Calais Blog 2 – Surrender

So day 2 on our trip, and we have another day with no agenda. Continental breakfast on the terrace, a route march up the hill to some World War 1 memorial, then down the coast to ‘real’ French town for more sitting around followed by a delicious lunch of moules & frites. By this stage my system had slowed down to a bear tick-over. We tried to get interested in some serious shopping in one of Calais duty-free style malls, but we couldn’t do it. Somehow, surrounded by folks pushing two or more trolleys the size of small vans, stuffed full of booze, we didn’t feel like it.

We arrived at the tunnel, hoping to hop on an earlier train, only to discover that there had been an ‘incident’ in the tunnel and our train was cancelled and in fact we ended waiting almost 2 hours in 34’c but somehow it didn’t matter. The strange thing was that by this stage I had no need to control anything any more ( a rare phenomenon) it is an interesting place to visit. So many of the messages we pick up these days are about focus, plan act! We need to occasionally balance things up with a little ‘letting go’. The thing is, when we let go, we allow others to take up the reins and express themselves. Maybe today is a good day to say “You decided… I don’t mind”

“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.” Anne Morrow

 

 

Tags: Calais, surrender, travel

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