My favourite childhood place - Blackwater

When I was a boy, every summer I went to a place called Blackwater. My family had a mobile home beside the beach and we stayed there for two months. From what I remember, the weather was usually very good, but I’m sure that it probably rained a lot. I did lots of things there. When the weather was very hot, we played on the beach and swam. If it was raining, we listened to music and sometimes went into Wexford to watch a movie. After rain was the best time because it was easy to catch fish in the river.

As I got older, I spent less time there because every summer I played on a lot of sports teams. But when I went there I used the beautiful long beach to train on. I still liked to swim but as I got older the water seemed to get colder! When I left Ireland after university, I rarely had the chance to visit Blackwater but last summer I took my family there. It was nice but my wife, Gai, always complained of the cold!