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Tales from a Slow Way
One tender song combatting social isolation in “the sacred heart of Birmingham”
Diverse members of the South Birmingham community come together to create a song, My Backyard, inspired by interviews and walks through local green spaces
Art
Bloom-scrolling! I work for a botanical charity, and here is every species I saw on an 81-mile Slow Ways trip
If you don't know what there is, how can you protect it? Sarah Woods guides us through a walk in flowers
I walked the 81 miles from Sanquhar to Carlisle in the middle of July – the perfect season...
Trails
Our Carlisle to Newcastle walk immortalised in silver talisman rings
What to expect when blazing a new coast-to-coast trail across the North (bog soup!), and how we told the tale in film and silver
Article
I walked through the Cambrian Mountains in the footsteps of a Victorian snob
Author and 'extreme rambler' Ursula Martin compares her walk to George Borrow's 170 years ago. Will she be rude about redheads too?
Long read
Walking artist ‘living with a bowl of lava in my brain’ learns to walk again at 34
The story that Slow Ways storyteller Genevieve Rudd never imagined she'd be writing for us
Nature
“For people of colour, our migration is often met with suspicion”
Writer and founder of Peaks of Colour, Evie Muir, shares how a recent 'walkshop' along the Rivelin Valley Trail helped articulate an embodied response to liberation
Art
Learning-disabled community sends their Ducks vs Pirates zine to David Attenborough: ‘He sent us a lovely reply’
A big group of variously abled people walked a chunk of a Bournemouth Slow Way. As they went they invented and illustrated a very weird and wonderful story
Blog
One year ago my best friend died. Why I’m setting out today to walk with my grief
From Brighton to Bradford via London and Leeds, linking up the the four places my friend Ro lived, and holding sessions for bereaved friends along the way