Beautiful quiet British beaches

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[Anna]

Saturday evening's started early!! Speaking in tongues and not 7pm yet!!

Oh, I can see the the above, and more! Crickey Moses - is it that early - oh my ears and whiskers - I must away and leave you gentlemen to your own preferences ......... <giggle>

[Nick Armstrong]

- when we got there, it was empty... save for a small van, which had its tail-gate up.

And as we went past it, we saw - like something mystical, a coffee-addict's mirage - sitting in the back of the van a large, shiny, silver double-barrelled Italian espresso machine, hissing and ready for action. This travelling coffee vendor was just thinking of packing up as the last visitors (he thought) had gone a few minutes before...

He made us the most delicious, strong, perfect tasting coffees, beautifully steamed milk... and like a dream come true, with the desired caffeine hit, we clambered onto the beach with the sun setting behind us, and enjoyed an unforgettable beach walk...

One of the others has just found a photo of the mystical coffee vendor's van, taken that evening...! I wasn't dreaming!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

One of the others has just found a photo of the mystical coffee vendor's van, taken that evening...! I wasn't dreaming!

Are these vans becoming a feature? There is also one at Llandudno - it featured on last week's Griff Rhys Jones "Welsh Journey" programme.

[Nick Armstrong]

Are these vans becoming a feature? There is also one at Llandudno - it featured on last week's Griff Rhys Jones "Welsh Journey" programme.

Presumably then they are being produced and sold by some company/ies, and hence used in various places. It was just so strange to find one there, at the end of a winter's day, when there can't have been that many people there during the daylight hours...

[Lat-Literal]

Coves - Mwnt, Caerfai, Caerbwdi.

Plus Porthclais.

Solva - given by the Wootton-Woolleys.

And Newgale.

[Sir Velo]

Ponsence, Bosahan & Padgagarrack

[Lat-Literal]

Some very good moments on these stretches:

Woolacombe to Ilfracombe via Morthoe and Lee Bay.

Mining - North of Geevor to St Just and beyond.

West Wight- the Military Road.

Staithes to Scarborough via Whitby, Robin Hoods Bay and Ravenscar.

Jurassic Coast - perhaps especially between Lulworth and Weymouth.

(Lee Bay is not really a beach but it is the tranquil)

[Richard Tarleton]

Solva - given by the Wootton-Woolleys.

Eh?

[Bryn]

A few small ones (Smugglers' Cove being the longest) between Shaldon and Maidencombe. Most easily accessed by boat, but possible at low tide over the rocks from Shaldon's Ness Beach, itself accessed via an old smugglers' tunnel.

[wenotsoira]

Not really a beach person, although I love the sea, being from God's own city.

LEEDS!!!! God's own?!! That's why I refuse to believe in god.

[gurnemanz]

We went to Shipload Bay North Devon a couple of times on holidays with our children. It is a delightful and very secluded cove which was only accessible by walking half a mile and going down steep steps. Now, I read, even quieter and popular with seals because landslides have destroyed the steps.

[Keraulophone]

St Martins (my favourite of the islands) had glorious weather...

Harold Wilson always used to holiday in the Scilly Isles...I think may even be buried there.

St Martin's is also my favourite Scilly Isle with its long, peaceful, white sandy beaches and sparse population (both residential and visiting).

Harold Wison lies in the churchyard of St. Mary's, Old Town, a quiet spot overlooking the sea:

[Keraulophone]

Neck of the Pool, St Martin's, IoS:




The clear waters of Great Bay, St Martin's:

[wenotsoira]

Some of the beaches in Cornwall are great, and very beautiful, except that some crazy councils bar dogs in the summer. These are the ones like Mousehole (****hole) where they put up notices in the streets about cleaning up but do not provide bins in which to put the little bags of you know what. (NO, not the HIPP replacement fiddlers at the Proms, but the dog s***).

It's the only thing (apart from the rip-off charges for parking) that I hate about Cornwall. Apart from that it is really great, and no musak ...