Posts about coast
Random things in June
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My main photographic focus in June was our trip to Brittany in north-western France.
Some photos are no good for Instagram
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Instagram is where the audience is, but not every photo is suitable for Instagram. Highly-detailed images get lost amongst the pouting girls and gaudy sunsets. These photos deserve to be viewed larger.
Cinque Terre – La Spezia
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Black-and-white photos from wanderings in the Italian Cinque Terre.
Moods of Seaton
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One has to wonder what happened in the Devon seaside town of Seaton to bring it from a self-touted “artisanal haven” to its current dilapidated state.
Cinque Terre – Vernazza
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Black-and-white photos from wanderings in the Italian Cinque Terre.
Cinque Terre – Monterosso al Mare
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Black-and-white photos from wanderings in the Italian Cinque Terre.
Sandbanks peninsula, Dorset
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A small community on the British coast, near Poole in Dorset, is a prime piece of land. Measuring just eighty-eight metres at its narrowest point, the peninsula is amongst the most expensive pieces of real estate in the world, after cities like London and Tokyo.
The Jurassic Coast
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Mattia Bicchi smashes it out of the park again with this wonderful time-lapse video of the Jurassic Coast in the south of England.
Smugglers’ Island
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Burgh Island, off the coast of Devon, was re-christened by Agatha Christie in 1941 for her famous Hercule Poirot novel “Evil Under The Sun”.
Lizard Point, Cornwall
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As time goes on, we’re getting to see more and more new parts of the U.K. One goal we’ve set ourselves is to visit all of the most remote corners of the British “mainland”, as well as more remote spots on outlying islands when we can. We’ve already visited John o’Groats and Dunnet Head –
Tintagel Not-Castle
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I was a little disappointed that the “castle” at Tintagel was little more than a few bits of wall at the coast. (I suppose I have been spoiled by the castle ruins at Dunnottar and Tantallon.) Our walk along the coast path, doing battle with the wind, was lovely anyway, with foxgloves (a memory from
Trebarwith Strand
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We recently spent a lovely couple of weeks on holiday, touring the south of England and spending a full week in Cornwall. On arrival at the self-catering cottage we’d booked, we chose to make things easy for ourselves and head to the Port William Inn for a pub dinner in one of the few buildings at the seaward
Aerial sequence of Brighton’s West Pier
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Filmed by Sam Moore of Visual Air, these are touching sequences of a structure which can’t be much longer for this world.
Secret Britain
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A new BBC travel programme seeks out lesser-known spots in the British Isles, starting this evening.
Water spout on the Amalfi Coast
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An unexpected water spout on the boat journey between Ischia, Capri and Positano in Italy.
Seven Sisters
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One of the most iconic pieces of landscape in the world is the stretch of white chalk cliffs along the south coast of England. Visible from many miles away when arriving by sea, the cliffs are one of the most famous symbols of England and its independence. The white cliffs are most often referred to
