The Sea

IOW west side
Margate and surrounding

Any other British gem worthy to be mentioned?

I was thinking about Swansea, is it worthy the train tickets and overnight costs?

Margate and surrounding... British gem

What the actual?

Viking bay

the mumbles

Cromer?

Wales in general?

From googling I'm not sure about Cromer, while The Mumbles instead looks great, probably as the most of Wales coasts. For a weekend thing seems the better.

It is in my mind, before dying, to rent a motorhome, fill it with substances, and stay a zonzo on the Wales coasts for a little while, will see.

Now, let's not discuss the weather, and most importantly better to erase the Mediterranean sea from my mind. Depression to be cured has elevate costs. Even more than the British train fees.

Mousehole is alright.

Isle of Purbeck?
(Not an actual island)

Swansea as gateway to the gower only, mumbles is not so nice, not compared with the rest of the gower peninsular, which is worth a long weekend/1 week visit. Those south and west coast beaches are some of the best anywhere in the uk. Water's warm too about now.

Yeah, exactly, the water temperature, that's another important thing. I can surpass to be fussy about the colour of the water, but if I need a wetsuit then it's another cost. And when I look at the total… better to fly in Jamaica. I can also save the cost for the bag containing the substances.

^^^Mousehole looks too tiny though.

ooops yes the gower is the area ... my bad i thought the mumbles was the whole coastline
oxwich bay is lovely

north norfolk coast is lovely

The more I look at the gower and the more I like it, mhhh…

Gower is great, fire on the beach at Three Peaks bay was awesome..

Filey Brigg
Holkham Sands
Dungeness

to name but a few

I swam in the sea two weeks ago. North coast of Cornwall; Treyarnon Bay. Lovely and warm.

I used to take the camper down to camber sands, close by and lovely sunrise in the morning.

SE has largely rubbish coast (esp Kent/Essex), SW largely great, esp Cornwall, Dorset. Wales hampered by the fact that it's Wales, Scotland amazing from Oban up as far as Cape Wrath. North and east coasts much duller. Lots of decent bits in between, but you basically need to travel some way from Ldn before you have a decent stretch of coast.

Sea doesn't cool very quickly, so after a summer like this, most UK waters will be fine for non-wetsuit swimming until the start of Nov.

Trevone

Scarista Beach, Western Isles... Paradise.

Pedn Vounder, also paradise. Just watch out for the nudists. And careful climbing down the cliff if you come down that way, it really is climbing down a cliff.

^ I read a while ago that someone drilled a hole in the fence round the nudist colony there. Police were looking into it.

Hmm, it's at the bottom of a cliff and you either swim round or climb down a (pretty scary) path which eventually ends in about 15ft of near sheer cliff to climb down (I slid down on my bum after chucking my bag down, then worried about getting back up!) and it's National Trust, really can't think where there'd be any fences. It's more unofficially clothing optional than a proper French style nudist colony :)

Perverts though I'm sure. Unfortunate that British people are so bad at separating sex and being naked.

Morfa Dyffryn was great too, although we got very lucky with the weather, the Irish sea was actually warm!

^ I read a while ago that someone drilled a hole in the fence round the nudist colony there. Police were looking into it.

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Oh, hah! Totally didn't get that...