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
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
Spa days and laundrette days seem to go together for me; lots of sloshing and cleaning and whirling about… I am just back from the ‘lavandaria’, having really enjoyed the experience, slightly reminding me of university days… Sitting and watching clothes whirl about can be very relaxing, a washing machine meditation! Making every single thing…
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
Now that I can speak enough Spanish to have conversations, albeit basic ones… I have discovered there are many people here who like to go barefoot… The lady in the supermarket states that she would like to come to work with her feet bare… The man in the restaurant tells me that when he is…
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…