Sat 13 Mar 2021 10.00 EST
Sun spangles the tide, shells dot the shore and the pale beach stretches for miles in both directions. I am by the sea at Chapel St Leonards once more. The Lincolnshire coast is in my head all the time, waiting to be revisited. Just a few steps from the village green up and over the Pulley, as they still call the passage where horses once pulled cargoes of paraffin and tobacco up from the beach, and there it will be: the spotless sand, so flat, so uninterrupted, and the familiar waves of my childhood.
Coming on summer holidays from Scotland to my mother’s birthplace in the sultry south, where buckets and spades were deployed in actual heat, Chapel
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Celebrate the Year of Coasts and Waters and experience life at the edge on the most northerly part of the UK. There’s a different world waiting for you in Shetland
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THE possibility of extending beach parking charges to include two currently exempt car parks – at Back Sands and Levenhall Links, Musselburgh – has been branded “another stealth tax”. A ban on overnight parking at coastal car parks and action on irresponsible camping are among plans to limit problems associated with increased visitors to East Lothian. East Lothian Council has launched a Land Management Review after a year in which record numbers of tourists descended on beauty spots. The report says: “During development of the original coastal car park order, consideration of parking charges was made at Back Sands, and Levenhall Links, Musselburgh. Owing to significant investment costs and focus on beach parking, this was deferred.