Slow Ways' new promotional video asks viewers to #GiveaHike. In the video, titled What is Slow Ways, walkers and wheelers from around the UK are seen making journeys to help verify the Slow Ways...

Our experiences of Covid showed just how important community spaces are. By taking these places away, people don’t encounter one another. We put up more boundaries, we don’t understand one another and this is dangerous, it’s counter to who we are.

From wandering into a ‘blessed little sea shanty’ at Pett Level beach to people watching at sunset beside the prettiest street in England – Saira reflects on the little things that made her walk from Hastings to Rye memorable

We spoke to London based teacher and Slow Ways volunteer Lizzy Hones about why she walks, her favourite path and upcoming walks she’s got planned.

From the incredible 250 applications we received we are delighted to announce the 10 who we will be part of our upcoming programme

I walk twelve miles a day during lambing, and always lose plenty of weight. I can tell I don’t walk as much as that the rest of the year; I get podgy over Christmas! It’s a mile and a third straight from the bottom of my farm right to the top, but the wiggly route is two miles, then two back. I do that three times a day or even four at the very height of lambing.

An Arthurian Slow Way down the Usk, from Caerleon to Newport, with tree-loving author Matthew Yeomans

A stretch of the route encompassed a wooded waterlogged trail that ran adjacent to the M25. I was unsettled, slogging through as big trucks and vans and cars whooshed by in a relentless roaring blur.