The 7th of March, sunrise on the beach

The best plans are undoubtedly the spontaneous ones.

I don't know about you but I've always dreamed of seeing the sun rise from the beach. I've always liked the idea of being able to see the first ray of light coming out of the sea. I guess we all have some kind of dream like this. Some of you might dream of walking along the beach at night with that special someone, others may dream of different things, having a ferrari, a good bike or a lot of money, (which, hey, isn't bad either). But well, I'm one of those who, on top of dreaming of having a good home in the future and being able to live a good life with a good salary and being happy, I'm also very bohemian. I dream of seeing the sun set with the person I love the most, sitting on the sand on a summer afternoon, I dream of seeing < strong>the sun rise on the beach and a thousand other things, the list is so long I could go on forever.

Early in the morning on the 7th of March, 2015 , after coming home from watching a horror film, if I remember rightly it was < strong>"The Conjuring" (honestly it didn't scare me that much, but I guess that depends on the person really, there were some people who were scared haha). I remember that day's date because it was unforgettable and I keep the memory of it in a special place, where I keep my most special memories. In a way, it feels like it was only yesterday. To tell you the truth, it was a while ago now, almost a year back, but I still remember it so well. If I close my eyes I can still replay clearly every step I took, every moment of that morning I spent with him.

Anyway, back to what I was saying. As I said before, one of my dreams was to see sunrise on the beach with someone special, and as I was on Erasmus in Portsmouth, it would have been a sin not to see the first rays of the morning sun illuminate the sky at least once. It wasn't planned, we were at home and couldn't sleep. We watched a bit of Frozen and then joked "you don't have the guts to watch the sunrise over the beach right now". We had come home late, and due to one thing or another we just couldn't sleep. As we simply couldn't sleep, and the idea seemed very appealing, that's exactly what we did. It was now or never, we didn't have long left until we had to head back to Spain. Sure, there was still time to do a million more things, but if you stopped to think about it, we were over half way through our Erasmus experience. It was already March, we only already spent 7 months in this city. We had already experienced thousands of things there and somehow or other it seemed we were soon going to be counting the days, it all seemed to be happening sooner than we expected.

As we were itching with excitement at the time because the idea sounded so good. We got out of bed, put on our clothes (I was as comfortable as I could be at the time) and then we ran down to the beach as it was just starting to get light and the sun was almost rising. We had to run a little bit, if I close my eyes I can remember it perfectly, I remember the ache in my jaw ( I always get this ache when I run, I still don't know why really). We got to the sea and we just looked out over the horizon. For a while, there was nothing but silence since we were practically alone.

It was a pity there were clouds and the sky wasn't very clear, but even so, < strong>it was the best sunrise in the world:)

We took a few cool photos and then decided to go home because it was very cold at the time. The moment we turned around and decided to walk back, there was a drunk guiri who was feeling the ground with his feet (he was barefoot, ), who stopped to speak with us. I saw him coming. He seemed a little lost, he didn't even know where he was. As it was early Saturday, all the signs were there to suggest he'd been partying that night and had ended up at the wrong place. I guess he got lost on his way home, and ended up on the beach, without shoes and looking really rough. To be honest, the situation was quite funny but the boy, aside from seeming drunk, didn't seem to be in his right mind. In fact, he seemed a little schizophrenic, but we walked with him for a little bit, then we told him we were going home and he left us alone. We came home to catch up sleep we missed out on that night.

It was so nice :)

I recommend you all try doing crazy things, and spontaneous plans, it feels great. You'll always get a smile out of it.

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