Tag: car-less family
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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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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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Still car-free..
I thought that I would not have run out of steam so early, but it has been a while since I last came up with a post! Of course nobody reads this but it is at the very least therapeutic to type up a post about being car-free in all its opportunities and challenges. If…
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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 