Now that’s what I call a proper pilgrimage
SIR – If Jonathan Wright (Feature, July 22) is seeking a real penitential pilgrimage with no sightseeing aspect whatsoever, may I recommend to him the annual Pentecost pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres? He will walk 25 miles on the first day, 27 on the second, and a mere 18 on the third. He will be tired and footsore; he may well have developed blisters. He will find that the living conditions are, to put it mildly, primitive; if he has been a member of the Armed Forces, educated at an old-style public school or been in prison (or preferably all three) this will not be a problem, but otherwise it will merely add to the penitential aspect of the pilgrimage.
