Most Romanians have a phobia: the fear of rain on vacation. I don't know if there's a name for this phobia, but I think it should be put in the medical dictionary. And treated as such. We, those who work on the coast , see it installed with every little cloud that appears in the sky in the summer, with every more serious breeze. And it's the same in the mountains , I'm sure.
The reality is that when it rains in the summer (what a thing, sometimes it rains in the summer), it lasts 15, let's say 30 minutes or in the worst case let's say half a day. This is the equivalent of a natural disaster for Romanians. If you took 3 hours of beach time from their vacation, it's like taking their money out of their pocket and throwing it in the trash. They consider that they paid for the hotel for nothing, they gave the money for nothing at the restaurant/supermarket in the resort where they bought 2 small ones and a beer to drink. And on top of that, those bastards at the hotel won't give them their money back for the rest of their stay, because yes, after the first drop of rain, they are at the reception to shorten their stay and go home (regardless of whether it's 40 degrees in the shade the next day) .
The holiday is about the psyche and its recovery, it's about peace and relaxation
Of course the above is largely valid for those booking 2, 3 and 4 nights (usually at weekends). They are the first who, at the announcement of the weather girls at 8:XNUMX in the evening, have already requested the cancellation of the reservation without penalty even if they have paid a rate that does not allow them to do so. And since the Romanian is good at invented excuses (I think he's a world champion), the various complaints about urgent problems, sick relatives, cats with measles, dogs with depression and many others begin.
Nobody thinks that he could, if he still took 2, 3 days of vacation, in the extraordinarily long 30 minutes in which it rains, to do something else: to rest because that's why it's a vacation, to walk in the rain under an umbrella on the beach (it's good for the psyche and many people need it), read a book, sit on a covered terrace or on the balcony of the room and drink a glass of wine. After all, you're on vacation, not at a tanning contest. Those who accept from the start that it is possible to have a little rain during their vacation are much more relaxed, have alternatives and are happy anyway that they got rid of the stress of work or the crowded and polluted city.
I was on vacation too. And it rained. And because I go on vacation in the fall, because I have no way in the summer, it always rains. And so…? I walked in the rain through Poiana Brașov and it smelled insanely of green fir. I sat and read a book. I stayed in a restaurant. And I never complained about the weather or asked for my money back or cut my stay short.
Because vacation doesn't just mean the beach. This is all about the communist culture that cannot be erased from our minds. The holiday is about the psyche and its recovery, it's about peace and relaxation. That's what you should think about when booking a holiday, not how much/little rain it will rain. We can't control the weather (yet). But the way we spend our lives and vacations we can.
P.S. It's Friday, June 12, at 18:30 p.m. Rain, storms, etc. have been announced for 3 days. Today was beach time. Some clouds passed but not a drop of rain. Let the rains come and think about what you do if it rains, not how to avoid it.
My advice is to check the LIVE images from the seaside and that way you will be sure what it is like at sea. Funkytravel.ro provides you with images of the beaches in Mamaia , Constanța and Costinești.
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