Your favourite beach and why?
Whether it's overseas or in the UK, where is your favourite beach and why? Is it great for bucket and spade holidays, or long winter walks, is it the scenery that makes you love it or childhood memories?
For me it would be Valras Plage in France as we had a wonderful family holiday (me, my brother, mum and dad) in the trailer tent when I was a child. The beach was amazing and my aunty, uncle and cousins were staying in a tent on the same campsite too. Such lovely memories of us all playing on the beach together.
In the UK it would be either Woolacombe or Croyde in North Devon, close to Ilfracombe Club Site. My husband's parents live nearby and we have had some beautiful walks along the beaches followed by a pub lunch, in winter, spring, summer and autumn.
We would love to hear your recommendations of beaches and if you have any pictures to share here that would be fantastic.
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In this country, we love Portheras Cove down on Lands End peninsula. Requires a good walk to get down to it, so it is seldom busy even at peak holiday times. Swimming is at your own risk as it isn't lifeguarded, and the undertow is wicked. No facilities, just unspoilt gorgeous location, fabulous wildlife (seals, dolphins, basking sharks, peregrines, ravens etc....) Need to check tide to make the most of beach.
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For the UK it has to be Studland. Big car park (free if NT member) and warm water by UK standards.
Abroad, one is spoilt for choice. Mandraki beach on Skiathos and what was my local beach, Carabassi Playa at Gran Alacant take some beating.
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Our favourite part of the world - courtesy of Trailfinders and Lonely Planet.
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Well, back in our motorbiking days it would be Hemsby in Norfolk where we would pitch our tent in the dunes and party on the beach.
Nowadays and working for the club in Cornwall it has to be Godrevy beach, a stones throw from the club site and an even shorter stones throw from the Gwithian farm and Churchtown farm sites. The best scenery and a relaxing feel.
Further afield, we like Cabopino beach in southern Spain, and the very soft sandy beach at Hersonissos in Crete.
Ro, don't forget to mention the Willingcott club site, that's the nearest full facilities club site in that area.
JK
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We hate beaches (just to give some balance to the discussion!) but we did used to enjoy a stroll along the beach next to Cobblers Cove hotel in Barbados as it was a good way to get to Speightstown. Studland Bay was a regular haunt when the children were young.
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Perranporth beach Cornwall it is a couple of miles long life guards beautiful sand good for surfing etc. pub on the beach and the best bit for me as a dog owner they are allow on the beach and out of high season your dog can be let of there lead. and before you say it yes i do clean up after my dog every time. nice and close to treamble valley club site
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I love the sandy beaches in Northumberland, Embleton Bay & Bamburgh for long walks, but the one beach that brings back lots of memories of family holidays has to be Sandsend near Whitby.
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I have two! The first is Machroes beach at the southern end of Abersoch beach, with glorious views across the bay to Snowdonia. We walk down to the beach from my friend's cottage, collect a few cowrie shells along the way, have a drink at the Vaynol in Abersoch, and then stroll home. Here's a view taken of the view from her cottage. This is at dusk - but it's lovely at every part of the day, winter or summer. The narrow one is looking across to Snowdonia, the second looking along the beach towards Abersoch.
The second is the beach on the river Chassezac, on the campsite where we store our caravan. We can sunbathe there, swim from it, launch our canoe. We can watch the ducks, the red kites and the herons, or at dusk the beaver and the wild boar. We can canoe upstream to our own perfect swimming hole, or downstream watching the dragonflies, the kingfisher, and the herons and egrets returning to the heronry. No photos of this one, though, until I go through lots of folders.
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This is a beach I visit a lot all year round so I think I'll say it's one of my favourites. Hive Beach near Burton Bradstock in West Dorset.
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We think the best beach for sunbathing, swimming or playing in the sea is Studland Bay in Dorset. The water is quite shallow and warmish and it always felt safe for our children. There are lots of good quality facilities there, toilets, cafes, gift shops and parking. This is a NT bay so the parking is free for NT members. Our kids loved it. What we liked about it was the fact it isn't a resort beach and feels rural. Also lovely views across to the IOW.
The best beach for walking is at Holkham and Wells, next the sea. It is a huge lagoon and beach - you can walk for miles, both along the beach and in the pinewoods. The end scenes from Shakespeare in Love were filmed here.
To collect fossils Charmouth beach Dorset and West Runton beach, North Norfolk. Ammonites are easily found at Dorset and belemnites at Norfolk.
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This is mine, spent many a happy hour here and on the cliff tops. Hayle sands accessible from the Club's Godrevy site comes a close second.
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Nice one peedee
Was that you I parked near at San Fulgencio just recently whilst doing my grocery shopping? Small world eh?!
JK
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Studland is certainly one of my favourites too. It's also dog friendly on the one part of the beach. With a disability badge, the National Trust car park is free of charge and access is good. There is a beach cafe too. Well worth a visit.
David
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We also like beaches in Cornwall too, but the dog friendly beaches are not quite as accessible. I quite like Carne beach, but it can get very crowded and the roads are not really made for the volume of traffic.
In Pembrokeshire, I quite like Angle bay. Again it's flat, with easy parking and access to the beach, and also dog friendly.
After saying that, were not too bothered about the beach these days....
David
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Well being in Cornwall we are very fortunate to have a good choice of great beaches which at different times have been the favoured ones due to personal circumstances. My first memories of Cornish beaches is camping at Trevelgue near Porth and Dad driving down to the beach in our 1953 VW Beetle and us exploring the beach, Porth Island, the caverns etc which, for a lad from Bolton, was quite and adventure.
We have also over the years enjoyed some great beaches a bit further afield and in 2016 we stayed at Playa Joyel in Noja and the beach was stunning and just a short walk through dunes.
But, if we had to choose one beach, a beach that if you said to any of our family “name a beach” they would all name, it would be Porthmeor in St Ives.
It would be impossible to calculate the time over all the years that we have spent there with parents, children, grandchildren, brothers, sisters etc. Mum and Dad stayed in St Ives every year for decades and the last visit as a ‘family’ was in 2016 to scatter their ashes on Porthmeor when there were 21 of us there.
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2 crackers in the south west . Godrevy beach near Hayle and Godrevy camc site . or Portscatho beach near Merrose farm camc site .
Godrevy has miles of beautiful beach and great surfing .
Portscatho is sheltered and small with a great beachside café featured on cornwall with Caroline Quentin .
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Yes thought it was you. We go there and Iceland overseas now and again for supplies. I think we're staying on the same site? Might just bob over and say hello if you don't mind?
JK
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I like both of those beaches - especially Godrevy. Unfortunately they are not dog friendly - when we go to Godrevy we usually sit somewhere on the grassed area back from the beach near the top car park. You can also walk up to an area where you can look down over a small secluded beach to see the seals. There are notices there asking folk to be quiet, so they must be there regularly.
David
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Porthcurno...... fabulous, I didn't put it first, only because it gets too busy for us, and dogs are restricted. But it is very special, as is the cliff walking all around!
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JK, I'd hate to get your fifth wheeler into the square at San Fulgencio. There's rarely an empty parking space there anyway.
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I've always liked Chapel Porth in Cornwall. Out of season the dogs can get a good run with some big waves rolling in.
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Not the most glamorous but Hornsea beach has to be my favourite since I am there with Meg, our Cockapoo, every morning
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