Throwback Thursday: Arthurian Pilgrimage 1993

[purplecat]

There has been considerable interest on Facebook in ladyofastolat's booklet made for the 1993 Arthurian Pilgrimage. I cut said booklet up and incorporated it into my photo album, so some pictures of the album seemed appropriate for Throwback Thursday.




ladyofastolat's thoughts on Arthur's Quoit were my favourite in the whole booklet. As she says, it was the perfect Arthurian Pilgrimage site and, to an extent, the photo I took there is the quintessential Arthurian Pilgrimage phot.


I recall that John Matthews had visited the society the previous term and given a talk in which he spoke of how tourists stole mystic energy from the land, constrasting them to Arthurians who returned mystic energy to the land. Sir Bors had the virtue of taking such things seriously but always being very silly about the things he was serious about. Hence his chosen mode for returning mystic energy to the land.

Comments

[alatefeline]

That is wonderful!

[purplecat]

I remember those holidays very fondly, even the ones which became a little fraught (as can happen when 12 of you are trying to live together for a week, most of which is spent in a minibus). 1993 is the one I recall most fondly though.

[alatefeline]

Holiday trips that work make for lovely recollections, I've found.

Sometimes the fraught-ness is part of the experience, as long as people don't completely run out of cope. Like...getting dirty on a hike? You're okay with it being a bit tougher than normal, because it's all part of the experience and because you eventually get to go back to your comforts and appreciate them. That's my theory, anyway.