The Solitary Walker

The Canal du Midi cuts almost through the heart of Toulouse, the finest and liveliest city in south-west France. There can be no better appr...

Watery reflections ... Shadow and shade under the plane trees ... Canalside settlement ... Messing about in boats ... I've alway...

In the morning I continued along a flat, agricultural plain between 2 chains of hills. Cows grazed placidly. Dogs ran out barking from small...

The Way exists but not the traveller on it. Ancient Buddhist dictum For the pilgrim the road is home. Reaching your destination...

A visitor passes through a place; the place passes through the pilgrim. CYNTHIA OZICK Cynthia Ozick is right. Pilgrims are not tourists. Th...

In 1930 the Tarn burst its banks and flooded Moissac, destroying 617 houses and drowning 120 people. I left Moissac on 3 November and my mor...