Europe has a vast network of pilgrim routes, such as the famous Camino and the collection of pilgrim trails across Sweden, Norway and Denmark known as the St. Olav’s Ways which includes St. Olavsleden, the path I walked last summer. Here […]
To become a pilgrim is at first, to become a stranger, and to find yourself in a strange place with other strangers. In doing so, everything becomes open. You open yourself to meet with and …
It was a slow morning. We ate a leisurely breakfast before Angeliqa set off to walk to Vikhammer. My toe was no better so I decided to save my foot for the final day, so …
This morning I realised quite early on that I was not going to be able to walk with my toe damaged. It woke me often in the night everytime I touched it on something and …
This morning the sun shone down on us again with even warmer temperatures predicted. We made breakfast in the well equipped kitchen at the church hall and prepared our rucksacks for the day. When we were ready …
One of the first things I saw this morning was this amazing halo around the sun. I've seen them around the moon before but not around the sun - apparently this fortells of snow but …
Today it rained and rained. I have no photographs from the first few kilometres as my cameras needed to shelter in my bag. The first part was mainly on pavement along a main road surrounded by …
We started the morning with a wonderful breakfast made by Liv, where we got to sample fresh homemade smoked salmon from the river - I'm never going to be able to buy it from the …
We left Sul in early cool morning sunshine, ready to walk the 28km to Vuku. The trail is very up and down now we are in Norway, with some steep ascents and descents. Much of the morning …
The weather was much calmer this morning, thankfully. Today we wanted to cross the mountains and the border into Norway. We hitchhiked a short way in the morning as there was no way we could …
We left Tannforsen in the morning feeling certain it was going to rain. A rainbow seemed present almost all day as though it was trying to lift our mood. We walked in contemplative silence for …
