Fascinating read, thanks for sharing. It reminds me a little of the natural historians of the 1800s but with less colonialism.
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And reducing food waste! I was surprised to see that individual/household food waste is so significant in terms of agricultural impact.
This is super common though. I mix up my kids’ names on a daily basis, it’s not because I don’t know who they are or can’t tell them apart. They do think it’s hilarious when I mix them up with the chickens.
The common factor is that I am usually saying the same mindless stuff to my kids (and chickens), like “get down from there” or “move out of the way please” or “stop making so much noise”.
Not defending this particular wool shop but often those sorts of specialty shops also have an online side. Weird that they would throw customers out though
We are from Scandinavia and right now we are in the Alps, later we are going to Italy.
There’s been work on the railways that has changed our itinerary and caused some delays but otherwise it has been ok.
We are not huge travelers but previously we’ve driven in our little car or flown and rented a car (ie Iceland, visiting family in the US). My main concern was changing so many trains with children and luggage but they’ve done really well (they are tweens). They are used to trains though.
Pros:
- I don’t have to drive for hours and hours (I am the only driver in the family)
- not having to go through security, also we have been inside the Schengen area so no passport controls
- you can get up and move around in the trains and it is more comfortable than in a plane
- not as much queueing as at airports
- night trains can save an overnight at a hotel
- you get to see the landscape you are crossing, and even if it is just fields or industry it is better than freeway or clouds
- other travelers seem more chill and less stressed than when flying
Cons:
- you can’t bring as much with you as in your car and you have to handle your own luggage when changing
- there’s still waiting around and risk of missed connections
- it takes more travel time out of the total itinerary than flying
- still risk of motion sickness especially with seats where your back is to the direction you’re traveling
- still not cheap
I would do it again but there are still some destinations where I would prefer to drive, such as far out in the countryside or where the public transportation is not great.
We’re on vacation and it’s 100% public transportation from beginning to end, the kids are doing pretty good with schlepping their bags on and off trains.
Where is the existing building mass in those pictures? It’s all weird glass pods. I don’t want to live in a glass pod. Did we just blow up all the old brick warehouses, Victorians, old farmhouses that got engulfed by the city, etc etc?
I want to see my little old house from the 1930s that’s been energy retrofitted, with solar panels and a solar water heater and barrels under the gutters, with apple trees and chickens in the backyard and some bicycles in front.