Pilgrimage along St. Olav Waterway

In the autumn of 2021 Sacha Kraan walked St. Olav Waterway, to explore the route for Nordic Pilgrim. She made a video blog of her hike. Watch the video here.

BOOKS, KIRJAT, BÖCKER,

⬇️ 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇬🇧 ⬇️ 🇬🇧 Books about the local area or pilgrimage Is there anything better than taking a break from your pilgrimage and exploring the area through a good book? See the books suggestions below (mainly in Finnish and Swedish) There is a also a map where you can...

CAMMINO DI SANT’OLAV: IN PELLEGRINAGGIO TRA FINLANDIA E NORVEGIA

Mai pensato di andare a fare trekking in Finlandia, magari su un percorso di pellegrinaggio che passasse per i Paesi nordici? Eh già, perché ne esiste uno che parte dalla Finlandia e attraversa le Isole Åland, la Svezia e la Norvegia: si chiama cammino di Sant’Olav e...

WALKING ST. OLAV WATERWAY IN SECTIONS

“It’s a year since I was last on pilgrimage – and today I picked up where I left off (St Olaf’s church in Nauvo) continuing on towards Trondheim The weather was fabulous … a kind of Camino Frances day: it started cool but was warm and sunny – hovering around...

St. Olav Waterway on The Åland Islands

Last autumn, I did my first multi-day hike of the St. Olav Waterway – together with my friend Rania, we completed the first section of this pilgrimage trail from Turku to Korppoo. Now it was time for the second part: continuing from the edge of the Finnish archipelago...

A guide to hiking the St. Olav Waterway

I recently got invited to hike the St. Olav Waterways with Kathrin and I felt very excited: I’d get to try a longer hike again, and especially one I felt a bit of a connection to! I used to live on the countryside right next to the St. Olav pilgrim path and a few...