Rocky Beach

This is a photo I took of the beach on Galway Bay. My family stayed at a friend's cottage across the street from this beach in Fanore, Ireland, in August, 2003. (Fanore is such a small town, it's not even on the map. It's home to about 80 people and the one pub in town, O'Donohue's, is always full of locals, gripping their pints of Guinness and spontaneously singing to no one in particular.) Our little cottage was made even more unique by the fact that its only working bathroom was actually an outhouse (but a really nice one, as far as outhouses go). Even still, it was difficult for the five of us to share one bathroom. I also wasn't crazy about the silverfish that slithered up the shower drain, threatening to touch our bare feet.