Beaches in Europe

The main tourist town on Tenerife is Playa de las Américas. Once a small fishing village, but nowadays a large cluster of resorts, bars, restaurants and shops. Playa de las Américas is located on the southwestern tip, which gives it sea shore to two sides. There are several dark sand beaches and a palm lined promenade runs along the shore. The south end of Playa de las Américas tend to be more classy and is popular with families, while the north end is favourite among the heavy drinking British tourists.

Most of Sweden's coastline consists of boulders of granite, but there are a few sandy stretches. Beautiful Tylösand Beach, outside Halmstad, is considered one of the best in Sweden. The wide beach has soft white sand and shielded by big dunes covered in lyme grass. Tylösand is very organized with boardwalks and paths, and the very attractive real estate behind the dunes are filled with holiday cottages and a few hotels - there is even a golf course.

On two islands in the Dnieper river, overlooking the Lavras (caves monastery), is Hydropark. It is an open-air playground including a fairground with bouncy castle and everything. Other odd options for entertainment are the bodybuilding gym with machines built from scrap metal, the sea of table tennis tables, and dance floor under shady trees. There are beer and shawarma stalls everywhere, fueling all the merry visitors. In summertime the river banks are enterprisingly turned into city beaches, which on sunny days can become ridiculously crowded with big babushkas in flower-printed swimming suits, vodka drinking macho men in speedos, and of course long-legged girls in skimpy bikinis - this is first class people-watching area.