Hurtigruten Coastal Steamer

Advantages: A chance to view beautiful artic scenery
Disadvantages: You could be very seasick

...Norway has some of the most beautiful coastal scenery in the World. The rugged beauty of the fjords whilst good to look at, are the shorelines to an impassable landscape. The intrepid Norwegians needed to link up their communities and ensure adequate supplies to them, so in 1893 the D/S Vesterålen made the first sailing between Trondheim and Hammerfest. Then in 1908, longer voyages from Bergen to Kirkenes began. Today there are eleven working vessels that sail both ways between Bergen and Kirkenes carrying supplies and post to the many communities along the route. All the boats take passengers so my family and I celebrated my fortieth birthday by taking a cruise on The Coastal Express or to use the Norwegian word, Hurtigruten. This was an experience of a lifetime that I would recommend to anyone. Norwegian Coastal Voyage Ships... Read review

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Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: You have to have a car

...On Saturday the 13th July, myself, my daughter and a couple of friends went to Woolacombe, North Devon for a week of peace and relaxation. Yes, we left the men at home! Woolacombe is on the north coast of Devon just a short distance from Ifracombe. We booked our holiday through Coastal Cottages, we selected a cottage contained in a converted barn on the old part of the site. The price for our week 13th-20th July was a grand total of 395.00GBP, split between the three of us this worked out quite resonable. Our cottage in the brochure was described as a pretty natural stone barn conversion decorated, furnished and equipped to a very good standard comprising of entrance doorleading into sitting/dining room with two settees, storage heater, electric fire and colour tv. Small kitchen with electric cooker and fridge. Open... Read review

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Advantages: A wonderful quiet seaside destination
Disadvantages: Maybe a bit too quiet for teenagers

...Lytham St Annes Perhaps it’s because I live in Lancashire, or perhaps it’s just because Lytham Saint Annes is a seaside resort, but I think the area is wonderful. I hope you agree as I go through the key selling points of this interesting location. The Past Lytham Saint Annes is really two towns on the Fylde Coast in the western Lancashire coastal plain. Situated at the mouth of the River Ribble, which is one of North West England’s largest rivers, the settlements have a long history. They pre-date their much larger and better known neighbour of Blackpool which is just up the coast to the north. Lytham is considered to have first been settled by the Anglo Saxons in about 600 AD and up until the seventeenth century it was a fairly small and isolated community. In 1606 the Clifton family came into possession of Lytham... Read review

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