First time posting! or, an 'adventure' in Dalkey

To celebrate entry no. 1 in what I hope to develop into a long habit of keeping a photo diary, I went on not so much an adventure, as an 'adventure'. Seeing as going on a trip to a place three suburbs away that takes 10 minutes to get to can only be classified as more exciting than staying at home, but rather less exciting than, say, actually going somewhere further away.

All of which is not to say that it wasn't a great afternoon. The inspiration came from my friend C. who recently got slightly fed up of people laughing at her for being a lifelong resident of a place not far from Dublin, yet having been to Hanoi, San Francisco and Moscow before ever setting foot in Dalkey or Howth. Thus it was decided that we should start going on 'adventures' around the coast.

And sure, didn't it only turn out to be rather excellent? Dalkey, for those who aren't familiar, is an affluent suburb on the south coast of Dublin Bay, which is rarely visited by tourists, or any significant number of non-locals at all, really. But on a sunny late-autumn day its coves, seaside hills, the eponymous island just off its seafront, tastefully restored and clearly well-to-do village centre looked as splendid as you could hope to find anywhere. And the twin rewards of a cup of coffee to finish off the pleasant walk around its seaside mansion-studded backstreets and the fact that an 'adventure' demands so much less stress in planning, arriving and getting home than an adventure, are all you need to round off the first episode in what will hopefully be a year of Excellent Adventures.