Slow Travel is the Way To Go for UK Adventures

Business travel conditions us to choose the most direct route, but sometimes it’s better to lay off the gas and choose curiosity over convenience.

This latest slow travel episode had me rolling into Glasgow close to 9 p.m. ready to eat my own arm off, but I regret nothing.

After years of working the digital marketing conference circuit and racing from place to place, trying to balance work and family, I’m enjoying the slower pace that my work-from-anywhere business affords. And so when an opportunity presented itself for me to head to Scotland for a brief work engagement, I decided to take the slow road there and back.

Canadian and American friends often ask me about cheap Europe flights, to which I say, just get yourself to a hub ($440 from Toronto to Heathrow, in this case). You can fly domestic, or take a train or bus for the more sustainable, affordable, and — dare I say, interesting — choice from there.

It’s so much easier and more affordable to get around Europe than North America. Landing at a major hub like London, Paris, Munich, or Amsterdam, you’re spoiled for choice.

So I took my own advice.