challenge Archives - Francesca Cassini

23 Feb 2016

Woman in a Yurt Video Diary 24 – Of Full Moons and Pilgrimage

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: 60 is the new 21, Bolder not Older, Communing with Nature, Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary | 6

My cup overfloweth! That gorgeous yummy rising sap has well and truly started rising. Today is gorgeous – perfect as the day after the amazing full moon last night on the 22nd of the 2nd month. Apparently all those 2’s … Continued

12 Jan 2016

Woman in a Yurt Video Diary 19 – Is It All Worth It?

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: 60 is the new 21, Bolder not Older, Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary | 4

Warning lights? Why are they on? I’d just finished my online work in The Red Lion pub, a warm place with free wifi and great lunches, when the warning lights came on as I started the car. I pressed … Continued

14 Jun 2015

Ayahuasca Day Six

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: Ayahuasca Video Diary | 0

These fabulous men were always available to help out whether we needed a hand to the toilets during an Ayahuasca ceremony when standing on our own two feet was a bit of a challenge, when leaving Kapitari in mud which … Continued

31 Mar 2015

Getting Fitter; Feeling Rubbish

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: Following Your Heart | 0

I think I must have been Jesus Christ in a past life because after an hour or so of walking I had a pain in the part of my left foot where it would have been nailed to the cross. … Continued

Five Bridges, Three Frontiers and 150 Euros

‘Was the post-break-up adventure I’d embarked upon going to end in the loneliest of deaths in the middle of nowhere? Was my determination finally to live life on my own terms going to kill me as surely as Isadora Duncan’s scarf killed her?’ Sandy Locksmith

Five Bridges, Three Frontiers and 150 Euros Emerging from a fever-induced fantasy of the beginning of the world Sandy faces the shocking reality. She’s held captive by a psychopathic vagrant, imprisoned in a medieval citadel cradled deep within an empty valley in rural France, and being subjected to terrifying sexual assaults. It’s the middle of a freezing December. How did she end up in such a hopeless position and what can it take to transform it? Sandy is certain that somewhere among all the unusual experiences she’s had over the previous month lies the key to her freedom. We journey back with her to the middle of November. In her late forties, post menopausal and childless Sandy has been trying to ‘create her own reality’ for months… The first novel in the Waking The Lions trilogy.