World Directory, Europe, United Kingdom, Wales, Glamorgan

Ogmore-by-Sea is a seaside village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It lies on the western limit of the Glamorgan Heritage Coastline of south Wales. It has, along with neighbouring Southerndown one of the most spectacular locations for a residential area anywhere on the Celtic seaboard, and is visually very similar to Bude and Widemouth Bay in Cornwall (this is unsurprising - both locations in Cornwall have the same carboniferous cliffs as Ogmore).

World Directory, Europe, United Kingdom, England, Norfolk

Heacham started to become popular as a seaside resort with the Victorians due to the opening of the railway line between King's Lynn and Hunstanton in the early 1860s. The beach at Heacham is one of the few beaches in eastern England where the sun sets over the sea instead of over land. As such, with the right weather conditions, beautiful sunsets can be viewed.

World Directory, Europe, United Kingdom, England, Norfolk

Hunstanton is known colloquially to locals as 'Sunny Hunny'. Hunstanton is the only east coast seaside town in Norfolk where the sun can be seen to set over the sea.

World Directory, Europe, United Kingdom, England, Norfolk

Sheringham is a seaside town in Norfolk, England, located west of Cromer. Historically, the parish of Sheringham comprised the two villages of Upper Sheringham, a farming community, and Lower Sheringham, which combined farming with fishing.

World Directory, Africa, Morocco, Souss-Massa-Draa, Agadir

Agadir in Morocco is located along North Africa's Atlantic coastline. Its cultural and historical ties lie predominantly with its relationships and conflicts with European nations.

World Directory, Africa, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal

Margate is a seaside resort town in the south of the KwaZulu-Natal coast, just about 20 kilometres southwest of Port Shepstone. The river which flows into the sea at Margate is called "Nkhongweni" (place of entreaty) because the original inhabitants were reputed to be so mean that travellers had to beg for hospitality.

World Directory, Africa, South Africa, Eastern Cape, Eastern Cape

Beacon Bay is a small seaside resort in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. White sand dunes and long stretches of beach where the children can sandboard or power kite and search for sea treasures in the rock pools. Maybe you would like to fish or just lie and soak up the African sun, watching the seagulls delicately treading the sands or hovering over the water.

World Directory, Africa, South Africa, Western Cape, Overberg

A few kilometres south-east of Bredasdorp, on the Overberg Coast lies the pretty fishing and holiday village of Arniston or Waenhuiskrans. Two centuries old, Arniston is named after one of the many ships which got wrecked along this stretch of South African coastline, having become victims of 'The Cape of Storms'.

World Directory, Africa, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal

St Michael's-On-Sea is a small seaside village on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal and lies between Margate and Port Shepstone, near Uvongo.

World Directory, Europe, Poland, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Sopot

Sopot is a seaside town in Eastern Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000.