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One eye on the new 1066 Country Walk

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And a chance to escape battling the crowds as we cast one eye on the new 1066 Country Walk.

With tomorrow, October 14, the 950th anniversary of William of Normandy getting one in the eye of King Harold.

Or did he, with revisionists, with the now London-based Bayeux Tapestry as evidence, questioning that narrative?

And suggesting that Harold was the subject of a political kill, a regicide, and something we frowned upon then.

1066 and all that

Aye eye: Harold gets one in the eye

Well, we can make up our minds up.

As we walk in the footsteps of the Great Norman on a five-night Walkers Britain & Europe trek.

Where we follow his 1066 journey from Pevensey for 31 miles (easy for us long-trail hikers) on foot.

Child’s play: Our battlers

Cross the wildlife-rich wetlands of the Pevensey Levels

And stand and channel where William conquered England at the Battle of Hastings at the village of Battle.

Aspiring spring: Winchester

You’ll step back in time at Pevensey and Herstmonceaux Castles.

Quaff a pint of real ale in ancient villages Icklesham, Winchelsea and Rye.

Discover medieval Winchelsea, its gateways, church and historic cellars.

Post-Battle

The fixtures and fittings: And have some fun on the way

From Battle, continue through the High Weald National Landscape.

The journey leads through Icklesham and medieval Winchelsea before finishing among the historic streets of Rye.

Your self-guided Sussex walk, with five-nights hotels and B&Bs and six breakfasts costs £790.

 

Countries, Ireland, Pilgrimage, UK

Shrinecations near you

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And because we were on pilgrimage long before Gen Z turned it into a TikTok fashion here are our shrinecations near you.

All of which is timely, and not just because it’s never been a better time to get off the mad path the world has chosen.

But because ten years after we first explored the most famous trek of all, The Camino Way.

Santiago and Saint Jimmy on the Camino

We’re following our own footsteps and taking on the Portuguese Coastal Camino with our go-to providers CaminoWays.

Traditional Caminos, of course, started outside our own doorsteps and that’s where we’re beginning here.

World Expeditions or its Euro brands, UTracks and Walkers’ Britain & Europe, kick us off.

On the BBC series Pilgrimage: The Road to Holy Island.

The Holy Island

Holies of Holy: Holy Island

We’ve been here before but we’ve never been worried about retracing our steps.

And Walk Northumberland Coast Path & Lindisfarne.

A seven-day self-guided with Walkers’ Britain & Europe.

Replicate the journey of the BBC’s celebrity pilgrims with highlights.

Including walking the St Cuthbert’s Pilgrim route over the causeway to Holy Island.

And visiting ancient castles at Bamburgh, Dunstanburgh and Lindisfarne and staying in fishing villages Alnmouth, Seahouses and Craster. 

From £860pp, daily departures from April-September.

Man alive

Set sail: For the Isle of Man Camino

And because the isle that Finn MacCool created, the Isle of Man, is more than just daredevil TT motorcyclists, walk this way.

As the bird flies the nine-day self-guided Isle of Man Coastal Path: The Way of the Seagull is a 100-mile route.

Walkers’ Britain & Europe will map out your walk which overlaps with many sections of the Raad Ny Foillan Pilgrimage Trail.

You’ll take in cultural heritage towns such as Castletown and Peel, while WB&E want us to try some sea swimming too.

You’ll pass the remains of Celtic chapels, clifftop carved crosses and remnants of island life in times gone by. 

From £990pp, daily departures from April-October.

Mingle on the Dingle

Walk this way: Dingle

And while I’ll probably be having a glass of wine before my red-eye out to start the Camino, our Irish pals do things differently.

Irish pilgrims would traditionally sail from the south-west for Finisterre, so for the hardy you could bolt on UTracks’ The Kerry Camino.

A six-day self-guided tour with UTracks in the Kingdom of Kerry.

And an exploration of the wild Atlantic coast on foot.

And the chance to immerse yourself in the music and culture of Dingle.

On a lesser-known camino which we’ll call the Camino with the Craic. 

From £720pp, daily departures April-October.