Planning Ahead
06 December 2009 | Alvor
Can mean a lot of things. We are obviously planning for the winter season that we'll spend around here. We are also planning for the trip back to, respectively, Sweden and France in the spring/summer next year. Families are to be visited, some business to be cleared and routine medical check-ups and such to be taken care of.
Further on, one of the things we both are looking forward to most - is to snorkle, skindive and spearfish in warm, tropical waters. Isabelle has been working as a snorkling guide in the Caribbean, so it's well known activities for her. With me, it's another story. The water in the Baltic Sea hardly ever get warm enough, or clear enouh for that matter, to encourage anyone to to persecute these kind of activities. In my early 20's I spent a few weeks island-hopping in Greece and that is about all my experience in the 'great blue'. I have got quite a bit more experience ON the water than IN it.
So much better then, that we found a very nice municipal swimming pool here, sadly enough without a Sauna
;-D, and we are going there 2-3 times a week now. Some 1500 meters of regular swimming and then a few lenghts with the flippers on our feet and a fair bit of swimming underwater does wonders for the overall psysical well-being and much to my surprise, I actually remember how it's supposed to be done. Hooray! Pretty much like riding a bicycle, once you'e learnt it you know it!