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 ...

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Review of Bay

ROBIN HOOD'S BAY

Advantages: Beautifully preserved and evocative
Disadvantages: STEEP

I've always wondered why Robin Hood's Bay was in North Yorkshire and not in Nottinghamshire. One explanation might be that Nottinghamshire, being landlocked, is not over-endowed with bays. Another is the sheer logistics of moving it from one county to another. Robin Hood's Bay is around 5 miles south of Whitby, and some 15 miles north of Scarborough on the North Sea coast of North Yorks. I've researched a little, and I can find no explanation of why this place has such an interesting name - it doesn't matter anyway. There are records dating back from 1536, apparently, of a small settlement of around 50 houses and 20 fishing boats but nothing about its namesake. Besides, the locals prefer to call it Bay Town. There may be some tenuous connection to the 'Prince of Thieves' though. Fishing has always been the mainstay of this ...

proxam 19.11.2009 (22.11.2009) · Read full review
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Review of Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire