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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 12:32 - Jul 9 by DubaiR
I live 10 minutes from Dunwich and Southwold beach both lovely beaches.
Dunwich and around there is fantastic.
People think you're mad walking near Sizewell B but it made a cracking backdrop for me whilst walking around the nature reserve just off the beach.
Returning to the OP.... Bognor is, I hate to say, basically a shizenhole which even the locals seem keen to tell everyone. However, you go left or right and there's some cracking spots. I found a beach down there totally by accident and have made it my go to UK breakaway. It's hugely quiet, no car park, no amenities but is dog friendly all year round and has a couple of cracking pubs a short walk from it... relatively unknown apart from those who have retired there until recently. Now it's getting ever more populated by us vvankers from London and property now rare and expensive. Hoping to get down there as soon as I'm fit for the 90 min drive.
Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 08:28 - Jul 11 with 1625 views
Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 11:11 - Jul 9 by hubble
Just had a look on google maps. Wow. That's somewhere I'd love to visit. Can you wild camp there?
Yes you can, lots (well I say lots, by that I mean a fair percentage of the few that visit) do. I believe it's a rather adventurous 7 mile walk cross country to Cape Wrath. Nearest parking space is 4 miles away, there's a good walkable track from there to the Bay.
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 11:41 - Jul 11 with 1564 views
On a family trip to Connemara detoured to a place called Roundstone (County Galway) and found this stunning white sand beach called Dogs Bay. A friend had separately camped there and we both agreed the place had a good vibe. Also enjoyed Narin and a Portnoo beach in Donegal.
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 11:44 - Jul 11 with 1559 views
Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 10:11 - Jul 10 by losethedrum
Superb area i once cycled to Southwold & back from near Diss for the day , it was so hot the road was melting only worked out at 68 miles & i had a tail wind on the way home .
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Is there any decent pubs for lunch in Diss do you or anyone know?
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 11:58 - Jul 11 with 1534 views
Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 11:44 - Jul 11 by CroydonCaptJack
Is there any decent pubs for lunch in Diss do you or anyone know?
I am told that the Saracens head in Mount street Diss is good for food . The Roydon white hart 1.5 miles out of Diss on the A1066 road towards Thetford is usually good for Lunch & the outside area has a decent view looking down on the Waveney valley . I would pre book a table for either though as quite a lot of tourists visiting Norfolk just now .
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 12:06 - Jul 11 with 1520 views
I love west Wales - Penbryn beach is absolutely stunning. No facilities and it’s a 5/10 mins walk from the car park, so it is really quiet compared to other local beaches. Stunning setting, massive beach, and always plenty of space to play cricket etc. Mwnt is a decent alternative, but much smaller and busier.
Friends of ours have a place in Cornwall, and Mawgan Porth, out of season, is another beach that you more-or-less have to yourself other than a few dozen surfers and dog walkers. Lovely coastal walk too. Porthcothan is a lovely beach nearby.
Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 08:02 - Jul 11 by Lblock
Dunwich and around there is fantastic.
People think you're mad walking near Sizewell B but it made a cracking backdrop for me whilst walking around the nature reserve just off the beach.
Returning to the OP.... Bognor is, I hate to say, basically a shizenhole which even the locals seem keen to tell everyone. However, you go left or right and there's some cracking spots. I found a beach down there totally by accident and have made it my go to UK breakaway. It's hugely quiet, no car park, no amenities but is dog friendly all year round and has a couple of cracking pubs a short walk from it... relatively unknown apart from those who have retired there until recently. Now it's getting ever more populated by us vvankers from London and property now rare and expensive. Hoping to get down there as soon as I'm fit for the 90 min drive.
When I was younger my parents had a caravan in Pagham for a few years. I used to love going down there with mates for the weekend.
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 13:30 - Jul 11 with 1378 views
Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 12:32 - Jul 9 by DubaiR
I live 10 minutes from Dunwich and Southwold beach both lovely beaches.
Great thread. Agreed re. those beaches, they are lovely. Dunwich is England's very own Atlantis, the village there was lost to the sea centuries ago. My grandad was stationed there with the Royal Artillery during the second world war. Mrs R from Afar and I saw a porpoise in the sea from the beach while at Dunwich.
Local (Ipswich based) prog band The Future Kings of England wrote this song inspired by the place:
Back on track, Mersehead, near Southerness in Dumfries and Galloway, is a wonderful beach. It's part of an RSPB reserve and we were there in May. The beach is sandy, very flat and very broad, with the sea usually a long way out. There's no infrastructure so it's wonderfully peaceful. There were only three other people on the sunny afternoon we were there. You can sit there and completely relax, listening to the wind, the waves and the birdsong. If you are lucky, you will hear the infinitely variable song of this bird. We also heard cuckoos.
