Category: #freeLEJOG 2014

The journey I began last week was always going to be an experimental one. One variable of the experiment that could not change is that I would have no money whatsoever. Having left my wallet at home, I would have no direct access to cash, cards or any other aspect of the monetary system. I’ve been living like this for a week now and not yet starved to death. But in the meantime it appears I have opened up rather a large can of worms… View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tom Allen (@tom_r_allen) This blog post —… Continue reading →

Last year I conducted an experiment to see how cheap I could get a full complement of cycle touring gear together for — bike, camping gear, cooking gear, tools, and all the rest. The result? £25.17. (There’s a full write up here.) Today, Part Two of that experiment begins. Originally I was simply going to see how cheaply I could cycle across a country (using only the aforementioned no-budget touring bike to do so, of course) and write about it. Then I had a better idea: to opt out of the financial economy altogether, and write about that instead. With the… Continue reading →