Ponta Negra beach, Natal, Brazil
You’d think that a grown woman with two kids and a lifetime’s experience of sunny holidays would have some clue how to avoid getting a painful sunburn the first day of a holiday.
Tragically, no. It’s been so long since we’ve been anywhere genuinely sizzling. And the equator is a few hundred miles north for goodness sake, you’d think we’d have borne in mind that the power of the sun was FAR stronger than we were used to. You’d think that we would have remembered that a refreshing sea breeze is the very devil of temptation, enticing you to stay out just a bit longer.
For some reason though, first day in the holiday that I catch some serious sun, I always burn. And then days of pain.
Moan, gripe, whinge; I sound like my eldest daughter.
Natal, Brazil is a laid-back resort, very peaceful right now and with a huge, practically deserted beach. The ocean is blue-green and WARM, lovely long waves that surfers can ride for ages before they wipe out. Very little undertow, so perfect for swimming too. And the beach vendors keep the caipirinhas and ice-creams flowing.
Therein lies my sunburn cure, by the way. I plan to spend the next day or two under the affluence of incohol, as my brother-in-law Paul says.
For purely medicinal purposes, naturally.
3 replies on “Ouch. How could this happen…again?”
Ooh Ah, sounds nice, apart from the sunburn. I hate suburn, lucky me i’ve only got sunburn once.
“lovely long waves that surfers can ride for ages before they wipe out.” :O Sounds like my kinda place! On IoW it’s only in winter where we get any decent waves, but even then your most likely to get bloomin frost bite. Though one summer it was awesome, warm and bigish waves about 5ft high which is very good for the summer. How tall are the waves in Brazil?
Hope you recover well.
Lukas
They are around 5ft. Lukas. I was swimming amongst teenage surfers this morning and they seemed to be having lots of fun riding the waves.
The caipirinha treatment is working. I am pleasantly anaesthetised and plan to remain in this state for the next 24 hours…
🙂
lol lazy holidays. The best you can get.
Glad your feeling better.
I’ve never been to Brazil i need to go there! lol tell the surfers i said hi. No don’t it’ll sound freaky, e.g. “This person who read my book who lives a few hundred miles away from me in Britain said hi” ha ha. I laugh.
Have fun recovering!
Lukas