Gap Finders: ByWay founder Cat Jones
Cat Jones is an adventurous slow traveller and started the no-flight travel company ByWay in 2020 just as the world entered lockdown.
Cat Jones has always been an adventurous traveller, someone that enjoyed the journey as much as the destination. It had been that way since she was young, as her family moved around the globe for her father's work, and she even sailed the English Channel with her grandparents at a young age.
Her journeys often involved taking trains, buses or ferries rather than taking a plane - taking the path less travelled, away from the tourist hotspots. She found other people always wanted to do the same trips but didn’t want the hassle of working out how to piece these types of holidays together.
So in 2020, whilst working for a investment company, and as the world entered lockdown, Cat decided to turn her experiences in to a company, and ByWay was born.
Five years on and ByWay has become an example of the slow living ethos of building deeper connections with people, places, and experiences, rather than rushing through them.
PRESENTER: Winifred Robinson
PRODUCER: Dave James