start having fun with summer in the city? You could for example..
- spend the summer holidays at home: No hustle-bustle in long traffic jams, no overrun planes with screaming infants, no crammed beaches, but a quiet life in town, money to go eating out, to the cinema and evening spent with friends on the terrasse doing the odd BBQ. No traffic jams, people nice and relaxed... Cheaper, calmer, more comfortable - your own bed, your well known supermarket around the corner and the possibility to do whatever you like!! Going to Paris for a day? Off you go. Going for a walk at the beach? Off you go. Sleeping until noon? Off you go. And so on and on.... By far the most comfortable way of spending holidays I can imagine.
- have a new haircut? Change is in the air! What is nicer for the girl about town as the sensing of the "rentree" slowly creeping up in August? It is now, where all the glossy magazines bring out their autumn/winter issues, with all the "new" stuff coming fresh from the pintshop. So be prepared... And, not to forget, during the summerholidays your hairdresser will be not stressed and will have time to discuss this new "you" and give you a VIP treatment. As you have not spent those 600 Euros for a plane ticket, throw in the odd manicure as well. Luxury!
- have a first look through the shops for the Fall collections, especially if your size is quickly sold out. Go with a friend and have fun in trying on everything you might find interesting or quirky. Then don't buy, but go home, sleep a night and consider if this money well spent? A better investment than buying the 54th sun hat or overcharged swimming costume in the overcrowded holiday resorts, where you out of sheer boredom will spend money on junk you will never ever wear once you are back at home in reality.
- work during august? Sounds odd, but is fun. The offices are calmer, the lunch breaks can be longer and there is most probably all the time in the world to reorganise your desk and have all up to date when the storm starts on the 2nd of september. My collegue and I did a lunch spree to Ikea and came back full with plants and made our office look like a jungle. Fun!
- change the rhythm of every day life: No cooking, but a good brunch. An afternoon off in town, alone. No ironing for 2 days in a row ( believe me, what a difference!). Trying new fruits and vegetables. Make the children cook. Have a pijama day. Read in the garden. Write a letter - oh yes, please! Do things differently, have a look from another point of view, get out of the trample pfad of the daily treadmill.
Most important of all is to find time to slow down. Let the other search for entertainment and change far away and come back exhausted from the stress of having fun and "the time of their lives". Mostly crap anyway.
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