Beach holidays
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Summer may be long gone but there is still plenty of charm to be found along coastlines in the winter. We would like to see photos of your wintry beach experiences
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Just because it’s winter doesn’t mean you have to avoid the British seaside. Here’s where to head for blustery coastal walks, quirky museums and cosy hotels
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From an adventure lodge in the Peruvian Amazon to pousadas on the golden beaches of Brazil, all these places to stay are totally tropical
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From jungle lodges in Africa to paradise island-beach shacks in the Indian Ocean, we round up the best affordable winter-sun escapes
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White sand, azure sea and palm trees on your doorstep … from India to Indonesia we round up Asia’s best affordable winter-sun idylls
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An eco-lodge and a ‘resort-style hostel’ in Queensland, and a wilderness camp in Western Australia – plus a remote tropical hideaway in New Caledonia
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Find you inner Robinson Crusoe at these Caribbean, Pacific and jungle hideaways
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Paradise doesn’t have to coat the earth. Readers share their favourite places for playing out your Robinson Crusoe fantasies for not very much money at all
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The best family-friendly villas get booked up months in advance. Our top picks have style, charm and enough facilities to keep the kids occupied – and are still available for next summer
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The world's best beach hotels and accommodation on a budget Top 10 budget beach hotels, villas and bungalows in Bali and Lombok
Surf and diver pads, yoga retreats and stylish cabanas on deserted beaches … there are plenty of ways to get away from it all on Bali and neighbouring Lombok -
Chilli festivals, beautiful beaches, charming hilltop towns and donkey racing: Calabria, the toe of Italy’s boot, as travelled by Guardian readers
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Italy’s heel has hogged Brits’ attention recently, but that leaves the coast, hills and pretty towns of Italy’s toe of Calabria just waiting to be discovered, says Mary Novakovich
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Hit the beach, explore the old town then cool off with a gelato … In our new Instagram slot, Rome-based photographer Nicolee Drake heads to the Italian coast
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Miles of sand and plenty of fresh oysters ... in our new Instagram travel trips, head of Guardian travel Andy Pietrasik explores Cap Ferret
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With sunshine pouring down on golden sands, ancient buildings and the sparkling ocean, Spain’s far south-west lives up to its name, the coast of light
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Eating tapas while watching the waves, scampering round Roman ruins, mountain-biking and beach-based family fun … welcome to the Cadiz coast as seen by Guardian readers
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The 91-year-old Englishwoman who famously saved the beach – a key nesting site for loggerhead turtles – 25 years ago, launches petition to protect it from new plans for tourist development
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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?
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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
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Follow up live updates on unusual public artwork in Folkestone
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Barnardo's finds 'no-frills' bank holiday trip costs up to £172 and demands urgent action on child poverty
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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
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As the Facekini is embraced by the fashion set, Morwenna Ferrier reveals how absurd sun cover-ups became big business
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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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The village of Busua in south-west Ghana is home to almost every one of the country’s surfers. Will Coldwell takes to the waves with the locals … once he’s finished partying with them
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Alex Clark: Memories of childhood seaside holidays rushed back as I watched fire ravage this beloved landmark
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After a week in which German and British tabloids traded national stereotypes, we set off for Brighton to ask if British beach etiquette is quite as bad as it's painted
Fashion blog New Look's kimono success heralds beachwear as proper fashion category