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Beach holidays

August 2024

  • 340 Guide to eating ice cream

    The Simone Lia cartoon
    Simone Lia: A local’s guide to eating ice-cream at the beach – cartoon

  • The Milky Way over Skelton tower on the North York Moors.

    Out with beach days, in with star-gazing: how holidays turned nocturnal

  • Portelet beach, Jersey

    Channel hopping: seaside, cycling and more on Jersey, Guernsey and Sark

  • curving white beach and blue sky

    ‘Everything carries a hint of myth and magic’: six great island escapes in Europe

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Sea, sand and sky-high fees: Italians tussle over their right to lie on the beach

  • Kids on board: a family surfing trip to France’s wild Atlantic coast

  • From the agencies
    Shore thing: English beach huts – in pictures

July 2024

  • Curving basalt cliffs and a blue cloudy sky.

    ‘Scotland in miniature’: why the Isle of Arran is perfect for a family holiday

  • An aerial shot of Blackppol's golden beach with its North and Central piers and the Tower

    The bucket and spade list: 10 new reasons to visit the British seaside this summer

  • VW campervan against a blue sky

    Brief letters
    Charles and Camilla could become happy campers if they travelled by VW

  • People sitting outside The Peterboat pub in the summer in seaside town Leigh-on-Sea near Southend on Sea, Essex, UK<br>2BE6Y6D People sitting outside The Peterboat pub in the summer in seaside town Leigh-on-Sea near Southend on Sea, Essex, UK

    Readers' travel tips
    If you’re fond of seafood and salty air: readers’ favourite places to eat at the British seaside

  • ‘I had the beach entirely to myself’: four gorgeous places in France off the tourist trail

  • Skip the coast: three of Europe’s loveliest lakes to visit – by travel experts

June 2024

  • A man on a rock above a beach with a wooden board in his hand

    The Great British Seaside
    From swimwear to toys: how to go plastic-free for a day at the beach

  • Jumped-up Instagram theme parks

    Pass notes
    ‘Beware of locals, we are angry’: the Mallorcans battling tourists to protect their beautiful beach

May 2024

  • Nazia Parveen’s son enjoys the beach close to Bert’s Kitchen Garden on the Llŷn peninsula.

    How an eco-campsite in north Wales rescued our family holiday from disaster

  • Dog on a beach

    Doggie paddles: 10 of the best dog-friendly beaches in the UK

  • Hotel and the beach at Freshwater Bay

    10 of the UK’s best new and revamped seaside hotels

  • GB. England. Weymouth. 2000.

    ‘All the elements of the classic British seaside holiday’: five unsung beach towns

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