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From a letter sent to me by Laurence Main:-
'The Vegan Society's Diamond Jubilee has decided to take me on a journey. Would you like to join me along sections of the route? Could you help arrange opportunities to deliver the vegan message to local TV, radio and in the press?
Walking in the countryside is a spiritual exercise, bringing contact with the living goddess. It is loving the land. Hence the relevance to the vegan message. Hence my starting at Imbolc (1 February) from Callanish on the Isle of Lewis, the time and place special to the goddess Bridget.
Switching to the mainland, the battlefield of Culloden is swiftly followed by the Clava cairns. Then it's along the coast to Findhorn before cutting inland towards Aberdeen by way of the holy hill of Bennachie, guarded by a giant. Will we find the fabled keys?
Stone circles abound and Diarmid's Grave is passed before Pitiochry. Cup-marked rocks herald the mystical heart of Fortingall, home to the ancient yew. A climb of 3570ft leads to the summit of Schiehallion, the fairy peak said to have been visited by Jesus and where a cave in its side leads to the'Underworld.
A ley links Croft Moraig’s stone circle with a rock split to form the Praying Hand’s of Mary above Glen Lyon, home to St Adamnan’s Stone and the tiny Bhacainor dog’s head stone. Follow this line to the home of the hag, her husband and children at Taigh-nan-Bodach. Then it’s the West Highland Way to Glasgow.
April brings the Clyde Walkway to Lanark and a borderland stroll to Stow-in-Wedale (the Saxon's Dale of Woe) near Lauder, where the fragmen of King Arthur's shield are preserved. It is the one bearing the image of the goddess (or the Virgin Mary, take your pick) used in his eighth battle. St Cuthbert's Way leads from the grave of the wizard Michael Scot at Melrose to the Eildon Hills, where Thomas the Rhymer met The Fairy Queen. Shall we choose the narrow road of rightousness, the broad road of wickedness or the bonny road to fair Elfland?
We'll take the Pennine Way into England, meeting Hadrian's Wall near Haltwhistle. Why not walk with me down the spine of England to reach a vegan rally (organised by the Vegan Organic Trust) in Manchester on Tuesday, 25 May? .
It's not far to Wales and a pilgrimage up the Dee Valley, over Aran Fawddwy (2971ft), past the site of King Arthur's last battle at Camlan near Dinas Mawddwy, the Centre for Alternative Technology and coastal paths to the sacred peak of Carn Ingli in Pembrokeshire. This is the place to spend the summer solstice on 21 June. Visit the cathedral of the famous vegan St David before turning east through South Wales to reach Gloucester by the end of July.
Skip along the delightful Cotswold Way to Bath in August, followed by the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge and tiie cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester. Follow the South Downs Way in September past the Long Man of Wilmington to Eastbourne. The Saxon Shore Way leads to the Vegan Society HQ near Hastings and Plamil at Folkestone.
The final lap is a walk along the North Downs Way in October. Canterbury is visited on the way to Guildford. Head north to join the Thames Path for a mass rally through the centre of London before the Vegan Society AGM in Conway Hall on Saturday, 30 October, 2004.'
He welcomes offers of accomodation (even space to pitch a tent), publicity en route and walking companions.
I'm planning to join him for a day or two when he walks part of the Pennine Way in May.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road