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\"tweedbank\"<\/a>Is there any such thing as a sustainable holiday?\u00a0 The answer is of course no.\u00a0 Every human activity has some environmental effect and the great majority of these are negative.\u00a0\u00a0 Tourism has been in\u00a0 the news a lot recently with protests in various places over the effects that tourists are having on the local environment and economy.\u00a0 Most of these places it has to be said correlate with high usage of airBnB but nevertheless the most sustainable holiday is to stay at home.\u00a0 Of course most of us don’t want to do this.\u00a0 We need a change of scene to get away and forget about the stresses in life.<\/p>\n

I will describe some aspects of our recent holiday from an environmental point of view both good and bad.\u00a0 I’m not by any means holding it up as a perfect sustainable holiday by any means, but it does have some positive points.<\/p>\n

In September we walked the St Cuthbert’s way to celebrate a wedding anniversary.\u00a0 This approximately 65 mile walk starts at Melrose in the Scottish Borders and ends up in Lindisfarne.\u00a0 We were not walking it as a pilgrimage per se<\/em> and I think its fair to say few do.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>First the positives.<\/p>\n

As a positive point we were getting to and from the walks’ beginning and end via public transport.\u00a0 We took the newly reopened borders railway to Tweedsbank and then caught a bus to Melrose.\u00a0 Trains have a low carbon footprint but buses are an order of magnitude lower.\u00a0 Another positive was that were walking the route of course.<\/p>\n

We needed to eat.\u00a0 Everywhere you go now offers local produce on their menu but actually how local this is a moot point.\u00a0 We did manage to forage a lot of fruit along the way including with permission about four days supply of faller apples for our lunch.\u00a0 At one place we stayed a lot of our meal came from the walled garden.<\/p>\n

\"blackberries\"<\/a>\"walled<\/a><\/p>\n

More mixed stuff<\/p>\n

We needed places to stay.\u00a0 We stayed in hotels and BandB’s.\u00a0 These had a mixed record as far as the environment was concerned.\u00a0 In the first place the room we stayed in was cold and we could have done with heating on.\u00a0 Other parts of the house were very warm.\u00a0 The second place the house was very new with underfloor heating.\u00a0 We needed no heat switched the underfloor heating right down (which seemed to make little difference, possibly in part since its uninsulated feeder tank was next door).\u00a0 We had to open the window since the room was almost 25\u00b0C.\u00a0 We think the lady who owned the BandB never switched the oil fired heating off all summer.\u00a0 The next night in a hotel (old building) we needed the heating on but we could turn it off when we went to bed.\u00a0 The next night in huge old pile the room was cool but OK and in the last but one night also a BandB the room was in the eaves and we needed some heat.\u00a0 In our last night on Lindisfarne the first thing we did was turn the small radiator that heated the room off.\u00a0 Plainly no heating was really needed here.\u00a0 One of the biggest carbon emitters is CH.\u00a0 The fact that the temperatures varied so much I think depended on the levels of insulation, the directions the rooms faced and whether the windows had been opened during the day.<\/p>\n

\"solar<\/a>There is still plenty of scope to reduce the nations’ energy use by the means of low energy bulbs- its amazing how many incandescent bulbs are still out there.<\/p>\n

Other.\u00a0 We used a taxi one night (tried hitching first) since we had to go some miles to get something to eat.\u00a0 We hitched off Lindisfarne to catch the bus to Berwick upon Tweed.<\/p>\n

\"across<\/a>Our footprint was low, few people walk this route compared to other routes I’ve walked.\u00a0 Probably about 20\/day, so the impact on the local environment was low.\u00a0 Of course if you find the perfect place don’t go there you will ruin it…\u00a0 As a sustainable holiday it was not too bad but part of the problem is you are dependent on other people and their environmental attitudes.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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