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Paul Wade and Anthony Peregrine in The Telegraph guide us through the Best beaches on the French Riviera and Basque Coast, from the Plage de l’Estagnol, popular with families and the Sarkozys, to Plage de La Paloma, a favourite of the jet set and celebrities, on to Les Plages at Seignosse, the place to go for surfing.
“Even today, the Andalucian hilltop village of Gaucín is a place for those in search of romantic thrills,” writes Michael Jacobs in The Guardian in Spanish views to thrill in heady Gaucín. “The road linking Gaucín with the coast is still gloriously vertiginous, and the village itself – despite the replacement of bandits with foreigners – has not become an oppressive tourist den.”
“Where do the Italians go in Italy in the summer? What stylish, little-known havens do they head to? The short answer is, Italians go to the beach. By mid-August, the cities are eerily deserted, except for foreign tourists, so if you need a doctor or a dentist in a hurry, your best chance could be to drive to the coast and shout.” Matthew Kneale discovers Where the locals like to go in Italy in The Financial Times.
“[D]id you know Cornwall’s full of Eden projects of every shape and size — and they’re just as likely to touch your heart as the usual headline-grabbers. Here are eight amazing places, not just for the green-fingered, but for anyone seeking a place of calm and colour, of nature and nurture. And if a walk through such a place makes you peckish, we tell you where to find good Cornish cooking that doesn’t necessarily involve a life-threatening dollop of clotted cream.” In The Times, Nigel Summerley offers Flower power: eight hidden havens in Cornwall.
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