Beautiful Beaches: Find the Shore That Fits Your Day
The most beautiful beach for one person may be entirely wrong for another. A wild coast can offer a magnificent walk and difficult swimming....
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A coastal day can be a harbour walk, a village visit or time beside the water. Explore different shorelines and the places around them, with attention to access and the conditions that shape the day.
Start with Passage du Gois: France’s Tidal Road, Explained and Beachy Head: Chalk Cliffs, Lighthouse Views and Safer Walks.
The most beautiful beach for one person may be entirely wrong for another. A wild coast can offer a magnificent walk and difficult swimming....
White chalk, green slopes and a red-and-white lighthouse below: Beachy Head has a bold, almost graphic beauty. You do not need to stand at ...
An unusual beach often has a story hidden in its colour or shape. Dark sand can point to volcanic rock; a brief blue glow can come from livi...
The Mediterranean offers many different holidays under one familiar name. A week in a hilltop village, a city break behind historic walls an...
A lighthouse stands at the edge of a rocky headland, with the sea opening around it. In Panos Smirniotis’s aerial film of the Corinth area, ...
Archive photograph showing the road affected by the tide; do not enter a submerged crossing. A road runs out towards the sea, and then the ...
City lights across a harbour. Limestone stacks standing offshore. Orange-covered boulders beside pale sand. Johan Lolos’s Australian photogr...
A sunset can be the simplest part of a trip: stop walking, find somewhere comfortable and watch the light change. Yet it is surprisingly eas...
A beach can be much more than a place to spread a towel. Sometimes the memorable feature is a line of weathered trees. Sometimes it is ice, ...
Blue water, steep rock and a burst of movement: a cliff-jumping film can compress the energy of a Hawaiian holiday into a few seconds. The c...
A beach photograph tells you about a view. It says much less about the day around it: how you arrive, where you find shade, what happens whe...
Australia gives you plenty of good reasons to go—and a very good reason to be selective. A harbour breakfast, a reef excursion and a desert ...
Giola looks almost too neatly shaped to be natural: a basin of green water held in pale rock, with the open sea just beyond its rim. The co...