We had arrived in Ireland from Australia two days earlier. It was an early start and I was lumbered into a van with the extended family of my girlfriend’s best friend - a rambunctious and lovely bunch of Americans - and made our way around the Ring of Kerry. My girlfriend Sarah is laughing with the group in this photo, the cloud cover was dark and set in heavy across the sky, but a burst of sunshine broke through at this moment and her two day old, 24hr-flight hair erupted in the Irish light.