HOLIDAY time!
Holiday- Vampire Weekend
Yes folks, it's that time of year..bags have been packed, camera's dusted off and bikinis shaken out for our week of non-schooldom! Everyone went home for the first time this year and as for me? I have not.
Instead I have been invited to A Secret Destination (I don't want you all flooding here once you see these pic-a-tures) to stay with a friend. (Also a secret. Just because.)
And I'm loving it here.
Here the weather is sunny, the people are Afrikaans, and friendly. It is a beach town. It is full of amazing isolated beaches with warm(ish) swimable(ish) water and coarse, pedicure-yielding sand. As an Afrikaans town it bursts with cool things kitsch like this giant seagull statue.
Or a "Lekker By Die See" restaurant. Or a mermaid statue. Or a scary "just a joke" we'll-shoot-you-if-you-park-on-the-grass sign. I could carry on, but it's a place you have to experience first hand to understand it in all its splendour.
Or a "Lekker By Die See" restaurant. Or a mermaid statue. Or a scary "just a joke" we'll-shoot-you-if-you-park-on-the-grass sign. I could carry on, but it's a place you have to experience first hand to understand it in all its splendour.
I went shopping this morning and made friends with the veggie unpacker called Arne. He told me to make stir-fry veg for supper tonight. I did.
I went to the art shop and got my sketchbook, some new pens, and directions to the beach. I did not make friends with the security guard who didn't want me walking through the boom. (I walked through anyway.) I made friends with the gardener who asked me how I was doing and the old man who asked if my feet were hot (I had actually just stood on my 10th thorn) when I was walking back on the tar from my swim.
I toured the harbour, looking at all the boats which I always do when my mum and I go to the harbour. I chose my favourite boat, also essential. I walked and balanced on the pier on which three fishermen with caps donned over their reddening necks were sitting. I then went on to the beach. There, I scrambled and clambered over the boulders and beach hopped, until I found a rock so gigantic and so smooth, that I had to sit on it. I drew for a while and listened to music.
"Roll Away Your Stone"- Mumford and Sons came on my iPod (it happens to be my most favourite song) and I waded further in to the water. When the water was up to my knickers I realised that I needed to swim-without my iPod and Ray Bans. So I did. The beach was isolated, thankfully...
This evening we had gourmet burgers and wine while looking out onto the sea (metaphorically, we actually just looked into the building construction in front of the sea view...)
What a good day!
