We've had our Benidorm banner up on our balcony the whole trip but it just blows over to the inside (as pictured) when there is the slightest wind. Note to self it needs weighting along the hem next time. I will put this one up in the tavern bar when we get home and I think the next time we get one done we just have a generic Tavern on Tour one that we can take anywhere.
Not much to report today as we had a lazy chilled day after the big night out last night . Had breakfast and then I went straight by the pool to finish off my book (number 11).
Got near the end and bloody 56 pages at the back of it were bloody extra notes and acknowledgments. To say the whole premise of the book is about our inability to focus, it seems laughable that the book seems to end prematurely and the author just pads it out with a load of notes. A few extra pages I get but that's about 2 chapters worth. Left me feeling unimpressed at the end of the book.
Anyway, the next book I started was Buddhist Boot Camp which seems like an easy read as it is made up of really short 2 or 3 page chapters. Each one with a kind of lesson or message from the author. It's not a book that tells you what you should do it just highlights things he has learnt that you may wish to follow etc. That's kind of why I prefer Buddhism as an ideology rather than other religions that are very prescriptive and it's their way or nothing. Buddha wasn't some mythical god he was simply a man who tried to do good and practice being kind to others etc. You can follow the teachings of Buddha whilst being of a different religious faith and it won't really interfere with it.
Thought this was a good quote...
I still don't feel like I am getting much colour. Now do I risk it all tomorrow and drop down to a lower factor to try and kick-start the colour for the end of the holiday. Or could that be my undoing and send me hope red like a first-day tourist? Decisions decisions lol.
After Dinner we had a night in watching telly and then an early night. I actually feel like this will be my first trip to Benidorm where I don't fell like I am completely knackered and need a) a detox for a week and b) another holiday to catch up on my sleep lol. I can honestly say I don't feel like I have missed out on anything while I have been away. I've gone on the nights out and have just left when I can tell everyone is starting to get a lot more drunk and I will not be on the same level. But mo nights out when I used to drink I was never really one for draggin the arse out of a night just for the sake of it. Once I feel like I have done the best part of the night and seen the show or whatever I always used to just slope off. So it's not much different apart from I am not making poor choices due to being drunk, like stuffing myself with food late at night cos I am hungry. I still have the same sober decision-making at the end of the night as I did at the beginning. In the past I might diet and be good all day and then drunk Neil would take over and think "feck it I'm having a pizza", then some chocolate when I got home and two bags of crisps and undo all the good I had done all day.
I just need to work on the sober confidence on a night out so that I am not overly conscious of making a fool of myself etc.