For religious pilgrims
Advice, resources, & tours for pilgrims, Christians, and spiritual travelers in the U.K.
Religious tours links
- infohub.com - Various spriritual tours in England, Scotland, and Wales, from walking in the footsteps of the saints to exploring pre-Christian Celtic traditions and Alban mysticism.Partner
- Economytravel.com - A well-regarded budget airfare booking site that has a special section devoted to missionary and pilgrimage consolidator fares as well as a groups department adept at helping missionary groups (of 10 or more people) arrange their trips.
- Unitours.com - Specialist in Catholic pilgrimages (which, naturally, means Ireland and Northern Ireland, but not so much England or Scotland).
- Glory-tours.com - Tour company specializing in overseas religious tours and pilgrimages, including an escorted England, Scotland, and Ireland trip.
- Christian-travelers-guides.com - Website run by Irving Hexham—a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary—with a sampler of sections from his "Christian Travelers Guides" books to Italy, France, Germany, and Great Britain.
- Reformationtours.com - Christian and cultural tours of Europe and the Bible Lands, focused (as the name suggests) on Protestant sights and traditions.
- Arttoheartweb.com - Intriguing take on cultural tours in Europe's great art cities: "A new way to look at art... a new way to see God. The spiritual power of music is well known. The mission of Art to Heart is to reveal the power of visual art - to inspire us; to direct our focus heavenward; to initiate an encounter with God."
Monasteries links
- Goodnightandgodbless.com - Trisha Clark, author of the Good Night and God Bless guidebooks, also runs a website with links to hundreds of monasteries and convents that take in guests—mostly in Europe (including England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland), but also in Africa, Austrlaia, Thailand, and the USA.
- Franciscans.org.uk - A half-dozen Franciscan monasteries in England offer accommodation on a donation basis (For Central London? They suggest £30 bed and breakfast.)
- Benedictines.org.uk - Ten abbeys across England, most of which have guesthouses or lodges.
- Lodging in England's Monasteries - A slightly out-of-date guidebook (last published 2009), called Lodging in England's Monasteries: Including Ireland, Scotland and Wales by Eileen Barrish. Good resource if you are serious about this.
- Europe's Monastery and Convent Guesthouses - Another slightly out-of-date guidebook (last published 2008), Europe's Monastery and Convent Guesthouses: A Pilgrim's Travel Guide by Kevin Wright.
- You can't beat a religious retreat - A 2007 article in The Daily Telegraph reviewing eight intriguing religious retreats and holy guest houses across the U.K.
- Thefriars.org.uk - A Carlemite Priory in Aylesford.
- Good Night & God Bless II - Yet another slightly musty guide to religious logdings. Last published in 2009: Good Night & God Bless [II]: A Guide to Convent & Monastery Accommodation in Europe - Volume Two: France, United Kingdom, and Ireland by Trisha Clark (whose website, above, is kept a bit more up-to-date)
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