Category: General
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Who doesn’t love a cycle lane?
A recurrent theme in these blogs (such as) about car-free-dom is a general idea about there being an unquestioned acceptance of the (growing) presence of motorised transport in our lives with a connected bias to not judging motorised transport “objectively and dispassionately”. I don’t want to not get too language heavy in this blog. But…
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Bit of a bonus
As I have mentioned more than one or two times before in our family car-free-dom we often get the train around the UK. Given the money we save from not owning a car – we probably go away for trips more than most. Not so long ago as normal we got the train for a…
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Running on time
A main bus route for us to head out of Sheffield into the Peak District for walking/hiking over recent years has been the 257 bus. I have previously written about the challenges of when a bus doesn’t show and the need for back-up travel options or a cosy cafe or pub to hand. Last year…
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Let it snow..
It is the time of year we get snow in Sheffield in the north of England. It is a hilly city so the arrival of snow, and ice, for moving around can making things challenging. We don’t tend to get loads of snow like many places in the world – and some years we don’t…
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God’s gift to nature!
Over Christmas I was searching for something to watch on TV for a bit of a chill out on the sofa. Thing is I was not at home, we were at my wife’s mum’s house and her TV is more complicated than ours. It’s one of those arrangements where the TV provider, in this case…
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Some reservations
Booking train ticket in the UK can be complicated. However, on most train services you can reserve a seat as part of the ticket cost. Some train companies don’t allow seat reservations, for example, I have never been able to reserve a seat on Northern or South Western. Apart from local trips most of the…
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Too hot, too cold
I am a big fan of trains. But as I have written about before, of course, train travel can and does present a few challenges at times. Some challenges can be fixed by sticking on a pair of headphones, taking some quality ‘time-out’ from a missed connection, or by buying tickets well in advance to…
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Comfy shoes
I love walking around my locale as I’ve written about before in my car-free-dom, but inevitably you do go through shoes. In the last post I wrote about sore feet, so in this post I am continuing on a similar path (excuse the pun!). I seem to wear out shoes quite quickly. It is annoying,…
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Sore feet?
In car-free-dom the good news is that you will be more active because without a car you’ll need to move around more under your own steam. On the flip-side if that moving around involves walking then you may get sore feet. In many ways having used your body to move around and become tired is…
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