Day at the Seaside

We've had a miserable summer in Ireland this year - the coldest August in 25 years, grey, and not even that much rain, but just dull and dark. So it was such a bonus when the sun peeped out this afternoon and gave us pure blue skies and temperatures of 20 degrees. Heaven! We've been so deprived of sun this year that even just one good day is enough to make us happy.

So we headed to the beach - Killiney. It was perfect, the water was a gorgeous colour and there were not too many people around. After Killiney, we headed to Sandycove and sat on the wall overlooking the little beach, watching kids play in the sun and in the water.

Just one good day, and I now feel ready for the winter ahead, which apparently is going to be another cold one (something to do with sun flares - too many or too few, I'm not sure which, but it's not good, I'm told, enough to counteract the effects of global warming).

PS: yes, it was quite windy. Our hair is not normally lifted from our foreheads.