Sunday, August 19, 2007

Missing the Beach ...

Today Sven and I cleaned Seagull Cottage and Liberty Coin Suite for our new guests. The cottage guests have returned for five years, so we had some good laughs when they arrived, now old friends. Our Liberty Coin Suite guests did not get here until dinnertime. He is the second professional photographer to choose Chez Sven this summer and happens to have been born in Germany. Sven was delighted to have the opportunity to speak German, and I am excited because our guest has taken photos for Green Peace. With all that tidying up today, there was no time for the beach. I found myself dreaming about the leisure activities one can enjoy beside the ocean: walking along the dune, kite-flying when it is windy the way it was this week, partying like the folks above, but also relaxing or simply reading a book. In summer, Sven and I like to walk way up the beach where there are fewer people and more pretty stones. The problem, in high season, with being a busy innkeeper is that there is no time to simply enjoy Wellfleet’s beauty beyond the confines of Chez Sven!