Modern pilgrims

In St David's on St David's day, as it happened, and this procession came down the street all with staffs and tabards. They were mostly local school children but some adults too because pilgrimage is  trending hereabouts with the development of a new route that connects east  Ireland with west Wales. It follows a notional journey between St David's in Pembrokeshire and Ferns Abbey in County Wexford, both places being associated with our aforementioned patron saint and his pupil St Aidan (aka St Maedoc) who carried bees from here to there.

Modern pilgrimage doesn't of course have to be about religious belief but about  connecting with the landscape, journeying, meditating,  being with like-minded people or getting in touch with history. And tourism of course. What with overnight stays and stops to visit churches, holy wells, pubs and teashops along the route, it's aimed at being quite a honey trap.

More of the pilgrims in extra.