Can the Clines family travel and sustain an eco-lifestyle?
Lightweight camping offers freedom. We enjoy having a minimal amount of stuff. When alongside car and van campers, we don’t usually look at other people’s set-ups and their comfortable kit longingly—except perhaps when it comes to a table and chairs. After years of spreading a groundsheet on the floor for all our camping meals, we …
Hoping to inspire the whole family about what was possible to achieve on a bike, we purchased a Sustrans map of all the bike routes in the UK and pinned it up on the kitchen wall. Soon after, we planned a route along the Trans Pennine Trail with our kids. Three weeks later we were …
Many cyclists, after becoming parents, put their bicycles to one side only rediscovering them, dusty and rusted, years later. As we prepared for the birth of our first child we were determined to continue our car-free lifestyle so we set out to discover the best ways to carry a baby or toddler on a bicycle. …
How easy is it to travel on the Hull ferry with children on bicycles? What happens when you arrive at Zeebrugge or Europoort? How do you find your way? Where’s the best place to go? Is the cycling safe? Cycling off a huge ship with children into an unknown country can be daunting. However, we …
To spend as many nights under canvas as possible is one of our goals in life. In nine years of camping with kids we have only used a (borrowed) car once for a three night trip. So the short answer is YES: no-car camping is completely possible with a baby, with toddlers, with small and …
Our aim is to celebrate how much joy we can bring in to our home through making family life more eco-friendly, rather than getting gloomy about being the mere drop in the ocean. We choose to recycle, but how much of our recycling actually gets reused? Or we choose local products, but they come wrapped …
Edale, in the beautiful Peak District, is our go-to no-car family camping spot in the UK. It is accessible by train and there are two campsites 5–10 minutes on foot from the train station. Whether you’re using bicycles or carrying backpacks and possibly a pull-along suitcase (or two), it’s extremely easy to reach. Getting to …
Cycling with kids is a fantastic way to keep fit and have fun as a family. But what happens when those little legs tire and need a helping hand back home? Or what if the place you want to cycle is a train ride away? Or what if you want to go on a cycle …
Our summer adventure this year was built around a necessary work conference in Helsinki. Should we fly? Would it be fun to go from the UK overland to Finland and reduce our carbon footprint? Could the tricky logistics of putting bikes on trains be worth it? After weeks of researching, we decided to go for …
We’re just back from our latest journeying; this time from the UK to Finland and back, using boats and trains and carrying our load by bicycles. This shot, taken at Travemünde tells some of the story; us with our hi-viz vests waiting to board the car deck at dusk, with bicycles; but the smoke coming …
