Slow Travel Pass - ex Slowby

New/Nouveau/Nieuw! 🎉

By popular request, we’ve already added an extra cycling trip from Dendermonde to Knokke! Swim in lakes, take a small yellow boat across the Scheldt, stop in historical cities... a 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 or if 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰. 🌊 🚲

Discover the trip here: https://www.slowtravelpass.com/

Enjoy! 🤩

𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆! 🎉 Our first multi-day cycling and hiking trips in Belgium are now available on https://slowtravelpass.com 🚲🥾

With the Slow Travel Pass, we’ve built a unique collection of trips for all levels which combine the 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆𝘀. In short, you can go on slow travel adventures without hours of planning. Pretty exciting, right? 🤩

➡️ Explore all trips on https://slowtravelpass.com ⬅️

We put a lot of love and energy making the Slow Travel Pass, and would like to 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁. Your support and enthusiasm is really what motivates us everyday! 🙏

Enjoy exploring the trips! If you have any questions or suggestions, please send us a message, we really want to make this a success with you! 💚

𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗿 & 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗻
A happy Slow Travel Pass team 🤩

🎉Great news: the Slow Travel Pass will be live tomorrow!🎉

Last Friday, when we added our first selection of trips to the platform, Thor (our developer) said, “I stopped developing for a while, because I was looking at all these trips in detail. And I want to do so many of them already!” 🤩

We’re currently having such a great time making the Slow Travel Pass! Why? Because the pass will also be super useful for us to easily go on trips. We hope you’ll love it as much as we do. 🫶

Stay tuned: our first selection of trips will be available at the end of the week! 🎉

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀! 🎉🤩

Here's a sneak peek at the beautiful design Marie made. Beautiful, right? 😍 We are sooo excited that you'll get to go on these trips soon. It feels like everything we have done so far brought us here. What a journey!

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀 🫶 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁! We'll send you an email very soon.

For those who haven't got their Pass yet, you know what to do!😉

More info & preorders➡️ https://slowtravelpass.com/

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀! 😍

🥾 Hiking
📅 2 days
🧭 Intermediate (+- 20km/day)
🏨 Youth hostel in the middle (private rooms for +- €30 per person/night!)

And of course train station to train station- as all the trips you'll find in the pass. 🚆

➡️ Preorder your Slow Travel Pass (for yourself or as a gift - or both 😜) to get early access to our ready-to-go trips in March! ✨

More info: https://slowtravelpass.com/

A happy team! 😍 Thank you to the first 30 fantastic people who already preordered their 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬! 💛

We're now working hard on it (see the board behind us 😅), and can't wait to show it to you in March. Get ready for amazing slow travel adventures in 2024! 🎉

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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬? 🥾🚲

The Slow Travel Pass includes 𝟐𝟓+ 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐬 in Belgium. The trips are for 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬, and combine the 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐬. In short, all you need to go on amazing slow travel adventures, without hours of planning!

Preorder your Slow Travel Pass today and get early access to all trip plans in March: https://slowtravelpass.com/ ✨

Hello everyone, we have exciting news: we’re launching our 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬 today! 🎉

Over the last year, we've handcrafted secret trips for 600+ slow travellers, and they really loved them. To make it easy for more people to go on amazing slow travel adventures, we’re now making our 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟓+ 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐮𝐦 available through our Slow Travel Pass. 🚴‍♀️🥾🇧🇪

With just one Pass, you get access to all ready-to-go plans for trips from 2 to 5 days. Preorder your Pass (€60) now to get early access to all trips in March.

For more info and preorders, check out our website: https://slowtravelpass.com/

𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒! 🤩

Slow Travel Pass | Go on amazing slow travel adventures, without hours of planning. We curated the best 25+ multi-day cycling and hiking trips in Belgium, so you can easily spend time in nature and discover new places.

🎄 What a Christmas gift! Slowby got covered for the first time in... Italian! Waw!! 😍

Massive thank you to Bikeitalia.it & Pinar Pinzuti for making this happen, you are the best! ✨

Slowby pianifica il tuo viaggio segreto in bicicletta - Bikeitalia.it Il valore del viaggiare lentamente fuori dagli schemi: con slowby puoi pianificare le tue esplorazioni personalizzate a piedi e in bicicletta

Oh oh oh! Mère Noël a rendu nos beaux cadeaux encore un peu plus beaux pour cette fin d'année !🎄🧑‍🎄 Pour que ce soit encore plus joyeux d'offrir du temps et un moment de qualité à quelqu'un ✨♥️

Ce qu'on fait ? Des trips secrets de plusieurs jours à pied ou à vélo pour découvrir plein de nouveaux endroits en Belgique 🥾🚲

Et en coulisse, ça ressemble à ça 😜

🎁 Comptez entre 2 et 4 jours ouvrables pour le recevoir par la poste. Si vous voulez le recevoir juste par email, c'est fait en quelques heures 😉

Commandez via notre site ou par ici directement ➡️ https://gift.slowby.travel/fr

Bisouskes!

