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\"DSC_4179\"<\/a>We have just been on what could be described as an eco holiday.\u00a0 Train travel from within walking distance of our house to a ferry, camping (mainly) and return travel by train.\u00a0 No flying, low impact.\u00a0 Destination the Scilly Islands.\u00a0 What can we learn from our trip in eco terms?\u00a0 It was a very good holiday in other terms.<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0 There is no such thing as an eco holiday.\u00a0 Whilst ours was as low carbon as possible there is no way you can do no damage to the environment.\u00a0 Even by staying at home.\u00a0 The aim should be to minimise damage rather than pretend its not happening.<\/p>\n

2) Such a holiday does involve a degree of sacrifice.\u00a0 The train journey involved 12 hours of travel.\u00a0 A friend said why don’t you fly?\u00a0 I wish I could say that everything went smoothly but our train journeys out and coming home were a bit of a nightmare and took 14 hours.\u00a0 In addition as per usual it would have been cheaper to fly.<\/p>\n

3) You can only go so far along this route.\u00a0 You are dependent on other people and how they behave.\u00a0 The campsite, the BandB and the pub\/hotel as well as activities.\u00a0 Where they get their electricity\/food from?\u00a0 How they recycle?\u00a0 All this is a bit difficult to judge in advance in most cases.\u00a0 Some research is possible but not down to nearly the last detail.\u00a0\u00a0 That the campsite on St Agnes had solar panels on the roof of the toilet block was a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_4304\"<\/a>Last year we went on a pilgrimage walk that was nearer and involved less in the way of train travel but involved staying in BandB’s rather than camping.\u00a0 The two holidays probably had the same level of environmental impacts.<\/p>\n

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

We have just been on what could be described as an eco holiday.\u00a0 Train travel from within walking distance of our house to a ferry, camping (mainly) and return travel by train.\u00a0 No flying, low impact.\u00a0 Destination the Scilly Islands.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,15,214,13,31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intentional-living","category-lifestyle","category-practical-low-carbon-living","category-tourism","category-transport","category-travel","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Eco Holiday - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8243\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8243\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8243\",\"name\":\"The Eco Holiday - 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