At the beginning of this year I made a series of journeys from London to Lancashire - a short journey on theWest Coast lines but a million miles from my day job.
One of them, the Hsuan Tsang Temple, houses the remains of the great itinerant monk Hsuan Tsang, immortalized in the 16th-century Chinese novel JourneytotheWest, who went on a 16-year pilgrimage to India.