Low Impact Tourism/Low Impact Pilgrimage
In a small and crowded island rural tranquillity and the remaining wild places require protection. Protection from any developments that compromise their status and change their character. In the Mediterranean and Canary Islands we label such developments as costa-isation but it happens elsewhere too. Arguably, it has already happened in parts of Norfolk and the Broads In the Ascent of Mount Carmel Book 3, Chapter 36, section 3 St.John of the Cross makes these observations. It is good to "........withdraw ourselves from noise and from people when we pray, even as did the Lord. Wherefore he that makes a pilgrimage does well if he makes it at a time when no others are doing so, even though the time be unusual. I should never advise him to make a pilgrimage when a great multitude is doing so; for, as a rule, on these occasions, people return in a state of greater distraction than when they went. And many set out on these pilgrimages and make them f