Augustine Camino 2020
This 'tattie holiday' offers an opportunity for preparation for my and my husband's Chemin d'Assise pilgrimage in 2021 in very many ways. We will walk the Augustine Camino . We will walk for a week, from Rochester Cathedral, via Canterbury Cathedral and numerous ancient churches in the 'cradle of English Christianity' to Ramsgate, where Augustine landed from Rome in AD597. We will carry loaded rucsacs, and sleep in hostels and B&Bs (no campsites open this coronavirus struck autumn). And I will write as we walk. I don't know what I will write. I don't know how my body will cope with the walking and carrying. I don't know what and who we will meet along the way to write about. But I am hopeful. Embodying faith: I often talk about my joy in the embodiment of faith, in the 'drama' of the church year. I love the involvement of all my senses in my faith: singing, seeing, praying, physically moving, smelling, tasting, and experiencin...