Slow travel in the Sunday Times

“‘The journey not the arrival matters,’ said TS Eliot, but for most of us, the journey has become a tiresome inconvenience, to be endured for as short a time as possible. It’s a great shame, because our submission to the inhuman demands of high-speed transport has robbed us of the joy of travel for travel’s sake.”

So says Chris Haslam, writing in the Sunday Times, who joins the slow travel wagon and features the following five flight-free journeys:

Out of london by narrow boat (Journey time: ages)
To Paris by bike (Journey time: four days)
Slow train to Constantinople (Journey times: 5 days)
Banana boat to Costa Rica (Journey time: 20 days)
Camper van to Kathmandu (Journey time: 40 days)

Read the full article on timesonline.