Oh, the weather outside is frightful...

With a perma-drizzle outside, wet shoes, wet clothes and sniffling cold-ridden peeps at work, doing the previous Nadiya blog got me thinking... Wether played on the radio of your chosen destination or your own CDs, there's nothing more potent a reminder of hols than the accompanying musical soundtrack. So, to bring a bit of much needed sunshine and lovely thoughts, here are the tunes that were constantly repeated en vacance.

In February, last year, for my birthday I was perched on a hotel restaurant terrace high up in Les Corniches, properly feeling like Grace Kelly. In 24 degree sunshine and overlooking the coastline of the French Riviera, I went all ooh-la-la French with this one. Actually, it's Tina Arena, but she sounds Francais enough! Aimer jusqu'à l'impossible is sweeping, gorgeous and sounds fab on a drive around the nail-biting Corniche cliff-hugging roads:

And as a home-grown track brought over, this was the favourite, the hard-faced Jentina with French Kisses

In June, as well as Nadyia's hit at the time, Roc, number 1 all over the land was this Euro-trance track Living in Video by Pakito, but I was loving this older track of Nadiya's, Tous Ces Mots hanging over from previous weeks. She's like a one-woman Girls Aloud...

In September, driving around the teeny-tiny mountain roads of Mallorca, this song was on permanent repeat. Strange to see it in the charts all these months later. It feels like it's come full circle reminding me of a hot car with the window wound down rather than the cold soggy February of now...

I love this 'summer' song.