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Welcome to pilgrimpace!
Reflection, poetry, prayer, place, walking, pilgrimage, the business and busyness of parish ministry, God’s Kingdom of loving justice, those things that sustain me deeply, those things that feed me.
This blog began as I walked on pilgrimage from Valencia to Santiago de Compostela in Spain in autumn 2009 . It enabled friends to keep in touch with me while I walked and allowed me to reflect.
Since I returned home I have carried on. I use it to give reflections, quotes and the like which speak to me as an urban parish priest. The blog has a clear pilgrimage slant; something which increasingly informs my life.
Welcome in and stay in touch
I appreciate any comments you have
Andy
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Pilgrimpace's Blog 
Andy…. you can delete this comment later….. but just wanted to let you know I have another Camino kind of blog- Camino-spirations- http://kiwinomadsphotos.blogspot.com/
Comment by Kiwinomad June 16, 2010 @ 8:52 amHey – nice site. Love the blog roll. I’ll come back and have another look when I’ve got more time.
Comment by Jo Ind October 19, 2010 @ 1:18 pmHi Jo,
welcome!
Andy
Comment by pilgrimpace October 19, 2010 @ 2:16 pmahhhh you’ve done it. i’d like to do it one day. you know, i’ve never thought about my walking as pilgrimage but it’s definitely how center myself spiritually. is it possible to be on permanent pilgrimage?
Comment by Shiv May 28, 2013 @ 3:46 pmThanks Shiv. I think it is possible to be on permanent pilgrimage – there’s a Russian book called ‘The Way of the Pilgrim’ about one model of this. I think that for myself, it is finding out how occasional pilgrimages inform, enrich and broaden the rest of life.
Welcome!
Andy
Comment by pilgrimpace May 30, 2013 @ 3:44 pmawesome. thanks for the book reference as well.
Comment by Shiv May 31, 2013 @ 6:03 pmThanks Shiv – plenty for us both to ponder!
Comment by pilgrimpace June 1, 2013 @ 11:01 amLovely site.
Comment by sophiecussen June 12, 2013 @ 3:28 pmthanks Sophie – welcome to pilgrimpace
Andy
Comment by pilgrimpace June 12, 2013 @ 3:32 pmI am enjoying your posts. Thank you for following mine. Perhaps some day I will get to The Camino . . .
Comment by opreach July 5, 2013 @ 12:08 amthanks – and also thanks for your blog
Andy
Comment by pilgrimpace July 5, 2013 @ 2:07 pmWill have to spend more time exploring all your different posts. We are walking the Camino from St Jean to Santiago in September. Love reading about other’s experiences 🙂
Comment by wisemonkeysabroad March 5, 2014 @ 9:34 amthanks. I hope your planning and dreaming goes well.
Comment by pilgrimpace March 6, 2014 @ 11:47 amBuen Camino!
I andy,
surfing the net I found your blog, really interesting.
actually i’m organizing a long pilgrimage from dublin to rome, and I saw that you were hiking in some paths that i will follow, as the st swithun’s way.
i would like some advice, like place to stay like camping or farm.
i will follow the Offa s dyke path , after i will cross bristol bath and direction to salisbury. in salisbury i,m planning to follow clarendon way st swithun’s way and North dows way until canterbury where i will start the francigena way.
do you have any advice?it would be great for me
thanks
Comment by matteo December 4, 2015 @ 4:17 pmmatteo
ps i live very close to kilmainham jail, i hope you have enjoyed dublin
Thanks Matteo
Comment by pilgrimpace December 4, 2015 @ 9:37 pmI will reply properly when I get time tomorrow
Andy
Hi Matteo,
sorry for not replying sooner. In Dublin, I was staying at Kilmainham Hospital – my wife is there as an Artist in Residence at IMMA.
I walked St Swithun’s Way and the North Downs Way with my friend Roland a few years ago. We didn’t have time to do it in one go, so walked it in two sections. There’s a guide to St Swithun’s Way available from the Tourist Office in Winchester (if you google St Swithun’s Way, you will find the details). We also used the Ordnance Survey north Downs Way Route Guidebook. Both were fine for finding the way easily.
We had tents and wild camped a lot of the way. It wasn’t too difficult to find places to pitch as it got dark, and we left early to leave no trace. We stayed in Youth Hostels when these were available.
The only problem we had was that it was incredibly wet when we walked the second half. This meant we were very slow as the chalk mud is slippery and sticky. I enjoyed the route.
Roland recently walked the Francigena. He has put his notes on this site:
https://www.viafrancigena.me/
Happy planning. Let me know if I can help more,
Andy
Comment by pilgrimpace December 8, 2015 @ 9:30 pmCame across your pilgrimage writing just as I am rather nervously about to embark on the marymichael pilgrims way next week
Comment by Sally Wilson April 9, 2016 @ 5:38 pmHope it goes well Sally! Are you walking the whole route? Andy
Comment by pilgrimpace April 9, 2016 @ 5:47 pmI m starting at lands end on19th and may arrive at Brentor in 2 or 3 weeks alot of sacred sites and churches to visit so more of a meander coming home for a while then back on the trail from Brentor to Avebury end of May A pilgrimage is where you walk every day but sometimes you just have to go somewhere else! Sally
Comment by Sally Wilson April 12, 2016 @ 5:23 pmHope it goes well – I’ve done plenty of pilgrimages where the route is walked in sections of a week or so – to me it is still a pilgrimage. Enjoy it!
Comment by pilgrimpace April 13, 2016 @ 8:54 pmHi Andy, is there a way someone can get in touch with Dr Bonnie Thurston please?
Comment by ANNE PACE May 31, 2016 @ 8:00 amI don’t know. You could try leaving a comment on the post she replied to and see if she picks it up.
Comment by pilgrimpace May 31, 2016 @ 10:48 am