ByJulia Chi
Today I feel that seeing the sun rise and watching it set, is purpose enough on planet earth; in fact the very act of simply watching the earth’s journey around the sun again and again lends itself to standing still and being in the circle of light, the circle of life… Today I set off…
ByJulia Chi
I am back in my office six miles high again… It seems so long since I was here and yet it was Tuesday and today it is Thursday… When I was on the treadmill this morning, I was thinking about the 40 hours I had just spent in the UK, treasuring how rich with experience…
ByJulia Chi
I have just eaten the most delightful delicious scrumptious piece of pecan and orange polenta cake, accompanied by a flat white made with organic coffee… I have also had a wonderful conversation with Louise, who brought me my cake and coffee… She is a counsellor and a photographer, and I loved sitting enjoying the deliciousness…
ByJulia Chi
What a brilliant day, rich with experience and fun, sisterhood and connection… I turned up at the gym to run, because it was raining again outside…! Anadi commented earlier today that we have become ‘sensitised’ again to English weather ? When we lived here we were more like other English people, and very accepting of…
ByJulia Chi
Today was a more clement outing, the sun shone and the wind had abated… I chose to run around the edge of a football field I had discovered yesterday, smooth green springy grass… Anadi came with me and we ran together the mile down the road to the field… A sign on the edge of…
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 have always lived a total lifestyle, one that feels like I am always on holiday… One that therefore I don’t need a break or a ‘holiday’ from… I have always worked and played at the same time, so play can be called work, and work can be play… There is no separation… I have always…
ByJulia Chi
Yesterday Anadi and I set off early to run; the tide was low and the beach was empty. We had planned a long run and so to deal with the wind, we did two ‘out and backs’! Four miles out, four back into the head wind; three more out finishing with three into the wind……
ByJulia Chi
We wandered in the dark through the Medina, throngs of people wandered too; the selling and bartering reaching new heights in the nighttime hours; silken bright vibrant cloth, shirts dresses and trousers, a mass of colour, carpets hung on the walls, sparkling jewellery, restaurants and food stalls spilling out into the cobbled streets… And we…
ByJulia Chi
I did a sort of peep show vlog today; and I noticed that rather than not wanting to be on video, everyone was keen to be in the frame… I am so aware not to capture people on film who don’t want to be captured that I recognise now I have been missing giving people…
ByJulia Chi
Anadi and I have just been sitting in the sun in a little square… We have taken to having lunch at about 4.30; the time has crept later and later. Today the food we ate felt like there was a magic ingredient within it. While we waited for it to be prepared we sipped from…
ByJulia Chi
We wandered up the little street, that we had run along only a few hours earlier… We were in search of some lunch… Instead of empty quiet, we now dodged weaving mopeds, a donkey pulling a cart, crowds wandering too in the heat that had risen to the heavy level you can almost touch, slice…