![]() ![]() Our cute cabana was situated next to an aspiring cricket field, tightly hemmed in by the dense foliage of the Zwolse Bos. It was tough but we survived the arduous 20 minute trek through the Zwolse Bos – lugging our own summer duvet, pillow cases, towels, chargers, chargers for our chargers and some emergency supplies of bottled water and jumbo bags of nuts hurriedly purchased in a panic in Albert Heijn, Wapenveld. Except that we have to walk 20 mins from the car park to the hut.’ ‘What is the cooking situation in this place then?’ Thoreau did two years in the woods we did two days. ![]() But recounting two solitary years in a hut next to a pond is as dull a tome as it sounds. ![]() Without knowing it at the time Thoreau was probably one of the first climate change activists. In my 20s I read ‘Walden: Or a Life in the Woods’ by American naturalist, essayist, poet and philospher Henry David Thoreau, about his two year transcendental sojourn in a grim shack by Walden Pond in Massachussetts in the 1840s. We do our bit for the planet – we’ve scaled down on steak, car use, travel programmes, and scaled up on Greta Thunberg – but to call us eco-warriors would be a gross ecozaggeration. To mark the occasion of my wife’s retirement our daughters awarded us a two night stay in an off-grid eco hut in the Zwolse Bos where we could stare at trees and mentally flagellate ourselves over our combined 135 years worth of emissions. Going off grid in Wapenveld to a life without wifi SeptemThe off-grid cabin. ![]()
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