ByJulia Chi
I am sitting on the terrace of the little white house where I am staying; the October sun is bright and the day unfolding in delicious peace; I have the feeling of Sunday’s past, when there were no shops open and the day was for rest and recuperation, Sunday lunch a family walk in the…
ByJulia Chi
My day started with the sun creeping over the peaks… I ran on the mountain road watching the day break on another new and different training ground for my feet, every step leading me paso a paso on an adventure that they seem to be planning themselves…! Later just as I was about to leave…
ByJulia Chi
I am back in my office six miles high again… It seems so long since I was here and yet it was Tuesday and today it is Thursday… When I was on the treadmill this morning, I was thinking about the 40 hours I had just spent in the UK, treasuring how rich with experience…
ByJulia Chi
My office on the plane; the plane my office… As we sat waiting for take off, the pilot announced further delays caused by missing our slot, possibly an hour still on board, he said, until we could leave… I never mind delays, I see them as an opportunity, it feels like somehow they give me…
ByJulia Chi
‘The more I am able to understand the Spanish conversations around me, the more I realise that everyone is talking about very normal things…’ I said laughingly to Maricarmen … ‘This magical world that is revealing itself to me, is revealing quite normal…’ She laughed ‘Por supeusto… Of course – it would be wonderful if…
ByJulia Chi
At the end of Anadi’s birthday celebration meal we were brought a huge heap of delicious ness, with lashings of cream and a candle burning brightly on top – this was due to my heralding birthday ness! At the beginning of the meal we planned to go the whole way, and in celebratory style enjoy…
ByJulia Chi
Anadi and I clambered across the watery rocky shore line, ankle deep in warm salt water, feeling the seaweed and sand beneath our feet… A birthday run; Anadi well enough to come out to play again… We had a plan for a birthday skinny dip at the end of the beach, but today it seemed…
ByJulia Chi
Anadi and I arrived in Teguise for breakfast, a beautiful white light picturesque town… I particularly love the shops there, full of bright vibrant clothes; they call to me and I feel I could buy them all.. The fun of colour – the explosion in a paint factory energy within me, means that even passing…
ByJulia Chi
Now that I can speak enough Spanish to have conversations, albeit basic ones… I have discovered there are many people here who like to go barefoot… The lady in the supermarket states that she would like to come to work with her feet bare… The man in the restaurant tells me that when he is…
ByJulia Chi
I am sitting with honey smeared all over the soles of my feet! They are having a special intensive treatment afternoon… First they were scrubbed clean, then I massaged them with Tea Tree oil, put a layer of Savlon over the top of that and then let it all soak in and do its magic…
ByJulia Chi
My feet are tingling; they have been run upon and spa ed and reflexologied… They have had a lot of activity and attention and now they are tingling… My lovely feet; I love them so much. I know I have said this before but it is like they are two little separate entities who reside…
ByJulia Chi
I was wandering along just now, when a Spanish man asked me… ‘Why no shoes…’? I realised I didn’t really have much of an answer… ‘Because I like it, because my feet like it…’ Perhaps they are a lot of an answer on reflection… Doing what we like, and our body likes… Ahh but what…