The Belfast woman's remains were not found until 2003 at a beach in the Irish Republic.
Sleep came easily that night in our comfortable beds with Egyptian cotton sheets, two to an en-suite tent, lulled by the sound of the waves lapping on the beach below.
Figures including the Yekaterinburg mayor, Yevgeny Roizman, have criticised the punishment given to the Novorossiysk women and Facebook users have expressed their support for the women by posting photographs of locals swimming, sunbathing and drinking alcohol on the beach next to the monument.
A cliff-top bar features thrones carved out of stone, gazing out over crashing waves next to a swimming pool perched on the edge of a sheer rock face, while steps lead down to a private sandy beach.
Cocktails from £4.30, katzensuppe.com Boomshankar, Canacona Boomshankar isn't fancy but it has a big, old-fashioned beach cocktail list and the best sunset spot in Goa – with tables looking over the gorgeous Colomb Bay.
Nothing else would have got me off that beach in the Caribbean".
By the time I arrived in Nice, the picnic on the beach had been called off, but I was soon absorbed into the extended family of this pair of single mothers and avid social networkers.
They were driven to the Libyan beach where they found 600 people hustling for space on a boat built for less than half that number.
As you traverse the town, new vistas constantly come at you, with amazing combinations of architecture and beach.
This cottage (the owner is planning to build more, hence the plural name) is a few steps from the beach, with a fantastic, sweeping view of the Caribbean from its elevated deck.
There's plenty of sand to walk, a couple of beach bars to retire to and, of course, superb, swimmable sea.
