Its quite a drive to get there but its because of this that the tiny village has a quaint and traditional feel to it. But you need to get there early to find parking.
Getting there takes you past Tai Tam Reservoir. Here you feel like you've been transported to another country. No buildings. No noise. Beautiful bridges that you can see were built many moons ago and just green open spaces.
We spent a relaxing afternoon on the beach. Grandma and granddad joined us. They spotted crabs in rock pools, jumped in the waves, played naughts and crosses in the sand, looked for shells and of course built a few sand castles.
It was a bit chilly, so I let Mathilde keep her dress on for a while and I stayed fully dressed. Thats one good thing about the people here, they don't look at you as if you're some kind of weirdo if you stay fully dressed on the beach. They do it all the time and when we lived in China and went on holidays, we were quite often the only ones in swim suites and they would be in with their clothes on. So no qualms there about being fully dressed and maybe even sporting a jumper because temperature falls below 26 degrees. I know, heaven help us when we go back to Europe and live with real autumn and winter temperatures.
The time came to go home, so it was wash off in the shower and thats when Olivia remembered why she didn't like the beach..... because there's too much sand!! Got to love that girl!
Her and her sister went on to say that it would be better if the beach was made of sweeties oh, Mathilde seconded that and added that she wished the sand was tiny M & M's. Ah, a girl can dream no??
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