Westward ho! Sunday 25th June 6.30pm and I'm camped on a patch of grass next to a pub car park, on Old Head of Kinsale, 20 miles south of Cork. Today I went to Fota Wildlife Park, and saw the baby Sumatran Tiger out in public today for the first time. He was suckling; his head hardly distinguishable from his mother’s belly, until she pushed his head away, and he scrambled up to her face to be licked and nuzzled. At the beginning of the Wild Atlantic Way, after Kinsale I met a van like mine, same colour, year, design. The driver said it was the only year of that particular design. They were a couple with a white Scottie dog type terrier. My alter ego. They were Irish, and the first VW I've seen here.
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