Sometimes, when we talk about newsletters, it feels as if we were summoning something ancient, almost prehistoric. But no: the Slowletter isn’t a barrage of updates or a constant stream of news.
It’s more like a small campfire, a quiet place to sit for a moment, listen, and let things arrive in their own time.

I’m a fan of forums. Yeah, I know, it probably sounds a bit old-fashioned. Maybe you’d rather call it something fancy like “vintage,” so I don’t feel too out of date. That’s okay: I’ve got my own nostalgias too, and in this case, I’m happy to admit I’m a bit old-school.

Deriva Lenta Slowbiking was born from the way I truly travel. I’m the first to admit that I don’t have as much time as I’d like to explore all the routes that linger in my mind. I work full-time and have just 24 working days of holiday each year. Even so, I’ve managed to slip away for two (and sometimes even three) weeks at a time to ride long-distance routes. But those journeys come one by one, scattered across different years, like small treasures that are hard to repeat.

I’ve always believed that music complements everything. At least for me, it’s been there since dawn: when I head to work, I usually listen to piano or classical music to begin the day with a soft, steady mood. Then, as the hours pass, the soundtrack changes too. Music adapts to what I do, to what I feel, to what I need.

When I published this post in August 2025, the answer seemed simple to me: Wikiloc was enough. I uploaded my first route to Wikiloc in 2012 and, ever since, whenever I have wanted to discover a trail or leave a trace of my own, adding my small contribution to the “Wiki spirit”, I have returned to that same platform. It is the one I know, the one I feel comfortable using, and the one that has been with me for more than a decade. For a long time, I also felt no need to create multiple profiles or scatter the same track across different apps. Deriva Lenta routes could be downloaded directly from the website, and everyone was free to use them with Wikiloc, Komoot, Ride with GPS or any other tool. But Deriva Lenta has evolved too.