Continue reading ProcessProcessio, Lat. ‘A marching forward’, ‘advance’.
Land’s End to John O’Groats
Right to Roam
In Scotland, landowners aren’t required to maintain a right of way, but they must not obstruct it and have a duty of care to people on their land. The “right to responsible access” means people aren’t necessarily restricted to paths and can walk across uncropped fields where no path exists.
Farmer’s Weekly
Elegy — the Processional
Sur la piste, vita
A sign I saw today as I came out of the final forest, and which I understood to mean ‘on the path, life’
Penultimate
For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe
Unberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Switzerland
Alpine
Or rather dost thou tread
Thomas Hood
Those cloudy summits thence to gaze
below, like the wild chamois
Diversion (in which I clock up my thousandth kilometre)
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest […] without diversion
Blaise Pascal
‘A Blessing on your Journey’
Up
The rolling farmlands of France are behind, to be replaced by the ridges and valleys of the Jura mountains, gateway to Switzerland
Sandy Brown, the Cicerone Guide to the Via Francigena
