Walking

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.”

Prose writer Lily and her friends embark on an eventful and at times, emotional three-day journey through southeast Scotland. On the way, they encounter a myriad of people, places and stories. Lily documents these through a series of podcasts, photography and writing.

Britain has 70 cities, and we are *this* close to having them all connected up via the Slow Ways intercity network

Songwriter Janie Mitchell walks from Chester to Hereford through one of the wettest months ever recorded, and records her own song for the hidden histories and ever-present water

"I am allowed to take up and reclaim space" says illustrator Somang Lee. In the wake of the pandemic's anti-Asian hate crime, she has reclaimed space through outdoor adventures, and healing through returning to her roots

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

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

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