How Did I Spend Last Summer?

I think summer is the best season for rest because it is warm, the nature is beautiful and we have great opportunities for rest. Summer is a time of holidays. We can go for a walk all day long, watch the clouds, swim, sit down by a river or a lake on fresh, green grass, climb high hills, play different games, ride a bicycle and so on. 
I spend my summer holidays at my granny. There were many things there to enjoy. I swam in the sea, laid in the sun and did many other things. Sometimes I made a fire with my friends at the seaside and cooked potatoes there. It was wonderful. We told anecdotes to each other, and did everything we wanted. I also got used to walk alone in the forest. 
When the August was coming to the end, I went on a small voyage by ship. The ship name was «Olga Sadovskaya». 
But the last summer wasn’t for me only sugar and honey. I have passed through the graduating exams in school and entering exams in the university and technical university. So the bigger part of my summer vocations I spent at the books. Of course, it was not interesting, but I’m glad that I did it because now I’m a student of the best university in Primorye and the whole Far-East.

Holidays

After each term in school we had our holidays. It's fun to have holidays, you can do whatever you like, you don't have to get up too early, do your homework or think of troubles which occur very often at school. 
Most of all I liked summer holidays, they were the longest ones, though, when winter was snowy and frosty, I enjoyed my winter holidays skating and skiing, sledging and making a snowman or having a fight with snowballs. 
I'd like to tell you about my summer holidays I spent in Sochi. It was just three years ago. My parents and me were sitting in the living-room discussing our plans for the summer holidays. My father suggested that we should go to Sochi. 
On hearing that I jumped up with joy and said it was a wonderful idea. My mother wasn't against the idea either. So one summer morning we started for our journey to Sochi.
First, we travelled to Odessa by plane and from there we got to Sochi by boat. We stayed in Odessa for three days, our relatives live there and they gave us board and lodging. So we had an excellent opportunity to go round the city, to see beautiful monuments to the famous people who had lived in Odessa, museums and the Odessa Opera House. We enjoyed our trip from Odessa to Sochi. The Black Sea was calm. We sat on deck in the lounge chairs and looked at the sea. I like Sochi very much, we bathed and went boating and swimming, lay in the sun on the beach. In the evenings we went for a walk or dropped in at a cafe to have ice-cream or juice. My father showed us the famous Botanical Gardens, we went for hikes in the mountains, we saw the magnificent Augur a Waterfalls. 
The sea was nice and warm. The weather was fine. When it was time to go home, we were sorry to leave the marvellous town of Sochi.

Summer Holidays

The beach is a traditional summer destination for thousands of people. Everyone wants to go to the beach! Sun, surf, and sand are a magnetic lure for millions of visitors. The wealth of things to do includes sunbathing, jogging, boating, fishing and surfing. Ever presented breezes keep the temperature comfortable and the water warn. 
Beach cities are the centers for easygoing life styles. The newest trends in youth culture often originate there. For example, the roller skating craze started on the Venice boardwalk. 
Though sea, sun and sand are the same, people try to go to a different place every year, because fauna, and flora, and the air are different. Spending holidays on the beach is a great rest though many people combine sunbathing with visiting museums and places of interest. 
Holidays are very special and happy times of the year. They are a specific time when people can relax and forget about work or study, do all the things that they don’t have time to do when they are working. Everyone needs at least one holiday a year. In fact short holidays taken often probably do you more good than annual long one. The whole point of a holiday is that it should be a change. We like change of scene, but such changes are usually expensive and many people are obliged to spend their holiday in the same surroundings as their working days. However it does not mean that your holiday is completely failed. The best thing is to choose some forms of occupation entirely different from your daily avocation. Some people prefer adventurous holiday with the wealth of things to do and places to visit. For example, you can spend your day-off looking at shops, visiting theatres, cinemas, museums, and art galleries. And if you want to spend your day-off in the round of your family, you can organize a picknick. Nothing can be compared with sitting near a bonfire in the darkness of the night. Such holiday far from madding crowd makes a person relaxed. Besides it does not require much money or time. Speaking about long-term holiday it is necessary to say that winter holiday may even be better for you than any other. You need it more at that time of a year. Skiing is accessible. Once you learn to ski you can go on doing to a very advanced age. Skating is also available and amusing and not all that difficult to learn. If you have used your holiday well, you should not feel a very deep regret that it is over.
Summer holidays are the longest and the most exciting holidays in Belarus, because the weather is fine and we have a lot of opportunities to travel.
Summer holidays is a time of travelling, for going on excursions, hikes lasting several days, going to the sea or to the mountains.
Summer is the time when we are left to ourselves and we can spend these lovely days with our friends or with the family. Some people like to have a day trip to the seaside but others prefer a camping week with the family. If you are not short of money you may choose to go to the seaside resorts to spend package holidays when everything is arranged for you. These people prefer serene life without problems. But some people like to do their life as tough as possible and they rough it by camping. They cook themselves, sleep in the fresh air, they have an optimistic approach to life and their life is full of adventures. There seems to be nothing to compare with a camping holiday. Such holiday makes young people appreciate home comforts and teaches how to survive. We must try to learn something useful from our holiday. However camping no longer means that you will be bitten do death by mosquitoes, have to drink cold coffee, spend nights in a sleeping bag or carry weights on your back. Now you can have comfortable tents, a gas-stove, a refrigerator. You also enjoy absolute freedom. But above all, you enjoy tremendous mobility. If you do not like a place or if it is too crowded, you can simply get up and go. And if you are satisfied, you can stay as long as you like. You are the boss. You are active all the time and you are always close to nature.