Pilgrimage : The Road To Istanbul

[Mamyalynne]

Did anyone tune in to the first episode of this new journey in this series.

I thought it an interesting group of people I would normally show little interest in but it looks very promising.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gpbl

[brainiac]

I agree - I would not normally have been interested in any of them, but together they became more interesting, and seem to have undertaken this with open minds.

[Maydup]

I tried it but fell asleep!

[Mamyalynne]

Ah, well - it certainly won't be to everyone's taste, nothing is but I did like the refreshing honesty and trust on show right from the start.

It will be interesting to see if that changes through the journey.

[brainiac]

It's a shame that the route seems rather 'invented'. The first series on the route to Santiago de Compostela was more interesting, with a really emotional ending.

[Mamyalynne]

That was an emotional pilgrimage,yes.

[Peter Pedant]

er yeah I was gonna say that a pilgrimage to Istanbul was never on the books 1100 - 1600
whereath - than Tiago day compostela
was a centre of pigrimage and fulfilled the market gap
after Jerusalem fell to the muslims

sozza thenter - muslimth
but if you say it is good then I will give eet a look

[Peter Pedant]

yeah Christ if you tried to reconstruct the pilgrimage to Canterbury to the holy shrine of St Thomas
as celebrated by Chaucer in 1375

then you would get the strict Anglicans - the crazy ones like Tommy Robinson - trying to burn down the Beeb ,innit?

[maggiebee]

My daughter and her friend were supposed to be walking the Santiago de Compostela route in April. A year in the planning, hotels etc. but alas will not now happen. Hoping they can do it later in the year or next year.

[Peter Pedant]

Maggie
sozza about the hol
tell her to rebook
and bung her five quid or something so she can stay at the hotel that is exactly opposite the cathedral

and dont forget the swinging dinger - the cathedral has the largest thurible in the world innit - three men required to make it swing

[naomi24]

Yes, I watched it, Mamyalynne. I think this is the third series. I seem to remember Leslie Joseph taking part in the pilgrimage to Rome. I've found both the previous programmes interesting, and this one looks just as promising.

[Mamyalynne]

I hope so.

[Vagus]

I watched it on catchup after reading your comments about it mamy, and found it really interesting.
A very diverse group of people, and I’m looking forward to the next episode.

[naomi24]

Vagus, if you're interested I think the previous two series are still available.

[Vagus]

I did watch both of those, thanks, Naomi, so I’m not quite sure why this latest one didn’t really appeal. Maybe because Adrien Chiles kind of fronts it, and I’m really not very keen on him, I find him a gloomy, downbeat personality.
I really like the young Muslim chap, never heard of him before, and found his thanks to the villagers and clergy for sharing their celebratory meal very moving.

[naomi24]

Oh, ok Vagus. I don't like Adrian Chiles either. An odd man.