Travel with Rick Steves · Saturday, October 24, 2026
Best-selling author Robert McFarlane discusses his book 'Ghostways, Two Journeys in Unquiet Places,' co-authored with Dan Richards and Stanley Donwood. He explains the concept of 'thin places' and sunken hollow ways in Dorset used historically by fleeing Catholic recusants.
“Ghostway, the word comes from a Dutch phrase, spookwegen, and those were the paths that led to cemeteries, the paths that led to burial places along which the coffins would be carried.”
“thin places are places where the veil between one world and another is at its flimsiest, where the past and the present haunt one another.”