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Can you hear the birds sing whilst driving in your car? Well, no, of course not! As I have blogged about before you miss a lot when you are encased in a metal box with windows on wheels. It is spring time here so the birds are signing which is really soothing. Their songs are…
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Bit of a shock
Walking in the streets around your house is normal and everyday if you are car-free. You head out of your front door and you walk. OK you might also be wheeling, or cycling, or something along those lines – but in car-free-dom you are often likely going to self-propelling your body around your locale. Car-free…
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Not getting hooked
In some news you read that car ownership by younger people is dropping. Other news suggests that is it generally rising and seen as a more achieveble ‘status enhancing’ purchase than a home. Looking at a fairly recent review of car ownership trends in the UK it is not so clear. Some people are saying…
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We don’t need roads..
The title of this blog is that classic quote from the end of the film Back to the Future. In that situation it was about jumping into a time machine which was a flying DeLorean car to travel into the future. Which is not so much what this blog post is about – but it…
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12 weeks ahead..
In our car-free-dom we use the train quite frequently. As I have written about before there are many benefits from travelling on public transport not being encased in your private car-box where you just see the world through a windscreen. The train system in the UK is good at times and less good at others.…
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Car-free walks
About ten years ago when staying in a YHA in the Lake District in the UK I noticed a poster promoting the website called Car Free Walks. Car Free Walks describes itself as “a community-driven outdoor website provid[ing] walks free of cars and free of charge. Every one of our walks can be reached using…
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Pavement parking!
In our car-free-dom we walk about on our local pavements regularly. It is really annoying that when walking around we do not only have to breath-in what is coming out the back of passing motor vehicles, as well as have to suffer the noise they make, but also quite often be obstructed by them parked…
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Life behind glass
When you are car-free you forget about what travelling around is like for people who do not have their car-free-dom – in the UK it is suggested to be about 17 million households are car-free. Last post I wrote about my weekend ‘with van’ (we hired/rented one for a couple of days) – and it…
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On yer bike..
Cycling is in our car-free-dom mix of travelling options. Including, bikes that fold, tour, carry two-people and can pull-a-trailer. We’ve done a fair bit of cycling over the years. Cycling is wonderful when you have space to peddle around free from the worry, noise and smell associated with cars and other vehicles. However, in a…
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What happens if the bus doesn’t show?
Last post I got into how we need to plan our movements a bit more in our car-free-dom because of needing to coincide with transport (i.e. most likely buses and trains). Things happen – strange weather again!! We always find it amusing that if there is some challenging weather and things get disrupted on the…
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