On one of the last proper sunny days of the year in Western Ireland, the Shans decamped to our local beach in Ballybunion to see out the summer/early autumn in style. We went for a lovely cliff walk to kick things off -- it's a walk I've done many times over the decades, but this was my first time doing it with my two children in tow, so it was a nice personal moment for me. We ran into some cows along the way -- I posted a photo of Gaia with them a while back, and here's another this time with Dante in the frame as well. Later, we hit the amusement arcades, where myself and Dante went on one of the shoot-em-up rides (the seat moves around as you're watching the screen). The arcades were a huge treat for me when I was a kid, especially the bumper cars (dodgems) that featured in one of the establishments -- those are long gone, and understandably so, since they were pretty rubbish, even by a kid's early 1980s viewpoint, but still, I look for them every time as the memories flood back. I wonder if Dante will be looking for this ride in years to come, when I'm long gone and he's strolling the streets with sprogs of his own...