A Pedal Pilgrimage In the Nordics

By Mel Cormican

As with anyone that has been bitten by the biking bug, I can't tell you exactly why I made plans to cycle from Oslo to Helsinki. All I can tell you was that after my other cycling tours were over, the urge was there. "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." Oscar Wilde wrote. "Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." I wanted to go on a kind of reflective journey to make sense of it all, to take stock as it were. I wanted this to be a different kind of cycling trip; not a bicycle tour -tours are for tourists-but a "pedalling pilgrimage". And where better to go on this kind of pilgrimage but the least religious spot in the Western hemisphere: Norway, Sweden and Finland. To misquote Sinatra: if I can meet God there, I can meet God anywhere. As a follow up to his first book "To St Petersburg With Love", author Mel Cormican is on a quest for a spiritual enlightenment and awakening in the Nordics. Can he make sense of his own particular journey in the context of the religious and philosophical history of Europe?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1542977940
• ISBN13: 9781542977944
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"