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…
ByJulia Chi
I have been running all of my life – it feels I was born to run. In the running step I experienced freedom and my true expression. I came to see that I needed to ‘get out of the way of myself’ and let my energy flow through the running step; allow it…
ByJulia Chi
I had fun today in my (barefoot) Spanish lesson, Maricarmen, my teacher, is very embracing of my ‘differences’, and welcomes my, now very brown, bare feet into her classroom… I love the mountain goats here, and she laughingly told me that in Spain they have an expression for an eccentric person ‘Ella es como una…
ByJulia Chi
Anadi and I have just returned from a liquid lunch! We set off on an outing to visit the Castle… But after walking up the steep winding hill to the very top, we found we had arrived fifteen minutes after it had closed… Sundays in Spain are very ‘Sunday-ish’ indeed…Not much is open except for…
ByJulia Chi
Yesterday I read about Joan Benoit Samuelson who turned sixty in May aiming for a sub three hour marathon… The current world record for the 60-64 age group is 3:01:30 which was run by New Zealand’s Bernie Portenski in 2010… Joan previously held the world record in the marathon, when she ran 2:22:43 for the…
ByJulia Chi
I have just returned from my Spanish lesson… A whole two hours speaking in Spanish with Maricarmen! The clock struck 1pm signalling the end of our time… She then shared with me that she had seen a film about the racing driver Niki Lauda last night, and that it had made her think of me……
ByJulia Chi
I am sitting in the middle of Riad Saba, with the gentle sound of flowing water from the fountain in front of me, the stone floor cool under my bare feet. Riad means garden and these beautiful buildings are built with trees and plants in a central courtyard and feature a fountain or swimming pool… The windows only…
ByJulia Chi
Day four of my new life and I have got worse at Spanish… I am writing this with a laughing tone, but it is still what it feels like….! With more time to learn the language, I find the box I have opened has no bottom… It is therefore fortunate to have discovered over the…
ByJulia Chi
Today I woke to a new life, the day stretching ahead, endless days stretching ahead… As I write these words, I am reminded of the Kirsty MacColl song ‘Thank you for the days’ I love that song… Thank you for the days Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me I’m thinking of the…
ByJulia Chi
I am sitting on the roof top of our apartment, it’s a sunshiny blowy day, the blustery games of the wind make it feel cooler than it is… Famara beach is just across the road from me and I can hear the music of the waves in a rhythm of still movement – the tide is…
ByJulia Chi
A new day dawning on a new landscape… Twelve days in the UK have passed in a mixture of London’s lively vibe, misty rainy beauty of the South Downs, watery sun rising over the English Channel, daffodil yellow spring popping up along the paths in the Park at Buxted and a bright sunny morning with…
ByJulia Chi
Soon I am to head off on the next leg of my journey… In May I am going a vlogging jogging snogging ( mainly with Anadi ! ) and blogging… Not necessarily in that order, around the globe… I am already doing this of course, but from May I will have more time to dedicate…