Learner Dad: Give me the mountains over a beach any day
Before you head to the beach, you have to put enough stuff in the car to keep the kids occupied for a month. Picture: iStock
We had two days out last weekend. One involved a walk in the Galtee mountains, the other was a beach in West Cork. I never thought I’d say this, but I preferred the Galtees to the beach. (Saying I prefer Tipperary is probably enough to get me drummed out of Cork.)
It’s not that the beach was bad. It was at Dunworley outside Clonakilty, one of those flat beaches in a stunning sheltered cove that they put in travel guides to Ireland. It’s one of my favourite beaches in the world. But as any parent knows, that’s only part of a beach day in Ireland.
