Forget the hustle and bustle of travelling high speed around the Capital. It’s only when you take the time to wander round an area that you start to notice all the places that you usually rush past in a hurry.

Golders Green was London’s first Tube-created suburb and these walks are part of London Transport Museum’s exploration of the myth and identity of London’s suburbs.

During March 2010 London Transport Museum is inviting you to slow down and explore Golders Green on foot.

Local residents will guide you around and let you in on the suburb’s secrets.

There are three walks to choose from, allowing you to take time out to taste local delights, ramble in luscious green spaces or reflect in spiritual places.

The walks are free but tickets need to be pre-booked online via this link.

You can also see the exhibition Suburbia at our Covent Garden-based museum until 31 March 2010 - for further details visit London Transport Museum

Jane Audas / London Transport Museum

Carl Honoré

Slow down with Carl Honoré, author of the global bestseller In Praise of Slow, on his first-ever weekend Slow Retreat in Devon, England – March 19th-21st 2010. Always in a hurry? Is every moment a race against the clock? Do you yearn to slow down? Well, then, you’ve come to the right place.

Reset your metronome and reconnect with your inner tortoise in 2010, on the spring Slow Retreat weekend, exploring the ideas behind the book that defined the international Slow Movement with author, Carl Honoré.

Surrender your mobile phone when you arrive, and relax as the roadrunner world melts away. Swap bleeps and rings for birdsong and the crackle of log fires at Fingals Hotel, idyllic Devon farmhouse hideaway.

A lively weekend of workshops, debates and slow activities will bring to life the benefits of deceleration and show you how to put the Slow creed into practice. Carl will be restricting the Retreat group to no more than a dozen people to ensure plenty of slow time and personal attention.

The aim? For you to return home with your own personal recipe for slowing down – and the confidence and tools to make it work.

A weekend of laughter, reflection, conversation, rest and the finest slow food – the Slow Retreat weekend is guaranteed to lift spirits and change lives.

For more information log on to www.carlhonore.com

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The Slow Retreat weekend starts from £399pp, including accommodation, full board (inc wine), all activities and a signed copy of In Praise of Slow. Fingals Hotel, Devon (www.fingals.co.uk). For more information please contact Carl Honoré (carl@carlhonore.com) or Anna (07855 465970, info@slowretreat.co.uk)

First published in 2004, In Praise of Slow looks at how the world got stuck in fast-forward, how more and more people everywhere are slowing down and the rise of the Slow Movement. In Praise of Slow is published in more than 30 languages and has been a bestseller in many countries. In October 2009, it was the inaugural selection for the new Huffington Post book club. Newsweek called Carl Honoré “an international spokesman for the concept of leisure.” ABC News christened him “the unofficial godfather of a growing cultural shift toward slowing down.”