Rural Karnataka, India. To find out more about the author click here. To see more photography click here. James Dee Clayton.
On Indian Waters
Tag: travel
Lost in Venice
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, [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Walking the Ancient Hills of Athens
On trekking Hidden Trails, Eating like a Nomad, and a Meeting with Saint George at the City's Secret Chapel... Let me take you now to Athens, Capital of Greece, the very centre of an ancient empire so influential, so mysterious, so captivating, its name and traditions have spread to each corner of the Earth. Not only is [...]
Alone in Venice
On Getting Down with the Locals, finding Invisible Cities, and My Secret Room with a View... Venice, Venezia, Capital of Northern Italy's Veneto Region, lagoon city of water, stone, glass and gold - the Great Star of the Mediterranean. Everybody who steps onto that sacred isle are instantly captured by her beauty, her romance - her skyline [...]