For many people, the perfect holiday consists of as much sun, sea and sand as can possibly be crammed into two weeks. But if you'd rather see more of a country than the view from the beach, a walking ...

“You walk with yourself,” says the canon of the Autun Cathedral to David Downie, “but that does not mean you walk selfishly.” What, then, is the point of a pilgrimage, by foot, across hundreds of ...