The peace pilgrimage

Maura Brown meets the pilgrims walking from Iona to London

by Maura Brown 5th July 2013

They had set off walking from Iona on 14 May and were due in Riding Mill at lunchtime on Tuesday 18 June. The parish hall was to be full at lunchtime and I was down to provide somewhere for an indefinite number of walkers to eat their lunch. It was all at rather short notice. So, I suggested my house and garden in Station Close – one of the streets of small houses. I was told on Sunday evening that there would be ‘about seven’.