WaterkAnt is all about lively, authentic sports events by the water during the weekends of 9/10 and 16/17 October. During the first weekend visitors will be able to sample the following program in the Willem Dock: Open Piers, an exhibition of 35 new yachts; the Water Sports Club Cup, a sailing regatta of Finn Class boats; the Woodies, the shiny and noisy old timers of motor sports.

High on granite cliffs towering above the restless Atlantic, walkers on Britain’s longest national trail, the spectacular 630-mile South West Coast Path, are left in no doubt of the sea’s role in shaping this area’s landscape and heritage. England’s far south-western counties of Cornwall and Devon boast a seafaring tradition of adventurers, explorers, pirates and emigrants, reinforced by the salty flavour of novels by Daphne du Maurier and Rosamunde Pilcher.

Hotel Budir (www.budir.is) is one of the top five "modern seaside hotels" in the world, according to an article published in the U.K.’s Independent. Located on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula, the hotel has a view of not only the ocean, but of lava fields and the Snaefellsnes glacier.

There's nothing the British like more than to go and get lost. In grand gardens of stately homes and castles around Britain you'll find some of the world's oldest and largest hedge mazes. These elegant horticultural labyrinths have been playfully confusing visitors for hundreds of years.