Visit to a beach

My girls and I went to Newcastle (in County Down, not in England) with S today. It's a well-known seaside town where people in N Ireland visit for holiday. For both day trip and long-stay. This was my first visit to the town. A very pretty place where beautiful sea and the highest mountains (in N Ireland) meet. The beach has too many stones for my liking, but I enjoyed walking on wet beach when the tide was very low. Also the promenade was rather new with lovely design. We had a picnic on the promenade, walked on the beach collecting seashells and stones, walked along the promenade, went inside an amusement place, had coffee at a cafe, had another walk on the beach, had another picnic, and went home. I can't thank enough to S. She is like our aunt now, taking us for a day trip like this. I am totally refreshed after absorbing the beautiful views of the sea and the mountains.

It was too cool to swim in the sea. And it was spitting/drizzling a little several times. But there were many people, probably because it's the holiday time of this month. The young, the old, families, friends, etc. But strangely (or not strangely) I was the only foreign-looking one in the town. It looks as if N Irish and non-N Irish were having completely separate lives. To me, summer = visit to beaches/seaside. And I'm sure I am not alone with this idea in the whole wide world, you know. I bet that many foreign people are visiting their home countries at this time of the year. But while in Newcastle, I felt as if it was 10 years ago in the town I live now. (= "Oh, I'm the only foreigner here!") No, no, I'm not complaining. But I thought that I would promote visits to different towns in this country to foreign residents/workers if I was working in the tourist board. There are many lovely places for the friends and families can enjoy for a day-out, you know.