Longing for the reassuring cocktail of cliché that is an island getaway? Sand between your toes, hair flowing in the breeze, the gentle sting of salt-water lips. Because it’s glamorous to not just get away but get away. Disconnecting from the real world is much easier when you are surrounded by glistening waters.
Yet such an escape doesn’t require a jaunt overseas. There are plenty of beautiful islands right on our doorstep in Britain. The delights of these windswept destinations don’t require days of endless sunshine (which is just as well as the summer weather seems to have abandoned these fair isles).
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Hop aboard the sea tractor to this Art Deco hotel - the sole occupant of this Devon island. is a bastion of Englishness: think jazz, black tie and cocktails on the rocks. And the company is swell: Nancy Cunard, Noël Coward, Josephine Baker and Agatha Christie have all stayed in this old-school seaside palace hotel.
After drinks in the Palm Court, take your seat at Nettlefood for Exmoor caviar - an experience incomplete without a Seaside Martini made from Cornish samphire gin. Or swirl into black tie for dinner in the Grand Ballroom where copper-domed trolleys arrive baring racks of lamb and lemon sole. The hotel is enchanting, offering the most innocent of seaside pleasures, such as swims in the seawater lagoon known as Mermaid Pool, and crab sandwiches at the Pilchard Inn, which dates from 1336.
The glamorous island setting .
