The sitting man

I never saw him on foot. He ran a souvenirs and inflatable beach mattresses shop near  the beach. Every year he was there, in his striped beach armchair, wearing his white and blue sailor cap. He was older and older but fatter and fatter, just as his inflatable beach mattresses.

A happy beach day

They arrived silently at the sunny Mediterranean beach. She laid the towels on the sand while her husband took his sandals off and folded carefully everybody’s  t-shirts. Their two children started building a rudimentary sand castle. The Japanese family sunbathed for three hours and they silently got up and left.

Two friends

They were on the beach in the shining sun. Mariano had fair hair while Evgueni had brown hair. They were being friends for half an hour. The children were laughing together, splashing together, speaking loudly together, throwing wet sand together. Mariano could only speak Spanish and Evgueni only spoke Russian.