The new trend in travel is slow travel and it’s a great greener honeymoon alternative. It involves spending more time getting to the destination of your choice and making the journey part of your honeymoon.

Personally I love train journeys and when I travelled India we could have so easily flown around. It would have definitely saved time as some train journeys were 2-3 days long. But now that I have come back, these train journeys are my favourite part of the trip. We saw amazing landscapes that we would have normally flown over. We got to know local people, shared a few local delicacies and stories. We also decided to get on and off the train at some smaller less touristy destinations, which really gave us a feel for India.

We all know that time is precious but surely on honeymoon like in life, the journey is as important as the destination.

To see how you can make slow travel part of your honeymoon see:

www.seat61.com - a fab website that tells you about overland travel anywhere in the world

www.luxury-trains.co.uk - obviously its your honeymoon so be green in style!

or just google the following classic romantic journeys:

The Snow Train, Paris to Bourg St Maurice
Prague to Budapest, via Bratislava
Catania to Rome
Krakow to Prague
The Glacier Express (St Moritz to Zermatt)
Oslo to Bergen (one of the top 10 train journeys in the world!)
Helsinki to Moscow
Sofia to Belgrade (this is part of the original route of the old orient express)