ByJulia Chi
As I ran up the hill, with wet leafy trees heavily drooping over onto the wet shiny, bumpy, uneven Dorset lane – I reflected on my life and how all I have ever really wanted to do is go running… I love it, quite simply love it… I always have – and I love it…
ByJulia Chi
And now we are in Dorset… It is like magic that we travel on the wings of time, which swirls around without a beginning nor end… One minute we are in Morocco; the next in London – and now with a silent whoosh of energy it seems that we have been propelled to a land…
ByJulia Chi
Here is my story of being barefoot for a year, in a page… I was walking along Famara beach in Lanzarote with my husband Anadi… I love that beach. It is sandy and expansive, with a backdrop of volcanic cliffs, magical in their colour and stature. The beach is 5k long when the tide is…
ByJulia Chi
I am aware that many of you know my story, but as I approach 3 years to the day – September 9th – since I shed my shoes, I thought I would tell the story again of… How it all began … In August 2016 – I was still a shod runner; but I was…
ByJulia Chi
Following making my vlog in the pouring rain, I was reflecting on all I said as I ran in the bright sunshine today… Blue skies, skudding clouds, bouncy green grass under my feet… Yesterday I ran fifteen miles on the same ground – the feel more of cold wetness and hard acorns! Today the warmth…
ByJulia Chi
I had a dream last night that I was running… It was a long run and I was enjoying it, when I realised I was inadvertently wearing running shoes… I was suddenly confused as to how that could have happened… But as Anadi and I have been exploring, the dream is likely because ‘barefoot’ is…
ByJulia Chi
I love running around Richmond Park, three times now I have set off to this new training ground, rather than the beach… I love the feeling of the grass, the wet patches, the slightly uneven earthy patches – and then the smooth road, the bumpy road… Instead of the beach, the sand, the cobbles… My…
ByJulia Chi
We left Richmond on Saturday evening with lots of time to spare… Four years ago we had tickets for this same show ‘Elixir’ written by my old friend Christy Hawkins… It had a run then, in Camden… Anadi and I were still living in Eastbourne, and so we left hours to get there… But, we…
ByJulia Chi
We have just arrived in Richmond, with the feel of a bank holiday weekend all about… The temperature is giving an impression of being warmer than Essaouira with the absence of a lively Atlantic coast wind whipping its way across the shores… People are gathered outside pubs and coffee shops, sipping on wine, lattes and…
ByJulia Chi
I am sitting writing in Costa Coffee and I have just witnessed one of those ‘things that happen’ between human beings… A lady was sitting waiting; she had been there some time and had the air of someone waiting for someone. She sat with her suitcase beside her, she didn’t order a drink, she just…
ByJulia Chi
I rose just after 6am and set off into the nearly light uneven streets that are now familiar to my feet… Cats strolled about – I crossed the vast emptiness of the big square, with the feel of a day starting to roar into life – and ran towards the mosque. Most of my route…
ByJulia Chi
We arrived to the familiar energy of Marrakech at about 3pm yesterday afternoon; and as we pulled up to Douar Graoua square we felt a sense of ‘homecoming’… Our friend Jamal was there to greet us at the door of Riad Saba and we sat together enjoying mint tea and catching up… Anadi had work…