“If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside,”

Elizabeth von Arnim.

Looking back over a year of slow travel – an essay published in the online magazine, Caught by the River

New article by The Guardian (September 2025)

Blogability in Mslexia magazine 104 ‘I’ve walked over the Three Sacred Mountains in Austria and skirted coastlines in Portugal and Scotland. With these adventures and many more, I hope to promote slow travel …’

Slow Travel An introduction.

Athens to Edinburgh overland

Overland travel from Edinburgh to Greece 2

Faster than the heart’s beating – Paris to Toulouse overnight

Scotland to Spain This is a post that includes information about Girona (Catalunya), but also the details how I got there from Edinburgh in 2024

Portsmouth to Santander

Slow walking, for example the Via de la Plata, Spain or Via Sacra, Austria or walking Spain on foot (and how to get there)

Croatia (before I gave up flying entirely)

Slow living in Estonia

and Slow Looking, Listening, Tasting and Smelling in Switzerland

Counting cows – something you cannot do from an aeroplane