Wales

It is cliché at this point to summit Pen-y-Fan: thousands of walkers of all ages and backgrounds head up every year from the easily accessible car parks at its base. Which is why, when you ask a local if they fancy walking up Pen-y-Fan, you've got to provide a twist. In this case, starting a lot further from the mountain.

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

Slow Ways' stories editor, Tom, ventures out for a not-so-meditative walk from Ystrad Mynach to Caerphilly I’ve been editing Slow Ways stories throughout winter this year. Despite this, I have barely been out myself. I...

Do the little things on the day of the patron saint of Wales

Audio: Immerse your senses in this beautiful wandering wildlife pilgrimage on the Llŷn Peninsula, North Wales, with wildlife photographer and naturalist Ben Porter, and a Little Egret, Curlew, Yellow Dung Fly, Blackcap...