I have only one phobia – fear of heights, acrophobia scientifically. I am not afraid of snakes, I am not afraid of dogs, but I am afraid of heights so that even on high heels I am badly done. Nevertheless, a couple of times in my life I have had to do real climbing myself.
I will never forget the first time. My friend and I just had the pleasure of visiting the Nikitsky Botanical Garden, which is in Crimea, and after a whole day in the heat, we, of course, wanted to swim in the sea. Only here the beach was unclear where, everywhere sloping rocks, and below the sea. Finally, we saw a very clean, very isolated beach, without the usual in the Crimea huge valleys under the water on the shore, and even with sand. And not one person. It was located far below the rock, and there was no staircase or at least a trail there. My friend, a person of adventure and fearlessness, calmly begins the descent right down the rock, relentlessly encouraging me "to the weak." When I woke up, I followed her. It was horror. I did not dare to look down, but I noticed slightly that some people appeared on the beach, and the number of them is increasing. Finally, scratched but terribly proud of myself, I find myself on the beach. The girlfriend is already explaining with some guys in camouflage and with machine guns across the shoulder, which explained to us quite peacefully and calmly that this is the personal beach of the President and a simple mortal on it, unfortunately, cannot be. When we asked them why they didn’t scream to us in the process of descending, they replied that the maturity of two girls in mini jerseys and beach boots descending on a sloping rock, clinging to cactus and grass – a circus too interesting to miss. Fortunately, there was no YouTube at the time. After breathing up, we gathered together to go the same way back up, but the guys, roasting, kindly opened us an invisible barrel on the side and let go to the road to the harbour. A fair and straight road. Only the beach at the harbour was not very similar to the presidential.