Tag: car-free family
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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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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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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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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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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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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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