That maybe a Sufi quote about dervishes, the whirling kind, of which I read about in To the Lake by Kapka Kassabova: “A precept of dervishism is renouncing possessions, surrendering to the Road.” The subtitle of her book is “A Journey of War and Peace” and, as she writes of her travels along the shores

We invited Lancashire author and travel journalist Chris Moss to explain why he wants us to explore the UK’s bypassed towns Source: Swap Paphos for Preston! City features in new book exploring places off the tourist trail – Blog Preston

It was around five in the morning on the shores of Lake Prespa in Northern Greece when I first encountered Ridha Dhib: a figure moving slowly along the water’s edge, a walking stick in hand, conversing with a strange, synthetic voice coming from a small red speaker clipped to his hip. The lake was still,

During the first two editions of Made Of Walking by The Milena principle (2015 and 2016, Delphi, Greece), we had the opportunity to meet two remarkable walking artists: the Dutch artist Ienke Kastelein and the Greek artist Katerina Drakopoulou. Through numerous international projects, their artistic practices have become widely recognized within the field of walking

In summer 2025, for one entire week, walking became the defining activity in Prespa, a mountainous transboundary landscape where two ancient freshwater lakes traverse Greece, Albania, and North Macedonia. Through acts of healing, experiencing, resisting and becoming, WAC 25 explored walking as a multifaceted practice as part of the wider, four-year Creative Europe project “Walking

Christopher Kaczmarek hosted a walkshop at WAC25 called Drawing Cartographies of Perception, exploring the personal and subjective nature of navigation and cartography and the diverse ways people perceive and move through space.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he reflects on the piece. A map is never a place. It is a translation, an abstraction,

Source: Wild Thyme and Honey: Walking in Prespa | Caught by the River | Caught by the River

Mountains, butterflies, bears and pelicans are among the natural wonders in the stunning Prespa lakes region, which straddles three countries Source: Balkan bounty: the little-known corner of Greece now ripe for walkers and nature tourism | Greece holidays | The Guardian

I picked up Emma Jane Kirby’s The Optician of Lampedusa: A Tale of Rescue and the Awakening of Conscience in Otis and Clementine’s, the used bookstore/café/cat rescue I visited in Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia. I thought it might be a book at least tangentially related to walking–or perhaps walking-adjacent–because the refugees fleeing Afghanistan, Iraq, and … Continue reading 31. Emma Jane Kirby, The Optician of Lampedusa: A Tale of Rescue and the Awakening of Conscience →

The Prespa International Walking Arts Encounters 2025 Walking Home - Walking in Transition is this year’s culmination of a process that started in 2007. In that year several artists, scholars, and academics walked from Florina to Prespa in a walking process named Visual March to Prespes of 50 km that aimed to initiation of a process of discovery of the place, the community, and of ourselves

Idyllic scenery is just part of the appeal of a break that is also about sustainability, meeting locals and maintaining paths Source: Walking in Greece: helping to restore the ancient trails of Andros island | Walking holidays | The Guardian

The WALC NODES initiative expands the Walking Arts and Local Community (WALC) network by supporting organizations and collectives to organize walking arts activities addressing local community issues. WALC provides networking, training, promotional opportunities, and exhibition participation. Applications are open on a rolling basis, with monthly deadlines,

‘Homewards’ is a Walking Home / Walking in Transition walkshop proposal for the International Walking Arts Encounters in Psarades, Prespa, Greece in July 2025 This walkshop asks where and what is home. It acknowledges that we may have to walk a long way before we find somewhere to settle, and that although the building may … Continue reading Walking Home

The International Prespa Walking Arts Encounters 2025 (WAC 25) will take place from June 30 to July 6, 2025, in Prespa, Greece, welcoming artists, writers, researchers, and creatives worldwide. As part of the Creative Europe co-funded project “Walking Arts & Local Communities” (WALC), WAC 25 contributes to the establishment of an International Center for Artistic

Open call for WALC NODES - international collectives, organizations, or venues that will organize walking arts activities addressing community-based issues in their local areas. These activities are connected to the Prespa Encounters and integrated into the larger WALC (Walking Arts and Local Community) network.

Open call for the International Prespa Walking Arts Encounters 2025 (WAC 25), themed Walking Home / Walking in Transition, invites artists, writers, researchers, and creative practitioners to explore the transformative and communal potential of walking as art.

Between October 25 and 27, 2024, the WALC partners came together in Gaasbeek, Belgium, not too far from the capital Brussels.

May 2023 In this blog T1A walk to Kionia, Poseidon Sanctuary, walk from Kionia to Chora (Tinos town). T1A trail – flora, Ktikados, chapel, and geology There are a wide range of walks around the Greek island of Tinos. On the whole they are quite well signposted and the ones I made travelled through varied … Continue reading Tinos and Kionia

May 2023 Introduction I thought I might take a break after teaching Shiatsu and giving supervision in Athens, so I looked up islands which were easy to get to from the capital and typed the word ‘pilgrimage’ into the search engine as a starting point. Tinos came up immediately. It’s not only a vital place … Continue reading Tinos and Chora town

The Classic City is home to one of the most diverse, lively music scenes in the state of Georgia, and the Athens Music Walk of Fame has memorialized the bands Source: How to navigate downtown Athens using the Music Walk of Fame | Arts & Culture | redandblack.com