"The project explores parallels between the flâneur and the ancient notion of the pilgrimage as allegorical journey. I use photography and GPS navigation to trace the topography of Bede’s Pilgrim Trail in South Tyneside. The location has particular historical significance as it is bracketed by two monasteries marking the home of the Venerable Bede, born in Monkton, near Saint Peter and Saint Paul monastery at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow. Here he devoted himself to the study of scriptures and is regarded to be the most important scholar of antiquity between the 7th and 9th Centuries. His The Ecclesiastical History of English People is the first written account of Anglo-Saxon England."