I’ve started this blog off by sharing my most recent travel experiences hiking and watching wildlife in South America. Although those experiences were great and I’m going to come back to that subject a bit later on in this blog, I think it might be time to tell you who I really am.
I’m a beach person. If I could choose to live my life any way I wanted to, I’d move to a beautiful beachfront house somewhere, swim and do water sports, maybe some yoga, and just enjoy a relaxing lifestyle with plenty of good food. And sun. For various reasons, I can’t do that right now. Which is one reason for me starting this blog a few months ago: to relive my best travel moments and share them with you.
This is a photo series from Nice, France where I spent a 5 month long summer, several years ago. I don’t know why, but I find the swimmers in these pictures quite amusing (in a cute and I-want-to-be-there kind of way). I guess it has something to do with how they’re all just doing their own thing, floating in a holiday bubble of their own, light and utterly free of working life worries, exposing their inner child.
The Snow Melts Somewhere 
26 replies on “Holiday Mode”
Nice to meet you, ‘beach person’. I admit, that sea looks wonderful and I’d love a swim in it myself, right now. The trouble with holidays is that they have to end, sometime. But happy memories stay with us.
This was a nice little diversion from your great posts about South America. 🙂
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Haha, thanks 😉 I guess I needed a “holiday” from my blogging theme so far…
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I love your South America posts! The photos and info. are excellent. I also liked the look of that blue, blue sea on this one. I’m off to Spain on Thursday to do some research for my book, but I’ve a feeling the sea will still be freezing for another month or so. Keep up the great posts! 🙂
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Have a great trip to Spain! Lucky you! Hope you get your research done! 🙂
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Thank you!
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Love the clear blue colours in you photos from Nice. It is a lovely spot along the riviera:) Beach life is never wrong!
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Thanks! 🙂 And beach life: agreed! That color palette is my favorite, too. The shades of
turquoise over there were really vivid.
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the sea looks so blue, that is incredible !!!
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Wouldn’t it be great to be swimming there right now?! 🙂
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Oh it would be awesome !! 🙂
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Wow, now that’s what I call blue! I can’t wait to do some diving, in the sea ❤ You really made me miss it.
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I know! After a long winter, those colors seem so refreshing! 🙂
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I hope that sometime, rather sooner than later, your dream will come true!
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Thanks! 🙂 I’m pretty confident it will, someday. I’ve already “lived the dream” a few times but things happen and somehow I always end up at square one… Still trying to figure that out 🙂
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these pictures of nice make it look like a true paradise:)
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Thanks! Well, nothing’s perfect – the beach is famous for its hard pebbles so going swimming bafefoot is painful. But viewed from afar, the color was truly amazing! No photoshop needed! 🙂
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Pebbles or no pebbles, I can’t stop picturing myself swimming in the beach… ❤ lol
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These beautiful photos remind me of the Sicilian pebble beaches of my childhood, in the Nature Reserve of Zingaro, Trapani.
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Sounds lovely – I’ve always wanted to visit Sicily, by the way!
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As one beach person to another, nice to meet you! 😀 Nice seems like an awesome travel destination and you’re so lucky to have spent so much time there!
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Nice to meet you too, Agness! 🙂 So many awesome destinations – and beaches are my favorites for sure. Never enough beach time. Thanks for stopping by, hope you’ll stick around! 😀
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These photos are killing me…
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These are some of my all-time favorite travel pics! 😊
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No wonder!
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Ocean water is amazingly beautiful.
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Thanks for checking out an oldie! 🤗 And yes it is!!
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