ByJulia Chi
I am sitting writing in a coffee shop… When we come to Winchmore Hill we take up residency in the Larder, but on Mondays it is closed, so I am sitting in another, surrounded by much deliciousness and chatter and plenty… Plenty of people and food and choices of smoothies, brownies, healthy meals and coffees……
ByJulia Chi
I love our ‘Larder’ London experiences, when we land in Winchmore Hill we take up residency in ‘The Larder’… Coffee shop life is the life for me, especially after 11 miles of running on a cold December morning! We turned up on Michael’s doorstep in the first week he opened, two and a half years…
ByJulia Chi
I love writing on the plane from Spain….In fact I love writing on any plane… I just liked the rhyme of the first line (another…! ‘I am a poet and do not know it!) We left a rather chilly but beautiful Almuñecar this morning; the sun was rising and the fishermen were casting their lines…
ByJulia Chi
Today is a very rainy day… But Spain needs rain and so when I said to Maricarmen and Pepe yesterday – as the first drops started to fall – that it was me – La Inglesa that had brought the rain; they were very happy… ‘Bring more…’ They said, ‘we need the rain…’ It fell…
ByJulia Chi
Last night I dreamt lots of vivid dreams… I really enjoyed it, it felt a very interesting night time journey indeed. I woke not remembering anything, other than that I had committed in my sleep to do more running, and therefore was henceforth not going to do anything much more than run. My meditation on…
ByJulia Chi
I am just about to go out to stretch on the top of the big rock… It lends itself to stretching, a sort of ‘place to go’ like setting off to the gym or a yoga class… I am going to the big rock to stretch. If I take the ‘to’ out of the sentence…
ByJulia Chi
I am sitting on the terrace in the afternoon sun; Jane and I are thinking that it will soon be time for coffee; our breakfast went on until lunchtime and then we went on a shopping spree just as the shops were closing for Spanish siesta…! But it meant we had a nice walk and…
ByJulia Chi
Athena Jane arrived over the blue footbridge from the airport and we whisked her away in our hire car all of us hungry for lunch… At 3.30pm we realised we better turn off the main road and look for somewhere to eat as bars and restaurants generally stop serving lunch at 4pm… At 3.55 we…
ByJulia Chi
The hotel breakfast had all manner of colourful juices, a green one, a pink one, and an orange one. I love healthy juices. I am easily pleased… A run in a sunny park, with bright blue skies, tranquility in the centre of a city at rush hour, and then home to colourful juices; what more…
ByJulia Chi
Anadi and I have just wandered back bathed in blue from above; such a vivid azul that the sky feels touchable, so bright and clear and expansive… Today we rose rather early as the race start was at 8.30am, and even two days back in the UK had adjusted my body clock somewhat, so it…
ByJulia Chi
Saturday… We are in Valencia, it has a lovely feel, wide streets and bright blue skies… We arrived and had our second breakfast in a traditional Spanish bar… Our first was Easy Jet porridge at early o clock, and then tostados con aceite y tomate at civilised Spanish breakfast o clock… I love the feel…
ByJulia Chi
Another plane blog… I am flying off to Lanzarote with Anadi for Christmas… Eighteen days in the UK has passed in a blink of an eye, and yet landing at Gatwick two and a half weeks ago, feels now like it might have been five years ago. And when I met up with my godbrother…