Empty beach
I'm going to live at the coast!
I really thought this would mean we'd be swimming every single day! Especially because I booked an apartment with a swimming pool knowing that I personally don't always love the sea as much as just a pool to cool off quickly. When it's 30 degrees (or hotter) and there's a good ocean breeze, I often forget to put on sunscreen every few hours, I already experienced what a good sunburn means once since we arrived one week ago, lol. I wonder if I will ever learn, probably not. Anyway, the pool will be closed until 2 days after we will leave, boohoo. Poor kid, poor me, as I was afraid this means complaining she wants to swim in the sea while I prefer just waiting a bit until we have a pool, haha.
Why wait?
Well, I kind of misunderstood some images online thinking we'd have a nice white sandy beach. This beach is not my cup of tea and my boyfriend sure isn't fond of it either. Of course, we went there the first day while having a walk to see how far we were away from the sea exactly. We walked, and when we saw the water, we decided to at least tip our toes into that because it was hot! We were wearing sandals and I decided to take them off, big mistake! Never do that again with this type of beach, just keep them on and hope for the best :) because if you take them off as I did, you might end up with a foot burn on top of the regular sunburn. I almost heard the stones make a 'tsssssss' sound when I took the last step before I could finally sit and lift my foot up from the stones. My gosh, how's that even possible these stones getting this hot!? It's freaking June only, how will this be in August? How many people will make this mistake and burn their feet by accident?
Granted, the water temperature was delish!
I think I need to act like a local and buy myself some water shoes that are meant for these situations, I just wonder how you can ever lay down without bringing a chair? I need to observe the locals I guess, so I will. The water temperature was great, not too cold at all, but I noticed big rocks immediately after stepping into the water and I think it may be a bit tricky with the little one at this beach, so I will at least explore the situation a bit further down to the other beaches soon. If it were only rocks, that would be ok, but it's also the type of beach where your foot gets sucked into the stones at least 20 cm every step you take, how to deal with that? I don't know, usually, I just don't visit these types of beaches haha.
No big beach adventures yet
I thought I was going to show off many cocktails at the beach pictures upon arrival but we yet have to find the boulevard, as well as the good beach to visit. Soon we can drive around a bit, so I bet some hidden gems will be discovered! Stay tuned :)