Quirky Travel
QUIRKY TRAVEL is travelling with your eyes wide open, using all your senses to experience your surroundings in an inspiring, unique way. It means taking your time to explore what’s around you, enjoying the moment and appreciating things fully. It’s about the people, culture, heritage, customs, sights, sounds and feelings that a place evokes. It’s travel in mind, body AND spirit.
‘One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.’ Henry Miller
It is NOT about fixed itineraries, schedules, facts and figures … Follow the principles of the SLOW MOVEMENT, enabling you to really relax and enjoy your journey, be it from your armchair, walking to the shops or climbing a mountain far away.
Prehistoric paintings on St Kitts Caribbean island
Quirky Travel helps you to unwind from the stresses of modern-day living and discover new places, people and perspectives. You see things you thought were familiar from a new viewpoint, experiencing travel at a pace that embraces your surroundings. Quirky Travel is life-enhancing, energizing and, most important of all, enjoyable …
Chihuly ‘Sun’ sculpture Montreal, Canada
When you read a travel article here, I hope you will be transported to another place and time, being able to see, hear and feel some of the most fascinating places in the UK and around the world. Discover unusual places off the beaten track, visit historic sites, pop into a museum, try a new dish, amble along the shores of a lake, wander round charming villages and see it all from a new perspective …
Dawn over the Bosphorus, Istanbul
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ~ Anatole France
Sounds absolutely fab. Nothing better than getting back in touch with our senses – hearing the sound of a gentle gurgling stream, feeling the cool breeze in your face, smelling the scent of the flowers in the hills, seeing the majestic scenery of the Lake District and sipping a cold beer after a refreshing, eye-opening walk.
All the best Zoë!
Cheers,
Keith
As a former native of South Lakeland … all the best with the new venture; it’s just what’s needed. A compromise between the serious mountain stuff and a party of forty-odd passengers having meaningless dates, facts and figures spouted at them.
This sounds wonderful – here’s to all things quirky!
Looking forward to the day when I can show you round Keith 🙂
Cheers Wendy – loving the quirky life 🙂
That’s what I am hoping Keith – first day out provisionally Monday April 19th – just decided today!! Hope to see you up here one day…
Amazing! looks wonderful. Thank you much for sharing, Lots of love.