Slow Across The World

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Slow Travel in Your 50s — We Didn’t Fit Any of the Boxes, And That Was Exactly the Point

Nobody hands you a rulebook for slow travel in your 50s. And when we started planning our trip, we quickly discovered that nobody had written one either (well not one that suited us). There are hints, tips, itineraries and plenty of “must see” places — but nothing that helped us imagine a plan that would […]

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How We Made Travelling South America on a Budget Work

Ren said it almost as a throwaway thought. We were having a conversation after his redundancy and he said, “should we go travelling?” What he really meant was ‘shall we go travelling South America on a budget?!’ My instinctive answer, was no. Not a dramatic no. Not a thought-out no. Just a reflexive, practical, this-isn’t-how-life-works

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