1 Midsummer is for Slow Ways
What better way to spend the long, light days around the summer solstice than helping build a national network of Slow Ways? This grassroots initiative is creating routes between towns and cities across Britain, to encourage people to journey on foot. Volunteers have plotted 8000 routes, spanning 75,000 miles of trail, and they now need your help to check them. You can do it any time you like, but June 16th-25th will see the inaugural Great Summer Waycheck, when volunteers will be out exploring routes – solo, with family, friends, communities, companies and guides. “We're taking inspiration from the old ‘beating the bounds’ tradition, in which people would walk the boundaries of their parish once a year. Older people would lead the younger, creating and…
