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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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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