Tropical Beach Babe

A family trip to the seaside. That's 8 adults, 7 children, 1 dog, 3 cars, a beach umbrella, a windbreak, some buckets and spades, a large picnic and a lot of ice-creams.

This is Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, the favourite family beach since I was wee, and today it was practically empty. Miles and miles of golden soft sand lapped by a cobalt blue ocean.

Of course that ocean is the Atlantic, so it was absolutely freezing.