KAIROS HADITH
I knew I should have followed my intuition and not checked into the flight and instead rebooked a day or two later after the storm. But, as I suspected, after waiting for four hours, the storm Ciara forced the airlines to cancel my flight, leaving us all stranded in the lobby with nowhere to go. […]
Navarra, Spain, December 2019. Etxauri is a Basque village near Pamplona in Spain and the mountain is popular with rock climbers. We drove half way up the mountain, parked up, and simply followed a path to the top of the mountain. It was steep and a bit slippery since it had been raining in the […]
This is a photo of Jama Masjid (Mosque) in Delhi. The photo was taken at about 8 am on a Sunday morning in November. The mist is deceptive – it’s not mist. That morning the pollution levels went to the highest level ever – this was the most polluted air anywhere on Earth that day. […]
We spent a week in a red house by a lake in Valhalla, Sweden. It was autumn and the leaves were bright yellow. Three days later, the leaves had all fallen to the earth. We walked along paths picking up yellow birch leaves. As we watched the seasons change around us, we spent time in […]
I spent a long weekend in Berlin specifically to see the theatre play but the time was important to reconnect with my creativity and sense of freedom. It’s been a few years since I’ve been in Berlin and a lot has changed. I can hear more English as a common language for communication between people. […]
Soon, my good friend Robert was due to become a father. I travelled over to Frankfurt to visit him before his son was due and I wanted to spend part of the time doing something spiritual in the forest, as a type of an initiation for him. I considered doing the ancient Thor’s hammer rite together with him I had […]
It’s been a while since I packed my travel bag and, as I stood in my bedroom with an empty bag on the floor, I was almost getting a rush thinking about the clothes and equipment I needed for a short adventure. I was heading up to the Peak district with a friend to hike, but […]
Salt, sweat, rotary power. Spinning spokes chasing cool shadows, fleeing from the midday heat. Racing the river, towards two temples; one silver, one gold…. Even the pine trees bow – nature observing the majesty of man’s skill? Four fountains promise to bestow health, wealth, love and happiness. I have only one cup to fill, and […]
A narrow-gauge line; parallel tracks which take you back in time. It hisses and groans, stutters and splutters, complaining that its rusty bones are no longer up to the task. After patient coercion, it finally yields and begins to creep forward, continuing the opera of metallic misery. Gaining speed, the countryside barrels past in blurry […]
We picked up Aussie Pete from the bus station and threw his snowboarding gear into the back of the van. As soon as the van door slammed shut, the banter began. For four hours the banter didn’t stop as the three of us were swapping stories, jeering and joking as we edged closer to the […]