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• A weekend with JMW Turner in Margate, Kent

  10 Sep 2014: Tate Britain’s Turner exhibition opens today, and Mike Leigh’s biopic is out soon, so when better to visit Margate, the Kent seaside town the artist loved best?
  

• St Petersburg's oldest nudist beach faces closure

  4 Sep 2014: The city’s naturists face the unwelcome news that authorities plan to turn their haunt in to a ‘family friendly’ resort. The Moscow Times reports
  

• Folkestone gold hunt as art: the search for £10,000 bullion – as it happened

  28 Aug 2014: Follow up live updates on unusual public artwork in Folkestone

• One in five UK families can't afford seaside day out

  25 Aug 2014: Barnardo's finds 'no-frills' bank holiday trip costs up to £172 and demands urgent action on child poverty

• Walking England’s new coast path: sea and skylarks in the north-east

  24 Aug 2014: Following Wales’s lead, England is opening a national coastal path. The first section, in the post-industrial north-east, makes a captivating two-day walk, says Chris Moss

• An alternative wardrobe for the sun-shy holidaymaker

  24 Aug 2014: As the Facekini is embraced by the fashion set, Morwenna Ferrier reveals how absurd sun cover-ups became big business

• Hanging out at the beach in North Korea – in pictures

  20 Aug 2014: Visitors to the DPRK expect to have their every move monitored, so it took travel blog The Velvet Rocket by surprise when they were dropped off at the beach unsupervised for a couple of hours. They set about meeting as many locals as they could, taking photos as they went. The results are a refreshing change from the stage-managed images often seen emerging from the country

• Top 10 national and state parks in Hawaii

  15 Aug 2014: Every magical thing you’ve ever heard about Hawaii is true: these eight volcanic islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean are a tropical paradise, a geological marvel and an ecological treasure. Mary Caperton Morton explores them

• 'Sun and mayhem' – Russia hits the beach

  14 Aug 2014: Photographer Nikita Shokhov spent two years taking pictures of Russian holidaymakers at the seaside in Sochi, Anapa and resorts in between. From sun-worshipers to night-time revellers, his Black Sea Vacations series is a compelling insight into beach culture, says The Calvert Journal

• New Look's kimono success heralds beachwear as proper fashion category

  12 Aug 2014: Once all you needed for a beach holiday was a bikini, a towel and sunglasses. These days cover-ups are also de rigueur

• Greek island holiday guide: the Cyclades

  12 Aug 2014: The Cyclades are the picture-perfect Greek islands where whitewashed villages tumble down to azure bays. Andrew Bostock explores the famous – Mykonos and Santorini – and smaller islands too

• Are you a page-hugger or page-turner? I've got the summer beach read for you

  9 Aug 2014: Edan Lepucki: What I learned at the bookstore – and from Stephen Colbert: books in the warmest months need not be warm and distracting, so long as they let you reflect

• Narbonne: On France's secret riviera

  9 Aug 2014: Head for the Med near the city of Narbonne, says Liz Boulter, and you’ll see why artists are drawn by its fishing villages, lagoons and sandy beaches – and why the French have kept it to themselves

• Best and worst of the British seaside holiday

  8 Aug 2014: On the plus side, there’s the shopping – seaside shops are a cornucopia of eccentric British rubbish. On the down side, there’s an astonishing lack of diversity – do minority ethnic groups go to the seaside?

• Inbetweeners 2: Eight things British people can't help doing abroad

  8 Aug 2014:

  To celebrate the latest cinematic jolly for everyone's favourite sex-starved students, co-creator Damon Beesley explains why the Brits suck at foreign travel

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