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A Pedal Pilgrimage In the Nordics

A Pedal Pilgrimage In the Nordics

Cormican, Mel

Paperback

Cycling

ISBN10: 1542977940
ISBN13: 9781542977944
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 10 2017
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
As with anyone that has been bitten by the biking bug, I can't tell you exactly why I made plans to cycle from Oslo to Helsinki. All I can tell you was that after my other cycling tours were over, the urge was there. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde wrote. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. I wanted to go on a kind of reflective journey to make sense of it all, to take stock as it were. I wanted this to be a different kind of cycling trip; not a bicycle tour -tours are for tourists-but a pedalling pilgrimage. And where better to go on this kind of pilgrimage but the least religious spot in the Western hemisphere: Norway, Sweden and Finland. To misquote Sinatra: if I can meet God there, I can meet God anywhere. As a follow up to his first book To St Petersburg With Love, author Mel Cormican is on a quest for a spiritual enlightenment and awakening in the Nordics. Can he make sense of his own particular journey in the context of the religious and philosophical history of Europe?

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