It’s easy to get overwhelmed when you think about planning your UK trip to the coast this article will help you. From deciding when to go, where to go, and what to see and do I will take you through each step and hopefully make your planning process smoother and less daunting. There is a…
The whimsical beach huts of Britain You’ve seen the families enjoying the comfort of a cuppa brewed in their beach hut as you sit there in the rain on the beach telling yourself that it’s all part of the great British holiday and wishing you were dry and warm inside as well. Beach huts are…
St Ives is a popular Cornish seaside town that has a choice of 8 great beaches all with different characteristics and three St Ives beaches are dog-friendly. We will walk you around them in a clockwise order starting with Porthmeor. Porthmeor Beach Porthmeor Beach is the only St Ives beach that has an Atlantic-facing aspect…
With summer just around the corner, now is the perfect time to start planning your next holiday! While jetting off to a foreign country may be exciting, there are also a number of fantastic locations right here in the UK. In fact, the UK is home to some of the most beautiful coastlines in the…
The UK coastline is miles of beautiful, historic and entertaining spots to take a holiday, but why limit yourself to just one or two areas? Travelling by boat gives you the opportunity to take in as much of it as possible, whether you have a week, a month or even a whole year to explore….
Travelling abroad in the current Covid climate is still quite a palaver, with tests having to be done before you go, and when you come back, and sometimes a couple of days before you leave to come home too. These are not free tests and the costs can add up, not to mention the time…
So you want to take a trip somewhere on the UK coast! We’ve all been there, sitting in front of the screen with 10’s of browser windows open looking for where to go and what to do when there? What Coast Radar is not is an accommodation booking website, you have 100’s of them and…
St Ives is a beautiful Cornwall seaside town that wraps around the harbour with breathtaking scenery of the North Cornwall Atlantic coast. Close to the harbour, its streets are narrow, winding with uneven cobbles. With the benefit of the Atlantic swells and the warmth of the Gulf Stream, the area offers some of the best surf conditions…
Cornwall is really a world apart from the rest of England as the county has its own language as well as unique traditions and landscapes. What really marks Cornwall as different is the jagged coastal scenery. It’s a landscape full of mystery and a rawness that makes it beautiful. English holidaymakers flock to Cornwall every…
Alderney is the third largest of the Channel Islands. It’s one of the few unspoiled, peaceful, natural and totally relaxing places in the British Isles. Imagine a little island – just one and a half miles wide and three and a half miles long with just over two thousand friendly and welcoming inhabitants. Like Guernsey…
Have you thought about the Channel Islands this Summer? The Channel Islands just off the coast of England are often overlooked by Europeans as a holiday destination and yet they boast superb beaches, fine cuisine and really good accommodation and activities for all the family. The islands are Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark and Herm with…
The Beach Hut is a common feature above the high water mark at UK beaches and today the UK has over 20,000 beach huts. Although nowadays huts are firmly fixed to the ground the origins were the wheeled bathing machines used throughout the 19th Century. Photo at Llandudno, Wales by National Media Museum Royalty adopted them,…