What to do if you have shitty weather on vacation
Curaçao, mid-summer, 2017. Like a crazy hyena, I run to the balcony at 7:00 AM. I want to feel how the sun burns. I open the window and see a thundercloud. ‘Uh Sander, it’s raining…“ Three seconds later a thunderclap, so loud that they must have heard it in the Netherlands. ”This is just unbelievable?‘ He remains optimistic. “It’s probably just a temporary shower. Happens often in the tropics.” The rain stayed, the whole week. The streets flooded, the palm trees cracked, and the beaches were ruined. It was just terrible weather and we had incredible bad luck.
I had the same in Venice, mid-July. Rain, rain, rain. When we went to Paris with the team last week and it was 25 degrees here in the Netherlands? We stood in the rain. Not that we let that ruin the whole atmosphere, but still. Pleasant is different. On Thursday, we are traveling again with the team. Destination? The divine Sani Resort in Greece. I can’t explain how much I’m looking forward to that, even though it will also be 25 degrees here. I open the weather app. Thessaloniki. 21 degrees, rain. Hmm. Luckily, we also have the whole day on Friday. 22 degrees. WHAT, RAIN AGAIN? And then in the Netherlands 25 degrees? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
To prevent a slight aggressive attack, it’s time for a round of Johan Cruijff. Yes, hereby it is a verb. Something about every disadvantage has its advantage. Bad weather on vacation? Here it comes. With difficulty. The advantages.
You sleep in longer
Forcing yourself to set that alarm at 7 AM to bake all day? Nah, not really. Sleeping in it is.
You’ll probably have fewer wrinkles later because you have bad weather on vacation now
I’ll make that promise to myself. Do you know how bad sunlight actually is?
Instagramming becomes easier
Very annoying, sitting on that beach chair scrolling with your towel over your head because otherwise, you can’t see anything because of that sunlight. You don’t have that problem with rain. Ha.
Just about that bikini body
You don’t have to worry about that. What? Bikini? We only do that with sun, right? No guys, it’s raining, come on. No worries.
You have more sex
Experienced this myself in Curaçao. Yes sorry people, but you have to do SOMETHING when it rains all day long, right? You should see what a rainy vacation does to your love life.
You can finally improve your rain dance skills again
Oh wait, we live in the Netherlands. We are already pro-Ululululu-dancers (I now see a little man with spiky hair singing “ULULULULULU” with a spear in his hands).
You come home with mountains of clothes
On vacation, shopping often just doesn’t work out? It’s just because of those thirty degrees. Then it’s a ‘shame’ to shop. Ha, not when it rains.
That super cute dress that cost you a fortune and that you bought especially for Greece stays even longer beautiful with such a special ironing fold
YAY!
No greasy sweat ponytail.
No burnt tomato head.
Greece, I’m looking forward to you. ULULULULU!
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