Just passed another few days in paradise. Lazing by the pool, sleeping, being lifeguard for the kids, entertaining a couple of very cute French toddlers and enjoying the beautiful weather. We barely leave the house, why do so when everything one needs is right next to your deckchair? Every meal is more delicious than the last, today for lunch a huge piece of barbequed lamb with some potatoes and fried zucchini flowers from the garden, yum!
Yesterday one of the adults and I took the elder children scuba diving. Apparently the French don’t have any rules about this sport as we do in Australia, where you have to get a licence to dive. Here they just gear the kids up and chuck them in the water with the assumption that they can actually swim. Unfortunately it was very windy and quite cold so most of the kids came out sobbing, I watched from the dryness of the boat feeling glad I didn’t have to jump into the cold water. Now I can say I have been to the Mediterranean, it is incredibly salty but a beautiful colour. However I have to say, I don’t think anything comes close to the beauty of the beaches and the water in Australia.
Of course Paradise is not quite complete without my friends and family and I am very much missing the land we call Oz. Sometimes I think how great it would be to stay and live in Paris but thinking that brings up that little feeling: home is where the heart is, well mine is definitely planted firmly in Australia! All I can say is thank god for skype as without it being here ‘sans certains’ wouldn’t be possible. How people used to travel without their loved one before the invention of the Internet I am clueless. I could never have waited six or more weeks for a letter, maybe that’s my inner ‘modern snob’ talking but I simply cannot imagine it.
Just watched Spain win, very happy indeed! Now to bed for tomorrow we’re going snorkelling early in the morning.