Helpful things (my car). Weekend-Engagement concept [Week 131]

Hi friends, it is a pleasure to participate in this #weekendengagement organized by @galenkp.

Weekend-engagement concept (Week 131)

The theme I have chosen from those proposed by @galenkp is:

Helpful things.

I think my car is one of the most useful things I have and I will justify why this is my choice.

Could I continue working without my car in what I like?

All those of you who have read any of my posts will have noticed that I am practically every week in a different place in Spain, displaced for work reasons, either giving training courses or making commercial visits. How could I continue to dedicate myself to my work without my car? Well, it would be impossible.

As an example, I will give you the case of last week when I was in Valladolid giving a training course on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and on Thursday morning I had to be in A Coruña to close a sale of several hundred thousand euros. If I depended on public transport I would not make it to the meeting and without my car.

I take this opportunity to share with you 2 pictures of Christmas in Valladolid and a couple of pictures taken in the city of A Coruña with the tower of Hercules.

Could you imagine walking for 8 kilometers on the shoulder of the road to go shopping every day?

Apart from going to work, my car is an essential tool during the weekend to service my mother. My mother lives in a small town where there is no supermarket or other type of store. At the same time, she does not have a driver's license. Therefore, when I visit her on weekends, my car does the service so that I can go shopping at one of the nearest supermarkets which is 8 kilometers away to do my weekly shopping. Therefore, my car I think is still the most useful thing I have.

What would my hobbies be without my car?

On weekends, once the weekly shopping is done and rain and cold weather permitting, I like to do outdoor activities for entertainment.

One of these activities is to go cliff fishing in the sea. To go to the best cliffs I have to travel about 20 kilometers with my fishing rods, my tackle, my bait, etc. Without a car to get around, I would doubt that I would be able to enjoy a day of fishing if I had to walk 20 kilometers beforehand and after the fishing day I would have to walk 20 kilometers again.

The other activity that I also like to do on the weekends is to go to the mountains and take a walk along a path among pines, eucalyptus, oaks and chestnut trees. To be able to go to these mountains I also need to move previously with my car to begin the route in the middle of the mountain.

For all these reasons, I believe that my car is the most useful thing I have and at the same time, although it may seem like an advertising slogan, a car gives me freedom.

Freedom to be able to go to the places that one needs to go or that one wants to go, it also gives time freedom by not having to depend on the existence or not of public services and not less important it gives time to live, since certain displacements in public service could be delayed several additional hours and this would cut hours of free time.

Have a happy #weekend and happy #weekend-engagement, everyone.

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A car is indeed very useful. I can relate to you in a way, I don't have a car, but I do have a bike and it's so easy for me to go to any place thanks to that. Public transportation in my country is very bad, so since I have my bike I'm able to get to work on time. I also feel freedom when I'm riding the bike, I appreciate the sun in my face and the wind when I'm speeding.

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Above all, it is less polluting and is also good for exercise.

The downside is the long distances. But for short distances I like the bicycle

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The car is important as it can take you to distance places but sometimes it's not always good to often use it. I do prefer if it's a nearby place I save for fuel and do some exercise. It's a normal occurrence. Thanks for sharing

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I avoid the car when I can walk or cycle.

However, there are all too many times when it is not possible

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But what is the make and model?

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It is a skoda octavia from the wolkswagen group.

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I thought it looked slightly like a Jetta silhouette, but sedans these days seem to look similar enough to be hard to tell apart. Skoda and SEAT aren't sold anywhere in the US to my knowledge. I'm not sure whether that's a Volkswagen group thing or a US regulatory hurdle thing.

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It may be a question of Volkswagen wanting to sell only its premium brands (Audi and Volkswagen) in the US.

The new Skoda Octavia copies the interior of the Audi A4 and slightly the front exterior of the Volkswagen Passat.

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