Did you take your car to the beach?

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We wonder who of you, like today’s Friday Lady, have ever taken your car(s) to the beach? We did this only once (with a Land Rover – do take care). But then in The Netherlands, the place where your editor as well as the PWC headquarters are based, we are not allowed to do so. We used to have a sole ‘car beach’. Motor vehicles were allowed on this stretch of sand just under the Hook of Holland for almost fifty years. But from the 1990s-on more and more people started to comment on the presence of cars on the beach and eventually the Oostvoorne car beach was closed for anything motorised in late 2004. You'll find a barrier now, with the place behind it classed as a wildlife preservation area. This can cause trouble, too. We understand that it happened a couple of times that kitesurfers ran in trouble while an ambulance could not reach them as the key to the barrier was nowhere near.

Anyway, we can't drive on a beach here. But there must be surely another place in Europe? Or elsewhere in the world? We’d love to give it a go once more. With a rare Renault 4 Plein Air as above, or how about burning up and down the dunes in a proper Beach Buggy like that one in The Thomas Crown Affair? Surely without disturbing anyone. Hopefully.

(words editor, picture Renault PR)

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