Lili Wood for Noema Magazine Of the three stages of a pilgrimage — departure, initiation and return — the last is the least examined and perhaps most important. BY NICK HUNT Nick Hunt is the author of three travel books about walking in different parts of Europe, two of which were finalists for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year. The flight from Istanbul to London took about four hours. Leaving the Balkans behind, my body traveled at a speed of 400 miles an hour over the Great Hungarian Plain, the snowy mountain passes of the Alps, the forests of … Continue reading Traveling At The Speed Of The Soul