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…
ByJulia Chi
As I glance around my little apartment here in Club la Santa, it looks like I’ve lived here for ages, and that I am a single messy female! The entire of me is scattered about the flat… I have always had a tendency when alone to splash myself all about; it is a habit that…
ByJulia Chi
The view from my window changes almost daily at the moment… From a seascape in Dorset, to the fields of Provence – to a Sunday run on the South Downs as if I had never left – and now I am looking out over the north terminal at Gatwick airport… Changing vistas, blue skies to…
ByJulia Chi
Last night we were honoured to be guests at the ‘gin off’, because we don’t make gin…! This is an annual ‘event’ where my old friends – who I have run many many miles with on the South Downs – make sloe gin from the sloe berries that grow wild on the South Downs… In…
ByJulia Chi
We have had such a wonderful day… My team – Anadi, Tim and Poppy the dog – completed walk 15 of the Sussex Hospices Trail… The whole of the 200 mile trail, which circumperambulates the 12 hospices in Sussex, was walked today – or run as well in our case – by 26 teams… Each…
ByJulia Chi
A shiny September morn greeted me when I drew back the curtains and prepared to say ‘Hello’ live to my friends on Facebook… I am loving ‘connecting in’ and sharing the events of another week… A week that brings me nearer to the day I set off from Suances on the north coast of Spain…
ByJulia Chi
Journeying back in time, I drove down the road I used to drive up – much too fast as an 18 year old! – every day for work… And the road I used to pad down in my green flash gym shoes, having got off the bus to run the last bit of the journey…
ByJulia Chi
We left a sunny shiny Provence, the light streaking across the rows of grapevines, and open expanse of green brown fields; sky blue, the clouds in sight – fluffy white… As we hugged Stuart and Sue goodbye, we said ‘We’ll see you somewhere… Maybe Edinburgh next’ – (where they live in the UK) – ‘or…
ByJulia Chi
It’s raining again ? There is a rainy couple of days predicted for the duration of our stay… And then the sunny skies are said to be returning and we will be back in the UK for a little spell… It’s funny and the truth is we don’t mind at all… I ran in the…
ByJulia Chi
Our flight from Gatwick to Marseilles passed in a flash, but I still managed to fit in a Spanish lesson… One of the air stewards was Spanish and more than happy hablar en Espanol con migo… We stepped out of the plane into grey skies and a chilly wind… Our pilot had brightly told us…
ByJulia Chi
Another sunny warm day, the golden light flashing over the hills in Marseilles – rising around us as we ran earlier today… The ocean stretching as far as the eye can see… Lands mingling, memories of San Sebastian as we passed by wall with the waves crashing and splashing the road… A feel of Spain,…