There is just nothing quite like that particular sudden flood of endorphins when you realise you’ve arrived – the holiday starts here, and you can finally flip that stress switch to “off”.īut whether it’s the Canaries or Greece, Wexford or West Cork, plans to escape and explore this summer can come in all forms. As we sat there with Irish weather layers peeled back to a T-shirt, taking in the azure water and bobbing boats, all the lists and logistics for childminding, dog-sitting and pre-out-of-office prep were forgotten. The journey was long, having begun at 3am, but when we finally dropped our bags in a little café in the port, and ordered a cold beer, it was suddenly so perfectly, unequivocally worth it. It had been Covid-postponed twice, so to say anticipation levels were high would be an understatement. Just recently, I travelled with my brother to the Greek island of Spetses for my cousin’s wedding. While our cover model, Cat Frean, sums up that face-to-the-sun feeling to perfection on page 51, where she lies back on the sand of a Wexford beach – as beautiful as any South of France inlet – and you can almost feel the warmth of the amber-hued light on her eyelids through the page.
Our columnist Esther O’Moore Donohoe sums it up so well, on page 160, when she talks about “fizzing with delight” at the thought of her first holiday abroad in two years, where she plans to do nothing but loll by the pool in Fuerteventura and “conveyor-belt ready salted crisps, aka Holiday Crisps, into mouth for approximately 12 hours a day.”
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