ESCAPE THE EVERYDAY
Self-guided, hotel-to-hotel walking breaks amid a green & pleasant land. Based in rural North Yorkshire, Inntravel is the UK’s leading provider of self-guided walking holidays. These holidays are all about finding the time to escape the everyday demands of life so you can enjoy beautiful scenery and discover fascinating places – entirely at your own pace. Inntravel’s experts leave no stone unturned in seeking out the very best places to stay, eat and explore; and with their detailed route notes as your guide, and your luggage transported between hotels where necessary, you’re free to enjoy every moment.
The South Downs provide the setting for Inntravel’s 4- and 6-night breaks amid England’s newest National Park, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Featuring the rolling chalk uplands of rural
West Sussex, and views that found Virginia Woolf “overcome by beauty extravagantly greater than one could expect”, this is exhilarating walking country. As well as the ancient ridgeway itself, there’s also a smattering of historic sites, ancient yew groves, and some carefully chosen rural inns. It’s a great way to spend a few days.
The Hardy Way, meanwhile, is Inntravel’s take on the lyrical landscapes of Wessex – as depicted in the novels and poems of Thomas Hardy. Not only does this 6-night itinerary take in parts of Britain’s first literaturethemed long-distance footpath, it also reveals the epitome of rural England: rounded hills, lanes bordered by cow parsley and high hedges, ancient deciduous woodland filled with birdsong, and villages of thatched cottages clustered around a tranquil duck pond.
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Inntravel offers another dozen or so walking routes through some of England’s most beautiful corners, plus a choice of over 100 routes in Europe – everywhere from Puglia to Provence, and from the lush landscapes of Madeira to the coast of Arctic Norway.