Category: Walk Updates

Distance Walked: 431 milesCurrent No. Blisters: ~2 Ah, another week passes. I’m now around 30% into this pilgrimage (by milage anyway), and only my feet are really feeling it. This week has been a week of questions. I was aware before setting off that people tend to do a lot of thinking on these journeys… Read more

Distance Walked: 283 milesCurrent No. Blisters: ~3 (Bonus points if anyone has actually heard of Villeneuve-sur-Aisne.) Saturday morning began with another march alongside Jean-Noël (Jean and Marie’s neighbour), from Villers-Chatêl. He’d already walked the distance we’d walked the previous day by eight that morning, when we met in Arras. He must have got up at… Read more

Distance Walked: 182 milesCurrent No. Blisters: ~9 Saturday morning was an early one, with plenty of margin built in for the ferry to France. I’d never crossed as a foot passenger before, so didn’t quite know how it all would play out. A bus onto the car deck of the ferry was not quite what… Read more

It’s been quite a week. Firstly, thank you to everyone for your support and messages – they’ve been very much appreciated, particularly during some of the rather heavy and horizontal rain in Kent this week. So, after tea and cake at St Wilfrid’s on Sunday, the walk began. It was a weirdly ordinary start, up… Read more

Hello! Firstly, thank you for visiting my website. I hope you find the walk interesting, and that you’ll keep half an eye on where I am over the next few months, on the way to Rome. This is the first blog post on this website, and frankly has been written entirely for my benefit; I’m… Read more