Category Archives: Travel
All the Crowd
“He could not get free…and all the crowd of people were moving on in the same direction, with a sinister happiness on their faces.” CS Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress There are some things in other cultures that bewilder me and … Continue reading
Folk Tales
“And the sweetness came not with pride and with the lonely dreams of poets nor with the glamour of a secret, but with the homespun truth of folk-tales…” CS Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress No sooner had we arrived in Toledo, … Continue reading
Plodding Along
“‘The young gentleman is soft, sir, very soft,’ said Drudge. ‘He is not used to this sort of thing. We’ll have to help him along…Then they plodded on for many more miles.’” CS Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress Many months ago … Continue reading
And Some Carried Water
“Then I saw that chairs were brought for the travellers and some of the young men of the house carried water to them to wash.” CS Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress 2,000 years ago the Romans built a nine-mile aqueduct from … Continue reading
Studying in Salamanca
“He [Aristotle] held that the end of mortal life was to put on immortality as much as might be. And he also said that the most useless of studies was the noblest.” CS Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress Salamanca is a … Continue reading
Celiac in Spain
“I have brought you a loaf…” CS Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress Bread, it is said, is the staff of life and everywhere we eat, bread is brought to table first. The trouble with bread is that my body thinks it … Continue reading
The Language of the Heart
“I am coming to look more and more at the language of the heart. Logic and definition divide us: it is those things which draw us together that I now value most — our common affections, our common delight in … Continue reading
A Moderate Allowance of Travelling
“Here again, the secret of happiness lies in knowing where to stop. A moderate allowance of travelling — enough to quiet, without satiating, a liberal curiosity — is very well.” CS Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress We’ve heard several pilgrims say … Continue reading
Pilgrimage
“I am on a Pilgrimage. I must admit now that you press me. I have not a very clear idea of the end. But that is not the important question. These speculations don’t make one a better walker.” CS Lewis, … Continue reading