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Portstewart is a seaside resort in the east of county Derry, close to universitary city of Coleraine. On the west of the town, there is a wonderful sandy beach about 2 miles long, dominated by nice dunes : Portstewart Strand. From the beach, when you look to the west, you can see the nice outline of Downhill cliffs and Mussendem Temple top of them (it has already been shown on TE, and tomorrow it will probably be my turn !). The beach and the dunes are owned and managed by National Trust. You have to pay to access the beach ... in theory, because I paid nothing ! The beach is divided in 3 parts, limited by pieces of wood as you can see on the photo : a part for swimmers, another one for surfers and a last one opened to everyone, in particular to ... cars ! This is something that looks very strange for a french like me (you couldn't imagine such a thing in France), but you really can drive on the beach. And to be honest, I loved it lol

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