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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 5h

"I’ve walked the Camino – a quiet alternative near Rome was a revelation" www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...

Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 7h

After stopping at St Catherine's, Kingsdown, and walking into the late afternoon, we ended Day Three of the Augustine Camino at Doddington. 👣

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 10h

2/2 ... and an encounter with some giant trees!

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 11h

Day Three of the Augustine Camino takes us through a chestnut coppice ... 1/2

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Day Three of the Augustine Camino also took us through the first of many Kent apple orchards ... with plenty of unwanted windfalls to sustain us on our journey! 👣🍎

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Day Three of the Augustine Camino began at Thurnham and passed through Hucking, Gorham, and Milstead on our way to Doddingham. 👣

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

More from Day Two of the Augustine Camino (Aylesford to Doddington). Pilgrim stamps at St Mary's Church, Doddington; walking through the Kent vineyards; and dinner at the Black Horse at Doddington where we stayed the night. 👣

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Battle Abbey was built on the site of King Harold's death OTD in 1066. Here is Dougal reflecting on "the spot where King Harold died" close to what would have been the abbey church's high altar.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings! ⚔️ Some images from last month's visit to Battle Abbey: the Abbey's gatehouse and a Norman knight looking wistfully across Senlac Hill, the site of the battle on 14 October 1066 (with a lone sheep for company!).

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Day Two of the Augustine Camino saw us passing the site of Boxley Abbey, now in private ownership. In the late Middle Ages the Abbey was famous for its miracle-working Rood of Grace. The ruins of a few walls remain. Also a barn, once the hospitium, and now being renovated by its owners (image 4).

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Two other chapels at Aylesford Priory: St Anne's Chapel (second image) and St Joseph's Chapel (third image). The artwork around the walls is by Adam Kossowski, a Polish refugee.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Artwork by Polish refugee, Adam Kossowski, 'The History of the Carmelites of Aylesford' (1950-1). 1) The General Chapter in 1247; 2) The arrival of the Carmelites in England 1242; 3) The Return of the Carmelites in 1949.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

More from Aylesford Priory on the Augustine Camino.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A highlight of our tour of Aylesford Priory - where we stayed on the first night of our Augustine Camino - was the shrine of St Simon Stock. The 13th-century Carmelite (d1265) was buried in Bordeaux. In 1951 the relic (his cranium) was brought to Aylesford, shown here in an impressive reliquary.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

2/2 First night of the Augustine Camino spent rather comfortably at Aylesford Priory. Dinner in the Pilgrims Hall!

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Arrival at Aylesford Priory (aka The Friars) at the end of the first day of the Augustine Camino. 1/2

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

More from Day One on the Augustine Camino as we walk from Ramsgate to Aylesford enjoying the Kent countryside.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Also from Rochester Cathedral, and an appropriate start for the Augustine Camino: the 'Baptism Fresco' by Sergeil Fyodorov (2004) showing St Augustine baptising King Ethelbert and the people of Kent in 597.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Day One of the Augustine Camino began at Rochester Cathedral & a chance to walk up the medieval Pilgrim Steps that once led to the shrine of St William of Perth. He was a pilgrim en route to the Holy Land when murdered near Rochester, 1201. Canonised 1256. The second image shows his modern shrine.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apologies for radio silence over the last month ... I've been away on pilgrimage! Some posts of my pilgrimages coming up over the next few weeks.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Arts and humanities: Going on a pilgrimage www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Holy Land pilgrimage trade freezes as 2026 regional conflict escalates www.traveldailymedia.com/holy-land-pi...

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Last rose of the summer? Babushka's pepper crop is still going strong!

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A good source (excuse the pun!) for holy wells (and how I discovered this one) is 'Britain's Pilgrim Places' by @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social and @nickbpp.bsky.social

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

BIG news of the day: in advance of the 2027 relaunch of the revised St Frideswide's Way pilgrimage route, the new SFW map booklet is now out! The SFW is part of the Camino Inglés to Santiago de Santiago and runs between Oxford and Reading where it joins the St James' Way to Southampton. 1/2

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Festival of Pilgrimage, 19 September

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

'Green Man' displayed at the Visitor Centre at Melrose Abbey.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

17th-century packhorse bridge close to Our Lady's Well and next to the A7.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Blurry image of the famous bagpipe-playing pig at Melrose Abbey. (My camera phone couldn't cope with zooming in from a distance.)

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Unlike Melrose, Jedburgh still retains some of its Romanesque and Norman architecture.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Up to the Bell Tower at Melrose Abbey.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

During our sojourn in the Scottish borders we also visited a very special holy well. Our Lady's Well at Stow was restored in 2000 but dates to the 5th century (according to Nennius).

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

8th-century shrine fragment displayed in the Visitor Centre at Jedburgh.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Love this gargoyle spied from the bell tower at Melrose Abbey yesterday!

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The second Scottish Border abbey we visited on our way south was the Augustinian monastery of Jedburgh.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Site of the reburied embalmed heart found buried in the Chapter House in a lead container in 1921. Some speculation that it may be the heart of Robert the Bruce though this is debatable.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In situ 15th-century floor tiles at Melrose Abbey.

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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Back on the road and in the Scottish Borders. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Visting a couple of Border abbeys. Here: Melrose. Mother House of Scottish Cistercian foundations established by David I of Scotland in 1136 with monks from Rievaulx.