I love the seaside. I love its purity and its inability to be contained, like a wild dreamer unable to be caged within the confines of social norms. I also love everything that is associated with beaches; piers, boardwalks, ice-cream vans, frilly bombshell-red bikinis…What I don't like, however, is scorching heat where you feel as though you are a cake slowly baking in a moderately hot oven. My ideal day is a pleasant 25 degrees with a blue sky and a glorious serving of sunshine.
My favourite quote in Romeo and Juliet is in Act 2, Scene 2, where Juliet beautifully says:
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
I also love The Little Mermaid, by Hans Christian Andersen
Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects. We must not imagine that there is nothing at the bottom of the sea but bare yellow sand. No, indeed; the most singular flowers and plants grow there; the leaves and stems of which are so pliant, that the slightest agitation of the water causes them to stir as if they had life. Fishes, both large and small, glide between the branches, as birds fly among the trees here upon land. In the deepest spot of all, stands the castle of the Sea King. Its walls are built of coral, and the long, gothic windows are of the clearest amber. The roof is formed of shells, that open and close as the water flows over them. Their appearance is very beautiful, for in each lies a glittering pearl, which would be fit for the diadem of a queen.
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