The transformation
That moment didn’t change where I wanted to go. It changed how I wanted to arrive – unhurried and mindful.
Slow travel isn’t measured in miles or days. It’s a willingness to be changed by a place rather than simply pass through it. To sit at a café table long enough for the light to change. To follow a sound down a street with no name on any map. To eat where the chef knows the farmer’s name and the menu changes with the season.
The destinations I love most – Catalonia, Marrakesh, the South of France, and the Dolomites, gave me more magical moments when I stopped rushing through them.
Why I write – for my children (and for you)
I started Journey in Colour to leave literary footsteps for my children. A record not just of where I went, but of what I noticed when I got there – the colours, the tastes, the human stories behind places. The things no guidebook captures because they only reveal themselves to those who aren’t in a hurry.
But the longer I write, the more I believe these stories are for anyone who suspects there is a richer, slower, more beautiful way to move through the world – and through themselves.
Some journeys take you somewhere. The slow ones bring you back to yourself.
What you will find here
This is not a blog about bucket lists or the best hotels or how to see six cities in seven days. It is a collection of travel stories rooted in art, culture, and the quiet discoveries that happen when you stop rushing.
You’ll find atmospheric explorations of place, how cities feel at different hours, how architecture shapes how way people live, and how history and art give a destination its particular soul. Journeys made on foot and by bike through landscapes that only make sense at a human pace. And food as it should be experienced, as a conversation with the land it came from.
And increasingly, stories from closer to home. I live on the outskirts of London, one of the great cultural capitals of the world – a city I took for granted for years, too familiar to really see. Rediscovering it slowly has been one of the quiet revelations of this chapter. Slow travel, it turns out, works everywhere. Especially in the places you think you already know.
An invitation
If any of this resonates – if you’ve ever stood somewhere so beautiful it stopped you mid-sentence, or eaten a meal that felt like it was trying to tell you something – then you’re in the right place. Join my community and share your experience.
I’m Claire Biddle. Welcome to Journey in Colour.
Ways to engage with my work
- Travel stories – on this website, you will find my finished travel articles
- Travel journal – between my travels, I share my travel thoughts and inspiration on Substack. Think of it as my digital journal of my trusted notebook, sharing what inspires me along the way. Join a community of like-minded people on here.
- Instagram – follow my social journey to find my favourite photos from my travels
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