Church Times - Travel Supplement


Not only nice, but needful THE travel supplement in my Saturday newspaper recently carried the headline “No pain, plenty of gain. Want to start the New Year with a spring in your... Subscriber only	A walk (and swim) in the other holy land WHERE is the real Holy Land? Subscriber only	The pleasure of skirting round Taizé TAIZÉ and its chants are known throughout the Christian world. Subscriber only

An exchange of the spirit I SIT in late-autumn sunshine, waiting for a boat to take me to an island for my first retreat. Subscriber only	The joy of going straight IT IS the Water Rat who puts his finger on it. Subscriber only	Happy in artichoke heaven FOOD on holiday is always a pleasure, never more so than in Italy. Subscriber only

Heaven can wait, say Japanese ARRIVING in Okinawa, the “Hawaii of Japan”, in my flip-flops, the last thing I expected was a typhoon. Subscriber only	Keep my hammock warm for me I KNOW the holiday has really begun the minute we touch down on the tiny airstrip in the middle of the lush vegetation of Lamu airport. Subscriber only	From Desolation to Ben Hope THINK of a “spiritual retreat”, and what springs to mind? Subscriber only

My six lost hours among the shelves ‘If the young get bored, try dumping them in the humour section’ Subscriber only	Packaged Passion does not disappoint THE 5000-strong audience is silent. A few moments elapse. Then, tentatively, we start to clap. Gradually, the sound fills every corner of the theatre... Subscriber only

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