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It's a blue, blue Monday here at VP!
Chris • 16 January 2020
New year blues? Yes, blue sky, blue sea!
Blue Monday. Heard of it? No 80’s hipsters, I’m not talking about the iconic 12-inch single. It’s the third Monday of January, this year falling on the 20th.
Allegedly, someone with a PHD in clinical psychology calculated it as the following formula: W+D-dTq underscore MNa…allow me to translate. It’s weather (W), debt (D), time since Christmas (T), time since failing our new year’s resolutions (Q), low motivational levels (M) and the feeling of a need to take action (N). The pinnacle timing of all these combined equals Jan 20th. Now I could use this platform to tell you that the antidote is to come and enjoy blue January here in Vera Playa, yes, blue skies, blue seas…blue, blue, blue (I know, I do this gag every year)! Only it turns out someone beat me to it, because this Blue Monday calculation was actually just a clever PR exercise by a travel firm! The cheek of it!
Talking of mood-defining dates, I heard on the good old beeb radio 4 this morning that the optimum age we feel dissatisfied with life and the prospect of getting old is, wait for it….47.5 years! Well, I’ve got a couple of years to go, but it’s put the seed in my head that I should use this milestone to run my own little PR exercise - I’m thinking expensive gifts and attention from my nearests and dearests as I approach the very vulnerable blue ‘47.5’ (at least that’s my plannnnn…queue wicked laugh).
So the new year of 2020 at VP started with the usual New Year’s day skinny dip. A good crowd as always turned up and the weather was sunbathing standard anyway so it seemed the done thing to do. Interestingly, there are people who take a naked morning dip every single day of the year ALL year (and they are no spring chickens either), so it was quite amusing to watch them take their normal dip but slightly away from the New Year’s skinny dip crowd in a show of defiance that this is nothing special, simply a daily occurrence that needs no fanfare. As for us, well we had guests checking in that day so we made our excuses and watched from afar. Steve took a photo from the terrace – far enough away so as not to identify anyone. I’ve included it in the picture gallery below.
The other morning, there were a few souls sunbathing au naturel on the beach as normal, but come the afternoon it got a bit cloudy so the bathers had disappeared and the beach was empty. As I took another glance out the window, I saw a man wearing nothing but running shoes, jogging along the shoreline….hotly-pursued by a drone! The mystery running man turned and gestured to the drone then carried on running. The drone was being controlled by two people – possibly naughty youths – from the Pirate Bar.
“Well, I’m not having that!”
I said to Steve who was on the phone at the time. So, keen to protect our naturist beach from rogue drone pests, I ran out the door and onto the beach. I went straight up to the drone offenders ready to give them a piece of my mind, phone in hand ready to call the Guardia for immediate assistance!
So, all guns blazing, I spoke to the lady in charge who was directing the drone operator and whose very own husband was none other than our mystery running man! Turns out this lovely lady and her team (la pita y el pitaco) had been officially commissioned by Vera Town hall tourism department to make a short promo film for the 2020 season. And the jigsaw made sense as I realised it was the same team I saw filming earlier that day at the Salinas – the theme being ‘Nature and Naturist.’ We exchanged business cards which enabled me to see some of their work. Well, if you have a look at their Facebook page and watch their video for food producers Huerta del Molino – never before has the humble spring onion been so elevated and beautifully filmed as this! On their FB page, you’ll also see previous promo videos they’ve done for Vera tourism, so we can’t wait to see their video promoting Vera and the naturist beach. It should be ready in February, so I’ll keep you posted.
Judging from the flurry of enquiries we are still receiving from guests past, present and future, it’s going to be yet another bumper year not only for us but Vera Playa at large. From the years we have been here we do think the word about Vera Playa does seem to spread a little year on year within the naturist world. If you are thinking of a first visit to VP then try to make 2020 your first time! You'll be in good company as we have a handful of first-timers this year. In the meantime, as I type, my back to the window with the sun making me very hot, we enjoy our lovely mild winter climate…no winter blues here I can tell you. See you soon!
Steve and Chris offer two beautiful apartments to rent for the discerning naturist traveller. One is directly on the Vera Playa naturist beach, the other just a few footsteps away. See more. here
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