Slow Travel, vacation rentals, villas, reviews, Europe travel guide (Italy, France, England)

Slow Travel - Spend a week in a vacation rental and see what is near you. Slow down, immerse yourself in the local culture and avoid the fast pace of rushing from one guidebook "must-see" to the next. A great way to travel! Read more about Slow Travel or explore our community.

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Slow Tidings - Our Monthly Newsletter

Catch up with SlowTrav in our June issue of Slow Tidings, our monthly newsletter. Feel free to read past issues too!

Contest Time - Show us Your Trunks!

It's time for another SlowTrav Contest. Visit our forums for rules and details on a contest we hope will shed light on the real capacity of rental car trunks.

Forums:
We’re hunting photos! Each week or so, one of our moderators will start a PhotoHunt in one (or more) of our travel forums, with a specific theme. Come along, and post your photos from your trips around the world or around your neighborhood. This time we’re hunting for:

#1 Stone in our Spain & Portugal forum
#27 Unexpected in our Italy forum
#19 Performance in our France forum
#2 Spring in our UK & Ireland forum
#3 Unexpected in our North American forum
#16 Cooking in our Everything about Travel forum

Prompts change each week, so don’t forget to check in to see what we’re hunting for next.

Slow Travel Feature Photo of the Month Winner

Our third Feature Photo Contest Winner was taken in France, by mckenna, and he calls it Barge Trip Through Burgundy, France.

See more travel photos posted by Slow Travelers.

London Times Travel published an article called Camping in Paris, which is about Paris on the cheap. The article lists Dave and Aralynn's Paris Garret rental, listed in the Slow Travel classified ad section.

The International Business Times republished the "Art of Slow Travel" article from 2008.

As mentioned in The Guardian (UK) on February 7, 2009, read the article Amazing money-saving tips.

Read more in our Media Scrapbook

How to Use this Website

If you can't find the information here or have a specific travel question, ask and meet other Slow Travelers in our forums.

Slow Travelers stay in vacation rentals around the world - apartments, villas, houses, cottages, cabins, condos that you rent by the week. Other terms used for these types of rentals are self-catering, tourist rentals, holiday rentals, holiday cottages, agritourism (Italy), Gites (France). Basing yourself in a vacation rental makes for a different, slower vacation. You stay longer in one place and get to know one area in depth. The extra time in a place lets you find a favorite coffee shop, get your groceries at the local stores, go to the weekly market - the things you would do if you lived there. Read more...

How to Use this Website: The Slow Travel website is a community of people who like to travel and experience new places. There are over 12,000 pages of great information to help you plan your trip!

First read the Europe Trip Planning section.
Over 4,000 reviews for vacation rentals, hotels and restaurant reviews, and over 400 trip reports (travelogues or journals) for each country. New reviews, trip reports and articles are added every week.
Postcards (short essays about travel).

Done with your trip? Come back and submit your own trip reports or reviews! You are also welcome to share your knowledge of any area or aspect of traveling by submitting a travel note!

Vacation rentals, hotels and travel information for Italy, France, England, Europe, North America. Plan your trip and learn more about Slow Travel.

Classified Listings

Classified Listings: Vacation rental agencies, listings by owner, hotels, B&Bs, travel consultants, tour guides, cooking schools, and more.

Who's Blogging Now

We're "cooking" each week : Sunday Salad Samplers

Welcome to Our New Bloggers!

TourMama: Ways to Travel: Random thoughts from a random mind blogging from Italy during a large family trip

Lisaf: Life is Good blogging about her trip to Tuscany

Ggirl2: My Take on All Things Moldova Peace Corps volunteer heading to Moldova for a year

... more blogs

What's New?

Recent: Vacation Rental Reviews - Trip Reports

Recent Travel Articles

- France: Recommended Paris Books

- Italy: Tre Bella Cose

- Italy: Ferragamo Shoe Museum

- Italy: Church of San Miniato Al Monte

- Living Slow: The End is Nigh

- England: Northumberland - God's Own Country

- Italy: Bus Travel in Rome and Florence

- Belgium: Bruges- A Delightful Journey Awaits You

- Italy: Ok, So, But, Well, Why Acqui Terme?

... more of what's new

Favorite Webcams & Videos

Sorrento Webcam: Many of us are addicted to this fabulous webcam

Where the Hell is Matt? A wonderful video about the joy of travel

... more favorite webcams

Recommended Books

Italy, Instructions for Use

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