The truth is...

We don't need more stuff.
We need more quality time!

🎁 Order a 𝗴𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱 before 16/12 to receive our slow travel postcards with it. Time is the most precious time, isn't it? 🥰

❓ PM us if you have any questions!

➡️ Link:

Offer a gift card for a Secret Slow Travel Trip!

Thor, our amazing CTO, is already heading back to Helsinki, where he currently lives! 🇫🇮

Having him in Belgium for two weeks was absolutely fantastic. It made us realize even more how much we all fit amazingly well together as a team.

We’ll be working remotely again for the next weeks (with some really exciting things happening! More on that soon 🔥). A perfect excuse for a nice photo!

📷 Missing on this picture Janneke & Ward!

Really nice feedback from Thomas and Caroline who travelled with their 9 months daughter (how amazing is that?!! 😍)

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"Slowby was the perfect introduction to slow travel by bike! We were eager to find a way to travel without being obligated to take the plane and then we found Slowby 🥳 Everything is planned for you, you just need to ride from A to B and enjoy the point of interest that the team found especially for you! We did 3 days 2 nights with our 9 months old daughter and it was a challenge but we did it non the less 💪🏻 The host were so kind and welcoming 🥰 We are now gearing ourselves to make a bigger trip!

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Thanks for going on a secret trip by bicycle, you're amazing! 👏

Our kind of days off ❤️

The joy of hiking in autumn! 🍂

The harvest made by a mum and her daughter who slow travelled by foot for two days last week. Yummy! 🌰

The joy of having posted gift cards! 🥳 Your support means a lot to us, thank you! 💛

𝑃𝑆: 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑟 & 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑔𝑖𝑓𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟! 𝐻𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚!

➡️ https://gift.slowby.travel/

Now, this is what a happy team looks like! ❤️
Here's the full Slowby team: Ward, Janneke, Thor, Manon & Dries.

What binds us together? Our deep belief that is a force of change, that if more people adopt it, the world will be a nicer, fairer and more ecological place.

It's pretty amazing how complementary we are together, doing our best for each other and for the impact we want to make.

And it's only the beginning, let's do this!! 🔥🙌

Fun things to do in autumn:

🍁 G̵o̵ ̵n̵u̵t̵s̵ >> Collect nuts 🌰
🍁 F̵e̵e̵l̵ ̵r̵u̵s̵h̵e̵d̵ >> Hunt mushrooms 🍄
🍁 S̵t̵u̵f̵f̵y̵ ̵n̵o̵s̵e̵ >> Fresh air 🌬️
🍁 W̵a̵t̵c̵h̵ ̵N̵e̵t̵f̵l̵i̵x̵ >> Play outside 🏃

In short: go on a 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩! 🍂👣 Big bonus: kids come for free during the autumn break. Use code 𝙎𝙇𝙊𝙒𝙆𝙄𝘿𝙎 at checkout!

Have a nice weekend!

We have great news for parents, friends of parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents out there! 🥳

Autumn is throwing a party, and so are we! 🍂
Take your children on a slow travel trip for free!

Here’s how you do it:

1️ Book a slow travel trip and travel between 22/10 and 6/11
2️ Minimum two adults - as many children as you can handle! 😁
3️ Use the code 𝐒𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐊𝐈𝐃𝐒 at checkout

Go to https://secret.slowby.travel/ to get started!

PS: Thanks for forwarding this message to families & friends 💚

𝐇𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐬 🥾

Autumn is a perfect season to slow travel by foot! Here's a little souvenir from this summer - when we tested hiking trips with Manon & Ingrid.

These woods are just 😍

This summer, Frederik & Els gave us a fantastic challenge: they wanted to slow travel by bicycle during 10 days with their baby and sleep inside. All right, challenge accepted! 🤩

So, we rolled up our sleeves and started building a secret route for them! We worked out a secret trip based on their profile + interests and curated 9 nice B&Bs along their route. They made direct bookings and, a few weeks later, they were already hitting the road!

Thank you for your trust Els & Frederik, you are amazing! You can read a bit more of their travel story here! ⬇️

https://www.slowby.travel/travel-stories/els-frederik-en

Yesterday, we officially launched two new options: hiking and inside stays! 🎉

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞? 🏨

1️ You tell us what kind of stay you prefer.
2️ We find great slow travel stay(s) for you.
3️ You get the direct link for the booking in your mailbox.

So basically, we curate it, you directly book it (we take no commission)! We tested it out this summer, we'll share a very nice story tomorrow! 💚

Waw, Dries wrote his first opinion piece about ! 🤩

"Konden het avontuur en de ontdekkingen niet blijven doorgaan in onze eigen achtertuin? Zo kwamen Welcome To My Garden en Slowby tot leven!"

