A guide to small, alternative and rewarding eateries to stop at along major routes around the UK, often only a fifteen minute detour when compared with motorway services.
A guide to small, alternative and rewarding eateries to stop at along major routes around the UK, often only a fifteen minute detour when compared with motorway services.
A beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow and leisurely travel, from a wanderer who has spent his life travelling. Sawday shares his experiences as he explores the true value of travel, that will appeal to readers of Leigh Fermor and Eric Newby.
Go Slow France" is the third book in Sawday's hugely successful Go Slow series. Discover 47 of France's most exquisite chateaux, B&Bs, and hotels chosen as places to 'go slow'. Fresh writing, beautiful, professional photography and detailed maps to help plan your Slow journey through France.You will find places of ravishing beauty: from Alpine chalet to Pyrenean mountain refuge, an utterly classic family chateau, a poet with yurts, a Brit in P...
Exquisite riads in Marrakech, mountain retreats in the Atlas and the Kasbah route for the adventurous. Around 100 places to choose from and with rooms from 60- 400 there's somewhere for every budget.
Alastair Sawday's love of adventure began as a teenager in the 1960s, when he set sail on the SS Queen Mary for Massachusetts. Then came teaching in heady, vibrant St Lucia, and on to Trinidad and Guyana. Enduring exploration and passionate defence of the world was set in motion.The lifeblood of Sawday's work is a relentless pursuit of authenticity, of tradition and anarchy, of natural, home-grown resources, of vital character, of the joy and ...
Highlights 50 of the most engaging hotels, inns and B&B, 's as places to 'go slow'. Includes maps and regional sections to help celebrate life in the slow lane, as well as advice on cultural, historical, gastronomic and unusual places to visit.
There are hundreds of good reasons to visit Wales: the castles, cathedrals, and choirs, the walking and cycling, the festivals, fishing and food. This title offers information that ranges from the stunning sweep of the Brecon Beacons to ruggedly windswept South Stack.
13th edition of the long-running and best-loved guide which includes over 700 entries, with over 100 of them being new additions especially for this edition. This value for money guide has now sold over 180, 000 copies since its publication in 1994.
Italy, the birthplace of the Slow movement and the home of Slow Food, is a natural as the second destination in our new Slow series. Alastair Sawday has handpicked forty-six exceptional places to stay-places where attention is lavished on some of the most important things in life: convivial meals, community, a respect for the environment, and a celebration of regional distinctiveness. From the mountainous north, through cypressdotted Tuscany, ...