A former physics teacher is recreating a 700-year-old pilgrim's journey using only medieval clothing and equipment. Steven Payne, 52, set off from Southampton's Mayflower Park to Canterbury on foot with a letter of approval from the Pope. The two-week journey means he will be spending Christmas Day sleeping with just a woollen cloak for protection and a venison pie from a medieval recipe.... The clothing is based on items on a body found in peat in Scandinavia.... The pilgrim is taking medieval-style food with him, with the modern addition of a mince pie....
Mr Payne is not taking a tent and will sleep in fields under his wool cloak or in structures which would have been built in 1365. If he experiences any resistance for sleeping in churches or chapels he said he would produce the letters from either the Bishop of Portsmouth or the Pope.
In December?
Someone missed the first line of The Canterbury Tales...
"My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure."
ReplyDeleteIn martial arts, though, we call that chi gong and breathing control. Designed to use proteins and food to heat up the internal organs and outer muscles, in preparation for survival.
Yes, I'm aware. I've avoided hypothermia thanks to such techniques.
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