With summer holidays in full swing, the Camping & Caravanning team has been thinking long and hard about their favourite beaches within easy reach of Club Sites. It wasn’t easy to narrow down, being spoilt for choice in Britain. The Club has many coastal campsites, some just a hop from the beach. See if you agree with our choices.

High on my list of 'life's simple pleasures' sits the smell, taste and texture of freshly baked bread. I'm talking about real bread here, just the natural goodness of flour, water, yeast and salt. To me, real bread has a golden crunchy crust on the outside and a super fluffy interior and can be improved only be lashings of proper butter. Real bread isn't full of sugar, preservatives and additives and doesn't come in a plastic bag.

Well, Kizzy has taken to caravanning like a duck to water! Having said goodbye to dear little Milly, the Avondale Dart caravan that was our temporary home for a couple of weeks last summer as we moved house, we ventured out in the replacement 'van, an Elddis Xplore 452.

Club member Colin Farnworth has travelled all over Europe as an HGV driver. But when it comes to holidays, he says you can’t beat camping in Britain with one of the Club’s District Associations, Special Interest Sections or Regions.