Category: General
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Don’t go around in circles
Car-free-dom means that when you head out walking – which we do a lot into the Peak Districk, UK – you don’t have to return to where you started. I mentioned these car-free point-to-point possibilities in a post a while back. By point-to-point I mean simply that you can start a walk somewhere, i.e where…
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Watch out little ones!
It’s spring and that means new life. Over the weekend we returned from an evening out to find three fox cubs exploring the road outside our home. We’ve not see fox cubs before – they looked like they might be on their first outing as they were so little. We live in the middle of…
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Waiting for the tectonic plates to move
There is a very funny comedy panel programme in the UK which has been going for years – ‘Would I lie to you?’. In one episode David Mitchell, one of the two team captains, was quizzed about his lack of ability to drive a car. David was asked by one of the panel members, who…
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Duped?
Being car-free I spend a good amount of time walking around near roads – you know just getting to the shops etc. At times I watch the drivers – I find it quite fascinating. Besides getting generally annoyed about being unable to avoid the associated car noise and smell, and having to wait for a…
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Why so radical?
In many ways being car-free is not very radical. In the UK 22% of households are without a car. So with 28.2 million households that means 6.2 million car-free households in the UK. Which means that if you live in a car-free household you are not alone! For some people not having a car will…
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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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