Interview

In between tunnel detours, Saira interviews inspirational Slow Ways reviewer Mary Austin as she passes the 200 routes mark, clocking up more than 1000 miles!

Our experiences of Covid showed just how important community spaces are. By taking these places away, people don’t encounter one another. We put up more boundaries, we don’t understand one another and this is dangerous, it’s counter to who we are.

We spoke to London based teacher and Slow Ways volunteer Lizzy Hones about why she walks, her favourite path and upcoming walks she’s got planned.

Steve and Sandra walked from their home in Bucks to their former homes in the West Midlands using Slow Ways, to raise money for the ultra-rare xeroderma pigmentosum

Three years on from the premature birth of her grandson River, Annie walks the route of his air ambulance, navigating with old maps from charity shops

Award-winning midlife-adventure podcaster Zoe Langley-Wathen tells us about changing her life with solo walks, and how to walk 3412 miles on a 35-mile stretch of canal