Touring is not about rushing to a final destination. it’s an opportunity to experience a journey slowly, soaking up immense scenery along the route, taking time to walk, cycle, cruise and enjoy numerous attractions while sampling fantastic local produce along the way.
Here, we bring you a selection of the very best touring routes – some classics, some lesser-known together with a sprinkling of new routes for exploring alternative locales.
WALES
Condensed beauty is a way to describe touring through Wales. For such a pocketsized country, the scenery is gigantic. Huge mountain vistas, a long coastline of rocky cliffs and sweeping bays, and vast inland panoramas.
Much of this can be explored along The Wales Way (thewalesway.com), which is a trio of routes that, collectively, allow the traveller to experience classic samples of Welsh scenery, heritage and culture. The North Wales Way travels from Broughton, on the border with England, to Holyhead, on the island of Anglesey.
The self-explanatory Coastal Way covers 180 miles from Aberdaron, on the Llyn Peninsula, to St David’s, the village-sized city in Pembrokeshire.
Completing the trio is the longest of the three routes at 185 miles, which follows the spine of
