Long Run on Largo Playa…
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’ … Read More
A Meditation on the Move…
Anadi and I walked off the plane into the wet grey of an English summer day in July… The airport tarmac felt warm beneath my feet, and wet too of course… But fun, a bit like the joy of jumping … Read More
There is No Such Thing as a Coincidence…
I returned from my intervals on the beach yesterday morning and Anadi and I wandered through the pueblo to sit and enjoy our customary Spanish breakfast of tostados y aceite y tomate y cafe con leche… We decided over breakfast … Read More
It’s Much More Serious Than That…
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 … Read More
Investigating Our Alter Ego Can Set Us Free…
The night was alive with music and people and shops still selling… Restaurants full of groups laughing and talking; tapas selling in the street and cocktail bars … The delightful energy of human beings being human, doing what we spend … Read More
Where Our Heart Knows to Lead Us….
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 … Read More
On the Stage of Life…
We journeyed along the South coast of Spain, and ‘turned right’ for a little way up the West Coast, 450 kilometres we travelled… Shimmering heat, the cicadas calling out, playing their familiar music in the shimmer of hot hot weather… … Read More
Be Like the Sun, the Moon, the Flowers…
Hace mucho calor! Perhaps a little too calor… But then being in a body lends itself to a constant movement between various discomforts, especially noticeable where weather is concerned…! Too hot, too cold, too dry, too wet, too much… Too … Read More
On Top of the World…
On top of the world, space peace… Maggie and I sat on the top of Monte Pecho this morning as the sun rose and this is how she described being here, living in the Alpujarras… Maggie has lived here for … Read More
Keep Travelling, Keep Exploring…
I am just back from a rather typical ‘Julia shopping trip’… I gave my last pair of trousers to Maggie, who the Zen runners know because she did all the organising of hotels, travel, trips, everything I needed… She is … Read More