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Stuart Balkham

Holidays

You’re In Charge, Warm Up Tour

During the easter holidays in 2022, we took the twins on their first loaded cycle tour. Here's what we did and what we learnt...We last took our kids on a cycling holiday in 2019, towing a Weehoo and a double bike trailer buggy just under 300km over nine days around…
28/06/2022
Carfree

I (sort of) Accidentally Sold our Car

At the end of January, based on not much, my partner and I started discussing the idea of going car free. We’ve got six year old twins, live in a small, hilly town, with rubbish walking and cycling infrastructure. We have elderly relatives which we can kind of only visit…
22/03/2022
CarfreePlanning

If Not a Car, Then What?

We have decided to go car free. We’re a family of four. Two adults, two 6 year old kids (twins). We’re doing this because we want to lessen our carbon impact on the world and also because cars kind of suck. We live in a small town in the UK…
28/01/2022
CarfreePlanning

Going Car Free as a Family

For many people, the pandemic has provided an unexpected opportunity to pause and reflect. For my family, that has meant taking time to assess what is important to us, and trying to work out how to align our lives more closely with those things. One thing we have decided to…
21/01/2022