The obligation to do ‘something fun’ when the weather is nice

Ascension Day, 15:32. Still not having lunch and grumpily annoyed in the car with my love. The plan was great, it wasn't that. Lunching on the terrace by the water, maybe renting a boat. That plan turned out to be, well, a bad idea after an hour and a half.

Hi, I'm Kiki Naïefie and I honestly thought that on that free Thursday I wouldn't get stuck in traffic on the way to Loosdrecht. That we could find a parking spot. Ha-ha. Long story short? After thirty-six laps around Loosdrecht, we concluded that we had to get the hell out of Loosdrecht, only to end up at a wrong roadside restaurant just on the edge of Loosdrecht. Where no one was. So actually all the bells should have been ringing at that moment, but we were so happy with ANYTHING resembling a spot that we immediately plopped down on the terrace. And I was pretty much knocked out from hunger, so there wasn't much choice either. The nice lunch by the water? That turned into the dirtiest club sandwich ever with brown salmon. You get it: I’m pretty much cured of Loosdrecht.

But you won't see this whole story on Insta, right? I actually should have done that, because it was downright hilarious. Where I want to go with this long tale? We ‘have to’ do something fun in nice weather. Open Instagram, Facebook, and Insta Stories and this is what you see: videos of a sun-drenched and super busy Scheveningen, friends eating ice cream, going for a bike ride to who-knows-where, going to a cool festival, renting a boat or toasting with wine on the terrace. Nice weather calls for something fun, period. In fact, if you haven't done something fun, you actually feel a bit like a loser.

So we all go en masse to the water. Which causes traffic jams, overheating, irritations, and other misery (things with a sweaty mustache and so on). No, trust me, staying home is the new going out. My advice? Stay at home, grab a good book, whip up a watermelon salad for yourself, and forget ‘I must I must I must’. Did I already mention that your garden is the new Scheveningen?