a dogsled in Alaska, climbed the Great Wall of China, kissed the Blarney Stone, soaked in the waters of Lourdes, and sailed in a gondola in Venice.

When she's not bouncing around the world on ramshackle buses, overcrowded trains, or on the back of a rickshaw, you can find her based in Sydney or the Gold Coast, Australia eagerly planning her next adventure.

April marked 12 years since the airing of «The Bookstore,» the classic Seinfeld episode when Kramer and Newman try to start a rickshaw business in New York City.