June Curtain in Spanish Point, Co Clare. \ Philip Doyle
The car is hot and sticky, even though it’s barely the beginning of summer. After a day on the road, you roll the window down and turn up the radio, as you really want to be 100% alert for what you are about to see.
As we drive out towards Spanish Point on the Clare coast, coming over the brow of a hill, suddenly it comes into view. That first magnificent glimpse of the sea in the evening sunshine.
Even just seeing the ocean invigorates us. It almost has a magnetic pull.