Church Times - Travel and Retreats


Challenging retreats on paper IT FEELS rather like a first day at school. Subscriber only	Going green? Jo Rathbone, Bear Grylls, Claire Foster, and Alastair McIntosh react Subscriber only	Taking the dogs for a run “HANG ON, and pretend you’re a sack of potatoes,” shouted our tour leader as we perched on wooden dog sleds at the top of a steep snowy slope — an almost... Subscriber only

First see the sights, and then get to work ON A SCALE of one to ten for bloodshed and political tension, the Middle East must contend for maximum points among the regions of the world. Subscriber only	When beauty meets holiness AFTER 30 years of making Songs of Praise, my list of favourite churches runs into hundreds. Subscriber only	To Jura in my bathtub boat EVEN to the uninitiated, Scotland’s last working steam puffer looks oddly familiar. Subscriber only

London to Morocco by the scenic route ‘Put your feet up; let the scenery come to you’ Subscriber only	The planet needs a holiday, too NOT so long ago, choosing a holiday didn’t seem any more complicated than deciding on which beach you fancied laying your towel. Subscriber only	Retreats should be easy on the ear ANGLICAN DEVOTION often rolls on in a majestic progression of music, readings, hymns, sometimes sparky sermons, intercessions and psalms, at times concluding... Subscriber only

Thanks, Carmelites, for squeezing me in AFTER the long liturgies of the Jewish High Holydays of September and October, my inner voice tells me it is time to go solo again, because we need to... Subscriber only	First-class train beats short-haul misery FAR from the Dordogne, a giant leap from Provence, and rather more than a hop and a skip from Brittany, lies unfashionable Alsace. Subscriber only	Christianity — the world tour EVERY YEAR in the Philippines, the people of Kalibo, capital of the island of Panay, drink rice-spirit, pray, and dance with the utmost abandon in the... Subscriber only

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