Eco Winter Holidays: For Families

If you fancy an eco-holiday this Winter then take a look at these great family holiday destinations.

Plan-it-Earth

Plan-it Earth’s Eco Adventure Camp’s are tailor-made to meet the needs of your group – be it children and/or adults.

This is a great outdoor holiday designed to provide your family or group with a safe, exciting, bonding and thought-provoking weekend of low impact living. Set up as a Quest, the camp will be the perfect opportunity to combine an exciting outdoor adventure holiday with skills such as bush-craft, green woodworking, herbalism, storytelling and wildlife walks.

Thier Eco Campsare aimed to be suitable for all age groups, abilities and interests – there really is something for everyone!

The sample Eco Adventure Camp Itinerary gives more information about the activities we can offer. Booking information and prices are given towards the end of this page.

Accommodation
Is in large canvas bell tents or yurts with nearby woodburning showers in our Shower Cabin, composting toilets, and shared kitchen facilities.
Everything will be provided apart from bedlinen, clothes and towels, (you can hire these) making it easy to arrive by public transport.

Food
Self-catering facilities are available in the kitchen tent. Meals can be provided and prepared by our fantastic vegetarian cook. They specialise in local food, and use supplies from the smallholding wherever possible.

Workshops
All workshops are run by experienced and talented facilitators. A typical Eco Adventure Holiday may include the following:

Willow Sculptures
Storytelling walk
Ancient site visits
Night wildlife walk
Making a cob bread oven
Guided bird and wildflower walk
Making your own herbal ointments
Weaving your own rug
Measuring your Carbon footprint
Wild food foraging
Bushcraft/ fire-making skills
Coracle making
Stargazing
Campfire stories and music – bring your instruments!

Snow Carbon

Ski-ing can be great fun for all the family! Check out the Snow Carbon website for the best destinations for your loved ones this year. Often resorts have child-friendly activities and great resources for learners… the perfect winter holiday!

Why Go By Train?

It’s good for the planet…

All travel has a price in terms of harmful emissions, but if you take the train rather than fly to a ski resort you can slash your carbon footprint by up to 90%.

A round trip by plane to the Italian resort of Sauze d’Oulx, for example, produces around 180kg of CO2, according to the carbon emission analysts, Best Foot Forward.

Don’t think you’ll be helping the environment by driving there. An average car making the same journey will produce 450kg of CO2.

By contrast, a return trip to Sauze by rail – with just a single change of train in Paris – produces only 20kg of CO2. So you could have a ski holiday every winter for the next nine years and create the same carbon footprint as another skier flying just once.

A 2007 study by a French Government agency and Mountain Riders found that 73% of an average ski resort’s carbon footprint is created by visitor journeys

It’s good for you…

Travelling by train is often a more hassle-free and comfortable experience. With SnowCarbon you also get two extra days on the slopes and it’s often worth it for the views alone!

Please see Snow Carbon’s information pages for more details…

http://www.snowcarbon.co.uk/why-go-train