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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

“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

Hebridean wonders: exploring new places close to home

Scottish island resident and photographer Eilidh Carr uses Slow Ways to discover new beaches, pathways and places of interest in South Uist...

From landfill to public park

In her third video for Slow Ways, Vi Assal walks Northwhich to Budford Mere and observes how private or disused land has been turned into public space for all the enjoy

Tales: They Just Keep Going

In August, writer Jess Green worked with Leicester Rape Crisis on a Creative Writing walk with a group of teenage girls along the Hilton – Derby route in South Derbyshire

Fresh air, walking and the freedom it all brings

For Eilidh Carr, walking is integral to life in the Outer Hebrides, and local Slow Ways promise an island adventure When I was invited by Slow Ways to be a Story Contributor in 2022...

The beauty and the treachery of the Cairngorms

Knee-deep snow fields, frozen waterfalls and the warmth of a fire at the end of it all — Jo Bennie shares an account of traversing the invitingly hostile winter Cairngorms In early March, a...

What was Beating the Bounds?

For many people in Britain in times gone by, the village in which you were born was likely to be where you lived and died: you would be baptised, married and buried in the same church.