Walking
Article
I walked through the Cambrian Mountains in the footsteps of a Victorian snob
Author and 'extreme rambler' Ursula Martin compares her walk to George Borrow's 170 years ago. Will she be rude about redheads too?
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
One year ago my best friend died. Why I’m setting out today to walk with my grief
From Brighton to Bradford via London and Leeds, linking up the the four places my friend Ro lived, and holding sessions for bereaved friends along the way
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.”
Trails
Podcast: Xenotopias, witches and getting the ‘ick’: an epic walk from Edinburgh to Perth
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.
Making routes
Britain has 70 cities, and we are *this* close to having them all connected up via the Slow Ways intercity network
Music
Singing the song of the Dee to the Wye
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