Tag: walking
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Once upon a sit-upon
I’ve mentioned a few bits of really handy car-free-dom kit on this blog. It has included sticks/poles, shoe ice grips and comfy shoes to name a few. We really enjoy walking for leisure, or hiking as it’s often called. When we are out for a wander, often on a decent walk/hike in our nearby Peak…
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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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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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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…
