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Overland journey to Australia - from a former Islington cragger
Thread started on 9/4/2010 13:12

robertg

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In just over two weeks I’m starting an overland journey to Australia, which will take me roughly three months in each direction. Among other things, I’m doing this because I want to extol the virtues of slow travel and encourage people to seek alternatives to flying. There are some short flights involved, but I shall be offsetting – not just the flights but all emissions over 2 tonnes. I’d be grateful for any advice or feedback about this.

You can read my blog at
http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/robertasiapac/1/tpod.html

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Loco2

written on 9/4/2010 13:48

Jamie

Jamie

Hi Robert,

Have you seen Loco2 http://loco2travel.com ? If you want you can add your trip to our journey-planner at http://loco2travel.com/journeyplanner, and this will then calculate the estimated CO2, and the savings versus flights. Please feel free to contact me via the site if you want any help using the journeyplanning tool. We may also be interested in publishing some extracts of your blog on the site.

Jamie :)

 
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Loco2

written on 11/4/2010 10:05

robertg

Hi Jamie, thanks for this. I started filling it in but almost immediately ran into a problem. Though the whole journey is London-Sydney the first overland stretch is as far as Tehran, and when I got to this point I realised you couldn’t include journeys by plane. What I’ll have to do is make Tehran the end destination for this one, but I can’t find a way to edit it to remove Sydney! Any ideas?

 
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Hi Robert, Sorry that the

written on 11/4/2010 16:17

Jamie

Jamie

Hi Robert,

Sorry that the tool doesn’t quite meet you needs at the moment. We’ve only just launched it, so feedback from people properly planning a trip like yourself is very valuable. Adding flights into the tool is something I’ve considered for a while. In a sense it feels a bit blasphemous because of the low carbon element, but at the same time it is very difficult to get all the way to Australia without flying at all. We also need to make it possible to edit journey plans properly as this is no doubt rather frustrating. Please check back soon or contact me via the Loco2 site if you want to be kept up-to-date about new features that should make it meet your purposes better.

Thanks for taking the time to use the tool, and for providing feedback.

Jamie

 
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I’m off in a couple of

written on 12/4/2010 11:07

robertg

I’m off in a couple of weeks so I don’t suppose you’ll have a chance to update it by then. I’ll try just doing it in stages and leave the flying bits out, so at least that will give an accurate picture of CO2 saved.

 
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I've posted the first section

written on 20/4/2010 12:20

robertg

Hi Jamie,

I’ve now posted the first bit of my journey, from London to Tehran, and I’ll continue with the rest. Do please feel free to link to my blog if you want to. Wish I’d known about your site when I started planning for this trip! Cheers, Robert

 
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Another problem

written on 20/4/2010 12:34

robertg

I’m trying to do the next section – Karachi to Kolkata, and about half way through it started going haywire, adding bits of the route which I’d already put on. Think I’ll take a break and try again tomorrow….

 
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Thanks for persevering!

written on 20/4/2010 13:08

Jamie

Jamie

Hi Robert,

I’m impressed that you’ve stuck with it so much considering the problems! We’ve actually decided to take it out of main public use for the moment because of various issues (particularly not being able to edit the individual journey legs, which was proving frustrating).

We’ll be fixing it in due course but other aspects of the journey-planner development are currently taking priority unfortunately.

India in particular has caused issues for us before though I’m a bit unclear as to why at the moment. Your feedback is very useful. If you’d like to contact us via http://loco2travel.com/contact then we can talk about featuring your blog on the site.

Best,

Jamie

 
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