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...and here is Mount Tabor's little cousin, Summerhouse Hill (148 m) -a chalk hill forming part of the North Downs in Kent, England.
Hi there, @Dov of the Galilee !
Mount Tabor is astonishing to see when approached by foot. It has presence. One Springtime a few years ago I roamed the fields...
Hi there @Camo
Plymouth, UK was also licensed to transport pilgrims to Spain...
Last summer as I was walking south I discovered a pilgrimage memorial with scallop shell and plaque embedded into a wall of The Barbican, Plymouth -near to where the ships embarked.
According to the tourist info...
28 days already, that's transformative! Those are fine views in your photos @Damien Reynolds . How many more miles will you be walking and for how long?
Buen camino
Buen camino @WalkingInGers !Will you be walking all the way to Santiago de Compostela?
I walked from Cadiz to SdC in autumn/winter 2009 . It took me 59 days or so. I started 18 October and it was still very hot at that time (30 degrees). There were incessant winds after Merida and a couple...
I saw a Kererū in it's natural habitat once (as opposed to in old paintings and stuffed toy ones) whilst tramping the Abel Tasman Inland Track, between Moa Park shelter and Castle hut. The Kererū was so plump and slow in flight that I reckon if I'd had a butterfly net I could have caught it just...
How exciting! One of the trails to Notre Dame begins in Quimper. I've been dreaming of walking to Quimper for years, in honour of a friend who has an armoire full of old Quimper faience...which I use to celebrate my arrival whenever I am chez lui! Quimper à Notre Dame here I come...svp svp svp...
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