When we think about sandy beaches, people often start dreaming of hot climates, but there are some great beaches closer to home that shouldn’t be overlooked, and if you get good weather can often beat those in other continents. Our tour of UK sandy beaches will start in Northumberland and travel clockwise around the British…
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…
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…
The Penwith Peninsula covers the south-west corner of Cornwall and thus the British mainland. You can stay anywhere within the peninsula and have access to this beautiful coastline. As a result, easily making this a great spot for a UK based staycation. So where is the Penwith Peninsula? If you roughly draw a line from…
The Seal Island trip takes you to a small rocky island 6km west of St Ives and this is the largest island in The Carracks, a group of small rocky inshore islands 200m offshore. It does not take a wildlife expert to understand why the island gets its name as it’s the home to a colony of…
Here we document our recent weeks holiday in Hayle, Cornwall. Two families renting a 4 bedroom self-catering holiday house on the Hayle beach. Saturday After experiencing bad journeys in the past we set off from Buckinghamshire at 3 am and had a good journey arriving in St Ives at 07:30. After a walk around a full English…