Category: #TravelwithaMysticalEye

An Older Venice

Venice is, by definition, old. But much of the area near to St Mark’s Square is given over to modern tourism. A fifteen minute stroll through the crowds will bring you to the Rialto Bridge. Where hundreds of people are taking photographs of the Grand Canal, which divides the central island in two. Once across, and through the nearby markets, you can take just … Read More An Older Venice

An Italian Adventure

We’ve always loved Italy… Some of the friendliest people we’ve ever met, beautiful food and a general willingness to help you, when you’re staring at that upside-down map. So we’re off to Italy for a walking and touring break. But not by car. We’re letting the Italian trains take the strain. We have to get to Italy, first, so that will involve a plane … Read More An Italian Adventure

The soft mists of Windermere

February has few attractions, other than it gets us to March, the prospect of Easter, and a definite change in the light. But, here on Lake Windermere, February does produce some wonderful morning mists… Boats slide gracefully into view, with a mystery and elegance that no digital effect can produce. There is also a quality of silence… like no other season. As though everything … Read More The soft mists of Windermere

Summer skin

©Stephen Tanham 2023 Stephen Tanham is a writer, mystical teacher and Director of the Silent Eye, a correspondence-based journey through the forest of personality to the dawn of Being. http://www.thesilenteye.co.uk and http://www.suningemini.blog

A Donegal Journey (3) The Last Inch

We thought we’d save it for the final day of our time in Co. Donegal but then – on the way back from visiting a nearby hilltop ring fort and surviving a gale that tried to hurl us off the elevated walkways – we felt in need of a gentler experience. Driving back to our rented cottage, we passed the Inch Banks causeway that … Read More A Donegal Journey (3) The Last Inch