ByJulia Chi
I did a sort of peep show vlog today; and I noticed that rather than not wanting to be on video, everyone was keen to be in the frame… I am so aware not to capture people on film who don’t want to be captured that I recognise now I have been missing giving people…
ByJulia Chi
We have taken to visiting our blue rooftop restaurant every day… We clamber up the narrow steep steps from the street and emerge into our blue oasis, with pots of plants sitting on top of the thick walls. It is tiny up there, with four tables crammed in, bright parasols jostle with one another to…
ByJulia Chi
We have just come back from wandering in the streets and even doing a little bit of shopping…! Our days seem to find a rhythm wherever we are in the world… Our food changes and the climate changes, the people, the energy of the land, the feel, the texture of our time is different… But…
ByJulia Chi
The beach was shiny new flat clean sand, miles and miles of Saturday morning joy. Inspiration in its limitless possibility, stretching as far as the eye could see, and aspiration too from those treading on its sandy shored expanse. I love watching the Moroccan boys and young men stretching their limbs, running jumping doing all…
ByJulia Chi
Today I have been wandering around London heralding my approach with tinkly jewels on my feet.. They arrived in the post from a fan ? And there is no record of who sent them… However I do know that they are either from Jay or Fi, because they have both told me that they have…
ByJulia Chi
And now Anadi and I are at Gatwick…I am in Costa writing, and Anadi is in a meeting… It feels a bit like time travel… The journey from Devon to here took only four hours… We left at 6am, in the rain – and the journey went in a flash… The feel and energy of…
ByJulia Chi
Supporting Josie in her quest to ‘not do an Ironman’ is proving to be a very serious endurance experience for Jane and I… So far we have completed day two of our ‘cream tea eating challenge’, and we have returned home proud of the achievement, if not a little exhausted from the effort…! Yesterday we…
ByJulia Chi
Anadi and I arrived here in Ilfracombe on Monday evening, we were met by our host who wasn’t wearing shoes! ‘Barefoot’ I exclaimed as if I were greeting one of my tribe… ‘I’m always getting told off for it’ he laughed… ‘No no…’ I continued; ‘I’m a barefooter too…’ I didn’t realise until that moment…
ByJulia Chi
We woke to a grey blowy day and I stepped out into a land of green grey; Dorset stone rising around me; grey slippy pavement beneath my bare feet… Feeling the energy of the earth beneath my soles, I ran down the road to the beach. The squawking seagulls circled around the empty space, sweeping…
ByJulia Chi
I ran and ran and ran on the endless beach, padding along in my bare feet… Anadi by my side for nine miles; it was easy to run along and keep running, each step the sandy same… Another ‘longest ever’ run for me barefoot – just over thirteen miles… It is becoming easier and easier…
ByJulia Chi
A barefoot runner ran by as I arrived on the beach this morning! It was as if I were seeing another of my ‘species’, and even more exciting – I was ‘vlogging’ at the time – and so I caught him on camera… I had run to the beach with the intention of some fast intervals…
ByJulia Chi
I looked up the tide time table and discovered that after starting with an early rise this morning, so that I might enjoy the low tide sands to the full…I can then stay an hour extra in bed each day we are here; if I want to..! When the tide is low the beach is…