A weekend at the Beach House

Last weekend, my host family decided to go to their beach house in Hermanus, the town we went to on the last day of the garden route. Janette (my host mom) told me I could invite some friends and I immediately asked Lotte, Loren Pipa and Sofia to come with. On Saturday morning they came to my house around 9 ‘o clock so we could leave early. It took us almost one and a half hours to drive there but we stopped at a wimpy to have brunch. A wimpy is a typical South African road restaurant. It was my first time to go one and it was actually really nice food. I shared a wrap and a club sandwich with Lotte seeing that we couldn’t decide which one to take. When we arrived, we went upstairs to prepare our beds and put on our swimming costume. We decided to go to the beach immediately to go sand boarding and it took us only 3 minutes to walk there. It was incredibly windy and the sand blew up in our eyes all the time which hurt a lot but we enjoyed the sand boarding too much to leave. We went back home and watched The Hangover which was probably everyone’s 20^th time of watching it. We had lunch and decided to go to the beach further away and rent a movie afterwards. In the movie rent shop we didn’t only see DVDs but we saw actual videos too. We started laughing really hard and wondered who would still watch a video. We ended up taking, “Something Borrowed” which was a romantic comedy. At night we went onto the balcony in our sleeping bags and lay down, watched the stars and talked. The stars were incredible. There were millions of them and I know they are always there but in Holland you don’t really get to see that many stars. Hermanus is a small town with mostly beach houses and doesn’t really have street lights, there is almost no light and that’s what makes the stars appear so bright.

The next day we woke up, put on our bikinis and lay on the balcony again, not for watching stars but for tanning. It must’ve looked ridiculous, four girls side to side on the balcony at 9 AM. We had breakfast and went straight to town where we went shopping for a bit and went to a café where we had something to drink. We didn’t stay there for long and we got picked up after an hour. It wasn’t as windy as the day before so we went to the beach again, for some tanning and swimming this time. When we went to the beach for the last time for some extra tanning and swimming. The sea wasn’t as cold as at for example Camps Bay where it is freezing.

I wouldn’t mind having a beach house here, it’s quiet and the beach is so close, spending your weekends here would be amazing. Just getting out of the city area and relaxing. Normally when you want to go to the beach you have to stay for quite a while to make it worthy to drive all the way to the beach but seeing that you can walk to the beach in less than three minutes you can just come and go.  We left Hermanus around 3 ‘o clock and dropped everyone off at home having a tan as a reminder for a nice weekend.