Finished packing in time to take a couple of photos before Morning Prayer. One of the monks stamped my credential and took the money, so I could leave straight after breakfast. Lillian gave me a prayer card from Lisieux, and Frédéric hugged me. I started off, singing hymns. The first couple of hours were inContinue reading “AVON TO FLAGY”
Category Archives: Pilgrimage
MONTGERON TO SAINT PARGEAU PONTTHIERRY
After writing the blog, left at 9. It was 2.4 km to the Mairie, where I turned off the route to find the hotel. I missed the turning after St Jacques Church, which was closed, but met a woman who knew the area and told me to turn right after the street market. I didContinue reading “MONTGERON TO SAINT PARGEAU PONTTHIERRY”
PARIS TO MONTGERON
The 9:31 Eurostar was a good idea, and enabled a full day’s walking after arrival in Paris. First stop Notre Dame, or rather, the Diocesan offices nearby, to get my credential stamp. They first said no, the proper stamp had been lost, but when I persisted, they produced some others before settling on one normallyContinue reading “PARIS TO MONTGERON”
PILGRIMAGE 2023
Just over 20 years ago, I arrived in Le Puy en Vélay to walk the first part of the Via Podensis, the best-known of the medieval pilgrimage routes through France to Santiago de Compostela. It took me nearly four years, and four further visits to the Camino ranging from 3 days of walking to 3Continue reading “PILGRIMAGE 2023”
OLORON TO SARRANCE
One more stage of the Voie d’Arles I can do with public transport from Pau. This time I used the train. A few problems: 1. You can’t buy tickets with bank notes. Eventually one of the staff, whizzing round not sitting in a ticket/info office, was persuaded to give me 5 2-euro coins for aContinue reading “OLORON TO SARRANCE”
MEDIAEVAL LESCAR: A GUIDED WALK
As this is my last Tuesday in Pau I signed up for a guided walk put on by the Tourist Office. It was my third visit to Lescar this year, or fourth if you count Decathlon on the outskirts, but there are still fresh delights to discover and more to learn about those I alreadyContinue reading “MEDIAEVAL LESCAR: A GUIDED WALK”
THE NEXT STAGE
After splitting the easy stage of the Voie d’Arles (GR653) from Morlaàs to Artiguelouve between two hot days, I had found ideal weather for the more challenging continuation to Oloron Sainte Marie: low 20s, overcast, very little rain. Just as well, as there are no drop-out points served by public transport, so I need toContinue reading “THE NEXT STAGE”
THE REST OF THE WAY
I made an early start, though not quite as early as I intended, to finish the walk I began last week before the heat of the day. I began where I stopped at the bus stop by the Hippodrome… … then followed a shady path beside a suburban road until the houses came to anContinue reading “THE REST OF THE WAY”
A SNIPPET OF A CAMINO
Yesterday I planned to walk from Morlaàs to Lescar (20 km) or even Artiguelouve (26 km). In fact, my watch showed 20 km by the time I came to a bus stop, maybe 5 km short of Lescar, and headed back to Pau. The disparity could be accounted for, in roughly equal shares, by theContinue reading “A SNIPPET OF A CAMINO”
The Way to St Albans
As pilgrims from the Friends of Southwark Cathedral approached Canterbury last September, some of them were beginning to ask “Where shall we go next?”
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