Marina Cay, British Virgin Islands
The circuit anticlockwise around the British Virgin Islands takes about a week, covering 85-90 nautical miles. The winds are almost always reliable easterlies giving you a bit of work as […]
Tag Archives: beach
Coast, Saundersfoot, Wales
Yorkshire on expedition. We head off to deepest Wales, never before featured, and discover Pembrokeshire, an area of wonderful beaches and wild cliffs. In many ways, we whisper, not unlike […]
Rick Stein’s Restaurant , Padstow, Cornwall
The acclaimed Star at Harome, the pub with the thatch – oh, and really, really good food – spawned a whole industry in the village of Harome; places to stay, […]
Cod and Lobster, Staithes, North Yorkshire
A day of beautiful sunshine and clear blue sky; the air crisp and the visibility excellent – you can see the ships on the north sea in the distance as […]
Royal Hotel, Runswick Bay, North Yorkshire
There’s a great walk from Staithes along the edge of the cliffs to Runswick Bay. Marvellous scenery and bracing breezes give you a good appetite for lunch at either end. […]
Wit’s End Café, Sandsend, North Yorkshire
“The best café in North Yorkshire” So says the website and who are we to argue [mind you, there’s Bettys…] but Sandsend is a pretty good setting. The North Yorkshire […]
Paris Plages, Paris
When it gets too hot in August, Paris empties out into the cool of the countryside, the restaurants close, the hotels drop their prices and the tourists replace the residents. […]
Grill Rato, Scedro, Croatia
We seem to have featured a lot of Yorkshire recently [and what’s your point?…ed] so we now come to another in the series “Top Ten Settings”. This doesn’t have spectacular […]
Endeavour Restaurant, Staithes, North Yorkshire
The sound of gulls screeching overhead as they dive across the boats and the lobster pots, the smell of the sea and the lapping of the water as the tide […]
Hotel La Perouse, Nice
The hotel is built on the cliffs above the sea, with the most breathtaking view of Nice and the Bay of Angels. The entrance takes a bit of finding, more like a […]
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