‘We strolled to a pink-sanded beach’: readers’ favourite coastal walks

From Fife to Crete our tipsters enjoy bracing and sultry saunters on perfect beaches, along cliffs and promenades, and spotting seals on the way

The E4 European path cuts across Crete, and we did a few sections while backpacking there last October. One of the most scenic sections is from Krios Beach (you can drive here or take a bus from Paleochora town) to the beautiful pink-sanded beach of Elafonisi. Along the way you walk for about 10km across pristine white sand beaches and get to swim in clear turquoise water. You can get a taxi back to Paleochora from Elafonisi. All Trails has a “there and back” walk mostly following the same path, but there are plenty of descriptions of the route online.
Rachel Elizabeth