Après swim
Can’t feel your hands? Can’t feel your feet? You must have been in the English Channel.

Can’t feel your hands? Can’t feel your feet? You must have been in the English Channel.

From mind-the-Birling-Gap.

The last thing you need when you’re changing on the beach, is someone sketching you.

Between two deans: Rotting and Salt. Smells quite nice though.

…for a book on the beach…
Coats. Boots. Balaclava. Brrr!

I must have swallowed too much salt water as I am hallucinating sun umbrellas and swimmers on Brighton Beach at 7 in the evening!

The small chapel on the summit of Croagh Patrick (known locally at The Reek) was shrouded in mist this morning.
By the time I’d managed a truly bracing dip in the Atlantic, it was just visible from the lovely Betra Beach. 

Whilst the temperatures in the UK teeter above freezing, I’m warming myself up by remembering lying in a hammock, sipping juice from a huge freshly plucked coconut by the tiny island of Hon Mot, a year ago today.
The island is connected to Phu Quoc by the wobbly ‘monkey bridge’, just visible in the far right of the sketch.
In between slaughtering chickens, the charismatic café owner gave these two fishermen (presumably her sons) a right ear-bending every time they stopped work to watch me sketch!