About the Slow Europe Website
The Slow Europe website will launch in January 2009. Subscribe to our newsletter and we will email you when the site launches.
Pauline Kenny and Steve Cohen run the Slow Europe website. Pauline is the founder of SlowTrav.com, an online travel community (now owned by Internet Brands Inc.). Read more about Pauline and Steve.
Photos: Photos on the website are by Pauline.
Logo: The Slow Europe logo was designed in July 2008 by Ginés Valera (www.mediacomm.es and www.lumina.es (under construction) - email: info@mediacomm.es). Ginés is Lumina on FeaturePics, a great site for buying graphics and photos to use on your websites. Ginés lives in Spain. The logo for Slow Europe is a spiral to represent the "slow" concept surrounded by the elements of European travel - sea, sun and earth.
What Does "Slow Europe" Mean?
For me the "Slow" concept as used by Slow Food, Slow Cities and my old website Slow Travel, means taking the time to fully appreciate what you are doing. Slow Food support quality, local food produced by artisans. Slow Cities are designed to enhance a quality life with spaces designed for people not cars. Slow Travel encourages travelers to spend more time in one place instead of less time in more places.
"Europe" because this site focuses on vacation rentals in Europe. You will find vacation rentals all over the world, but in my opinion the ones in Europe are the best. Europeans have been staying in vacation rentals for decades. The vacation rental owners have been dealing with travelers for decades. There is a large selection of vacation rentals in Europe ranging from budget to luxury, from studio apartments to large villas.
Slow Europe gives travelers the information they need to create slower, more enjoyable vacations by staying in vacation rentals instead of hotels. I think the type of accommodations shapes the entire vacation. Instead of staying in hotels and moving about (two nights in Rome, two nights in Florence, two nights in Paris), pick on location and spend a week there in a vacation rental.
We Want to Hear From You
We welcome your comments. Comment on the Views from the Slow Lane blog or email me. When the site content is launched, compare my list of vacation rental resources to yours. Have I missed any? Please let me know.
We will be collecting reviews by vacation rental agency, company or resource, so you can give us your feedback on our selected resources.
