When Steffan Rhys was a young girl, she vowed never to return to the seaside town of Tenby again. For reasons he can no longer remember, he avoided the area for decades, believing he would never set foot there again. But he recently returned and said he ‘regrets’ his decision to leave the beautiful town,… Read More »
It’s a hot afternoon on the Opal Coast of northern France. On the cape where Le Touquet is short of space at the mouth of the Canche, there is a buzz of insects in the bushes and the excited chatter of children on the sandy path that separates the sand dunes of the coastline from… Read More »
I narrowly escaped winning a plastic lizard. That’s good, because otherwise I might have been attacked for it by a seething mob of septuagenarians. At 49, I’m the youngest person in the bingo hall in the last 10 to 20 years, and the other patrons look at me with veiled suspicion. It turns out Skegness… Read More »
East Timor, formerly East Timor, is one of the world’s great ocean destinations When I looked out from Wata Bo’o beach, I saw a calm blue sea, the water not rippling, only occasionally disturbed by the splash of a leaping silver fish. This tranquil tropical outpost a thousand miles east of Bali felt like it… Read More »