Bay Breeze Guesthouse, Hout Bay

Nature at Bay

Advantages: Accessible, attractive, atmospheric
Disadvantages: Covers too small an area

-ville" alongside the estuary, sports a chequer-board motif of flint and sandstone and impressive gargoyles. Nowadays St Valery is focussed on the "basse-ville", and is first and foremost a sea-side resort. Not primarily a bathing resort, since swimming in the estuary can be dangerous, but more a character resort in the style of Rye, Whitstable or Honfleur. There is a relaxing stroll (or a bracing walk, if you happen to be taking it in the face of a buffeting breeze from the west) to be had along the front facing the bay. This begins on open boardwalk built out from the original quay, before coming under the shade of lime and plane trees on its way to such beach as the town has to offer, below the hill. Parallel to and behind the promenade runs the main street, called the Quai Perrée, with houses, shopfronts, cafés and restaurants crammed ...

torr 10.03.2007 (23.09.2008) · Read full review
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Review of Bay of the Somme

My Bay

Advantages: tasty addition to stews and cassorole
Disadvantages: maybe to strong for your taste

Bay is an everygreen herb which grows like a shrub, it can be grown in open spaces or in tubs. The flowers of the bay are yellow and it will flower in may. The best way to get a bay plant is to buy one from a garden centre for around 99p depending on the size. I also like to get my herbs from bootsales where you can pick them up from 25p so saves money. When your bay plant is well established in the pot re-plant it outside. It likes to be in a sunny but shaded place in the garden. They may die off in the winter but should throw new shoots during the following spring. Bay is a native to the east mediterranean but have been grown in europe for years. They are a very popular herb to grow in your herb garden as they have a good use in cookery. You can use the leaves dried or fresh. Bay leaves have a very strong aromatic ...

Sunnysmiles 02.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Bay

An idyllic Bay.

Advantages: The bay is quiet and not commercialised.
Disadvantages: None really.

North Devon has a wealth of unspoilt countryside and when we lived in Barnstaple for a few years we enjoyed exploring some of the less sought after beaches that could offer us good walking in clean but often bracing air. Bideford Bay is situated on the A39 and the bay is about seven miles away from Barnstaple. The bay is not commercialised or in any way attractive to those who seek the thrills and spills of the funfair, instead this area is of great interest to anyone who is interested in local archaeology or industrial heritage. The bay was attained by the National Trust in 1921 and it is primarily of great interest to nature lovers. We have never had any trouble parking in the nearby car park at East Titchberry, just beware the car parks are not the sophisticated parking areas that you are normally used to they are merely pull ...

Sarahjh1 11.03.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Bideford Bay, Devon