Tag: travel
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A dilemma
We live in a city in the UK – Sheffield. It is fairly hilly city for the UK. Although in other parts of the world I imagine it would be regarded as quite flat. The thing with hills is that they create daily dilemmas in our car-free-dom for how to move around. But why I…
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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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