Despite the countdown to Christmas already underway, the singer slipped into her bikini, headed to the sea, and shared sun-soaked photos from her seaside escape with her Instagram followers.

“The place that brings me joy,” she wrote in the caption of her post.

Her followers were treated to a series of snapshots showing her enjoying the calm, off-season shoreline, proving once again that for some people, winter doesn’t have to mean cold weather — at least not in Greece.

See the photos below.