Tag: travel
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Watch out little ones!
It’s spring and that means new life. Over the weekend we returned from an evening out to find three fox cubs exploring the road outside our home. We’ve not see fox cubs before – they looked like they might be on their first outing as they were so little. We live in the middle of…
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Waiting for the tectonic plates to move
There is a very funny comedy panel programme in the UK which has been going for years – ‘Would I lie to you?’. In one episode David Mitchell, one of the two team captains, was quizzed about his lack of ability to drive a car. David was asked by one of the panel members, who…
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Missed connection
We went away over for a family break the Easter holidays and took the train – as we normally do when heading out of town. I have previously written about the challenges of train ticket booking in the UK – this time it was a different challenge, or was it an opportunity? We were heading…
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Duped?
Being car-free I spend a good amount of time walking around near roads – you know just getting to the shops etc. At times I watch the drivers – I find it quite fascinating. Besides getting generally annoyed about being unable to avoid the associated car noise and smell, and having to wait for a…
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Tweet tweet
Can you hear the birds sing whilst driving in your car? Well, no, of course not! As I have blogged about before you miss a lot when you are encased in a metal box with windows on wheels. It is spring time here so the birds are signing which is really soothing. Their songs are…
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Bit of a shock
Walking in the streets around your house is normal and everyday if you are car-free. You head out of your front door and you walk. OK you might also be wheeling, or cycling, or something along those lines – but in car-free-dom you are often likely going to self-propelling your body around your locale. Car-free…
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Not getting hooked
In some news you read that car ownership by younger people is dropping. Other news suggests that is it generally rising and seen as a more achieveble ‘status enhancing’ purchase than a home. Looking at a fairly recent review of car ownership trends in the UK it is not so clear. Some people are saying…
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We don’t need roads..
The title of this blog is that classic quote from the end of the film Back to the Future. In that situation it was about jumping into a time machine which was a flying DeLorean car to travel into the future. Which is not so much what this blog post is about – but it…
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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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