Category: General
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Car-free in Germany
We were in Germany for our holiday this summer. It is always interesting to look at the car-free-dom possibilities in other countries – to dream about what could be in the UK. The public transport, especially in the cities, from what we have seen is good, often very good – frequent, reliable, clean and not…
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Meditative biking?
In this blog about being a car-free family I have previously written about cycling. Cycling is one key mode of transport in being car-free. But cycling is of course not without its challenges. And, in the previous post on cycling I closed with a comment about trying to stay calm whilst peddling your bike. Look…
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A car-free city?
This blog is about living car-free, which means that you would think I would get quite excited about any plans for a ‘car-free carbon-free city’. There are plans for such a city called ‘Neom’ in Saudi Arabia. Neom which is billed as ‘a futuristic eco-city’ is suggested to be built in the desert in Saudi…
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A weekend with van
We had been planning it for a while. There were a few jobs that we needed to do that required some ‘extra’ support. Mainly a visit to our local DIY shop, for a load of garden stuff (compost etc.), and to take some accumulated things (mainly defunct electrical goods) to the recycling centre. We’ve done…
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How much??
I was wondering the other day how much money we avoid spending by being a car-free family versus the average car-owning family. From a bit of web-searching I found a suggestion that the average annual cost of running a car in the UK is £3,580. Another source suggested £3,552. What is quite surprising is the…
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A non-car
One thing that I particularly enjoy about car-freedom is that because we don’t ever have a car sat outside our presence at home is not clearly marked. Some research suggested that the average car in Britain spends 23 hours a day parked, of which almost three quarters it is parked outside the owner’s house. Although…
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The War on Cars!
In this blog an intention was to review some of the websites and blogs already out there about being car-free. There are a few and some are really helpful and interesting – so I still do need to do it sometime. However, I recently found my way to a podcast which seems to have become…
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How did you get here?
Being a car-free family is not some fad for us. As written about in the first entry to this blog we have never owned a car. Of all the things that we have done to try to pay attention to the impacts and feedback related to what we eat, the energy we use and how…
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Beginning car-free blogging
To be car-free, or is it more simply stated no-car? What might a group of people be called who do not own a car? Somebody’s lack of car ownership could be because it is unachievable due to the financial cost, and/or some ethical judgement about the ‘goodness’ of not-owning. Although the word ‘car’ is somewhat…
Car-free family 