Does my hair smell like swans?

I reread my last blog and decided I really needed to get out more. (Where am I at the moment? The library. Baby steps people. Baby steps.) So after avoiding beaches in the summer for 7 long years, I decided it was time to go back.

Why have I stayed clear of beaches the way other people avoid the movie Beaches? A couple of excellent reasons...

1. Sunshine has never been my friend
2. Hoardes of people bother me
3. Sand (enough said)
4. Did you know there are fish and other scary thinigs in lakes and oceans? Eww!!!
5. Swimsuits

However, the above is meaningless when every morning at 6am you wake up to the sunshine baking your room to an uncomfortable 200 degrees centigrade. That is enough to cook a pizza by the way. (Also look how European I am getting!) Without the possibility of getting air conditioning any time soon, the only solution was the Bodensee.

So what is the beach like in Konstanz, and why have I been going everyday? Well the Bodensee seems to have taken my complaints to heart and provided the perfect beach experience. Let's start at the bottom of my list, which is appropriate considering the name of the lake.

5. Almost everyone wears bikinis or speedos whether they look good in them or not (also there are a lot of very pale people, so I stand out less.)
4. The water is so clear I can see and avoid fish (eww). Although avoiding the swans is a little more difficult. They swim really close to you. Also they are not pretty, elegant creatures like in story books. They are behemoths that would kill you as soon as look at you.
3. No sand! Just soft grass. Oh and rocks that line the bottom of the lake.
2. Because it is so close to me, I can go early-ish every morning and avoid the crowds.
1. Unfortunately, this is where the Bodensee has let me down. I am currently one big sunburn. Stupid sun!