Sarah Leigh Bannerman

1 week ago | cntraveller.com | Sarah Leigh Bannerman

Camber Sands has long since been my favourite beach in the UK. It’s here that I visited at sunrise on my 30th birthday to brave (and squeal) my way through my first cold-water sea swim, and it’s here that I bolted to with my sister when the first 2020 UK lockdown lifted. Nowhere could have made me feel more free. Something about the vastness of the landscape when the tide rolls out, the unsaturated colour palette – soft yellow sand, washed blue skies and minty green wild grasses – feels calming.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Kris Fordham |Sarah Leigh Bannerman

There’s something decidedly glorious about bumping along a eucalyptus-lined dusty red dirt trail on a rented bicycle, knowing that certain things about Porquerolles—a small island off the coast of Hyères—never change, beginning with the pristine beaches. I’ve visited countless times over the past three decades, and this favorite swimming spot, Plage Notre-Dame, remains a high Technicolor experience with a soundtrack of grinding cicadas.

1 week ago | cntraveller.de | Sarah Leigh Bannerman |Assala Lakbiri

Bauernhöfe in Europa: Ihr Reiseführer für eine kleine Auszeit auf dem Land. Wo findet man heute noch Ruhe in hektischen Zeiten? Vielleicht zwischen sanften Hügeln und grünen Feldern. An einem Ort, an dem die Zeit langsamer zu fließen scheint, wo Vogelstimmen die einzige Geräuschkulisse bilden und der Blick weit in die Landschaft schweifen kann.

2 weeks ago | cntraveller.com | Sarah Leigh Bannerman

There’s nothing that says summer quite like a wardrobe – or suitcase – spilling with linen separates: shirts and shorts are an especially easy calling card when it comes to beach cover-ups, but co-ords have also taken a less casual turn of late, and now come in all manner of guises that make wearing linen in the evening, for a celebration, or to the office, just as relevant.

2 weeks ago | cntraveller.com | Sarah Leigh Bannerman

All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. When you picture Provence, you probably imagine rolling hills and a verdant, vineyard-tracked countryside. But the glamorous beach spots of Côte d'Azur, peppered with striped parasols that look picture-perfect from above, are also part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Whichever you plump for, there's no denying its allure.