Inspiring Travel Writing About Beaches: Page 10 of 19

"Tropical waters, the promise of white sandy beaches … with a bit of French ooh la la thrown in for good measure"

"I once knew a man called George, who lived on an island in a hand-made house. He bathed in a sparkling stream running from a freshwater swamp behind the beach and lived by fishing..."

"A little-known cluster of islands named Togian is flung into the northern bay of Sulawesi (Indonesia). Underwater is mesmerising, the deserted island beaches are blinding white, the Bajaus in their sea-shacks welcoming – unforgettable."

"This Luddite’s nirvana is surrounded by broad mountains whose brief, surely, is to keep sybarites at bay"