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Slow Travel for the Mind, Body and Soul
Slow travel isn't a new concept, but it is becoming more appealing to more and more travelers in recent years. Slow travel isn't about moving at a snail's pace; it's about embracing the environment. Stopping to get more downtime and actually tasting your morning coffee as you sit in peace instead of gulping it as you head out to catch your 3rd flight is as many days.
Slow travel isn't just about isolation, it's about maximizing the experience by allowing it more time to develop in front of you, it's being careful with your itinerary and intentional over where you go and what you choose to do.
Here are 3 calm, slow ideas that fit the bill perfectly:
Boutique Hotels Off the Beaten Track
Sometimes what you need is something a little bit more secluded, tucked away from other holiday makers. Not a busy hotel chain, no row of villas over the seas, just a small secluded resort that's designed for slow living, serenity, and peace, all against the backdrop of lapping waves, sandy beaches, and greenery as far as the eye can see.
It's the boutique hotel that forces you into nature and demands you slow down and enjoy where you are in the moment; it's the place that welcomes less, that forces decisions that benefit the body, mind, and soul, and just makes sense.
Countryside Manor & Vineyard Stays
If it's another kind of slow quietness you're after, then you can immerse yourself in the rolling hills of the countryside in a destination of your choosing. A restored manor house, vineyard guesthouse, or rustic country estate will offer you all this and more. You can book a resort stay or a place that allows you to hire it privately, but if you want an escape that forces a slowdown, getting away to the countryside is what you're looking for.
Think long lunches, relaxed tastings, open fields for long country walks, or a reading room overlooking lush green fields and nothing on the horizon except trees and the occasional flock of birds.
Lakeside or River Holidays
If the water offers you a sense of calm and you fancy wasting hours listening to the lap of the waves around your feet or the hull of a vessel, then you need to seek out a stay around water in the form of river or lakeside trips.
Staying beside a lake gives you this tranquility. You wake to still water, you spend your days overlooking the deep blue waters that exist, doing everything, yet doing nothing much visible to the eye at all. You stand and listen to the sounds, no traffic, no loud neighbors, just soft movement and sounds of nature punctuating the air.
And all of a sudden, you're not doing anything much at all, you exhale and let things go so you can breathe in the fresh air, you take slow ambling walks around the water's edge, you sit and read a book nestled in the safety of nature. It's a place where doing less is doing more, and you're simply stopping to soak in the world one breath at a time.
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