On 8/29/2017 12:50 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
... I fail to imagine a beach that is not walkable. ...
In France, yes. And I understand by now why. I am currently reading Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables", and he writes in this novel that one of the reasons of the French Revolution of 1789 was that 96% people could not walk where they wanted, as the land belonged to the nobility (2%) and to the clergy (another 2%).
In other parts there are still beaches which could belong to a company, an organization, to a private person, and there is no access there due to a fence or a barrier which is hardly visible form a satellite. And an access status can change with time, at one time there is a public access, then there is no access, then it changes again.
But in any case, there are cities where seaside beaches are not walkable even inside city limits.
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