Relaxing in coastal beaches

With its coastline stretching from the Mediterranean to where the Sahara meets the Atlantic, Morocco offers beaches for every taste. Some are perfect for family fun, others wait and hope development will happen, and many are untrodden apart from the odd surfer and migratory bird. With its eponymous saint’s tomb and savage rocks, Marabout’s Beach is the most dramatic of Mirleft’s half-dozen Atlantic beaches. Agadir is a concrete grid, but its long, curving beach, clean and well-lit at night, will have families scrambling for buckets and spades. The dramatic beaches of Al-Hoceima National Park can be reached by walking from the former fishing village, now resort, of Cala Iris, which is also flanked by attractive strips of sand. Escape Tangier on a day trip to Plage Robinson, at the northwestern extremity of Africa’s Atlantic Coast, or Ksar es-Seghir on the Strait of Gibraltar. There are good beaches around the capital Rabat, too.