Can you imagine living without your car?

....Well perhaps you should! Global environmental destruction is the elephant in all our rooms.

I was a major petrol-head before I gave up mine and it was long before I started living on a boat and cruising in such a way as to make car-ownership a hindrance rather than a help. The folks who live and work on The Narrow Shop have been car-free before for a while and are about to sell their current car.

Since they've gone back to driving they have found one of the main problems of car-ownership - that of it being all to easy to use it for every journey - even "unnecessary", short ones....

" ...nearly two years later we are still driving around almost everywhere. Using the car for journeys that we could easily bike ride to. But not any more!. When we lived without a car before we were much fitter, saw a lot more things down wonderful country lanes that we would have missed in a car, and were a lot better off money wise too."

I'm glad they are finding it a liberating experience and looking forward to it. Read the whole article on their new blog here.

If you're really keen I wrote about living in an auto-hegemony here!