The beach

This is the beach I spent most every summer as a child building sand castles on, engineering dams out of sand and rock, exploring the various caves and hidden beaches barefoot, fishing in the rock pools. As a teenager, you could find me nestled in a sheltered cliff ledge mooning over my latest crush and my doomed teenage love life.... and indeed it was overlooking this beach that my husband asked me to marry him on my birthday four years ago...

....and so we escaped the wilds of Provence for the wilds of Donegal for a week and it was strange and exciting  and wonderful to be here with my little boy and Raphael, to see the excitement  on Louis's face as he discovered the same rock pools and chased me with seaweed, thoroughly relishing the sea air and sand in his sandwiches.