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How to spend a weekend on the Amalfi Coast, the most seductive place in Italy
The Sorrentine peninsula pushes out into the Tyrrhenian sea like a gnarled finger, its southern shores blessed by some of the most spectacular coastal scenery in the world. Linking the towns is the SS163, the legendary Amalfi Coast Drive, a 16 km twisting, turning two-lane road that weaves and dips torturously in and out and up and down gorges, clinging to the cliff face from Positano to Amalfi. The background is lemon and olives groves, picture-perfect whitewashed villages and the ever-present
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The 28 best things to do on the Amalfi Coast
A visit to the Amalfi Coast needs to be taken slowly, with a only a few quintessential experiences on your to-do list: going on a boat trip, renting one of the colour-coded sunbeds at a lido, and visiting the glamorous island of Capri. Even if you want to fit in some culture, schedule visits to churches, museums and palazzos around lazy lunches, dips in the shimmering sea, sunset aperitivi or simply hanging out and basking in those extraordinary vistas.
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The best bars on the Amalfi Coast
The Amalfi Coast has it all when it comes to evening fun, from classic cocktails served by white-jacketed waiters, to more casual seaside spots where you can go from sunbathing to sunset Campari spritzs in a day. You can even go all out at a club in a cave with a glass dancefloor, so you can dance the night away on top of the crashing waves.
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The 22 best restaurants on the Amalfi Coast
Fresh seafood and a sea-view terrace are the desires of most when it comes to restaurants on the Amalfi Coast, but it can be difficult to separate the tourist traps from the truly great. Here, our expert Nicky Swallow rounds up the best places to dine on zuppe di pesce (fish soup), sip on ice-cold limoncello, or try local speciality colatura di alici (anchovy sauce) – be it at a seaside shack only accessible by boat, or one of those most-coveted bougainvillea-clad terraces.
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Where to find the best rock pools in Britain
By all accounts, we’ve some more glorious sunshine approaching – but it doesn’t really matter what the weather is up to: head to a British beach at low tide and you’ll likely see people hopping about with a net, peering into puddles. Still enough to mirror the sky and yet curiously alive, our rock pools are like mini aquariums, offering a glimpse into an aquatic world that we can’t normally visit – and rummaging through them is a time-honoured British tradition.
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The best beach-shack restaurants in the UK
There is something about going to the beach that brings out the inner child in all of us. Perhaps it is the landscape that demands your full attention: the sand, rocks and catch-you-out tides simply cannot accommodate meetings, work or anything remotely serious. It’s no wonder, then, that adding quality food to such a setting triggers raptures.
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Paris has overestimated its appeal – and bargain-hunters could benefit
Has Paris overestimated the appeal of the Olympics this summer? It certainly seems that many of the city’s hotels may have done so. They were expecting to profit from a bonanza of bookings. As recently as last December, Le Monde reported that prices during the 17 days of the Games, which start on July 26, had reached dizzying heights.
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