Five of the UK’s best beaches

From the remote golden sands of Wales to the dunes of Lindisfarne, Chris Carter reports on the UK’s best beaches.

Luskentyre Beach
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Tropical sands in Scotland

Luskentyre beach (above), on Harris in the Outer Hebrides, is one of the island’s “show-stoppers”, says Hugh Morris in The Sunday Telegraph. The beach makes “a vast ‘V’ shape as the sea infringes the land, cutting channels and streams that ebb and flow with the tides. It is wide, sweeping, golden and empty”. It’s enough to make one feel like Tom Hanks’ character in the film Cast Away, stranded as he was on a tropical island. “Luskentyre’s waters shimmer between blue and silver as the shallows rise and fall, with only gentle waves breaking the silence. I wandered for hours and barely covered half the shore.”

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Chris Carter
Wealth Editor, MoneyWeek

Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

Then, in 2011, Chris joined MoneyWeek. Initially working as part of the website production team, Chris soon rose to the lofty heights of wealth editor, overseeing MoneyWeek’s Spending It lifestyle section. Chris travels the globe in pursuit of his work, soaking up the local culture and sampling the very finest in cuisine, hotels and resorts for the magazine’s discerning readership. He also enjoys writing his fortnightly page on collectables, delving into the fascinating world of auctions and art, classic cars, coins, watches, wine and whisky investing.

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