Oliver Smith is a travel writer who contributes to the Financial Times, The Times and other publications, and previously worked for Lonely Planet magazine. He is the author of On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain (2024).

Written by Oliver Smith

A person wearing a red jacket and a backpack walking on a winding path through lush green fields with hills and trees in the background.

How to plan a pilgrimage

Whether religious or not, you can undertake a special, meaningful kind of journey that could leave you changed forever

by Oliver Smith