Journeys

“Wild like the end of the world, or the start of something”

One of us is going through a bad situation. After we’d raked through the hows and whens and whys, I asked what she was going to do now. “I want to walk. I just want to walk myself through it.”

Artist Super Freak walks in the wrong direction: “No way Jose! We’re better than that!”

We sent risograph artists out to walk Slow Ways because why not?

Midlife mappers: embracing friendship, commitment and the menopause on the muddy trail

Three school friends rekindle their sense of adventure, seeking freedom beyond work, family and menopause, on foot through the West Midlands

Tales from the Danelaw

Let architect Thom Brisco take you on a 100-mile tour of landscapes colonised by the Romans, settled by the Saxons, and raided by the Vikings, then fortified by the Normans and drained by the Dutch

Walking and not-walking in Marseille

Poet Caleb Parkin reflects on movement and mobility – plus strange intertwinings with the Papal itinerary – in this shuffled deck of moments

The 40-mile Slow Way, pursued by wee beasties

Jo Bennie strikes out solo on the no-joke Cairngorms Slow Ways. Here, with midges, cold soup, and a mountain with a rude name, is her latest

Tales: Shetland’s farming women

Writer Serena Coady spent one week hiking solo in Shetland, meeting women farmers and discovering that in communities this close no-one knocks

Linking homelessness projects on foot

Phil Le Marquand is currently walking 600km/375 miles from London to Gateshead, all on Slow Ways. We caught up with him