Tag: travel
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Stick to it
In our family car-free-dom we really enjoy walking and hiking. I have mentioned that once, twice or even three times before on this blog! One bit of kit that I was always a little uncertain about was the benefit of walking / hiking sticks. I know it sounds like you are getting a bit old…
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Clean boots
In my car-free-dom I do think about my feet quite a lot. Well you need to look after them as they are crucial to getting around! Previously I have blogged about the dilemmas of findings comfy shoes as well as some ways to help to avoid getting sore feet. One thing you can do that…
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A bit cross
In the UK about four years back the Highway Code was amended. An aspect of the changes was about clarifying a ‘hierarchy of road users’. This hierarchy “places those road users most at risk in the event of a collision at the top of the hierarchy” – which was/is encouraging. How well you find people…
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Who doesn’t love a cycle lane?
A recurrent theme in these blogs (such as) about car-free-dom is a general idea about there being an unquestioned acceptance of the (growing) presence of motorised transport in our lives with a connected bias to not judging motorised transport “objectively and dispassionately”. I don’t want to not get too language heavy in this blog. But…
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Bit of a bonus
As I have mentioned more than one or two times before in our family car-free-dom we often get the train around the UK. Given the money we save from not owning a car – we probably go away for trips more than most. Not so long ago as normal we got the train for a…
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Running on time
A main bus route for us to head out of Sheffield into the Peak District for walking/hiking over recent years has been the 257 bus. I have previously written about the challenges of when a bus doesn’t show and the need for back-up travel options or a cosy cafe or pub to hand. Last year…
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Non-slip
It’s that time of year when you get snow and ice where we live in Sheffield in the north of England. As I mentioned before in car-free-dom it’s great to wrap up warm and get out and enjoy the winter weather. If you are on foot and it is icy then you don’t want to…
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Let it snow..
It is the time of year we get snow in Sheffield in the north of England. It is a hilly city so the arrival of snow, and ice, for moving around can making things challenging. We don’t tend to get loads of snow like many places in the world – and some years we don’t…
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God’s gift to nature!
Over Christmas I was searching for something to watch on TV for a bit of a chill out on the sofa. Thing is I was not at home, we were at my wife’s mum’s house and her TV is more complicated than ours. It’s one of those arrangements where the TV provider, in this case…
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