A colori, per favore

Sandycove was particularly colourful when I went in for a quick dip at the Forty Foot this afternoon, between a gardening session (swinging an axe wildly about, hoping for the best) and cooking the Sunday roast for Pepe (throwing a breast of turkey and spuds in the oven, hoping for the best).  

I was more than half surprised to see some of the visiting international students (mostly Italian) actually going in for a swim. They usually stand around with a bemused look and their anoraks zipped up to their eyebrows. It looks like a couple of contenders for the status of alpha male decided to go in and in the space of 20 minutes most of them had jumped in the water in their underwear. They looked like they were having great craic.