Tag: walking
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Some reservations
Booking train ticket in the UK can be complicated. However, on most train services you can reserve a seat as part of the ticket cost. Some train companies don’t allow seat reservations, for example, I have never been able to reserve a seat on Northern or South Western. Apart from local trips most of the…
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Sore feet?
In car-free-dom the good news is that you will be more active because without a car you’ll need to move around more under your own steam. On the flip-side if that moving around involves walking then you may get sore feet. In many ways having used your body to move around and become tired is…
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Don’t go around in circles
Car-free-dom means that when you head out walking – which we do a lot into the Peak Districk, UK – you don’t have to return to where you started. I mentioned these car-free point-to-point possibilities in a post a while back. By point-to-point I mean simply that you can start a walk somewhere, i.e where…
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Lost en-route
I have previously written about how cycling is an important part of our car-free-dom. As well as how ‘mediative biking’ is part of my attempts to try to stay calm in facing the inevitable motor vehicle traffic when peddling around. One way of trying to get away from the traffic is to focus your cycling…
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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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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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