About the Slow Travel Community and Website

This section tell you about this website and our message board, how and why it was formed, who runs it. If you want to find out more about us, this is the section to read. Contact Slow Travel.

"I want to tell people is the this is the best site for trip planning I have found!!

The detailed information provided – such as how to get out of Florence with a rental car, or returning a rental car to Rome – where to get the acquabus from the Venice airport into the city – this was such valuable info I cannot tell you. I printed off the instructions on taking a rental car to Rome airport – my husband, the driver, said “it couldn’t have been easier if the guy was sitting on the hood of my car telling me where to go!” ( not that Im a bad navigator, mind youJ)

This is fabulous, I have been telling everyone I meet that this is the best website for trip planning, so I want to let you at the site know this as well...

Thanks a million – we just got back from a super trip to Italy and had very few missteps, with some great discoveries as well, thanks to great detailed info on your site."

Carol N
Vancouver, BC, Canada

About the Website: What this website is all about. Who runs Slow Travel, who owns it.

Media Scrapbook: Our press clippings!

Slow Travel Press Kit: Information for journalists writing about Slow Travel.

What are SlowTrav Favorites?: How we choose our "SlowTrav Favorite" vacation rentals.

The People Who Run the Site and Message Board

The Moderators: About the people who run the message board and post the reviews.

The Founders: Pauline & Steve started this website in April 2000. A little about them and their background.

SlowTrav Contributors: designation given to our dedicated members. How they can help you decide on which vacation rentals to rent.

Patriarch: Doru is the Patriarch of our Slow Travel message board community!

Slow Travel Sponsors

Slow Travel Sponsors: Use the companies that help support Slow Travel (sponsors, classified listings, affiliates).

Advertise on Slow Travel: List your travel business on the website with a paid classified listing.

Link to SlowTrav: If you run a travel website and you like our site, please link to us.

Slow Travel Community

Slow Travel Community: Links to our message board, photo gallery, reviews, etc - the things that make us a community of travelers.

Members Pages: Some of our members have written many articles for the website. We have lists of them, by member, here.

Send a Postcard to Slow Travel: Postcards from the Slow Travel community!

Slow Travel Photos: Links to the photos we keep on Slow Travel - site photos and community photos (over 20,000).

Slow Travel Video: Links to Slow Travel videos on YouTube.

Slow Travel Podcasts: Interviews with Slow Travelers (audio).

Slow Chicks: Performances by Palmabella and the Slow Chicks at the October 28, 2006 Palm Springs GTG.

Slow Travel in the Classroom: LeslieS uses the Slow Travel site to teach her students in Australia!

Become a Gold Star Member: Get premium features on the message board.

Slow Travel Chats

CRC - Concentric Reading Club: We've retired the Reading Club but check the Announcements forum in 2010 for monthly chats on travel topics.

Slow Travel Blogs and Webcams

Our Favorite Blogs: We run several blogs on SlowTrav. This page lists them and our favorite offsite blogs.

Our Favorite Webcams: A list of our favorite webcams.

Blogging on SlowTrav: All about running your blog on Slow Travel.

Movable Type Help: Basics of using Movable Type.

Submit Reviews, Trip Reports, Travel Notes, Articles, Postcards

Submit Your Travel Notes: Send us your travel notes for publication.

Submit Your Reviews: Send us your reviews of vacation rentals, hotels and restaurants.

Submit Trip Reports: Send us your trip reports - details of your travels, trip journals, travelogs.

Pending Reviews/Trip Reports/Travel Notes: Before anything is published on the website, it is reviewed and edited. Here are the lists of what we are working on.

Pending Travel Notes: See the list of note to be published.

Keep In Touch

RSS Feeds: Subscribe to RSS feeds of the latest Slow Travel content.

Slow Travel RSS Feeds: Read our feeds on this page.

Slow Travel History

History in Cards: Our different business cards for Slow Travel.

Slow Travel Contest 2006: In January 2006, we had our second contest. See the wonderful prizes and the essays and photo albums by the winners.

Third Year Anniversary Contest 2004: In July 2004, we had a great contest to celebrate three years of the message board. See the wonderful prizes and the essays by the winners.

Slow Travel Tours: We create a joke Slow Travel Tours website for April 1 2005. On April 1 2006 we added Slow Travel Villas.