Sunseeker Poole

The waves crash 122m (400ft) below the picturesque village perched dizzily atop a cliff. A donkey loaded with luggage easier to break past vacationers to breathe as they negotiate the steep four-step, from small white houses adorned with geraniums. Santorini, perhaps? Clovelly effectively. No kebabs here, but the Red Lion pub will be happy to rustle up Clovelly lobster, cooked to order.

For a slice of perfect pictures without Italy through the Alps (if you can get in the way Snowdon), visit the village of Clough William Ellis's fabulous fantasy of Portmeirion, built in the 1920s. The eccentric architect said he was "of no use if only to watch both joyous and beautiful." Jolly nice it looks too, with its pastel-washed buildings, focusing on a charming square with Campanile and shops and restaurants - you can relax with an ice or a cappuccino at Caffi Glas - with views of the Pantheon and the Bristol Colonnade. The biggest surprise is why the prisoner, played by Patrick McGoohan in the eponymous cult television series of the 1960s, never wanted to leave.

Who needs the strands of white sugar to Corsica or Sardinia, if you have pale of the fine powder on the west coast of Scotland, passing between your toes? Try Camusdarach (between Arisaig and Morar), with dazzling white sand beach, blue waters and bright background Cuillin hills on Skye, it's no wonder they chose it as a parameter for Local Hero. Slightly cold? Then try the Scilly Isles, on the other side of the United Kingdom, where the beaches are natural blondes. Here, the warm weather and exotic palm trees grow together, especially in the gardens of renowned Tresco.

Life is full of surprises. One minute you walk around the lake in the leafy Virginia Water, near Windsor Great Park and, before that Colonel Gaddafi, you looking into a temple of 2000 years, a native of Leptis Magna, which, as you are aware, is actually 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of Tripoli. The Jamahiriya is a site of Roman remains the most spectacular and unspoilt corner of the Mediterranean, while the site Virginia Water is certainly the most spectacular Roman site in Berkshire. The columns and lintels arrived here 200 years ago, "borrowed" from Libya and given as gifts to the Prince Regent. They were first exhibited at the British Museum, until the Windsor Great Park architect saw them and thought they would make a nice garden feature.

St Tropez and Puerto Banus are all very well, but frankly when you saw a jaw dropping, eye-popping millionaire yacht, you've seen them all. So, put the ticket to your fund own yacht and visit Torquay in the place (even if it is not quite the same cache). Stroll along the famous palm-lined promenade and drooling over the yachts in Torquay Marina. Or pop along the coast to Poole where they Sunseeker luxury motor yachts to mega-rich (as featured in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace). If the wind is more your bag, fleet in Turkey or SWOP Greece this year to annoy you or Salcombe Cowes, WH.