Hi, we are Ian Smith and Alison Gelder.

We are pilgrims who have a bit of experience on long pilgrimages but really do feel that we need to keep doing more!

This year we want to walk to Rome from our home in Central London but, with Brexit, we can only spend 90 days in Europe, so we may not get there. We have walked to Rome before on a different route which joined the Francigena at Sarzana, so every day we walk beyond that point will be a bonus.

As we will not know how far we can go until the later stages of the pilgrimage, we have adopted the title “How far can we go?”

The answer at the moment is, we don’t know, so you will have to check us out as we walk and find out the answer some time in October!