"When I tell people that I’m going on holiday to Pembrokeshire, which I’ve been doing with my family for around 15 years, they tend to say, “Oh, St David’s, wonderful.” And I reply, “No, further south, a little place called Stackpole, right at the bottom tip of Wales,” by which stage they’ve mostly glazed over. And if I add that it has outstandingly beautiful beaches with soft fine sand, they nod politely, unconvinced," writes HTSI executive editor @_timauld. "It’s one of the joys of the area that it doesn’t have a higher profile – move those beaches just across the Bristol channel into north Cornwall and they’d be heaving. But on a late July evening on Barafundle Bay – regularly included in lists of the world’s best, beating Bondi and Copacabana – you’ll find you have it pretty much to yourself. And the phone reception is so blissfully awful that you’re genuinely unlikely to be able to take a call from the office". Read his guide to the hidden beaches of Pembrokeshire - at the link in bio.⁠ 📷 Barafundle Bay beach © Getty Images⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #Wales⁠