But then, despite how never having really walked anywhere, and with no way to tell where he’s going, he has a great sense of direction. However, while he has a phone, he’s left it behind… although it’s only an old Nokia and so doesn’t have GPS, anyway. Google tells me that’s 455.3 miles, while the film states it’s “almost 500 miles”, but at least we’re spared THAT track from The Proclaimers.Īlas, for Harold, he underestimates the told it’ll take on his 70+ year-old body, and for anyone who’s even attempted to do 10,000 steps on a daily basis, you’ll soon begin to realise a fraction of what he can expect. However, he struggles to write a reply that won’t seem trite, walks to the post office to send it off… and keeps walking, from South Devon to Berwick-upon-Tweed. They just seem to exist in their stage of retirement.īefore to long, he receives a letter from old colleague Queenie, who’s in a hospice and writing to everyone to ‘say goodbye’, and it did amuse me that when he begins to read it, he exclaimed as I like to do: “Good Lord!” The titular character, portrayed by Jim Broadbent ( The Sea Beast), is a bit of a shut-in, and has never gone anywhere, but then neither has his wife, Maureen ( Penelope Wilton – The BFG).
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a bit of a wordy title, but such is what happens with novels.
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