Ours or theirs? Rhossili Bay, Wales vs Wineglass Bay, Tasmania

OK, this is war. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, we will fight them on the beaches.

Who are we fighting on beaches? Britain, that's who. And we're fighting them because of an incredibly deluded UK newspaper poll result in which two out of three respondents preferred a Welsh beach ahead of an Australian beach.

Seriously, the Poms prefer their own miserable beaches to ours. Read it and weep right here at Telegraph.co.uk.

Well, at least that explains why they've done their best to turn Bondi into the sort of stinking cesspit to which they are accustomed.

Earlier this week, the website TripAdvisor.com released a list of the world's 10 best beaches. Only one Australian beach cracked the top 10 (Whitehaven in Queensland) alongside one British beach (Rhossili Bay in Wales).

That struck us as a little misguided, so we got straight on the phone to Rhossili Bay to discover what made the place so appealing.

Julian Short, proprietor of the Worm's Head Hotel in Rhossili, answered our call. To be frank, we were impressed with Mr Short's tales of hot pasties on the smooth, surprisingly unpebbly sand.

Then we discovered that the water at Rhossili Bay is currently six degrees, and that it's not much warmer in summer.

And we pretty much went nope, not sold.

See the article here:

British fury: We will fight them on the beaches