Down in hidden sandy coves, you can explore ancient smugglers’ tunnels carved through the cliffs. Later that same day you could stroll through giant dunes to a huge beach where enormous transatlantic breakers arrive in Europe with a foamy crash.
From Britain’s longest beach – the extraordinary 18-mile Chesil Beach comprising an estimated 180 billion pebbles –to England’s biggest sand dunes at the Braunton Burrows UNESCO Biosphere site, any journey on the coastline of Britain’s South West peninsula demonstrates it is one of the most varied in the world.
Your day can easily involve old harbours lined with pastel-painted cottages, steep wooded inlets bobbing with fishing boats, and wide tidal estuaries teeming with spectacular flocks of seabirds. Perhaps you’ll end your day savouring freshly caught seafood in a thatched harbourside pub – then fall asleep to the sound of
