World Saving Tips





 

Yesterday was cooking day. I think it would be smart to have one day a week when we cook all our food for the upcoming week and toss them in the freezer till the day, we need them. But I’m not that smart, besides I have a lot of time, so saving time by this method is not a priority. Maybe later when I grow up… or if I grow up haha.
Anyways, yesterday wasn’t a cooking day because we did all our cooking for the week, it was rather called cooking day because that was the only thing we did thru all day.

I really enjoy preparing the veggies; cutting them, steaming them just make me feel good. I have no idea what that dish is called I cooked yesterday, but it was delicious. It had zucchini, red pepper, yellow pepper(?) buncha onion mixed with bulgur. (Sára told me it’s called kaszotto or something similar… or something completely different who knows) I think some beans and/or maybe some minced meat would have been a good additional ingredient, I might try that someday.

Oh, and besides cooking we’ve booked our train tickets to Gdansk! Yes, I said train tickets! Why? Because – allegedly – we produce 68.8 kilos less CO2 than if we travel by car! We “produce” 18.4kg CO2 by taking a train – which I think is incredibly arguable since the train would go to Gdansk with or without us, so I have no idea if that number is valid or not. But what I do know is 18.4kg is significantly less than 68.8kg so that is good! And our ticket to Gdansk was 71.54 zloty however our ticket back to Warsaw was only 48.02 zloty which is a fantastic price! So, if we add up the numbers, by train our trip is exactly 119.56 zloty, however if we take our car to Gdansk we would end up with completely different numbers! Let’s see the actual numbers, shall we? So, the center of Gdansk is about 417.5km from the center of Warsaw – on motorways, according to Google Maps. On motorway at 130km/h as most cars mine consumes 8liter per 100km. Let’s do the math: 417.5km*2*8l/100km*6.29zlotyi – 6.29 zloty is the premium diesel at the nearest gas station to us – so that 420.17 zloty. Approximately. Plus, the cost of the highway ticket. So, it would be very bad for the environment and my pocket if we went by car on a motorway. But what if we went by car on a normal, lower speed highway? The drive would be only 687km total, our car would only consume 5.8liter per 100km aand the diesel price wouldn’t change, so let’s do the math. 687km*5.8l/100km*6.29zlotyi=250.63 zloty. So, avoiding the motorway would be significantly cheaper and environment friendly, but still can’t beat the train prices, or the impact on the environment. Oh, and the train trip is 2hour 45minutes to Gdansk and back it was 2.5hours meanwhile the same trip on motorway is 3hours and 45minutes and the highway journey is 4hour 10minute. So, train for the win, right? Scientists are continuously searching for the solution for saving the Earth and still be able to travel… well I’ve found it for them, they’re called trains and they are from 1804! I really wish we had trains like these in Hungary! These beasts are total game changers, they are fast, economical – for students or a single adult! – and environment friendly! What’s more to wish for? Maybe some sort of air sanitizer on board would be especially convenient nowadays.

That’s it for today, we’ve saved the world once for not eating meat, twice for reinventing trains.

Tomorrow’s blog will be about the first day of our trip to Gdansk, so stay tuned!

Thanks for reading, I hope you all are doing great, take care

Almos

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