Slow Journey County: Cumbria Slow Journey Destination: Radical Steps Slow Journey Distance Travelled: 86 steps (ish) Radical Steps. Such an unusual name, it seems, as I take the first step. It feels pretty solid underneath. Nothing radical there. It’s damp. Perspiring, even. As if […]
Category: The Slow Journeyman
Atomic Ice
Slow Journey County: Cumbria Slow Journey Destination: Claife Heights Slow Journey Distance Travelled: 0 Steps. My immediate thought was of radioactivity. It was a series of unmistakable clicks. But where from? Standing on Claife Heights, overlooking Beatrix Potter’s favourite tarn (Moss Eccles), I was puzzled […]
Spiralling Closer To Heaven
Slow Journey County: Shropshire Slow Journey Destination: St Laurence’s Church, Ludlow Slow Journey Distance Travelled: 132 feet (about 200 steps!) Climbing to the top of a church tower and surveying the surrounding parish landscape offers a God-like perspective of the local community. In rural towns […]
Circumnavigating Dinas Head
Slow Journey County: Ceredigion Slow Journey Destination: Dinas Head, near Newport Slow Journey Distance Travelled: 3 miles You know somewhere is going to be special when you have to negotiate long sections of narrow lanes in order to reach it. Cwm-yr-Eglwys (pronounced as ‘coomer-egg-lewis’) […]
What I Miss – Unlocked Churches
Slow Journey County: Shropshire Slow Journey Destination: Langley Chapel, near Acton Burnell Slow Journey Distance Travelled: About 5 metres: the length of the chapel. Slipping into the silence of a rural church to discover the secrets hidden within and steal a moment’s peaceful contemplation […]
Nature’s Gallery
Slow Journey County: Gloucestershire Slow Journey Destination: Beechenhurst Inclosure, near Broadwell Slow Journey Distance Travelled: 3 ½ miles If you go down to the woods today … you’re sure of a few big surprises …
Solvitur Ambulando
Slow Journey County: Cumbria Slow Journey Destination: Loweswater Slow Journey Distance Travelled: 3 ¾ miles A chance encounter with the ‘Sage of the Lake’ brings Simon Whaley enlightenment on the road around Loweswater …
Love on the Rocks
Slow Journey County: Anglesey Slow Journey Destination: Llanddwyn Island, Newborough Slow Journey Distance Travelled: 3 ½ miles The love of lore may have been unrequited here in the past, but on Anglesey’s Llanddwyn Island the passion many visitors now have for this ancient land is boundless. […]
What Lies Beneath
Slow Journey County: Powys Slow Journey Destination: Llangorse Lake Slow Journey Distance Travelled: 3 miles A January mist swims across the surface of the water, swallowing all that rises above its depths. The still, cold air is broken by the frantic call of a startled […]