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How will you ride the slide?
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Filed under: Eco Seikatsu, The Green Agenda
Bristol To Tokyo Plane Free
In 2006 I stopped using airplanes, a decision I did not take lightly, but one that prompted me to be more conscious of alternative travel methods and how travel behaviour affects the environment. The very existence of alternatives to flying is not widely known, how to go about using them is even more of a mystery to most people. I blogged my journey and attempted to get a reasonably accurate comparison of the CO2 emissions … Read entire article »
Filed under: Flightless Travel Guides, Slow Travel
My Big Feet – Trans Sib Carbon Footprint
Get my interactive journey maps Big thanks to my Dad for helping me with these difficult calculations… Today, November 14th 2007, marks the inauguration of the new British Eurostar station at Kings Cross St. Pancras, for the rail connection that links my home country with about two thirds of the rest of the world. Eurostar boasts that the actual carbon emissions of journeys taken on its trains are some 10% of the flight equivalent and with … Read entire article »
Filed under: Slow Travel, The Green Agenda, World Slow Travel
My Big Feet – Trans Sib Carbon Footprint
I’m itching to complete my post about the first leg of my journey as far as Berlin, and I’m close to finishing the calculations (with lots of help) but its really difficult to get an accurate idea because there is lots of conflicting information that is hard to discern between. The Centre for Alternate Technology in Wales have given me the figures from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and from a study by … Read entire article »
Filed under: Eco Seikatsu, Slow Travel, The Green Agenda, World Slow Travel
Tokyo まで
^^ Land Ho! first sight of Japan Well I didn’t get lost in the ocean in case you were wondering. I was pretty tired by the time I got to Shanghai, and was glad to be boarding my last vessel on non-Japanese soil the next day (day 22) I guess I now have a few tips to advise others with on such a journey, but forefront among them all might be, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Slow Travel, World Slow Travel
Day 19 The wall
more photos… Today I climbed the great wall of China at Jinshanling and walked 8 km along the wall to Simatai. PreviousNext Download article as PDF … Read entire article »
Filed under: Slow Travel, World Slow Travel
Day 18 Empress Cixi’s playground
more photos… I had a lazy morning today and left for the summer palace at around 11:00. I tackled the Chinese bus system with relative ease. You board the bus at the front (marked by the Chinese symbol for “up”, not “entrance”) and then a bus-guard, a novel sight, finds you to collect money. It was really really cheap 1.5 yuan (about 10p) to go about … Read entire article »
Filed under: Slow Travel, World Slow Travel
Day 17
more photos… I walked from my hotel through Beihai park to reach the Forbidden City this morning. Past a lady doing tai chi, a group of women practising tap dancing, a tutored group of people doing tricks with circus diablos and finally past an intensive training group of 5 people playing happy-sac in a tight ring holding each other at the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Slow Travel, World Slow Travel
Day 16 Notice for environmental protection in the green hotel
more photos… The approach to Beijing was at first characterised by slightly greener scrub with the first real trees for a long time. All the houses were a pale terracotta colour with the same colour tiled roofs. They were not an identifiably Chinese style in my mind, but they were all crammed together with only pedestrian alleyways, not roads between the higgledy-piggledy terraces. The fields are filled … Read entire article »
Filed under: Slow Travel, World Slow Travel
Day 15 Into the Middle Kingdom
more photos… UB guesthouse half emptied at 7am this morning. With fast international trains running only 2 or 3 times a week, the days it did run saw tourists bundle out of Ulan Bataar in herds. Sara and Daniel, the Swedish couple who’d been mirroring my journey since Moscow, were in my “vagon”, as were the couple from England I’d met at the border town of Naushki between Russia and Mongolia. Leaving … Read entire article »
Filed under: Slow Travel, World Slow Travel
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