A little story from the road. Everybody knows Venice is my favourite city in the world, and this little story is one I'll never forget. Let me tell you about the time I got perfectly lost in Venice... So I was wandering around, as usual, right off the heavily-beaten tourist trails in Venice, no bag, [...]
Category: Tales and Travels
…from the road.
Ad Astra – To The Stars
"Ad Astra - to the Stars" Ancient Latin phrase Oh, Florence. Once again we cross paths, like ships, sailing now for new horizons. Can it really be goodbye this time? I gave up my life in Florence little over a year ago. I packed up, took myself over to Venice, then Athens, rural Greece, through [...]
Reconnecting, Reflecting ~ Under Tuscan Blue
How can you lose so much of yourself? How can time, troubles, so-called friends, and life's little dramas pull you down so easily? How can everything you've done before suddenly be replaced, by this apparent chaos? This thick, tar-like blackness through which you can see no easy way out? Sometimes, we all lose our way. [...]
Finding Voice – the Gospel
Florence, Italy. May 2015. Finding Voice has been perhaps my greatest journey yet. To say I travel alone would be a bit of a lie... My Voice (along with my Lens) is my travel companion. And I honestly don't know where I'd be without it. So, yes, I've sung a lot of Jazz... but finding the Gospel [...]
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
On living the Simple Life in a rural Greek fishing village - Agii Apostoli - on the Gulf of Evia Simple words and pictures - by James Dee Clayton. A resting place for heart and mind... Having Greek family comes with its bonuses. Not only do I have a constant connection to this pure land I so love, [...]
Mist and Memory – A Pilgrimage of Heart
On the Mysteries of Avalon - my Pilgrimage to Glastonbury - on Dancing with Druids, Waking-up in the Middle of a Pagan Ritual and a Tribute to My English Family. In the South West of England, after a long journey across the British Isles, you may find yourself arriving at Glastonbury, an area in ancient times known simply [...]
Night in the City
On Paris, Sacred Heart, Vogue-overdose, Our Bright Young Youth... and the Unforgettable Karma of Rain. Breakfast in Paris. Looking out of those windows, down at the streets of Paris below, in our Montmartre Hotel ...that's a breakfast I'll never forget. A large part of my life concerns a lust for travel and culture, memory and experience. This post is [...]
Chasing Eternity… and Letting It Go.
On Rome, my first Italian Home, Swimming in Volcanic Lakes, Dancing in the city's Oldest Fountain, and the Art of Letting Go... Rome, the Eternal City - wasn't my first Italian love, but she was the first place on la terra dei sogni - the land of dreams - that I called my home. If Italy inspired the traveller [...]
How to Fake Italian…
On Florentine Life, Renaissance Schools, and How I Became the Worst Student Ever... ...and thrived. For many people, the idea of selling all your things and giving up your home, packing a single suitcase, travelling solo across Italy, and enrolling in an Italian school in one of the world's most beautiful cities, is something of [...]
A Goliard in Ghent
"Goliard - any of the wandering students and clerics in medieval England, France, and Germany, remembered for their satirical verses and poems in praise of drinking and debauchery." Okay, so whilst I enjoy the idea of being a wandering student poet, I generally do my best to avoid drunken debauchery... although it has this terrible habit [...]
The Edge of the Western World…
Cape Sounion sits at the southernmost tip of Greece's Attica region, homeland also of →ATHENS← its capital (one of my favourite cities in the world)... Sounion is the last point of land in majestic Attica that thrusts out mightily into the Aegean Sea - a great outcrop of rock - a huge mountain rising out of [...]