A day at the beach

Traditionally Germans have the reputation of getting up early on holiday and putting their towels on sun loungers around the hotel pool to 'reserve' them.

I think this 'tradition' has now leaked through to the great British seaside towns.

 

I trek around town with my dog first thing in the morning and people are often setting up their 'camps at 7am?!!!  Why on earth would anyone want to set up camp at 7am.

 

 

Gone are the days when holiday makers went to the beach with their swimming costume wrapped up in a towel.  Gone are the days when one discreetly tried to get changed on the beach with a towel wrapped round themselves. Gone are the days when the 'up market' people on the beach sat on deckchairs instead of just a towel.

 

Nowadays everyone on the beach has a tent - at least one tent, though usually quite a few tents, people don't just have one windbreak, they have at least four.  And these days a windbreak isn't actually to protect anyone from the wind.  It's to build a perimeter fence around their camp so that other  beach goers don't infiltrate their space.

 

Nowadays, the kids on the beach don't just have a bucket & spade.  They have skim boards, boogie boards, surf boards and of course their iphones, ipods & ipads which have to have a 'safe' place to be left in their huge camps.

 

Hardly anyone goes into the sea in just a swimming costume or trunks.  These days all the kids have wet suits.  Well their mummy's and daddy's don't want their little darlings getting hypothermia do they?

 

These days going to the beach is like a military operation....................  And where's the fun in that???