{"id":3954,"date":"2011-06-18T23:50:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2011-06-18T23:50:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T22:50:20","slug":"a-future-hut-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/a-future-hut-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"A future hut heaven?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There’s an interesting article in The Herald describing how a charity is planning to build a thousand huts in Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting, because despite Scotland’s similarity to the Scandinavian countries, the hut culture<\/i> is entirely different (or rather, it’s non-existent): “In Norway more than half the population has access to a [hut]. [The proportion is] one in 12 Swedes, one in 18 Finns and one in 33 Danes. […] However, in Scotland 10 years ago a study showed there were just 700 holiday huts […] for a population of five million.”<\/p>\n

Norway might be a difficult act to follow, but I can’t help thinking that building 1000 huts is a very small step if the deficit is about half a million!<\/p>\n

It’s a good idea, though. The Scottish countryside is amazing, but most of the population is bottled up within the central belt. Wee huts around the lochs would be a welcome sight.<\/p>\n

Update<\/i>: It’s worth comparing the statistics about the person-to-hut ratio with the person-per-km\u00b2 figures illustrated in my blog posting about wee gardens<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hytte med utstikt til Skiptvet Originally uploaded by Visit Oslofjord There’s an interesting article in The Herald describing how a charity is planning to build a thousand huts in Scotland. It’s interesting, because despite Scotland’s similarity to the Scandinavian countries, the hut culture is entirely different (or rather, it’s non-existent): “In Norway more than half the population has access to a [hut]. [The proportion is] one in 12 Swedes, one in 18 Finns and one in 33 Danes. […] However, in Scotland 10 years ago a study […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}