Congrats Dries! 👏

https://nl.planet-lifestyle.be/uit-in-belgie/belgie-een-paradijs-voor-slow-travel/ #

België, een paradijs voor slow travel “En hoe was het om terug te keren naar België?” is ongetwijfeld een van de vragen die ik het vaakst heb gekregen sinds mijn vriendin Manon en ik eind 2019 terug zijn thuisgekomen van een lange fietsreis van 11 maanden en 13.500 km tussen Brussel en Tokio.

We have big news!! 🎉
We're incredibly happy to say that Thor Galle has joined us as our CTO (Chief Technology Officer) & Co-Founder! 🙌

Thor Galle is an extremely talented software developer & UX designer. He originally comes from Leuven, Belgium but currently lives in Helsinki, Finland. He's also a slow traveller at heart, who's deeply driven by our mission of making more accessible.

This is a big step for us as our co-founder team is now complete. This means we can now start to build upon everything we have learned this summer - and therefore, make even more impact through slow travel.

🙏 We also want to take this opportunity to tell you how grateful we are to every single one of you who left on a secret trip in the past months. Thanks to you, we learned step by step how to create unforgettable experiences and your input helped us get better each time. Now, we're taking all these learnings and input to go forward and start building!

We're so excited for this new chapter! Welcome Thor! 👏

After an amazing summer of helping 200+ travellers start to , we left on a 2-week bicycle trip in Northern England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

(1) We mastered the push-your-bike strategy (some hills were 25% steep, which is 😳!)
(2) We stayed at our first international host and they were amazing people! 💚
(3) We had many new ideas and thoughts about how to take further. It's so exciting to be able to work on what you love!

We're now starting the chapter 2 of , with really exciting news coming up tomorrow! Let's go!! 🔥

Comment bien terminer la semaine ? En lisant ce magnifique témoignage de Céline - qui est récemment partie en avec son amie Caro 🤩💛

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«Ce trip secret m’a permis de me rendre compte de la valeur de certaines choses du quotidien dont je ne me rends plus toujours compte : la facilité pour l’accès à l’eau potable, la do**he chaude, la nourriture à disposition… Nous n’avons manqué de rien mais cette expérience est essentielle pour se le rappeler. Le bonheur fut surtout aussi de se rendre compte qu’il ne faut pas aller loin pour que des personnes nous ouvrent leur porte sans nous connaître. Cela me rassure sur l’humanité… Qu’il y a également tant de belles choses et tant de personnes si différentes mais avec lesquelles nous avons un point commun : la rencontre avec l’autre, en toute authenticité. Toutes ces raisons qui font que personnellement j’aime vivre ce genre d’aventure que ce soit ici ou à l’étranger. Hâte de repartir… Merci pour ce trip secret qui m’a aidée à lâcher prise. Nous avons vécu notre Belgique Express. Merci à mon amie Caro d’être à mes côtés sur ce chemin. Merci à nos hôtes d’exception.»

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Merci à Caro et Céline pour leur confiance et aux ambassadeur.rirces Welcome To My Garden pour être si incroyables 💚

Bon week-end !

🎉 Big news! We're super excited to announce that we are partnering up with Wikimedia Belgium to make more accessible. ⚡

Our secret trip so far were all built with . As a next step, we also want to actively contribute to the biggest encyclopedia of the world.

Contributing to an open ecosystem, where knowledge is shared, is fundamental to us. We're convinced that good open data is the road to slow travel! 💚

Thanks for your support & trust Geert Van Pamel and the whole board of Wikimedia Belgium!

𝗩𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 ⬇️

"Très belle façon de voyager en famille avec Slowby! Les itinéraires préparés avec soin sont magnifiques et très clairs. Le roadbook est bien fait, avec quelques points d’intérêt relevés en fonction des demandes préalablement données, les magasins pour organiser ses repas et les restaurants. Le côté trip secret était génial aussi!
Le principe de Welcome To My Garden nous a séduits et nous avons rencontré des gens charmants! Expérience super positive en famille!"

Merci pour ce très beau témoignage Margaux et toute la tribu ! 🙏☀️

https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6309f1816a3e1ed2c3c2247e

Marguerite Vinçotte gave Slowby 5 stars. Check out the full review... Très belle façon de voyager en famille avec Slowby! Les itinéraires préparés avec soin sont mag ...

Our second newsletter is out 🥳

Perhaps, like us, you worry from time to time about the impact of your adventures. About your ecological footprint, about the way mass tourism is damaging beautiful places like Amsterdam, Venice, Barcelona, Mount Everest… We travel because we want to witness beauty, not because we want to damage it, right? So how can we change this pattern?

Read it here! ⬇️



https://mailchi.mp/7e7e4317a7c0/tourism-with-a-positive-impact-we-can-do-it