BRYONY GORDON: How I discovered the true meaning of Christmas...
by cancelling it and taking my daughter on holiday to Dubai with my grieving friend LISTEN NOW: The Life of Bryony is your weekly dose of therapy, minus the couch. Each week Bryony is joined by a guest, from Matt Haig to James Middleton. Listen wherever you get your podcasts now LISTEN: The Life of Bryony is your weekly dose of therapy, minus the couch.
Each week Bryony is joined by a guest, from Matt Haig to James Middleton. Listen wherever you get your podcasts now By BRYONY GORDON Published: 20:51 EST, 22 December 2024 | Updated: 20:51 EST, 22 December 2024 e-mail View comments I am lying on a sun lounger in 28-degree heat, my best friend Laura to the right of me, hot white sand underfoot. Turquoise waters lap at the Dubai dazzles on the horizon.
It is Christmas , apparently, not that we’d know it: not from the bright blue sky, the extravagant virgin mojitos, or the vigorous game of beach volleyball our children are playing with the team from our five-star resort’s kids’ club. They’ve just finished necklace and bracelet-making, and inform us that they’ve also been decorating cupcakes and cookies, though by ‘decorating’ what I think they actually mean, given their energy, is ‘eating’ them. Later, we will probably give in to their demands to take a pedalo out into the Persian Gulf, but first: a refreshing pineapple sorbet, followed by facials at the hotel’s spa.
Laura and I have promised tha.