Last weekend was magical as I got to wake up with a sea view for four days … ok I did have to get out of bed, and walk into the next room and open the blinds but that is a small price to pay.
I’ve always lived about as far inland from the sea as you can. To this day, a trip to the seaside creates huge excitement to me. There is an immense buzz of energy as I get nearer to the coast and start anticipating that first sight of the water.
Watching a sunrise was also on my list, so on Monday morning I angled a chair just so that I could watch the sunrise over that seaview. There was an added bonus of taking the time out on the day before to watch the sun set.
A few photographs just to prove it … but it was more about the experience.
At home, I so rarely see a sunrise or sunset, not because I don’t look for them but it is more the angle of our house/garden. The house is orientated north/south, we have high fences/walls/hedges all around the back garden. The advantage is seclusion, the disadvantage is having to stand at particularly strange angles to see either east or west.
Now I don’t commute (better for the environment), I often miss those transition times of dark to light and vice versa.
I’ve promised myself that the next place I live with have either a sunrise view or a sunset view … and if there is a sea view then that takes things to a whole other level.
"I’ve always lived about as far inland from the sea as you can. To this day, a trip to the seaside creates huge excitement to me. There is an immense buzz of energy as I get nearer to the coast and start anticipating that first sight of the water."
Omg Andrea, this is so relatable. Right now I'm about 40 minutes away from the beach, and during the summer I make it a habit of leaving the office a little early every Friday to make it over to the seaside to watch the sunset. That first sliver of the endless, gray Pacific that I see while rolling down the hill just spikes my serotonin unlike anything else on this planet can.
Beautiful images and sparkling words brimful of JOY! Lovely