Maike and I lived in Tenerife (Spain) for the last couple of years, and there are some really nice traditions on the Canarian Islands. One of them is eating 12 grapes at midnight on the 31st of December, one for every month in the next year. While you´re eating your grapes, you think about the next 12 months and how you want things to happen in the new year.

Well, as long as we lived in Spain, we kept this that tradition every year. Moving to Ireland didn´t stop us and to add some feeling of the past we ate our grapes at the beach this year. It was freezing cold, so the right feeling didn´t come up - but we took some pictures of the beaches we want to share with you. We were especially impressed by some guys that seem to be really crazy. It was about 1 or 2 degrees Celsius, and the really went surfing in December. Well - at least something that really reminded us of Tenerife (not that we would really miss it, to be honest)…