While travelling towards Rome, the vague idea of thoroughly mapping the via Francigena consolidated into a firm plan for the development of not only this, but perhaps even less well known routes.
Since returning from Rome, we have created Pilgrimage Publications, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the identification and mapping of pilgrim routes all over the world, regardless of religion or belief. Our first project will be to cycle the entire via Francigena, noting the detail and challenges for walkers, cyclists and horse riders, with the aim of making it accessible for everyone, not just masochists like us. We hope that this will only be the first of many and the practical expression of our pilgrim experience.
No man is an island, entire of itself
Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main
John Donne