Story
Blog
John Scott takes-up the full Slow Ways National Parks Challenge!
John Scott started walking in his mid-30s and hasn’t stopped. In 2026 he plans to complete the Slow Ways National Parks Challenge - by walking between all of Britain's National Parks and the world's...
Blog
Andrew Davies hikes Land’s End to John o’ Groats on Slow Ways
Andrew Davies has always been a traveller, from hitch-hiking around the country and Inter-railing across Europe as a student, to a career of any job that would allow him to live and work somewhere...
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
Blog
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...
Story
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
poetry
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
Journeys
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...