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I will be giving a talk about walking The Cistercian Way in Birmingham, UK on Saturday 28th January. Anyone from the Forum who can come would be warmly welcome.
All the information is here:
https://pilgrimpace.wordpress.com/2017/01/06/pilgrimage-talk/
thanks
Andy
The next part of my reflection and report on The Cistercian Way is here:
https://pilgrimpace.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/walking-the-cistercian-way-part-3/
As well as the route, it has some information about the Small Pilgrim Places Network who are worth knowing about if you are making...
I was walking The Cistercian Way this autumn and hurt my knee. It was bad enough to have to pull out for 4 weeks. As part of my report and reflection on the route, I have written a bit on the experience of this injury and convalescence here...
I've written a reflection and report on my pilgrimage along the Cistercian Way which I have posted here:
https://pilgrimpace.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/walking-the-cistercian-way-on-becoming-a-more-broken-pilgrim-part-1/
It will be in three or four parts as it is too long for one blog post. The...
After hurting my knee badly four weeks ago, I am recovered enough to head back to Wales tomorrow and start walking again. I'm doing the final week or so - from Abergavenny round to Penrhys. To protect my knee I will be travelling very light this time, mainly spending the night with friends...
I'm using some of the time I have while my knee heals up to re-read Walter Starkie's seminal 'The Road to Santiago', his account of pilgrimage in 1954 (while drawing on a couple of pilgrimages in the 1920's). I haven't read it for several years, and it is excellent - do read it if you can, it...
Announcing an important breakthrough in calculating exactly how far you have walked
https://pilgrimpace.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/the-six-mile-string/
;)
Andy
I am supposed to be in the middle of walking The Cistercian Way, a 700 mile pilgrimage around Wales. As always when I set off on a long pilgrimage I promised that I would only stop for two reasons: an emergency call from home or a medical professional telling me to stop.
After 10 days I...
I've had a go at detailing my kit list for my upcoming pilgrimage on the Cistercian Way (700 miles round Wales) here:
https://pilgrimpace.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/cistercian-way-kit-list/
Comments welcome - I'm trying to shave off weight, but am aware that I need to camp a lot of the way and...
I will be walking the Cistercian Way around Wales in September and October. Details here:
https://pilgrimpace.wordpress.com/2016/07/16/the-cistercian-way/
Will be interesting if I pick up any traces of Santiago. I'm starting and finishing at Penrhys which was the major Marian Shrine in South...
It's a long time since I walked the Levante. It was my first Camino - tough and incredibly good. I hadn't thought about it that much for a while (I'm looking forward to a big pilgrimage around Wales next year) but a meditation on the Levante and the Feasts of Mary has just emerged...
I have listed my stages and a factual report on my walk from Ferrol at the beginning of January here:
https://pilgrimpace.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/camino-ingles-january-2015-stages-etc/
If you look back at the previous few posts on the blog, you will get the stories too.
Please ask if I've...
I'm planning to walk the Ingles next week. If anyone wants me to pray for anyone, let me know.
If wifi allows, I'll try a few updates along the way
Andy
I'm off on Sunday with a small group of friends for a short (and wet!) pilgrimage from A Coruna to Santiago with a few days of Retreat in Santiago at the end. If I get the chance I will blog, but I suspect I am more likely to report back afterwards.
If you have anything you want us to pray...
I've been walking the beginning of The Two Saints Way. This is a recently re-established version of the medieval route between Chester and Lichfield. I've put a route report here:
http://pilgrimpace.wordpress.com/2012/1 ... ay-report/
with links to the very good information site. I...
I really enjoyed reading Patrick Leigh Fermor's kit list from his epic walk across Europe in the 1930's which is here:
http://pilgrimpace.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/kit-list/
It is a very beautiful piece of writing - and very different gear from most of us!
Andy
Does anyone have a jpeg of this statue that they could let me have:
http://onthecamino.squarespace.com/pict ... ia/1843890
it's very meaningful and I would probably reproduce it on my blog (with permission and acknowledgement). Also, does anyone know the sculptor?
thanks,
Andy
In 'Roads to Santiago' Cees Nooteboom writes:
The historian Labande defines the medieval pilgrim as “a Christian who at some point in his life makes the decision to travel to a particular place and who surrenders his entire existence to achieving that goal”.
Does anyone know where the Labande...
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