Car Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/car/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:33:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Car Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/car/ 32 32 2696646 New Car Day https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/11/new-car-day-2/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/11/new-car-day-2/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:33:36 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=47304 It’s been a week of new things — hot on the heels of a new bike comes a new car! Our previous car, a Hyundai Kona, was the first brand-new car we’d ever leased, and our first electric car too. To say we loved it would be an understatement. Obviously, the fact that it was...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/11/new-car-day-2/feed/ 3 47304 Driving through an Advert https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/11/driving-through-an-advert/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/11/driving-through-an-advert/#respond Sun, 07 Nov 2021 13:15:26 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=36875 Our first proper drive in our new car yesterday was like driving through an advert. Winding Welsh roads, leaves blowing in the wind, driving rain, splashing through pools of standing water and stunning welsh countryside. There was even a medieval castle. Meanwhile we were warm and comfortable as we glided along almost silently in our...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/11/driving-through-an-advert/feed/ 0 36875 New Car Day https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/11/new-car-day/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/11/new-car-day/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:24:32 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=36872 Yeah, New Car Day finally arrived! To be fair it was only a few days after the originally planned date and I think the car itself did land with Shukers Hyundai in Aberystwyth last week. They then had to do some checks and register it etc so we were able to collect it yesterday. New...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/11/new-car-day/feed/ 3 36872 Going all in on Electric https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/11/going-all-in-on-electric/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/11/going-all-in-on-electric/#respond Wed, 03 Nov 2021 10:06:22 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=36862 We’ve been ‘all electric’ at home since we built the house almost 20 years ago. There’s no mains gas and we didn’t have an oil tank so our energy has been all-electric. It’s worked well, but we’ve always wanted to be generating our own electricity really. We did look into have photo-voltaic tiles on the...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/11/going-all-in-on-electric/feed/ 0 36862 A Family Visit and a New Car https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/08/a-family-visit-and-a-new-car/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/08/a-family-visit-and-a-new-car/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:40:36 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=36655 It’s been a while since we’ve seen any family – other than a flying visit from my parents a week or so after my heart attack. Lockdown and various Covid restrictions have been the main reason for this. We did see some of them this weekend though. My parents and my sister Trudi came to...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/08/a-family-visit-and-a-new-car/feed/ 2 36655 Insane Insurance https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/12/insane-insurance/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/12/insane-insurance/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2016 10:33:21 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=23257 Whilst on my way to a cyclo-cross race recently someone accidentally hit my car. It was all at slow speed so don’t panic, everyone was fine! I was just heading up the hill out of Borth. The other driver was pulling out of a blind alley to the left which has waist high walls to either...

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