I spent two blissful days reading, sleeping, plunge pooling and watching the local kids playing for hours in a discarded old boat - not a Playstation in sight and they looked more than happy.
Here you can sit in blissful peace, read a book and contemplate the sparkling azure sea and the Bakoven rock, shaped like a pizza oven.
Not only do you have a blissful few minutes' reading ahead of you, you can while away the rest of the day checking out the features with which the Mail has padded out its 8-PAGE PULLOUT – for if The Da Vinci Code taught us one thing, it is that two Dan Brown chapters plus a prologue do not an 8-PAGE PULLOUT fill.
Last year, my New Year's resolution was to be a better reader, and it led to a blissful year of reading.
Day 15 (At Sea) It's another blissful day, reading and ocean-gazing, eating and drinking.
Then I'd select one of the small rock-sheltered coves and settle into a blissful day of sunning, swimming and reading.
Blissful: watching the waves from the duvet; reading on the deck; moseying down through the village shops to curl up on a rug on the beach in the evenings.
New Year's resolutions tend to be big, impressive promises that we adhere to for short periods of time — that blissful stretch of January when we are starving ourselves, exercising daily and reading Proust.
I wrote, "Perhaps it was the accompanying photograph of a blissful, peaceful, country path bordered on both sides by tall pine trees" that softened the impact of reading about such a ghastly place.
Perhaps she was thinking of the scenes in the first novel, where Elena leaves home for a few blissful weeks of reading and swimming; perhaps of the more dramatic romantic entanglements that happen on the island in the second volume.