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 13:34 - Jul 11 with 1365 views
Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 12:11 - Jul 11 by Konk
I love west Wales - Penbryn beach is absolutely stunning. No facilities and it’s a 5/10 mins walk from the car park, so it is really quiet compared to other local beaches. Stunning setting, massive beach, and always plenty of space to play cricket etc. Mwnt is a decent alternative, but much smaller and busier.
Friends of ours have a place in Cornwall, and Mawgan Porth, out of season, is another beach that you more-or-less have to yourself other than a few dozen surfers and dog walkers. Lovely coastal walk too. Porthcothan is a lovely beach nearby.
I was just about to post about Porthcothan Bay. Stunning beach. Going back this August.
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 13:44 - Jul 11 with 1355 views
My top tip for Dorset is Mupe Way. Unless you have a very sturdy 4x4, you can't drive to it. It's about an hour's walk from West Lulworth but the walk offers great sea views from up on the ridge.
The place itself is a little cove, with dazzling white cliffs and a pebble beach. It's a marine reserve and the sea is clear and wonderful to swim in, a snorkeler's paradise. It's not usually busy in my experience because there is no road to it but there are often a few boats at anchor in the bay. A super place
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 14:54 - Jul 11 with 1314 views
The usual tourist routes in Ireland have people arriving in Dublin and then heading west or south west. Heading north and around the border area The Mournes, Carlingford there are some lovely spots. On the way there’s a fantastic stretch of beach on the Boyne estuary and every year they have a proper race meeting under rules
Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 08:02 - Jul 11 by Lblock
Dunwich and around there is fantastic.
People think you're mad walking near Sizewell B but it made a cracking backdrop for me whilst walking around the nature reserve just off the beach.
Returning to the OP.... Bognor is, I hate to say, basically a shizenhole which even the locals seem keen to tell everyone. However, you go left or right and there's some cracking spots. I found a beach down there totally by accident and have made it my go to UK breakaway. It's hugely quiet, no car park, no amenities but is dog friendly all year round and has a couple of cracking pubs a short walk from it... relatively unknown apart from those who have retired there until recently. Now it's getting ever more populated by us vvankers from London and property now rare and expensive. Hoping to get down there as soon as I'm fit for the 90 min drive.
yes 100% right about bognor. all around the pier and left as far as butlins, mainly all chavs, and a lot of rumanian gypsys. but we went right of the pier, and half a mile plus, had every beach to ouselves. blue skies and turquoise sea, didnt feel like bognor at all.
on the the way home, A29, stopped off in a little hamlet called adversane, never heard of it, the pub, also on the A29, the blacksmith arms, run by italians, had a lovely meal outside in their garden.
when you've got the weather, you can't beat the british isles and ireland if you don't want all that airport poncing about.
Just back from South East cork. Kinsale, cobh and passagewest or was it passageeast. Gorgeous. Cobh is so beautiful looking up from the seafront to the cathedral.
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 02:44 - Jul 12 with 1181 views
Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 13:30 - Jul 11 by R_from_afar
Great thread. Agreed re. those beaches, they are lovely. Dunwich is England's very own Atlantis, the village there was lost to the sea centuries ago. My grandad was stationed there with the Royal Artillery during the second world war. Mrs R from Afar and I saw a porpoise in the sea from the beach while at Dunwich.
Local (Ipswich based) prog band The Future Kings of England wrote this song inspired by the place:
Back on track, Mersehead, near Southerness in Dumfries and Galloway, is a wonderful beach. It's part of an RSPB reserve and we were there in May. The beach is sandy, very flat and very broad, with the sea usually a long way out. There's no infrastructure so it's wonderfully peaceful. There were only three other people on the sunny afternoon we were there. You can sit there and completely relax, listening to the wind, the waves and the birdsong. If you are lucky, you will hear the infinitely variable song of this bird. We also heard cuckoos.
I’d really like to explore Galloway one day. I looked into walking the South of Scotland coast to coast path once and what defeated the idea was the lack of human settlement - about 40 miles between villages at one point. I’d have been weighed down like a camel.
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 08:55 - Jul 12 with 1089 views
Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 00:04 - Jul 12 by bob566
Just back from South East cork. Kinsale, cobh and passagewest or was it passageeast. Gorgeous. Cobh is so beautiful looking up from the seafront to the cathedral.
Walked into a pub in Cobh once to find only one person in it, a guy in a QPR shirt at the bar.
Sadly got chatting to him and he started telling me Eze was "lazy" so I made my excuses and sat in the corner on my own
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 08:59 - Jul 12 with 1082 views
The North Antrim coast in Northern Ireland is absolutely astonishing. And now everyone hates Game of Thrones it probably isn't that crowded anymore either
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Underated coast line/seaside..gb and ireland. on 09:12 - Jul 12 with 1070 views
The viewpoint over Loch Carron near Plockton. The wrinkled features on the Applecross Peninsular, ever changing in the evening light and the sun passing behind the The Cuillin mountains.
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