Following our post from last week about taking part in the National Travel Survey, we've now had our "official" interview with Mr Pete, the inquisitor. It was all very interesting, especially as we only generally travel on foot, so great swathes of questions were not relevant to our circumstances, so it didn't take as long as said inquisitor anticipated, however, we think we gave a good account of ourselves, although a little taken aback at being asked if we felt lonely on the (private) online questionnaire ??????.........
That being said, we were then asked if, for another £5 shopping voucher, we'd be up for filling in a record of one weeks worth of journeys, either in a printed booklet or online.
Well, you know us, we like to do our civic and civil duty to King and Crown, so it was a no brainer, we were honoured to be asked and participate.
Each day we have to fill in where we travel to and from, what time we start and finish, each stage of our journey, method of transport, distance and the reason for the journey.
Recording the distance might be a bit tricky, most regular journeys we can do in our sleep and have never really given much thought how far anything is, but Darrell says it should be pretty easy to work out on Google maps.
We are worried we may be a little on the boring and unadventurous side for the survey. It would be nice to be able to add a whole plethora of other exciting travel methods such as motorcycles, vans, lorries, ferries and trams, so we've had to tell Eric that he can't simply get a bicycle, e-bike or e-scooter just for a week to help zhuzh things up a bit, we need to be as au naturelle as possible to reflect our "simple" lives. Meanwhile, the jury is out as to whether a skateboard or skates constitute as transport.
Eric's hoping that his duel school run suitably impresses, with him planning to make a few subtle changes to his route(s) to add a few more valuable yards to his overall distance! What on earth is he like?
2 comments:
"Most regular journeys we can do in our sleep."
So, are you going to include any sleepwalking? Best to firmly attach your phone, or one of those suitcase trackers, to you jim-jams, just in case.
In the last week, I have only used my bike, for transport - to go to an opera, in the cinema, to the dentist, twice to the bank, plus, to meet friends, and to go shopping.
The bank route has an uphill stretch, so it was about 40 minutes there, and about 30 minutes, back. All at altitude, which is a little difficult, when you first arrive here,
All sounds good fun to me! Good Luck. JantheFan X
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