St. Ives for me.
Why English? He said UK did he not?
Calshot for the climbing walls and velodrome? 😀
everywhere is booked up......... 😥
i like dartmouth, especially blackpool sands.
That St.Ives one was available W/C August 28th. However, I have shagged in the bed.
+1 for Calshot the beach is actually ok especially for ferry spotting!
The beaches of Dumfries and Galloway are very nice and get better the further west you go (apparently). I've stayed at a self catering place which overlooked the sea and had it's own beach iirc. It was called Sandyhills (or something like that). but I can't find it now.
hey ive been to sandyhills.... drove to it once from gretna green... very nice beach that sandyhills.. never gets too deep tho...not surfing water anyway...lol..... luv cornwall myself for good ole surfs up ! ruddy too dear now tho... 900 quid a week and more !
Whitstable. Even if it does get full of dfl's each w/e.
+1 for whitstable. As a resident its easy to forget how nice it is, until you visit other places. The sunsets can be astonishingly beautiful. The dfl's tend to stick to the main areas and only at busy times so easily avoided. Nice pubs too
Aberdovey (why stick with England).
Morecambe
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Woolacombe, or at the other end of the coutnry, Fortrose or Rosemarkie on the Black Isle north of Inverness. Or nairn for that matter. Stunning palces, though the northerly ones may not exactly be a 'summer' beach holiday!
That's abit (sorry, CFH!) sneaky, Grum! Every morning I will now have to negotiate a roundabout and a sharp left hand turn with my eyes closed in order to avoid paying you royalties! 🙂
Whitby. Sandsend in particular
I love Brighton
Alnmouth in Northumberland
Another vote for Whitby / Sandsend ...
Fantastic place (s)
The north east has some amazingly beautiful coast. Swimming is cold though.
Bamburgh, Holy Island are both nice, bit deserted though. Same's true of the bits north of the border too from what I'm told.
Here, because i can ride to the Purbecks from my house :-).
SUNDERLAND
although actually a city and not right on the seaside, but i love St Davids in Pembrokeshire, its amazing!
Loved Weymouth a couple of years ago. Bit old fashioned but nice enough.
Fancy going back when the Olympic Sailing is on in 2012.
Another vote for Whitby.
Durness
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What you can't see in that picture is all the locals are blue with cold
St Ives Bay, 3 mile of beach but my favourite place in the whole wide world is Low Newton by the Sea, Northumberland. Transport me there right now!
Craster.
Just up past Amble..
Beautiful...
scarborough or whitby
Dartmouth... Exmouth
Well for me it is my home county we are spoilt with beaches here. Alnmouth area, craster, bamburgh and so many others.
Best of all they're quiet.
Ton if your fancying up here I'll compile a better list on my return from afan
will be tough to find somewhere though in august it does fill up now. Email in profile.
West bay for the area, the purbs for the riding ( plus as with rusty it's a stones throw 😛 )
Another vote for Sandsend, good bridleway from the village going to either whitby in south or up to teeside.
Moors, Dalby, wykham and Guisborough are all within easy reach.
Northumberland, Isle of White (loads of nice, 1950's seaside postcard type places), or if you fancy a bit of a trip, head off to Dingle in Ireland.
On the lash - Blackpool
Clubbing - Brighton
Family - Gower or Devon/Cornwall
Abersoch on the Lleyn peninsula.
Another vote for whitstable. Well, if it was good enough for the legend that was Peter Cushing.....
Their not wrong about the sunsets either!
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few more pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheesyfeet/sets/72157622118547434/
Anywhere in Pembrokeshire (St Davids / Whitesands is my favourite though) or the Llyn peninsula - especially the camp site right on the very end.
Try north Norfolk Ton, it tends to stay fairly quiet even in august, wells next the sea has a great beach and some nice pubs (not that you'd be interested in that sort of thing!) do a search for the globe at wells
I'm heading off to Salcombe in Devon. It's a nice spot, great for the kids and some lovely beaches.
St Ives, Cornwall. In fact I'm there right now, off to the beach (again) after breakfast 🙂
Living in Cornwall, where to start?!
St Mawes, St Ives (off season), Sennen, Porthleven, Polzeath, Falmouth, etc, etc - HUGE list of stunning places with amazing beaches (some accessible only by boat 😉 ), great places to eat and some lovely waves.
Not bad here either - two miles from Truro (a small city), overlooking the river, just nip out on the boat to St Mawes/Falmouth/waterside pub/secluded beach - in fact doing that this afternoon.
barrow in furness is probably one of the best