Xmas and Boxing Day

Xmas Day spent as usual: family and relatives around a table where all sort of food has been served for a quite a few hours.
Of course we started the day opening all the presents: the kids got most of them. The rest of the day has been about drinking excellent wines and eating eating eating..
An hour walk at 7pm helped my stuffed stomach and my slow digestion eventually changed gear to a faster one.
I woke up on 26th December and a great sun was shining bright up in the sky.
A couple of phone calls and then the whole family (mum+dad, auntie+sons&wifes and kids) went to Manly Beach.
Manly beach is another famous beach around Sidney (Bondi beach could be another example). In my opinion Manly is better than Bondi. It seemed to me that Bondi beach was all about “beach bodies”: people who spent months at the gym sculpturing up their muscles. Browning under ultra-violet rays seems another much loved activity before walking down the beach.
Anyways, Manly beach: it was all about sunbathing for a couple of hours, eating ice cream and reading (my cousin gave me a weird look when she realised that my beach magazine was The Economist.. fair enough, each to his own.. )