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The Quiet Courtyards Behind Alfama
A slow morning inside Lisbon's oldest district, away from the tram queues.
Steel, Coal and Second Lives in the Ruhr Valley
Walking the industrial heritage route through Essen, Duisburg and Bochum.
Morning Fog in the Julian Alps
A quiet forest walk above the Soča Valley, before the road brings anyone else.
The Loop Head Peninsula, Slowly
The coastal road most people skip on their way to the Cliffs of Moher.
Stone Villages in the Langhe Hills
Above the vineyards, before the truffle tourists arrive.
The Slow Rail to the Hel Peninsula
A forgotten military railway that now delivers you to a quiet Baltic beach.
The Lower Canals of Utrecht
Amsterdam without the crowds, at eye level with the water.
The Small Lochans Above Assynt
A day of walking on the empty side of the Scottish Highlands.
Village Bakeries of Beira Alta
Wood-fired ovens still working in the granite towns of central Portugal.
Ainokura in Deep Winter
A working thatched-roof village in the Japanese Alps, without the day trippers.
Cres, the Slow Adriatic Island
Sheep tracks, olive groves and one long road down the spine of an under-visited Croatian island.
The Call of Girona at Dusk
A medieval Jewish quarter that most people cross in fifteen minutes.
Yanaka's Wooden Alleys, Before the Trains Fill Up
A morning inside the low-rise neighborhood Tokyo forgot to rebuild.
Empty Lofoten, Between the Fishing Seasons
Red rorbu cabins and quiet fjords in the shoulder months, when the Arctic islands belong to themselves.
The Painted Wine Cellars of South Moravia
Rows of small white cellars, cut into the loess, in the quiet Czech wine country.
The Old Post Paths of the Faroe Islands
Walking the pre-road tracks that used to link the villages of Streymoy and Eysturoy.
The Fortified Saxon Villages of Southern Transylvania
Painted houses, a fortified church on every ridge, and back roads that go nowhere quickly.
Detroit's Packard Plant, on the Slow Way Down
A three-and-a-half million square foot ruin, and the neighborhood that has learned to live around it.
Kerala's Backwater Villages, Off the Houseboat Route
The narrow canals and canoe-only villages of Alappuzha's inner backwaters.
Matera After the Day-Trippers Leave
Walking the sassi cave-districts at dusk, after the coaches from Bari have gone.
The Orkhon Valley, a Slow Week on the Steppe
A river, a set of empty grasslands and the old Mongol capital, all on one loop from Ulaanbaatar.
The Eastern Townships in Late September
A slow week in the small towns south of Sherbrooke, when the maples are turning.
The Empty End of the Lycian Way
Walking the coast trail between Kaş and Adrasan, when the summer crowds are gone.
The Old Sugar Town of Cishan
A morning inside a Kaohsiung suburb that still remembers the Japanese sugar trade.
The Catlins, New Zealand's Forgotten South Coast
Sea lions on empty beaches and a lighthouse at the end of the road.
Armenia's Vayots Dzor, Between Vineyards and Monasteries
The old wine country of southern Armenia, where the oldest winery in the world sits under a monastery.
The Slate Quarries of North Wales
UNESCO-listed cathedral-scale quarries above the villages that used to work them.
Namibia's Quiver Tree Forest at Dusk
A grove of upside-down trees on red rocks in the almost-empty southern Karoo.
The Madonie Mountains, Behind Sicily's Coast
Small stone hill towns above Cefalù, in the range that most visitors drive past.
Lanzarote's Vineyards in Black Volcanic Ash
The moon-like La Geria valley, where each vine grows in its own hand-dug crater.