And hurry to adopt the Slow Tourism, moving by train, by boat or by bicycle rather than in plane … A life -size way to see, and just as plating.
By Julien Theèves
Express stays thousands of kilometers (the famous four days and three nights in New York) is exceeded. From now on, it is advisable to favor long time and preserve the planet by practicing slow tourism, a very serious way of considering the trip. The concept is even defined by the ministries of the economy and ecology which invite tourists as well as professionals (tour operators, tour operators …) to prefer the train, the boat or the bicycle to the plane.
It is also a question of taking root in the landscape and creating real links with the people we meet. All this involving a good dose of slowness. Besides, why hurry up on vacation when, the rest of the year, at work or at home, you have to be efficient and fast? While the rhythm of the cities accelerates, in unison of our digital prostheses, that of the fields (or the seaside or even of the old cities that we take the time to visit) invites to slow down.
After decades of celebration of ever faster means of transport, high -speed train and other concord, the climate crisis reverse the movement. This is the subject developed in the book Slow Escapes. Rural Retreats for Consissen Travelers (Gestalten) (“Slow escapes: rural pensions for conscious travelers”), which has selected magnificent places where to practice this slow tourism. A monastery in Umbria, a quinta in Portugal, an artist hotel on the Baltic or a farm in Scotland where we cultivate long time by practicing regenerative agriculture. Thus, at guardswell farm , that we join After nine hours by train from Paris, when the trees fall, they stay lying so that their decomposition, rich in microorganisms, to nourish the earth.