Say what you will. As slow travel veterans, we have come to appreciate this staple of city tourism. We arrive in a city determined to know it — to walk, live, eat, shop, and cultivate a deep understanding. These city bus tours offer the opportunity to do the...
The most (possibly only) tiresome part of slow travel is finding apartments. Sure, if we had unlimited resources or even just lots of money, it might be one of the more fun aspects. But for us, it usually involves a lot of searching and then hoping. Funky apartments...
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending...
Heading southwest, the path from Dornoch through Dingwall, Gorstan, and Kyle of Lochalsh to the Isle of Skye; then Invergarry, Fort William, Glen Coe, Tyndrum, Crianlarich, Loch Lomond, and Luss to Glasgow was the third leg of our journey around Scotland. The...
After our week in Edinburgh, we rented a car for a road trip and while we had a general direction in mind, we basically went where the road took us and to places people told us not to miss. Stirling, St. Andrews, Dundee, through the Cairngorms National Park and the...
