La Vie sans La Voiture

Its been a few months since i’ve given up the car, I’ve got quite used to not having it, but my friends haven’t! After being lucky enough to have had one to use for the past 3 years, this year I’ve got a shortage of money, as well as the fact that I just didn’t use it enough to justify renewing the insurance on it. So my parents took away the beloved Volvo S40 which I’d done about 25k and Silverstone in. The definition of someone who uses a car is my flatmate Ivan. If he’s at the library, you’ll see it parked on lib road. If he’s in the union, its parked outside. He’s not lazy, its just that between the lib and union he went to leam and he’s prob off to Cov afterwards. He’ll drive to Birm and London on weekends. Now that’s better than having it sit in CP15 at all times gathering dust. Oh and at the end of term, he drives back to Switzerland.

The rail system has so far not been bad (in fact in London I pretty much only used the tube). I’ve got single tickets to and from London and to and from Newcastle this holiday for a tenner a piece. So i really can’t complain when its a tiny bit delayed. And you kinda expect delays anyway.

So to sum up. I haven’t missed the freedom a car brings, cos I never really used it that much. But I do miss the joy of driving a tiny bit. Bring on the cake tin steering wheel, the wooden spoon gear lever and heel-toeing on sardine tins!

Nathaniel Ho : 13 Dec 2006 21:55 |  Tags: Cars General |  Comments (2) |  Report a problem