If you have not read our postings I'll tell you what we look like. Firstly, this is all real. We are an early thirties couple, I am 5'10", in reasonable shape. My wife Gail is an exceptionally beautiful and intelligent woman, soft spoken and very shy. She is 5'7" with a young girls figure, long shapely legs, small breasted, and a picture perfect behind. Her light brown hair blondes in the sun and she has the loveliest green eyes. I am from Chile, where we are living and working now, Gail is an American.
Every summer we take our holidays in and around the South of France. A few years ago while visiting France we met Tamara, an elderly British lady living in Cannes. Gail and Tamara quickly became friends. In spite of their difference in age they telephone almost weekly, their girlish chatter and occasional whispers, never failing to amaze me. This has been going on for a few years now and I know Gail anxiously looks forward to meeting Tamara again each summer. Through that friendship we were introduced to many very delightful people, and with one Italian couple, Giancomo and Gabriella, we quickly cemented a strong bond.
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This year, on our flight from Chile to Nice, we opted to fly the most direct route. The long flight gave us a chance to read, sleep, and to talk. At one point we were discussing our friends from Italy, Giancomo and Gabriella, and their Christmas time visit to Chile. Giancomo had planned a business trip from Italy to Buenos Aires, including a stop in Chile, and they spent six days visiting with us in Santiago.
During their stay in Chile, we whiled away a weekend at a beach near Valparaiso (December in Chile is summertime). At dinner one evening, Giancomo was lamenting his concern with understanding the Spanish at meetings he was attending in Argentina. Though he spoke Spanish socially, his meetings required a bit more Spanish fluency.
Gail had become quite fluent in Spanish during our years of living in Chile and, to my surprise, she offered to accompany Giancomo to Buenos Aires for the two days of meetings. To her credit she did add, "Of course with Rians' consent." I nodded my consent though I noticed that Gabriella glanced toward me with a disquieting look.
The day Gail returned from Argentina we all had dinner, it was their last evening before returning back to Italy. An excellent meal ended with an hours chat in a corner of the hotel bar. The evening had consisted mainly of talk about what we would do when we got together again in the summer, in Europe. The next morning we drove them to the airport and with lots of hugs and safe travel wishes, they were on their way. On the way home that morning Gail and I spoke about how nice it was to visit with our friends, and how strongly the friendship had grown. Nothing was said about the Argentina trip.
During our bedtime talk that evening I finally inquired about her trip, asking directly if she had slept with Giancomo. Gail deftly avoided answering, in turn questioning me about Gabriella being left behind with me, inferring that my being alone with her for two days surely must have led to something. I assured her nothing happened, though I did not say that my goodnight kisses with Gabriella had evolved into tongue twisting escapades that often left me hard. Gail didn't believe me. Gail admitted that she and Giancomo flirted while on the trip, even kissed goodnight, but she refused to admit to more. I think she wanted me to first acknowledge that her accusation was correct. When I persisted with what was actually the truth, her ruse was, "...well, you telephoned me, you know I had my own room." I felt her recounting of her trip was not true, and it led to several days of tension between us.
It was in May, as we were finalizing our plans for the summer holiday, that the Argentine trip came up once again. It led to a long and serious talk. We reached an agreement that this years' holiday would be different. Neither of us would begin anything, in Gail's words, "Unless we were both in agreement".
I quickly added, "Agreement by spoken accord, not by inference," knowing the wiliness of my beloved lady. She had tricked me before with "I thought your lack of comment was acquiescence."
Though Gail was very shy, and blushed at the simplest issue, I knew her strength. Her education, coupled with a generous character, resulted in her being non-judgmental. She reasoned things out with a self assurance that I envied, without trying to impose her conclusions upon anyone. Likewise, once she reasoned a position, it was hard to budge her from her conviction. It occasionally caused me great frustration, as I was less generous.
During this years flight to Nice we discussed our yearly trips to Europe and we recognized that each trip offered new opportunities. Gail and I explored our sexuality, experienced new cities, learned about European food, and sailed to grand places on magnificent yachts. And we believe these opportunities - this exposure - created the opportunity for relationships. A few of these encounters led to friendships that went beyond the typical 'see you next year'. Most importantly, it deepened our own relationship.
Somehow the long flight, our talk, and her hugging my right arm for several hours while she slept, emboldened her, or engendered a feeling of guilt. Whichever, when she awoke, she continued to hold my arm while confessing that she had slept with Giancomo during the Argentine trip. She promised to tell me all about it later, and from experience I knew that meant she would tell me the next time we made love. I thought, "Oh, how well this lady knew her man."
Our schedule every year was to first visit Cannes. Gail had become very friendly with Tamara, an elderly English lady living in Cannes. We had met by chance in a cafΓ© and the several years of communicating had led to a solid friendship. They spoke several times a week throughout the year. They exchanged letters and cards, made big issue of birthdays and holidays, and they looked forward to meeting each year when we went on holiday.
Gail telephoned Tamara from the airport telling her we had arrived in Nice and would be visiting her in about an hour. In conversation a few weeks before we left Chile, Tamara had told Gail that Charlotte and Duncan would not be in France while we were visiting, but that they had insisted we use their boat while visiting in Cannes. Charlotte and Duncan were long time friends of Tamara, and they lived in Cannes on the boat we were invited to use. Gail and I had been on the boat on two occasions and we felt very comfortable with the arrangement.
We took up our rental car and started the now familiar drive from the Airport in Nice toward Cannes. As in the past, it was as if we were coming home. Things felt so very much in place and the usual euphoria started to creep in.
Instead of parking our luggage laden car in front of Tamara's apartment building we headed straight for yacht basin, and the SeaAyre. However, the boat was not where we expected, and we asked the first seaman we encountered if he knew where it was docked. He did, and we quickly made our way to the berth. The Captain having been informed by Tamara was watching from on-board as we pulled our Peugeot alongside, and within moments he was down bedside the car with a young steward. Captain Charles was beaming as he took Gail's hand and almost bowed, then turned to me smiling, "It is our great pleasure to have you on board again Sir."