pilgrimages in the middle ages

Chaucer 

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote down the stories which some pilgrims told on the way to St. Thomas a Beckett's Tomb.

They are called The Canterbury Tales.

Jounrneys were slow and dangerous, because of robbers.

Travellers stayed the night at inns,, which had a bunch of holly outside for a sign.

It took two or three days to go from London to Canterbury.