05 / Unwind
The art of doing less
Wellness, slow travel, retreats and digital detox.
Unwind is the section people come to when they are tired. Not tired of travel, tired of everything else. These are trips designed around rest rather than around sights.
Slow weeks, thermal water, forests, quiet countryside and a few places where the phone signal is bad enough to do you good.
Guides
8 ways to unwind
Unwind
Where to Go When You Need to Unplug
A cabin, a lake, a sauna and a week where the most demanding decision is when to swim.
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Unwind
Ubud and the Slow Side of Bali
Rice terraces, temples and river valleys, once you get twenty minutes out of the centre.
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Unwind
A Slow Week in the Black Forest
Pine, thermal water, long marked trails and an extremely reliable approach to cake.
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Unwind
The Cotswolds at Walking Pace
Honey coloured villages, footpaths across fields and pubs with rooms, in the correct order.
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Unwind
Kerala, Backwaters and Doing Less
Palm lined waterways, tea hills and an ayurvedic tradition that treats rest as a treatment.
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Unwind
Sri Lanka Hill Country, Tea and Quiet
Cool air, colonial bungalows, a famously slow train and tea estates in every direction.
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Unwind
The Engadin in Summer
High alpine light, lakes cold enough to gasp at, and the best air in Europe.
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Unwind
A Wellness Escape to the Alentejo
Cork oaks, whitewashed villages, enormous skies and almost nobody on the road.
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Your next escape starts somewhere.
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