Tag: health
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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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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…
Car-free family 