To not want to go to UK beach unless it is in Cornwall?

[LynetteScavo]

If so, try to sell me somewhere else.

Haven't booked holiday yet, so probably wont manage anything in Cornwall.

So we might not get to the beach this year.
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Pleas bear in mind I'm a Midlander.

Weymouth?

north norfolk

What's so special about Cornwall? I went last year and was really disappointed.

disappointed at Cornwall

The sea is so blue (if freesing cold), the sand is so golden, the ice creams so organic.

North Norfolk rather lovely, but also popular. I love Dorset too.

Ah, if organic icecream is your bag then North Norfolk (Boden by Sea ) is your bag. Or how about North Devon?

Well, yes lynette. But also the beaches so packed, the roads so congested, the restaurants so abysmal and so expensive.

It has rained every single bloody time I have ever been to miserable wales.

Spent a week on Aberdyfi beach last year, it's gorgeous and the ice cream is good!!

Wales - go to wales!

Gower, south Wales. We can make it there in 3 hours from the Midlands. The beaches are definitely on a par with Cornwall. See:

Three Cliffs Bay

Worms Head

Swansea Bay

Oxwich

Suffolk

The stretch of coast between Holkham and Wells is as near to a perfect beach as you can get imho! Weymouth is lovely too, we did find one nice beach in Cornwall last year which was a NT beach and was like something out of a Famous Five book!

I love Cornwall but the Gower is my favourite.

It is true, though. It does rain an awful lot! But when it doesn't rain the climate is very mild.

Boden By Sea? I could parade my Boden sale items. Sounds interesting. What are the beaches like?

what's so special about Cornwall . I think maybe it's the sort of place you either get or you don't.

Cornwall is my favourite place of all. Next favourite is North Devon - Woolacombe or Saunton Sands.

Where I live (Poole/Bournemouth) has a great beach but it's a very different sort of beach to those in Cornwall/North Devon. The tide doesn't go out for a start, well it does, but the water tends to go shallower rather than retreat for miles. There's a promenade that runs the length of the bay and lots of amenities, land train. And they tend to be a lot busier in the height of the season.

There are some fab beaches in south west Devon as well - very similar to some of the Cornish beaches. If you're into the more surfy beaches, then North Devon is also great.

Anywhere around Tenby or further South west Wales. Or the Gower!

Well I agree with you Lynette. Or more accurately I agree with your first eight words.

UK beaches fine if wearing Very Warm Clothes and fully prepared for walks along wild wet windy beaches. It seems odd to expect to take ones clothes off on one.

Tenby and the pembroksshire caost is stunning and less crowded than Cornwall.www.virtualtenby.co.uk/media-bigphoto.asp?photoid=170

Norfolk...we had a weekend in Hemsby and the beaches were beautiful?

East Coast of Yorkshire...Sandsend is beautiful and there are fossils, dinosuar footprints and fossilised tree trunks to see without too much effort (although stay away from under the cliffs she says from past experience). We have a week in Staithes every summer; a lovely little fishing village that can rival anything on the Cornish coast imvho and yet more fossils......I found an ammonite and some bivales last year, and it's an up and coming surfing location so lots of lovely lithe bodies to ogle from behind your sunglasses

Wales....Black Rock Sands and the beaches from Porthmadog down to Barmouth are bloody gorgeous.

Fife; lots of lovely beaches on the East Neuk and around to St Andrews.

Northumberland...miles and miles of unpoilt sandy beaches.

The west coast of Scotland has some truly beautiful spots which you would be unlikely to be sharing with hordes of people (and if you're lucky it'll be dry and warm enough to get your swimmies on . We found a lovely beach in Argyle on the Cowal peninsula with fantastic views over to Arran and there were only about ten groups on a beach that stretched for miles.

Oh I love wild wet windy beaches!