The New Plan!

I'd intended to post this a few days back, but I fell ill with a deadly pestilence from which I barely recovered ... well, a terrifying bad dose of dreaded man-flu ... oh, ok, a mild cold. But it did make me feel poorly and in need of Lemsip, so I'm rating it at least a 5 for severity. 

The plan for phase 2 of my summer pilgrimage(s) is: St Andrew's in Scotland, via as many English and Scottish places of beautiful prayer as I can find. Or, as my friend Brain Boley*, pastor of Billesdon Baptist, put it: another church crawl.

It may sound a bit less ambitious than Assisi and back, and it is. I only have four weeks of sabbatical left so I have to cut the cloth to fit. That said, Britain is so gloriously tall and thin, the journey will actually be almost as long as the outward leg to Assisi was - so it's my chance to cover the distance of the homeward leg but on very different terrain. 

And St Andrew's has three great things going for it: (1) it was one of the most significant pilgrimage sites in medieval Europe, up there with the greats like Santiago de Compostela and Rome, (2) it's far enough away to make for a good trip, and (3) my little grandson lives just 20km away in Dundee so can get a visit from 'Dandad'.

I leave this morning!

(* His name is actually Brian, but when he spotted this mistake he asked me to leave it ...!)

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