It’s raining in Novy Svet. Not a light drizzle either, nor a quick tropical shower. It’s thunder and lightning and a downpour that lasts for most of the day. A real storm. Horse trek into the mountains is cancelled. Boats are anchored away from the shore.
Crimea needs rain badly. The drought that struck the region for the last three years has damaged the land and hurt its people. So this rain is welcomed. And yet — somewhat feared.
Rain scares tourists. The beach-side promenade is deserted, and so are the shops and cafés along it.
Sipping a local red and a Turkish coffee while sitting in my spot, I feel like I have the whole town to myself. Almost. Here and there I see heads bobbing between the dark turquoise waves. There is no way to tell if they are locals or tourists, but either way, the rain doesn’t scare them. In fact, it seems to excite them. They dive, splash around, do laps across the lagoon. I concede, there is something romantic and daring about the experience.
I love rain, but not with such wild abandon. For now, I am staying on drier ground.
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I love a good thunderstorm 🙂 We’re having lots of them in Bavaria right now, usually in the evenings, and it’s sunny during the day. Perfect! And it’s sooooo green.
Central Russia is drying out – 33C for a month and a half and no rain in just as long. Send some our way!
I will gladly take some rain right about now. Also, glad you stayed away from swimming in the rain!
It was pretty chilly, too – +16 or so! I wore all the clothes I had at once 🙂
I live rain too. But Like you, I orefer to enjoy from a dry haven. I especially like lying in bed listening to it crashing down outside.
I do too. But as you are likely to read tomorrow, the “lying in bed enjoying the sound” wasn’t working very well in Crimea….
Ugh, rain! It rained only one time in Paris, but I feel we made the most of that day in the end. We’re currently having some very hot days (32+), I don’t know if rain would make it better or not….
I would welcome quite a lot of rain in Moscow right now (not on the weekend tho – I am going to the beach). But in a resort area, everything just shuts down. And it got cold!
Look how pretty you look 🙂
And I’d be one of those idiots in the sea, as long as there is no lightning.
There was a lot of lightning and it was cold!
Ok, well….maybe not….but a warm, tropical storm? Sign me up.
You look so pretty and pensive – just the kind of girl a highlander would go for 😉
OH Stooooooooooop…..
(no, keep talking 😛 )
I’ll do it in person in my sexy Irish accent – close enough 😉
Oh man… then I wont be held responsible for… anything!
You’ll be too drunk to be held responsible for anything 🙂
After the Ukrainians blocked the Crimean canal the rainy weather saved the harvest.The local rivers cant provide full requirements of farmers but the rain filled the water reservours and destroyed the Ukrainian dam in the channel.
Yes, exactly. At least nature helped.
Damn the rain. Although it is nice to grab a quiet coffee when everyone is hiding xx
Yup, I took advantage.
This was supposedly almost off-season and in some places I was SHOCKED by the crowds. Keep in mind that half of Ukraine is boycotting Crimea as it is, and I shiver at the thought of going in August in years past.
Ooh wild abandon rain is my favourite! We’ve been getting bonkers storms in Stockholm the last few weeks (for some reason, it has been thinking it’s a tropical country, bless!) and I love it! Though I don’t love having to take my shoes off and wade across squares that have been flooded, to be fair…
It would have been better with Anders by my side 😉
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You look very pretty and thoughtful. Just like a writer should LOL!
I like rain too. Coming from the British Isles, I appreciate that rain is what made England the colour that it is! Hmm. That sounds strange. I’ll start again! Rain is what made England green!
I love the pitter patter sounds of rain at night or streaming down the window sill although it doesn’t stream down in Germany. It follows the allocated route and doesn’t get messy or muddy, unless it’s inside our back garden LOL!
So true. Right now Moscow looks like it’s October, bc of the 2 months of head and drought. We need to appreciate the rain more.
Are you telling me! In Germany, it rains for 5 minutes and people are like “oh, we can’t go out?” Why not? “It’s raining!” I’m like, do you call that piece of spit, rain? And I thought German people were stoic!
I appreciate the confirmation 🙂
I love every word of this. Beautiful, just like that photo 😉
AWWW. Thank you. I love that you say that.
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