Over the Christmas holidays, my companion, Franco, and I decided to find restaurants near these pilgrimage churches where a modern pilgrim might find something delicious to eat.

After every kilometer the tired modern pilgrim can take some rest.

Highly anecdotal, it retells the author's adventures as a sceptical modern pilgrim on a venerable Catholic road of faith.

The pilgrimage is traditionally completed on foot, but modern pilgrims use cars, taxis, buses, bicycles, or motorcycles.

Sightseers are in it for the destination; modern pilgrims travel for the journey.

The film is the story of three modern pilgrims on their way to Canterbury before the invasion at Normandy.

The modern pilgrim's respite is found in unmonastic bars: "Here television has utterly vanquished every public room.

The "King's Way" route fell from use with the arrival of the railroad, but has recently been revived and is used by modern pilgrims and as a long-distance trail.

It serves as a retreat for many modern "pilgrims".

However, the film is intended to be a critique of the Catholic church, as the modern pilgrims encounter various manifestations of Catholic dogma and heresy.