ByJulia Chi
Running in bare feet is a bit like having a puppy or a baby, it lends itself to connection and conversation… I met a man in the park yesterday called Jim. He was walking round the huge playing fields in Enfield with his black labrador Casandra and my naked feet opened the dialogue… We then…
ByJulia Chi
I am sitting in ‘The Larder’ coffee shop, waiting for Anadi who is making his way from a meeting in central London… I have had a wonderful morning which has involved running round and around in circles… A joyous delight for me; as I say at the end of my vlog… ‘It takes all sorts…’!…
ByJulia Chi
I have been walking through Salisbury in my bare feet in the rain; the feel of warm damp stones on the soles of my feet connected me even more to the energy of this city than when I first stepped off the train onto the dry pavements… The smell of the rain on a warm…
ByJulia Chi
I am on a train from Waterloo to Salisbury… I am meeting my sister Rosy for my birthday treat lunch… I do enjoy a birthday that runs for 6 weeks! It has felt like an adventure of a day already… Anadi and I rose early, just before 6am, with the intention to run in Grovelands…
ByJulia Chi
This morning I walked up the path from our London ‘home for awhile,’ and was greeted by Octavious… He was out in the sun having his breakfast… I look forward to seeing him when we land in North London, I was telling Nina our dueña that Octavious the forty year old tortoise is famous, and…
ByJulia Chi
We woke at 5.40am yesterday – the morning sun creeping over the hills, softly softly – the day gentle and balmy, the temperature clement, like a fresh summer morn… But we knew the force of the sun’s rays would soon be beaming down on us, in vibrant yellow energy, hot, shining shards of light; until…
ByJulia Chi
‘The story of your life…’ Maricarmen laughed… We had just finished our Spanish lesson on Skype and I was recounting a story – in English – the lesson had finished, which mirrored all we had been talking about… I am not musically gifted; I need another person to help me with timing and to follow…
ByJulia Chi
Anadi and I took a picture of our shadows kissing on our run today… It was a mini run of only a couple of miles… In truth the longer – winding through the trees – to the beach and back. We had woken up later – 8am – and the heat was already in the day……
ByJulia Chi
A couple of days ago I received a direct message on twitter from someone who asked me ‘what has been the weirdest thing you have seen on your travels…’? We have seen so many things, and many of them unusual or very different to life in Britain, that to think of a ‘most weird’ would…
ByJulia Chi
The 6.30am alarm is still a bit of a challenge… I am guessing my body thinks its in England and that I have suddenly decided to leap up at 4.30am! Although there wasn’t a lot of leaping going on ? Anadi and I wandered out into a glorious fresh morning, before the heat of the…
ByJulia Chi
I believe I have now just about mastered how to say ‘Thank you’ in Turkish, but it doesn’t really seem to matter anymore… We now have made new friends who know what I am trying to say and immediately say the Turkish equivalent of the ‘de nada’; ‘you’re welcome’ return without trying to correct me…
ByJulia Chi
I am loving writing my Soles Journey every day; I am loving the creative process… I have no idea what I am going to say until I turn up and find out… I learnt at the very beginning of my life that creativity in any form is about turning up at the blank page, whether…