A Guide to Slow Travel in the Marches | Les Lumsdon

 

Why go abroad? Why not explore what is on your doorstep? This book by slow travel expert Les Lumsdon is a guide to exploring the border of England and Wales. To Lumsdon, slow travel is simply a way of travelling that gives opportunities to meet local people and discover places that they enjoy; getting a deeper sense of a place than ‘fast travel’ allows. Slow travel essentially means journeying on foot or by bicycle, train or bus.

The Guide is structured around eight key towns – Welshpool, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Church Stretton, Ludlow, Hereford, Llandrindod Wells and Abergavenny – which can act as bases for exploration, with suggested tours from each using trains and buses. Each section includes a guided walking tour of the main town, with places to look out for or to step inside, followed by descriptions of suggested journeys to places worth visiting in the surrounding area, with walking tours of the destinations also included.