ByJulia Chi
My office on the plane; the plane my office… As we sat waiting for take off, the pilot announced further delays caused by missing our slot, possibly an hour still on board, he said, until we could leave… I never mind delays, I see them as an opportunity, it feels like somehow they give me…
ByJulia Chi
‘The more I am able to understand the Spanish conversations around me, the more I realise that everyone is talking about very normal things…’ I said laughingly to Maricarmen … ‘This magical world that is revealing itself to me, is revealing quite normal…’ She laughed ‘Por supeusto… Of course – it would be wonderful if…
ByJulia Chi
At the end of Anadi’s birthday celebration meal we were brought a huge heap of delicious ness, with lashings of cream and a candle burning brightly on top – this was due to my heralding birthday ness! At the beginning of the meal we planned to go the whole way, and in celebratory style enjoy…
ByJulia Chi
Anadi and I clambered across the watery rocky shore line, ankle deep in warm salt water, feeling the seaweed and sand beneath our feet… A birthday run; Anadi well enough to come out to play again… We had a plan for a birthday skinny dip at the end of the beach, but today it seemed…
ByJulia Chi
Famara beach with the tide far out and the sun glistening – a place of pure magic. I felt my reflection… In the sand, the sea, me merging in the run with the sun and becoming one, more free in each step that I ran. A woman stripped off her clothes and walked naked into…
ByJulia Chi
Anadi and I arrived in Teguise for breakfast, a beautiful white light picturesque town… I particularly love the shops there, full of bright vibrant clothes; they call to me and I feel I could buy them all.. The fun of colour – the explosion in a paint factory energy within me, means that even passing…
ByJulia Chi
I am sitting with honey smeared all over the soles of my feet! They are having a special intensive treatment afternoon… First they were scrubbed clean, then I massaged them with Tea Tree oil, put a layer of Savlon over the top of that and then let it all soak in and do its magic…
ByJulia Chi
My feet are tingling; they have been run upon and spa ed and reflexologied… They have had a lot of activity and attention and now they are tingling… My lovely feet; I love them so much. I know I have said this before but it is like they are two little separate entities who reside…
ByJulia Chi
I have had a lovely day… It started with my live broadcast about my preparations to run Barefoot Across Spain which I loved so much… To be with people even though we are all miles apart is just such a magic thing! It reminds me that we are all connected all of the time; we…
ByJulia Chi
I raced back from running round and round the track to my Spanish lesson; arriving glowing and un-showered… The joys of Skype that allow for us to be together with another in a way I wouldn’t be if I were in her classroom! And then I was on fire in my lesson… ‘I don’t recognise…
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
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…