Life Pilgrim features the travel blog written by Dick Kempson on his walk from Canterbury to Rome along the Via Francigena in the summer and autumn of 2016. This pilgrimage is a walk but it is also a reflection on the books he is reading and the ideas his walk generates.
At Chateauvillain, anxiety isn’t just in the air, it’s in the numerous cars of Gendarmerie that patrol day and night, it’s in the ambivalence of the populace, both shuttered and beckoning.

Cow on the way into Langres – finally, a worse haircut than mine!
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