millie t

Grab your bikini, quick!

Posted by millie t | 30th September 2007

Summer at last! Poor rain-soaked England rallied the troops and finally managed to turn on the sun, at least for a week or so. So we hit the beach. Driving south to Swanage in Dorset, we were joined on the motorway by literally thousands of like-minded sunseekers, creating the mother of all traffic jams and turning a two-hour drive into a five hour crawl of pain. Still, we all put on our best smiles as the sun had got his hat on and was coming out to play, as the song goes. Coming from Australia, I’ve seen my fair share of packed beaches. I grew up at Cottesloe Beach in W.A. and now Sydney’s Bondi is my local. Never have I seen a beach so busy. Ne-ver. There were youngies and oldies, fatties and skinny-ies, babies, families, trendies… you name it, they were there turning an unflattering shade of lobster. And there were beach balls, tents, mats, towels, windbreaks, kites, boats, huts, blow-up animals, liloes and even flagpoles (yep, two separate, forward-thinking beachgoers had brought

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